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Maynooth University recognised as a University of Sanctuary
Maynooth University has been officially designated as a University of Sanctuary in recognition of its initiatives to promote a culture of welcome for refugees, asylums seekers and other migrants into the community.
Thursday, 20 February 2020
Summer Workshop: The Archives of the Religious Orders: a New Perspective on Global Catholicism, Rome, 22th -26th June 2020
The Sangalli Institute for the religious history and cultures of Florence is pleased to announce its first workshop on the central archives of the religious orders. This workshop will focus on the archives of some important religious orders and on their materials, providing especially, but non only, to young scholars in Humanities a new perspective on global Catholicism from the early-modern period until the contemporary age. The workshop will offer a multi-disciplinary approach to the role played by the religious orders and their impact from an historical, ethno-anthropological and art historical point of view, and on a global scale.
Thursday, 27 February 2020
HSE - Health Protection Surveillance Centre advice on the Coronavirus
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Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Congratulations to Malcolm Noonan T.D.
Congratulations to Malcolm Noonan T.D., member of the Green Party and participant on the MA in International Development at Maynooth University, who was recently elected to represent Carlow/Kilkenny in the 33rd Dáil.
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Dr Francesca Placanica presents on Cathy Berberian and the Stripsody Project at Instituto Italiano di Cultura
Francesca Placanica and Eleonora Lima (TCD) will discuss how comics, music, and visual arts came together in Stripsody, an extraordinary collaboration centering the larger-than-life talent of composer and performer Cathy Berberian.
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Geography: Musicking a PhD
Aoife Kavanagh following her sucessful defence of her theis
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
RJS4C Ireland organises series of events on the visit of Dutch restorative justice expert
Restorative Justice: Strategies for Change (RJS4C) Ireland core team (Dr. Ian Marder, Ursula Fernée, Dr. Kieran O’Dwyer & Tim Chapman) organised a series of workshops and public lectures in Dublin and Maynooth.
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
William Desmond publishes The Voiding of Being
William Desmond: The Voiding of Being. The Doing and Undoing of Metaphysics in Modernity (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2019)
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Susan Gottloeber (ed.): Philosophy in Ireland
Susan Gotloeber (ed): Philosophy in Ireland. Past Actualities and Present Challenges (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2019)
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Dr Rita Sakr’s ‘Guide to the Best Arabic Literature in Translation’ on RTE Brainstorm
Rita Sakr explores how ‘translation is continually expanding the international readership of contemporary Arabic literature, a body of works that are as relevant to issues of migration, inequality and ecological crisis as they are to debates around boundary-breaking techniques of writing’.
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Maynooth Prizes and Awards Ceremony - 12 February 2020
Congratulations to all of our prize winners!
Monday, 24 February 2020