Seminar

    Solidarity and Struggle: Affirming Equality, Civil Society and Democracy

    Join a range of civil society, non-government organisations and community groups to reflect on current threats to democracy and equality and discuss strategies to move on.

    When: Wednesday, 11 September 2024

    Where: TSI 2.10, Maynooth North Campus

    Conference in Memory of Donal O’Neill

    Speakers will include: Brenda Gannon (University of Queensland) John Kennan (University of Wisconsin) Dirk Van de gaer (University of Ghent) Peter Dolton (University of Sussex)

    When: Tuesday, 17 September 2024

    Where: Renehan Hall, Maynooth University South Campus

    Continuity or change in gendered processes in Higher Education?

    An academic insider, Pat O’Connor will talk about her experi­ences over a 46-year career in five academic orga­nisations in Ireland and the UK: moving from con­tract research assistant to full professor and Dean. Reading extracts from her memoir: ‘A ‘proper’ woman?’ she will describe the subtle and relentless processes of devaluation, margina­lisation and disempowerment that are often ‘nor­malised’ in academia.

    When: Tuesday, 17 September 2024

    Where: 2.31 MUSSI seminar room, 2nd Floor Iontas Building