Exploring Language, Knowledge & Ideas
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All knowledge—whether humanistic, social scientific or scientific—is mediated through language systems, concepts and ideas, and various modes and forms of narrative shaping.
Language is not static, it is a living, changing reflection of and shaper of human culture, experience and society. The critical and historical study of ideas, languages and narratives is therefore fundamental to a full understanding of how societies produce and respond to knowledge.
By analysing how languages and their use change over time, teams of Maynooth University researchers are generating new insight into culture, society, history and the growth of knowledge and ideas.
Maynooth University is an ideal Host Institution for a Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship and this cluster is interested in finding potential applicants. Find a mentor below or contact IDEAS@mu.ie for more information.
Exploring the representation of emigrants in Mexican and Chicano film
Mexico has traditionally a very different view of those who emigrated from the Irish, according to research by Catherine Leen, which shows a tendency to blame the emigrant as a traitor to the nation
A Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World
Dept. of Early Irish is a partner of a UK-Ireland networking grant investigating the potential of digitisation for medieval Gaelic studies.
Date: Wednesday, 02 December 2020
MU University Chamber Choir Director Selected as speaker for Ageing Voices International panel discussion
MU Chamber Choir Director Michael T. Dawson will be speaking as part of Ageing Voices International panel discussion.
Date: Monday, 09 November 2020