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Master's & Research Programmes - Live Q&As
Join our Postgraduate Office and academics from across the university for Live Q&As on our Master's and Research programmes
When: Monday, 11 May 2020
Housing and Home after GE2020: what ways forward to solve the housing & homeless crises? The Annual Public Housing Conference 2020
Following on from the successful conference, A New Vision and New Practice for Public Housing Conference 2019, we are delighted to invite you to attend the 2nd Annual Public Housing Conference in Maynooth University. This year’s theme is how can public housing deliver affordable homes and a sustainable planet in the context of a changing political landscape.
When: Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Hospitality/’Hostipitality’: Tensions and Contradictions in the reception and treatment of migrants in the University, Ireland and Europe
Hospitality/’Hostipitality’: Tensions and Contradictions in the reception and treatment of migrants in the University, Ireland and Europe
When: Monday, 09 March 2020
Meet the silence breaker Laura Madden - International Women's Day Event at Maynooth University
Maynooth University International Women’s Day event RTÉ broadcaster Audrey Carville in conversation with Laura Madden, one of the first women to go on the record against Harvey Weinstein
When: Thursday, 05 March 2020
The temporality of crime in place
Professor Jonathan Corcoran holds a Chair in Human Geography within the School Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Queensland and is Director of the Queensland Centre for Population Research. He is currently a visitor to NCG & MUSSI and his talk discusses how crime is distributed in a manner that means it is both particular places and particular times that are subject to the majority of crime events.
When: Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Professor Kevin Anderson on Marx’s Late Writings: Theories of revolutionary change and of alternatives to capitalism
As Part of our MUSSI membership scheme, support fund along with Depts of Sociology and Anthropology we jointly present Professor Kevin Anderson on Marx’s Late Writings: Theories of revolutionary change and of alternatives to capitalism
When: Wednesday, 12 February 2020
THE “PRODUCTIVITY QUEST” IN THE SOCIOMATERIAL ENTANGLEMENTS OF MOBILE KNOWLEDGE WORK.
Our First Fellowship seminar of the year takes place on the 6th of February at 4pm, presented by Luigina Ciolfi, PhD visiting us from Sheffield Hallam University, entitled The “Productivity Quest” in the Sociomaterial Entanglements of Mobile Knowledge Work. In the talk, she will detail the imperative to become and remain productive as a constant quest in the lives of mobile knowledge workers.
When: Thursday, 06 February 2020
MUSSI Fellowship Talk Series: Piracy and the Origins of Universal Jurisdiction (on Stranger Tides?)
Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute & Maynooth University Department of Law present Dr Mark Chadwick, discussinghis prize-shortlisted monograph, Piracy and the Origins of universal Jurisdiction (on Stranger Tides?)
When: Thursday, 12 December 2019
Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Criminology & European Indigenous Minorities
MUSSI Fellow Prof Denis Bracken, joins Kathleen Lawrence (Education Support Worker, Northside Partnership) at this Joint MUSSI and MU Law event
When: Tuesday, 26 November 2019
Parenting apps and the parent as a pedagogical figure: From politicization to depoliticization
MUSSI Fellow Stefan Ramaeker to discuss his paper on Parenting apps and the parent as a pedagogical figure: From politicization to depoliticization
When: Tuesday, 26 November 2019