Seminar

Research For Policy Seminar Series-6

Join Professor Mark Boyle and Seán Ó Foghlú for the first of their series of 5 seminars in February, March, April and May

When: Wednesday, 12 February 2025

Where: MUSSI seminar room Iontas Building & online

Hamilton Institute Seminar

SPEAKER: Dr Vasudevan Nedumpozhimana, Trinity College Dublin TITLE: "Topic aware probing: From sentence length prediction to idiom identification how reliant are neural language models on topic?"

When: Wednesday, 12 February 2025

Where: Hamilton Institute Seminar room (317), 3rd floor Eolas Building, North Campus

Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium - Dr Andrea Cappozzo, Università Cattolica di Milano

Dr Andrea Cappozzo, Università Cattolica di Milano, will give a talk titled 'Sparse model-based clustering of three-way data via lasso-type penalties'

When: Wednesday, 12 February 2025

Where: MS2

City Systems and the Cause of Inequality: A city science perspective

Dr Levi Wolf is Associate Professor of Quantitative Human Geography at the University of Bristol. His research seeks to understand segregation and sorting in economic, political, and demographic behaviour, and he has explored these issues through topics such as redistricting, elections, segregation and income inequality. Recently, he has co-edited the book A Research Agenda for Spatial Analysis (Edward Elgar, 2024) and co-authored a Nature Cities article called 'People make places urban'.  Read more about his work here.

When: Thursday, 13 February 2025

Where: Rocque Lab, Rhetoric House, South Campus, MU

Department of Economics Seminar Series

Simone Piras, Agricultural / Rural Economist, will present at the Department of Economics Seminar on Friday February 14th at 3pm.

When: Friday, 14 February 2025

Where: Edgeworth Room, Rhetoric House, South Campus

Bridging Borders: Understanding Chinese Migration Pathways Through Visa Agencies

Dr Meishan Zhang, IRC Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology, will deliver the first seminar of our departmental seminar series on Wednesday, 19th February at 4:00pm. All welcome!

When: Wednesday, 19 February 2025

Where: Room 2.27, 2nd Floor, TSI Building

Health Geography Symposium

TO MARK THE CONTRIBUTION DR. RONAN FOLEY HAS MADE TO HEALTH GEOGRAPHY, YOU ARE INVITED TO A HEALTH GEOGRAPHYSYMPOSIUM AT MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY ON 20TH FEBRUARYFROM 4 PM - 5.30 PM. VENUE: TBC

When: Thursday, 20 February 2025

Where: TBC

The end of the Argonautica and the beginning of Alexandria

Maynooth Classics Seminar The end of the Argonautica and the beginning of Alexandria Prof. Daniel Ogden (University of Exeter)

When: Friday, 21 February 2025

Where: Iontas Building, First Floor, Room 1.33

Research For Policy Seminar Series-7

Join Professor Mark Boyle and Seán Ó Foghlú for the second seminar of their series of 5 seminars in February, March, April and May

When: Thursday, 06 March 2025

Where: MUSSI seminar room Iontas Building & online

European Intersectional Humanities Summer School 2025

The inaugural European Intersectional Humanities Summer School will be held at Maynooth University in Summer 2025. It will offer an innovative and transformative experience at the intersection of critical theory, social justice and humanities scholarship. Convened by Professor Anna Hickey-Moody, the Summer School will bring together scholars, activists and students for an immersive exploration of how intersectionality shapes and is shaped by the human experience across various fields of inquiry.

When: Monday, 14 July 2025 to Friday, 25 July 2025

Where: Arts & Humanities Institute, First Floor of Iontas Building