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Skeletons in the cupboard: anthropology and the diversity debate
https://www.tcd.ie/library/berkeley/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cropped-P7015055.jpg Cultural diversity in universities has been pushed to the top of the agenda by the Black Lives Matter movement and TCD has taken the its first steps towards a...
New history of Anglo-Irish anthropology marks the centenary of the Haddon Library in Cambridge
old tropes & new histories: an "Irish" reading of the Haddon Papers is the theme of a 15 minute presentation by Dr Ciarán Walsh marking the centenary of the establishment of the Haddon Library. The event is part of Cambridge University's Alumni...
Maynoothy University awards Ciarán Walsh a Doctor of Philosophy (Arts) Degree.
Ciarán Walsh and Nuala Finn "attend" an online awards ceremony during which Maynooth University conferred Walsh with a Doctor of Philosophy (Arts) degree. Dr Mark Maguire, Dean of Social Sciences at Maynooth University, announcing the award in a...
Ciarán Walsh joins RTÉ Brainstorm as a contributor
Ciarán Walsh has published his first article on Brainstorm, an online platform for researchers and academic that is manage by RTÉ. The article asks if readers have ever thought about the political significance of the shape of their heads and goes...
one editor, two curators & one new history of anthropology
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-victorian-curator-who-railed-against-racism-and-imperialism-39297723.html Today, the Irish Independent publishes a segment of my research on the skull-measuring-business in Ireland in the 1890s....
5 years, 68 days, 6 hours, 31 minutes, & some seconds …
I walked into the Anthropology Dept in Maynooth University at 9am on February 2, 2015 to begin a PhD and at 4.31pm yesterday afternoon Mark, the postman, delivered a letter confirming that I had been awarded the Doctoral Degree by the Academic...