A seminar for the public is also taking place today on the campus today.
Maynooth University is holding a Public Candlelight Vigil for Ukraine and a seminar today.
Public Candlelight Vigil will take place at the Freedom Sculpture, North Campus, Maynooth University.
The vigil is taking place 1pm-1.30pm
A seminar is open to the public, ‘Putin's attack on Ukraine: Explaining the war and what is at stake’ and will be held at School of Education, North Campus, lecture room SE001.
The seminar is taking place between 1.30pm-2.30pm.
The candlelight vigil is being will be held as a gesture of support to all their Ukrainian colleagues, students, and graduates, as well as those from the entire region whose families, lives and livelihoods are affected by this crisis during this dark time.
Maynooth University President, Professor Eeva Leinonen, and Ukrainian PhD student at Maynooth University, Oleg Chupryna, will address the vigil.
This will be followed by a public seminar titled ‘Putin's attack on Ukraine: Explaining the war and what is at stake' by Professor Hana Cervinkova, Dr John Paul Newman, and Professor John O’Brennan, Director of Maynooth University’s Centre for European and Eurasian Studies.
Head of Anthropology, Maynooth University, Hana Cervincova spoke on Monday morning's Kildare Today, about the situation in Ukraine: