A university professor yesterday advised new graduates that this was a time of self-reflection for them.
“It is a time for an assessment of one’s achievements and a renewal of aspirations, but also to ponder on questions of varying significance, from one’s role and responsibilities in society, to the broader existential conditions of humanity,” said John Chircop, associate professor in social and economic history at the Department of History and director of the Mediterranean Institute.
This assessment “is a sign that years spent at university – and the public money having gone into this – have not gone to waste”.
It also meant the community profited “through the added social capital and value created through your education”.
Prof. Chircop pointed out that although academic research tended to develop strict divisions between disciplines, a growing number of scholars in the natural, social and political sciences were taking on multi-disciplinary approaches.
Graduate Marilyn Grima also addressed the students.
Faculty of Theology
Master of Arts in Theology
Sponsor: Rev. Professor Emmanuel Agius
Gilbert Buhagiar, Dorianne Buttigieg and Mariella Ebejer.
Master of Arts in Spiritual Companionship
Sponsor: Rev. Professor Emmanuel Agius
Martin Azzopardi and Pierina Mercieca.
Master of Arts in Spirituality
Sponsor: Rev. Professor Emmanuel Agius
Nicholas Baldacchino, Veronica Gerada, Claudio Laferla, Michael Angelo Mercieca and Rita Vella Brincat.
Master of Arts in Bioethics
Sponsor: Rev. Professor Emmanuel Agius
Joelle Colette Agius, Anthony Bugeja, Carmen Caruana, Daniela Cassar, Christopher Falzon, Anthony Raphael Gatt, Dorianne Mallia, Anna Mcelhatton, Alessia Psaila Zammit, Owen Sant’Angelo, Deborah Schembri, Mark Anthony Vassallo, Marisa Vella and Theresa Vella.
Master of Arts in Business Ethics
Sponsor: Rev. Professor Emmanuel Agius
Brian Martin Bartolo, Kenneth Farrugia, Dunstan Magro and Malcolm Mifsud.
Master of Arts in Matrimonial Canon Law and Jurisprudence
Sponsor: Rev. Professor Emmanuel Agius
Martha Farrugia.
Licentiate in Sacred Theology
Sponsor: Rev. Professor Emmanuel Agius
Dillon Bugeja, Mario Dimech, Justin Gerada, Charlon Muscat, Joseph Moloka Sikwese, Reuben Vella and Michael Anthony Zammit.
Institute for European Studies
Master of Arts in European Studies
Sponsor: Professor Roderick Pace
Charlene Abela, Lawrence Azzopardi, Alaa` Ben Mahmud, Elaine Bugeja, Charlene Caruana, Josephine Engelbert, Marilyn Grima, Christian Mallia, Sergio Mallia, Luke Sultana, Nicholas Vella and Branica Xuereb.
Master of Arts in European
Politics, Economics and Law
Sponsor: Professor Roderick Pace
James Azzopardi, David Borg, Dorita Borg, Omar Borg, Maria Rita Cucchiara, Justine Cuschieri, Jovanka Dimech, Maxine Mifsud, Joanna Alicja Waszewska, Matthew Xerri and Sarah Zammit.
Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies
Master of Arts in Diplomatic Studies
Sponsor: Professor Stephen Calleya
Mark Vincent Abdilla, Antoine Agius Bonnici*, Antonella Bajada, Simon Dalli, Maria Carmen Farrugia, Barbora Golanova*, Marco Loemker*, Caroline Muscat, Hazel Mhairi Rafferty, Mauro Joseph Sammut, Caroline Bundgaard Steiner, Ronald Anthony Sultana, Edgar Rob-ert Szewczyk and Christian Tanti.
Master of Diplomacy
Sponsor: Professor Stephen Calleya
Mohammed Abujaber, Yasmine Akef*, Ahmad Hamdy Alsho-urbagy*, Mohamed Mohsen Amin*, Ahmed Chamssedine Boughedir*, Tamar Chokoraia*, Numan Dalkiran*, Ayyub Hajiyev*, Mgaka Hangi, Nuha Kotob, Georgina Nakawombe, Mohamed Mehrez Othman, Ousman Sowe*, Lamis Suliman and Jiang Weiwei*.
Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution and Mediterranean Security
Sponsor: Professor Stephen Calleya
Catherine Marie Assebab, Michael John Calleja, Andrew Camilleri, Lynette Camilleri, Alexandra Cole, Ahmed Sherief Dakrory, India Fitzgerald, Aimee Lynne Hvizdos, Andrea Jean Mancuso*, Cliffard Allen Patton, Meagan Sherman, Krystal Marie Thomas, Manahat Thomas and Christian Alexander Vestermark.
Mediterranean Institute
Master in the Science of Performative Creativity
Sponsor: Professor John Chircop
Peter Ebuka Peters*.
*In absentia