UCD's Innovation Dublin 2009 Events on October 16
The following UCD events will take place on October 16 as part of Innovation Dublin 2009.
| Title | Television Cities Conference |
| Dates | 16 to 18 October |
| Summary | This international conference will examine the multiple ways in which cities are embedded in processes of televisual representation, production and consumption. Television is a privileged medium of urban (post) modernity. It works to render ‘the city’ legible, providing sensory and cognitive maps of social spaces and relations; it both mirrors and shapes perceptions of the time and space, the rhythms and settings, of urban existence; and it mediates fears and desires about the city as a space of human encounter. |
| Plenary Speakers | Anna McCarthy, New York University and Allison McCracken, DePaul University. |
| Location | UCD William Jefferson Clinton Institute and the UCD William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4 |
| Contact | Catherine Carey, UCD Clinton Institute of American Studies, t: +353 1 716 1560, e: catherine.carey@ucd.ie |
| Title | Modelling Innovative Futures |
| Date | 16 October (8:30 am - 1 pm) |
| Summary | Multiple poster presentations from UCD´s newly established Innovation Research Unit (IRU) showcasing cutting-edge research projects. The research has evolved from the Computational Policy Lab, a new powerful infrastructure for innovation research built on a high-performance computing cluster. The IRU is developing and testing optimising strategies for innovative organisations and entire innovation networks that span many organizations. The IRU is working on tools to anticipate and analyse new developments to help the recovery of the economy. |
| Location | NovaUCD, Belfield, Innovation Park, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4 |
| Contact | Lisa Kilmartin, UCD Innovation Research Unit, Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory (CASL), t: +353 1 716 5367, e: lisa.kilmartin@ucd.ie. |
| Title | Innovation, Society and Culture: Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritages |
| Date | 16 October (2pm - 4 pm) |
| Summary | Jointly organised by UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland and the Dublin Graduate School in Creative Arts and Media (Gradcam), this workshop will focus on the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage which entered into force on 20 April 2006. The Convention represents the culmination of three decades of policy development in respect of cultural expression and practices since these issues were first raised through UNESCO in 1973. |
| Keynote speaker | Professor Kristin Kuutma, Professor of Cultural Research, Institute of Cultural Research and Fine Arts, University of Tartu, Estonia. Estonian representative on the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage |
| Location | Physics Theatre, UCD Newman House, 85-86 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2 |
| Contact | Valerie Norton, UCD Humanities Institute, t: +353 1 716 4690, e: hii@ucd.ie |
| Title | The Art of Innovation Lecture Series: Lecture # 2 - Commemorating Daniel O'Connell in a National Momument in Dublin |
| Date | 16 October (10:30 am - 11:30 am). NOTE: 20 people maximum. |
| Overview | The Art of Innovation Lecture Series will consist of 5 separate lectures held during the course of Innovation Dublin. The lectures will link discussions of buildings, sculptures and works of art in Dublin to earlier chapters in the history of innovation. |
| Lecture 2 | An examination of public statuary in Dublin exploring the past in terms of the present. |
| Speaker | Dr Paula Murphy, UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy |
| Location | O'Connell's Statue, O'Connell's Street, Dublin 2. |
| Contact | Dr Paula Murphy, UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy, t: +353 1 716 8624, e: paula.murphy@ucd.ie |
| Title | BioNano - Inspiring Responsible Development for Society and the Environment |
| Dates | 15 to 16 October |
| Summary | The focus of this INSPIRE/European Science Foundation event will be on communicating to a wide audience the role of bionanoscience in medicine and green technologies and how these will improve the human condition. |
| Location | Carlton Airport Hotel, Old Airport Road, Dublin. |
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| Title | UCD Research Images Exhibition 2009 |
| Dates | 14 to 16 October |
| Summary | The UCD Research Images Exhibition 2009 will showcase a wide range of compelling images that have been created by researchers in UCD during the course of their research. The images on display have been submitted by researchers at all levels (PhD student to Professor), across a range of disciplines in UCD, from Arts and Human Sciences, to Engineering and Life Sciences. The Exhibition, which will be open to the public, will feature the most innovative and imaginative research images that convey the depth and range of research taking place at UCD. |
| Location | Newman House, 85-86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2 and UCD Research, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4. |
| Contact | Emma Kavanagh, UCD Research, t: +353 1 716 4005 e: emma.kavanagh@ucd.ie, w: www.ucd.ie/research |
| Title | Life in the Docklands, Urban Folklore Project |
| Dates | 14 to 20 October |
| Summary | Screened images of the Urban Folklore Project selected with particular emphasis on photographs from the Docklands Area will be looped throughout the week. Printed material on the Collection in addition to the website link will be available. |
| Location | Projected exhibition in the atrium of the National College of Ireland, International Financial Services Centre, Dublin 1 |
| Contact | Dr Ríonach uí Ógáin, UCD National Folklore Collection, t: +353 1 716 8402, e: rionach.ogain@ucd.ie |
| Title | UCD Sculpture Trail |
| Dates | 14 to 20 October |
| Summary | A self-guided walking trail across the UCD Belfield Campus to view the sculptures that have been put in place over several decades. Works by many of Ireland’s leading sculptors are included in the Trail. Information leaflets, including the location of each work, can be obtained at UCD services desks. |
| Location | UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4 |
| Contact | Dr Paula Murphy, UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy, t: +353 1 716 8624, e: paula.murphy@ucd.ie and Ruth Ferguson, Newman House, t: +353 1 477 9807, e: ruth.ferguson@ucd.ie. |
| Title | Reflections on Research |
| Dates | 14 to 20 October (excl. week-end) |
| Summary | An exhibition of graduate scientific research presented as short summaries compiled as part of UCD’s annual AccesScience competition. In this competition UCD graduate students compete to explain their research to a general public audience without the use of scientific jargon. The exhibition will also include visual representations of science prepared by primary and secondary school pupils, primarily from Dublin, in poster format, also compiled as part of UCD’s AccesScience competition. |
| Location | Foyer, UCD Conway Institute for Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4. |
| Contact | Elaine Quinn, UCD Conway Institute for Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, t: + 353 1 716 6706, e: conwaycommunications@ucd.ie |
For further information on UCD's involvement in Innovation Dublin contact Micéal Whelan, NovaUCD, tel: 01-716 3712, email: miceal.whelan@ucd.ie.