UCD's Innovation Dublin 2009 Events on October 18
The following UCD events will take place on October 18 as part of Innovation Dublin 2009.
| Title | Television Cities Conference |
| Dates | 16 to18 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 | The Art of Innovation Lecture Series: Lecture # 3 - The 17th Century Dutch Interior |
| Date | 18 October (3pm) |
| 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 3 | 17th century Dutch interiors document many of the social and economic changes that brought unprecedented prosperity to the Netherlands in this period, which are now understood as well as providing a template for modernity. |
| Speaker | Dr John Loughman, UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy |
| Location | National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin 2 |
| Contact | Dr Marie Bourke, Keeper, Head of Education, National Gallery of Ireland, t: + 353 1 663 3505, e: mbourke@ngi.ie |
| 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. |
For further information on UCD's involvement in Innovation Dublin contact Micéal Whelan, NovaUCD, tel: 01-716 3712, email: miceal.whelan@ucd.ie.