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PResident's RePORt 2009/2010 - University College Cork

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Foreword<br />

UCC at a Glance<br />

Academic Developments<br />

Teaching and Learning<br />

Research<br />

<strong>College</strong> Reports:<br />

Arts, Celtic<br />

Studies and Social<br />

Sciences<br />

Business and Law<br />

Medicine and Health<br />

Science, Engineering and<br />

Food Science<br />

Events<br />

Student Experience<br />

Sports and Recreation<br />

Buildings and Estates<br />

<strong>Cork</strong> <strong>University</strong> Press<br />

Finance<br />

Governing Body<br />

IRIS Appendix<br />

26<br />

Professor Dermot Keogh<br />

‘Ireland and European Integration: membership, influence and<br />

contribution’ jointly with Mervyn O’Driscoll, Kathryn McGarry<br />

and Gabriel Doherty (January <strong>2010</strong>).<br />

Dr Mervyn O’Driscoll<br />

Schuman Symposium – one-day symposium (May <strong>2010</strong>).<br />

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures<br />

Dr Maeve Conrick<br />

• Chair, FP7 workshop consortium which includes partners from<br />

the UK, France, Canada, Rumania, Germany, Czech Republic,<br />

Belgium and Ireland. Title: ‘The Anthropology of European<br />

Integration’ (September <strong>2010</strong>).<br />

• Co-chair, ‘Postgraduate and Early Career Research: Pathways<br />

to Success’, funded by NAIRTL for a series of events including<br />

seminars and workshops (June <strong>2010</strong>).<br />

Dr Paul Hegarty and Dr Melanie Marshall organised ‘Body to<br />

Body/Sound to Sound’ at the Science Gallery, Trinity <strong>College</strong><br />

Dublin (September <strong>2010</strong>).<br />

‘The Time Has Come: The Future of Interdisciplinary Studies in<br />

Galiza and Eire’ (January <strong>2010</strong>).<br />

International Conference ‘Leonardo Sciascia: vent’anni dopo’<br />

(October <strong>2009</strong>).<br />

International Graduate Conference in Italian Studies (February<br />

<strong>2010</strong>).<br />

International Graduate Film Studies Conference ‘Transnational,<br />

Transcultural, Transmedial: European Cinema Today’ (May <strong>2010</strong>).<br />

International Conference on the Presentation, Appropriation<br />

and Re-contextualisation of the Amateur Moving Image ‘Saving<br />

Private Reels’ (September <strong>2010</strong>).<br />

Scoil Léinn na Gaeilge<br />

The De Finibus project of the Department of Early and Medieval<br />

Irish, supported by IRCHSS grant for Theology and Religion, held<br />

a workshop with international experts (June <strong>2010</strong>).<br />

School of Music and Theatre<br />

Fleischmann Day Seminar (April <strong>2010</strong>). The UCC School of<br />

Music and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (UL) -<br />

celebrating the life and work of Aloys Fleischmann<br />

Bodies/Music Conference (April <strong>2010</strong>) organised by Dr Melanie<br />

Marshall (Music) and Dr Paul Hegarty (French).<br />

School of Sociology and Philosophy<br />

Philosophy<br />

The second annual Theory and Philosophy Summer School<br />

organised by Drs. Julia Jansen (Director), Kieran Keohane,<br />

Hans-Georg Moeller, Patrick O’Mahony and Joel Walmsley.<br />

Sociology<br />

• (in collaboration with the Marsilio Ficino Association) organised<br />

the ‘Fourth Socratic Symposium’ on Plato’s dialogue, The<br />

Sophist, in Florence.<br />

• (in collaboration with Waterford Institute of Technology)<br />

organised ‘The Third Workshop of International Political<br />

Anthropology’ on ‘Ek-stasis: Ecstasy in Politics’.<br />

• (in collaboration with Museo Bellini and International Political<br />

Anthropology) organised the international conference ‘Beauty:<br />

its Imitation (and its forgery)’ in Florence.<br />

• Held the second International Political Anthropology Summer<br />

School (June <strong>2010</strong>).<br />

• Organised the workshop ‘Social, Political and Human Integrity:<br />

Revisiting the European Integration Process’.<br />

Study of Religions<br />

Dr James Kapalo hosted a Study of Religions Department<br />

workshop on Pentecostalism in Ireland under the auspices of<br />

ISS21 and the Religion and Migration Network.<br />

IAHR Congress panel on Islam in Ireland organised by Dr Oliver<br />

Scharbrodt with eight presenters in conjunction with IRCHSSproject<br />

on the history of Islam in Ireland.<br />

IAHR Congress panel ‘Rewriting the History of Western Buddhist<br />

Monastics’ organised by Professor Brian Bocking with Alicia<br />

Turner and Laurence Cox.

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