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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 />

27<br />

CACSSS Graduate School<br />

• The Annual Postgraduate Conference. Over 50 conference<br />

papers were presented by research postgraduates in the<br />

<strong>College</strong> of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences (November<br />

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

• The Graduate School provides a wide range of research training<br />

modules and organises master classes on interdisciplinary topics,<br />

along with evening lectures given by guest speakers. The master<br />

classes and the associated evening lectures for the period <strong>2009</strong>/<strong>2010</strong><br />

were:<br />

• Master Class on ‘Deconstruction, Ecological Disaster and Economic<br />

Crisis’<br />

Evening Lecture: ‘The Meaning of Life: Deconstruction and the Human-<br />

Animal’, Speaker: Professor Martin McQuillan, Department of Literary Theory<br />

and Cultural Analysis, and Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston<br />

<strong>University</strong>, London<br />

• Master Class on ‘Travel, Migration and Alterity’<br />

Evening Lecture: ‘Place / Trajectory: Cuba / Ireland’, Speaker: Professor Peter<br />

Hulme, Dept of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, <strong>University</strong> of Essex<br />

• Master Class on ‘Romanticism, Medievalism, and the Birth of the Modern World’<br />

Evening Lecture: ‘Romanticism, Medievalism, and the Birth of the Modern World’,<br />

Speakers: Professor Graham Allen, Dr Carrie Griffin and Dr Mary O’Connell, School of<br />

English, UCC<br />

• Master Class on ‘Space/Place/Text’<br />

Evening Lecture: ‘On Turbulence’, Speaker: Professor Tim Cressell, Department of Geography,<br />

Royal Holloway, <strong>University</strong> of London<br />

• Master Class on ‘Body, Gender, Sexuality’<br />

Evening Lecture: ‘Orfeo’s Echo’, Speaker: Professor Bonnie Gordon, Department of Music,<br />

<strong>University</strong> of Virginia.

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