PResident's RePORt 2009/2010 - University College Cork
PResident's RePORt 2009/2010 - University College Cork
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.