The place of theatre in a multi-media society
This lecture tries to answer the question of why we should still be interested in (studying and going to the) theatre in the early twenty-first century. This lecture looks at rival media, such as film and television, and points to qualities the theatre possesses that singles it out from its main alternatives. The idea of 'theatricality' will be examined and the argument will be made that as long as theatre does not try to compete with the cinema or the television but produces plays and productions on its own terms, the institution still has an exciting future.

Theatre R
12.00 - 1.00

Danielle Clarke (English)

The Humanities: A S(potted) History
What are the Humanities? Where did the humanities come from? And where are they going? This lecture will address the history and function of liberal arts education in the English-speaking world, using examples from the Renaissance onwards. Topics to be considered include the role of literature in education, the importance of language and style, and ideas of value.

Theatre O 10.00 - 11.00

Anne Cleary (Sociology)

On Being a Man
Being a man has become a more complex issue today. To paraphrase Harry Ferguson, 'while men were and are everywhere in Irish society, little attention was given to them as men, as gendered subjects'. Examining men in this way involves getting away from a general notion of maleness to an acceptance that there are different ways of being a man. Alongside this new focus on men has emerged an assumption that they are over challenged, that masculinity is in crisis. So what kind of challenges are men facing today? In this lecture I will examine varying definitions of masculinity and address the suggestion that there is a crisis of identity amongst men.

Theatre M 3.00 - 4.00

Charles Doherty (History)

Tara and the High-Kingship of Ireland
Given the controversy over the proposed road between Tara and Skreen there may be considerable public interest in the site of Tara. Most members of the public would have heard the story of Patrick confronting the druids of King Loeguire at Tara; of Cormac mac Airt and the 'sloping trenches'. This is the stuff of legend. What do historians currently know about Tara? Why was it important in Irish history? This lecture will present the current theories about Tara and make suggestions based on the major excavations that have taken place at another great site - Emain Macha (Navan Fort). The lecture will also show the nature of myth and its uses in early Ireland. The lecture will be accompanied by visual aids.

Theatre P 2.00 - 3.00

Siobhán Donovan (German)

The Backgrounds to German Romanticism
This lecture will take the audience on a journey through time to look at the backgrounds of German Romanticism, starting with a quick look at the influences of Classical Antiquity, moving through the Middle Ages, and focussing in particular on the various European political and cultural movements of the 18th century. The lecture will be illustrated with images of German Romantic paintings, and also with quotes and references to the theoretical and literary writings of the early German Romantics.

Theatre O 12.00 - 1.00

Ronan Fanning (History)

From Antagonism to Inter-Dependence: British-Irish Relations in the 20th Century
This lecture traces the changing character of the British-Irish relationship from the Home Rule crisis of 1912-14, through the Irish revolution and the Treaty settlement, through de Valera's constitutional revolution, Irish neutrality in World War II and the Republic of Ireland Act. It concludes with an analysis of the impact of the Northern Ireland crisis and of membership of the EEC.

Theatre L 11.00 - 12.00

Nicola Figgis
(History of Art)

The Lure of Italy in the 18th Century
The lure of Italy was strongly felt during the 18th century, partly through the publication of guide books like Joseph Addison's Remarks on Several Parts of Italy (1705), in which he wrote that 'the landscape of Italy was more astonishing than anywhere else in Europe'. Many Irish landscape painters, who had trained at the Dublin Society Schools, went to Italy and became very successful. There they produced landscapes, emulating Claude Lorraine, but representing specific tourist attractions such as Tivoli, Frascati, Terni and the lakes in the Alban Hills. Other visitors, like Joseph Leeson, came to Italy to see antiquity at first hand and to make collections of works of art with which to decorate their newly built Palladian homes in Ireland.

Room E114 2.00 - 3.00

Graham Finlay (Politics)

Politics and the Meaning of Life
This lecture begins with a look at Aristotle's notion of the good life and happiness and his claim that human beings are 'political animals'. It will then explore the consequences of this view for both our understanding of society and for pressing practical questions like the re-introduction of student fees and for conceptions of 'third world' development.

Theatre N 3.00 - 4.00

Phyllis Gaffney (French)

Tristan and Iseult: a legend with many faces
The tale of the ill-fated pair of lovers, Tristan and Iseult, has been described as one of the foundation myths of western romance literature, inspiring poets, artists, composers and even cinematographers from medieval to modern times. This introduction to the legend will look at the earliest written versions of the myth in medieval France, considering the different ways in which material from earlier oral sources is used, before turning to a film version set in wartime France. The lecture will be illustrated.

Theatre Q 10.00 - 11.00

Georg Grote
(German)

From Rome Rule to Home Rule: South Tyrol and the Dynamics of Regionalism in Western Europe
After the defeat of Austria and Germany in World War I, the Austrian province of South Tyrol found itself on the Italian side of the border where it has remained ever since, despite various attempts to break free of Italy. While their attempts at separating from Italy throughout the 20th century have not been successful, the German South Tyroleans have found a way of maintaining their collective identity and to govern themselves as much as possible within the structural framework of the Italian state. The European Union's strong focus on and support of its regions since the Madrid Convention has allowed South Tyrol not only to extend its autonomy within the Italian state, but to seek new alliances - such as the creation of the Europaregion including Austrian North Tyrol and the Italian Trentine - which may potentially threaten the integrity of the surrounding nation states. This lecture will focus on the development of South Tyrol in the 20th century exemplifying extreme regional development in Europe.

Theatre P 3.00 - 4.00

Eric Haywood
(Italian)

Perfect Gents or Hairy Savages? Irishmen in Italian Literature
The many links between Italy and Ireland - saints and scholars, pilgrims and churchmen, merchants and bankers - are well documented, but what did the Italians actually know about Ireland, what did they think of the Irish, and how did they choose to represent them? This illustrated talk will present and comment upon a number of differing representations of Irishmen (and women), primarily in the literature of Italy's Golden Age (i.e. Renaissance) but, time permitting, of later periods too.

Theatre N 10.00 - 11.00

Edward James (History)

The Lord of the Rings and the Middle Ages
Professor J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was a medievalist, an expert in the language and literature of the Anglo-Saxons. But he is best known for two books: "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". This lecture will look at the ways in which he uses his fantasies in order to think about and discuss his scholarly concerns, and thus at the ways in which we might gain insight through his works into the world of the Middle Ages.

Theatre L 2.00 - 3.00

Philip Johnston (Spanish)

Song Sung Green: Lorca’s ‘Somnambular Ballad’
The "Romancero gitano" or "Gypsy Ballad Book" by Federico Garcia Lorca was published in 1928. Of its 18 poems, one in particular has always caught the attention of readers: the "Romance sonambulo". It is a mysterious, hypnotic and erotic poem. What exactly happens in the text? When does the female protagonist die? Why is everything so green? In this lecture an attempt will be made to answer these (and other) questions about Lorca's "sleepwalking" masterpiece.

Theatre R 11.00 - 12.00

Jonathan Kearney (Near Eastern Languages)

The Languages of the Near East
Students of the Near East are confronted by a bewildering array of languages, dialects and writing systems, whether their interest lies in the region's present or past. The aim of the lecture is to make this rich cultural diversity a little more comprehensible by providing a framework for its analysis. We will examine the term Near East and its relationship to the more commonly encountered Middle East. We will then look at ways of classifying languages before discussing some of the major languages of the Near East. Particular attention will be given to those languages taught in the Department of Near Eastern Languages. The major writing systems of the Near East will also be touched upon.

Room A106 12.00 - 1.00

Patricia Kelly (Early and Medieval Languages)

Monk and Cat: Early Irish learning past and present
In a well-known 9th-century poem in Irish, a cleric draws an extended parallel between the scholar's study of texts and his pet cat's pursuit of mice. We will look at what modern research can tell us about the scholarly work of the monks in early Christian Ireland, and try to convey the present-day attractions of the study of Early Irish.

Theatre P 10.00 - 11.00

Declan Kiberd (English)

Ulysses and Us
The climax of Ulysses is unique in the history of European modernism - an ad-canvasser named Leopold Bloom takes the young poet Stephen Dedalus home with him to Eccles Street. In most other modern masterpieces, there is war between bohemian and bourgeois, but not in Joyce. This lecture will offer a radical reinterpretation of Ulysses and its view of the modern city, arguing that it is both an epic of the new Ireland and an elegy for the civic bourgeoisie which was already being replaced by the consumerist middle class. The talk will consider the ways in which Joyce's reconciliation of bohemian and bourgeois lifestyles prefigured later developments in art and advertising.

Theatre L 1.00 - 2.00

Lee Komito (Library and Information Studies)

Culture and the Internet: Global Culture versus Local Community
New technologies have enabled radical changes in the kind, amount and spread of information throughout the world. The Internet is the best known example of this change, but it is only one instance of a global digital and information revolution. The implications of this revolution for culture and community are not yet clear. Two issues will be discussed: global culture versus local cultures, and the demise of traditional communities and emergence of new communities.

Theatre M 1.00 - 2.00

Michael Lloyd (Classics)

Homer's Iliad: from Troy to Troy
Homer's Iliad is the earliest work of Western literature (about 725 B.C.). It deals with a war between Greeks and Trojans which was believed to have been fought hundreds of years earlier. Ongoing excavations of the site of Troy have revealed that it was an important city which was part of the Hittite empire. This lecture will discuss the historical background to the Iliad, and the circumstances of its composition. Some distinctive features of the Iliad will be explored through a contrast with the recent film Troy which is based on it.

Theatre Q 2.00 - 3.00

Patricia Lysaght
(Irish Folklore)

Towards Creating the Future: The Irish Folklore Commission’s Achievement and Legacy
This lecture will explore the vision and imagination which led to the setting up of the Irish Folklore Commission in 1935 to collect the folklore of the island of Ireland. It will assess the achievement of the Commission in the context of similar institutions in other countries, the legacy of the Commission to the Irish people and to the international scholarly community, and the role of its successor, the Department of Irish Folklore, UCD, (1971-) in contributing to the intellectual and cultural life of Ireland in the twenty-first century (video to accompany this and run throughout day at EH Block Ground Floor).

Theatre R 10.00 - 11.00

Stephen Mennell (Sociology)

Medieval and Modern Manners
Our ancestors did many things in ways that seem disgusting to us today. Late medieval manners books has to tell their (upper-class) readers not just how to eat at table (with their fingers) but how, when and when not to spit, blow their noses, fart, urinate, defecate and undress - and the standards they set seem somewhat undemanding to us. Yet by the nineteenth century, much of what earlier books talked openly about had become quite unmentionable. European people had come to see themselves as inherently, innately 'civilised', and to feel 'superior' to other people - especially in newly-conquered colonies - whom they described as 'primitive' or 'savage' or 'barbaric'. In fact there was nothing inherent about their ways of behaving and feeling (and nothing inherently superior either). But some ways of behaving and feeling had become so deeply habituated, and so taken for granted, that they were felt to be 'second nature' to European people themselves. They became not just unconscious that as individual children they had had to learn these ways of behaving, but also that these social standards had changed from generations to generations, and their own ancestors had undergone a long, difficult and fragile 'civilising process'

Theatre L 10.00 - 11.00

Gerald Mills (Geography)

Wild Weather: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Heatwaves and Climate Change
Climate and weather events can play an important role in the affairs of humans, governing, for example, the outcome of wartime battles and food production. In addition, the activities of humans (by modifying the earth's surface and the atmospheric composition) are having an effect on the behaviours of the atmosphere. In this talk, a series of case studies will be presented from Ireland and abroad, ranging from the global (climate change) to the local (air pollution) that demonstrate the close relationship between humans and their atmospheric environment.

Theatre M 12.00 - 1.00

Tim Mooney (Philosophy)

Rousseau on the Arts and Sciences
In his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, Jean-Jacques Rousseau argues that every society in which the liberal arts have flourished has fallen into decline. From these arts have ensued the codes of behaviour that destroy truth and loyalty in our relationships. Yet these arts have only arisen because of the advance of the useful arts and sciences, which have given certain people the time and freedom to pursue luxury and singularity. Rousseau's diagnosis lays the ground for his subsequent work on inequality and on an alternative, virtuous society.

Theatre P 12.00 - 1.00

Niamh Moore (Geography)

The City (Re)-assembled: Dublin in the last hundred years
‘From Ships in the Docks to New City Blocks: The Changing Face of Dublin Docklands'.
In the last twenty-five years, the city of Dublin has undergone a radical economic, physical and social transformation. Nowhere has this become more evident than along the eastern quays, north and south of the river Liffey from the Custom House to the Pigeon House. Formerly the heart of the historic port and somewhat at the periphery of mainstream urban life, this docklands area now plays host to innumerable trendy bars and cafes, is a hive of student activity and the centre of the Irish financial world. On a walk down these quays, the interested observer might ask how this area has been so dramatically transformed? Who were the key players behind the development? What are the present and likely future consequences of such monumental change? Using images and maps, this lecture addresses these questions and many more.

Joe Brady (Geography)

The City (Re)-assembled: Dublin in the last hundred years
Location, Location, Location – the Social Geography of Dublin.
The often-quoted advice to property buyers and sellers is that 'location, location, location' is the key to success. In other words, the geographical location of a house or property is the key aspect that people worry about. In this short talk, we will explore the social geography of Dublin to see how the city is structured socially and the degree to which some of the perceptions of particular parts of the city are borne out by the facts.

Theatre N 12.00 - 2.00

Arnold Horner (Geography)

The City (Re)-assembled: Dublin in the last hundred years
The Dublin City-Region: Past, Present and Future.
This lecture will offer a geographer's perspective on the way Dublin changed during the twentieth-century, from a compact densely-populated city to a still-compact suburbanised city and on to a much more extensive city-region that has a commuting hinterland extending up to 80-100km from the city centre. Maps will show the city's growth, and the changing planning strategies, at various times from c.1900. Advertisements for land sales will then be used to speculate on how the city-region may develop over the next couple of decades.

David Morray (Near Eastern Languages)

An Irishman in the Near East: G.H. Fitzmaurice and the British Levant Consular Service
G.H. Fitzmaurice was born in Dublin in 1865. He received a BA from the Royal University of Ireland in 1887, after studying at University College, Blackrock. In 1888 he was admitted to the British Foreign Office’s Levant Consular Service as a Student Interpreter, and sent to Constantinople for further training. Thereafter he spent most of his working life in various posts in the Ottoman Empire, becoming an acknowledged expert on Turkish politics, and an accomplished speaker of Turkish. He came to public notice during the anti-Armenian disturbances at the end of the nineteenth century, and again on the eve of the First World War, when he was perceived to be the éminence grise at the British Embassy in Constantinople. He died in London in 1939.

Theatre O 11.00 - 12.00

Feargal Murphy (Linguistics)

Language and Extralinguistic Factors in Communication
This lecture will focus on the way that linguistic and non-linguistic features combine in acts of communication, focusing particularly on how news reporting can distort meaning by neglecting non-linguistic factors. How we interpret an utterance depends not only on the language (spoken, signed or written) but also on Paralinguistic cues - such as pauses, pitch and intonation, Metalinguistic cues - information that triggers assessment of what has been said, and Extra-linguistic cues - such as eye contact, gestures, physical distance. In the media, these non-linguistic cues can be misinterpreted, over-looked or deliberately suppressed in order to disguise, alter or misrepresent meaning. By examining the way linguistic and non-linguistic factors combine in communication we can come to a greater understanding of how the absence of non-linguistic cues can lead to misinterpretation of communicative acts.

Theatre N 2.00 - 3.00

Paula Murphy (History of Art)

Changing Vistas: the politics of public sculpture in Dublin
The nineteenth century saw a dramatic change in the images that peopled the public thoroughfares in Dublin, when monumental statues of British rulers were joined and, effectively, challenged by those commemorating nationalist heroes. Centrally located in the city, the statues wielded a political power that invited opposition. This talk examines the monuments that were erected in Dublin and the way in which many of them were targeted and subsequently destroyed.

Room E114 12.00 - 1.00

Meidhbhín Ní Urdail (Irish)

Brian Merriman’s ‘Court’ Revisited
The poem Cúirt an Mheán Oíche or Midnight Court comprises 1,026 lines in tetrameter couplets. It was composed in 1780 by Brian Merriman (c. 1749–1805) near Lough Graney in the parish of Feakle in northeast Clare. The poet is summoned in a dream to appear before a court of women, presided over by Aoibheall of Craig Liath, to answer charges of wasting his manhood. The main proceedings of the court concern the testimony of a young woman who delivers two long monologues, outlining the injustice of the matchmaking system and marriage laws in Ireland, and the validity of female desire. A third monologue, delivered by a foul-mouthed old man, calls for the abolition of the marriage laws and advocates free love instead. In the concluding section of the poem, Merriman awakens just as the monstrous bailiff and remaining female functionaries of the court are about to carry out on the poet himself Aoibheall’s judgement on men who have remained unmarried after twenty-one. The purpose of this contribution to the Arts Faculty Open Day 2005 is to revisit Cúirt an Mheán Oíche on the bicentenary of the death of its author, Brian Merriman.

Room A105 12.00 - 1.00

Harvey O'Brien

(Film Studies)

Stay out of the Shower! Hitchcock, Psycho, Cinema: an introduction to Film Studies
This Presentation will introduce the discipline of film studies by a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), illustrated with clips from the film.

Room E114 1.00 - 2.00

Ciarán Ó Con Cheanainn (Irish)

The Sean-Nós Song Tradition: Remnants of an Ancient
The aim of this talk is (1) to explain the art of sean-nós singing in Ireland and (2) to examine some of the most widely distributed and well-known traditional songs in the sean-nós song tradition. Most of these sean-nós songs, 'Éamonn an Chnoic', 'Eibhlín a Rúin', 'Moll Dubh an Ghleanna', ‘Róisín Dubh', ‘Úna Bhán' etc. were composed in the 16th and 17th centuries and were learned by the general public as poems going to school in the 20th century. It is my intention to explain and contextualize these sean-nós songs and map their journey of transmission.

Room A109 3.00 - 4.00

Deirdre O’Grady (Italian)

Druidesses, High Priests and Patriots: From the 18th Century Italian Poetry of the Cloister to the Romantic Cry for personal and political freedom - Romani/Bellini Norma
Literature and Opera in Italy. An introduction to the Italian Political opera and an analysis of the Romani/Bellini Norma in the light of its literary and dramatic sources; the cult of leadership; the woman as priestess and patriot.

Theatre N 11.00 - 12.00

Tadhg O hAnnrachain (History)

The Roots of Conflict: Mapping sectarian identities in Early Modern Ireland, 1536-1750
This will be a broad ranging lecture around a number of themes. First it will analyse the emergence of opposed Protestant and Catholic identities in Early Modern Ireland. This was an unusual development in contemporary European terms and was to have consequences of great significance. The lecture will stress the different evolution of Gaelic Scotland where Calvinism was very successfully implanted and draw upon a number of other European parallels such as Norway, Hungary and Bohemia to evaluate why Ireland took the course it did. The lecture will then offer a brief examination of how the different religious identities defined themselves in opposition to each other, both at elite and popular level, before concluding with an investigation of how much religious persecution actually occurred in Early Modern Ireland.

Theatre L 12.00 - 1.00

Tadhg O’Keeffe (Archaeology)

Were the medieval castle a person, would it be a man or a woman?
There is a universal belief that medieval castles were the fortified residences of feudal lords. Moats, solid walls, high battlements, murder holes, narrow windows and so on, point to castles as fundamentally military buildings. In this thoroughly-illustrated lecture I will argue that this interpretation owes as much to the 19th century imagination as it does to the medieval reality. Part of my argument today will be based on gender-theory, a field of great interest to archaeologists. I will explore how and why the castle is popularly imagined and portrayed as a masculine space, but will then suggest that it was, in a sense, more "she" than "he"!

Theatre Q 11.00 - 12.00

Diarmuid Ó Sé (Irish)

What placenames tell us about the past
Ireland has a remarkably dense network of settlement names - some 62,250 rural townlands as well as the names of towns and cities. The great majority of these are of Gaelic origin and many are very old. Some of the elements used to form placenames reflect particular historical periods. For instance, the 50 or so placenames formed with domhnach 'church (building)' (Latin dominicum, from dominus 'the Lord') reflect in their geographical distribution the earliest phase of Christianity in Ireland. The many examples of cill, on the other hand, reflect a somewhat later period in which the new religion was well-established throughout the island. Likewise the distribution of the various words meaning 'ringfort', such as ráth, dún, lios reflects the settlement pattern from the Early Christian period to the later Middle Ages. Other names reflect the medieval church reform and English plantations.

Theatre M 2.00 - 3.00

Getting to know the early ancestors: the Hill of Tara and other sacred places in prehistoric Ireland
The Hill of Tara is well known as a place that is steeped in mythology and history about ancient Ireland. Many people may not be aware, however, that the story of Tara goes back at least four thousand years beyond the dawn of written history. This lecture looks at the early part of the Tara story and places it in the context of life in Ireland at that particular time.

Theatre Q 12.00 - 1.00

Siofra Pierse (French)

Voltaire’s Vision of History: the case of Louis XIV
This lecture will be an introduction to Voltaire’s writing of history. It will first consider the space that Voltaire devotes to history in his huge corpus, then it will explore the literary nature of the philosopher’s vision of historiography and finally it will focus on Voltaire’s depiction of Louis XIV. This lecture will divide into four sections: the first section is an introduction to Voltaire the historian and will attempt to situate the histories within his huge corpus; the second section involves a brief history of historiography, or some of the influences upon Voltaire’s image of history, with reference to other 17th and 18th century historians and historical practice; the third subdivision is an examination of this theoretical or historiographical texts where Voltaire discusses the writing of history, and elaborates his theories, even if sometimes this is purely in retaliation to critics of his work such as Desfontaines, Fréron, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, La Beaumelle, and many others; in the fourth part, the lecture shall focus on the practice of these histories, by primarily examining the images of Versailles, of Louis XIV and of France in Voltaire’s Sièle de Louis XIV (1751) [Century of Louis XIV], in order to gauge to what extent theory and practice diverge. This lecture will be presented in English with quotations in both French (with English translation provided) and English.

Theatre R 1.00 - 2.00

Brendan Purcell (Philosophy)

From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Emergence as Cosmic Horizon
This lecture will touch on: (1) the big bang as a boundary question for astrophysics; (2) the emergence of life as a possible boundary question for Biology; (3) the emergence of animal life as a possible boundary question for zoology; (4) the "human revolution": the emergence of the human mystery (i) human biochemical difference (mtDNA and Y-chromosomes) (ii) human brain differences (iii) human physiological differences (iv) symbols and art (v) human language and cognition; (5) Aristotle’s insight into common quest for ground in Myth and Philosophy; (6) Human emergence as a scientific and philosophical big mystery.

Theatre M 10.00 - 11.00

Barry Raftery (Archaeology)

The Celts in Ireland: myth or reality?
The surviving language, placenames, culture and traditions of historic Ireland are undoubtedly Celtic. For the prehistoric period, however, this can only be demonstrated by archaeology, and in this regard archaeology is unclear. The surviving evidence is piecemeal and rather than invasion, it points to long-established indigenous development. The question of Celtic origins is thus a problem.

Theatre L 3.00 - 4.00

Jenny Rowland (Welsh)

Was there really a King Arthur?
King Arthur has been the inspiration for a vast literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. In most of this literature he is a monarch in the misty medieval past of Britain. Many of the earliest sources, however, place Arthur in a specific time period, fighting the invading Anglo-Saxons after the Romans left Britain in the 5^th century AD. This is a period notoriously short of reliable historical records, and the vast extent of traditions about Arthur have led some scholars to argue Arthur was a mythical figure given an historical niche in this time period. This lecture will look at the time period in which the historical Arthur must be placed, and the nature and value of the sources which mention or fail to mention the hero.

Theatre M 11.00 - 12.00

Thérèse Smith (Music)

From Spirituals to Gospel
This lecture will provide a brief exploration into the musical expression of the contemporary African American church. Drawing on a variety of sources, including fieldwork conducted in Mississippi, the types of music commonly used in church services will be outlined. The aim is not only to provide an introduction to the various genres of music, but also to highlight the important role of music generally, and singing specifically in African American worship.

Room J305 1.00 - 2.00

Theresa Urbainczyk (Classics)

Spartacus - the making of a hero
For many today Spartacus is Kirk Douglas. The influence of Kubrick's film has been enormous, but Spartacus was famous before 1960. For hundreds of years his name has been a byword for resistance, revolution and the fight for freedom. This lecture will look at the evidence from the Roman world to ask what the ancient writers said about him.

Theatre Q 1.00 - 2.00

Harry White (Music)

What kind of History is Music History?
Music is a central part of human experience from the cradle to the grave and across the whole spectrum of cultural engagement. In this lecture, we will explore the nature of thinking and writing about music from the perspective of European and Irish culture in particular. People have been writing about music as a source of philosophical speculation since classical antiquity, but as a formal discipline, music history is a much more recent phenomenon. The fascination of understanding how music functions internally, in addition to comprehending its tendency to reflect in precise ways the social and political matrix from which it emerges, can be graphically illustrated by examining the differences between music in Europe before and after the French Revolution.

Theatre P 11.00 - 12.00

Other Activities

Applied Language Centre

10.00   Language Laboratory Tour
10.30 Self-Access Tour
11.00   Chie Oda 'The Magic World of Chinese Characters' (see extract below)
11.30   Mary Ruane & Veronique Gauthier 'Doing our Levels best: how do we recognise competence in Language' (see extract below)
12.00   Language Laboratory Tour

Daedalus Building
10.00 – 2.30

12.30   Self-Access Tour
1.00   Chie Oda 'The Magic World of Chinese Characters' (see extract below)
1.30   Mary Ruane & Veronique Gauthier 'Doing our Levels best: how do we recognise competence in Language' (see extract below)
2.00   Language Laboratory Tour
2.30   Self-Access Tour

Mary Ruane &

Veronique Gauthier (Applied Language Centre)

Doing our levels best: how do we recognise competence in language learning Do you speak a foreign language? Do you know what your proficiency level is? Are you better at one language skill than another - for example at reading rather than speaking? This session will illustrate how you can evaluate your own language learning competence and successfully climb the 'languages ladder'. It will also outline recent trends in European and national certification systems and how they will change how individuals and institutions look at the issue of competence in language learning.

Daedalus Building

11.30

1.30

Chie Oda

(Applied Language Centre)

The magic world of Chinese characters "Chinese characters are not random scribbles, but a beautiful, complex machine that has powered culture and literature throughout Asia for many thousands of years". In learning Asian languages such as Chinese or Japanese, you will face the "stumbling block" of Chinese characters. Still it is not all tears to learn them; it can be great fun. During this 20 minutes' presentation, you will be introduced to, as well as enlightened and entertained by the magic world of Chinese characters.

Daedalus Building

11.00

1.00

Drama Studies Centre

A display of students work:
(a) An Exhibition
(b) Live Work 'Process and Performance' (11.00 a.m. & 2.00 p.m.)
(c) Projection of 10 minute video

Room A109 All Day

Classical Museum (Classics Department)

Museum Tours
Christina Haywood, the museum's curator, will talk about the work of the museum and will give guided tours of the collection.

Room K216 11.00

12.30

2.00

Archives (School of History)

Presentation on collections

Room K114 All day