Innovation Dublin Lecture 2010 - Design and the Humanities
Date: 18 November 2010
Time: 5 p.m.
Venue: Room H204, UCD Humanities Institute
Professor Michael Shanks is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Humanities Lab is a visiting professor in digital humanities at the UCD Humanities Institute and the UCD John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies. During this visit to UCD Professor Shanks will give a lecture on Design and the Humanities as part of Innovation Dublin.
Michael Shanks is an acclaimed thinker and practitioner in the fields of innovation, design and the humanities. In his UCD Innovation Week lecture, he will examine design history and thinking and explore how archaeology offers exceptional insight into how we understand creativity, innovation, change, and our dependency on goods.
Innovation Dublin Lecture 2009 - Innovation, Society and Culture: Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritages
Jointly organised by UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland (Dr Marc Caball) and theDublin Graduate School in Creative Arts and Media (Dr Mick Wilson), this workshop focuses on the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage which entered into force on 20 April 2006. The Convention represents the culmination of three decades of policy development in respect of cultural expression and practices since these issues were first raised through UNESCO in 1973. The Convention holds that intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is manifest through diverse media such as oral traditions and expressions, performing arts, social practices, traditional craftsmanship and knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe. Given the critical, but largely unrecognised, importance of ICH to sustainable social and economic innovation in Ireland, this seminar will seek to develop applied policy perspectives which inform current debates on the nature of innovation and the knowledge society/smart economy in Ireland .
Keynote Speaker: Professor Kristin Kuutma, Professor of Cultural Research, Institute of Cultural Research and Fine Arts, University of Tartu, Estonia / Estonian representative on the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Commentators: Lisa Godson (NCAD), Pat Cooke (UCD), Ríonach Uí Ógáin (UCD), Dermot McLaughlin ( Temple Bar Properties)
Date: Friday, 16 October 2009 (2-4 p.m.)
Venue: Old Physics Theatre, UCD Newman House, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2
For a full list of all UCD events taking place during Innovation Dublin 2009 please click here.
For the Innovation Dublin 2009 Brochure with information on the full week-long series of events please click here.