UCD John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies

PUBLIC LECTURE PROGRAMME

The UCD John Hume Institute public lecture programme is supported by the generosity and enthusiasm of Denis O’Brien and the Communicorp Group. The series has been curated under the general rubric of “Communication, knowledge and the citizen in the global environment”. It is intended to provoke public interest, engagement and debate on a number of themes implicit in the rapid transformation of and access to the communication and transmission of knowledge. They are issues which affect us all.

Lecture	Date
Samatha Power - Chasing the Flame	06 March 2008
Mark Little, Martin Mackin and Mark Mortell - Selling Politics	23 October 2008
Malcolm Gladwell - The Story of Success	27 November 2008
Fintan O’Toole, Clare Duignan, Steve Hewlett - Ethics and Broadcasting	11 December 2008
Bob Schmuhl - The Splendid Misery of the American Presidency	21 January 2009
James Lovelock in conversation with Prof Frank Convery, Director, UCD Earth Institute	15 April 2009
Bob Schmuhl

THE LORD MAYOR'S PAGES

Pictured above: The Lord Mayor’s Pages, Dublin, 1932