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2025 | Annual Alumni Lecture

Wednesday, 10 December 2025 | 6:30pm  

Being a sculpture historian - an unorthodox account

Paula Murphy, Professor Emerita, UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy

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Join fellow alumni of the School of Art History & Cultural Policy for our Annual Alumni Lecture. The academic year 2025/26 sees the School celebrating 60 years of Art History in UCD, and Paula has been there for most of them! She registered as an undergraduate in the Department of the History of European Painting in 1968 and retired as a member of staff from the School of Art History and Cultural Policy in 2016. Looking ahead to her Alumni lecture Paula has said it "will be anything but academic. I propose instead to recount some of the difficulties I have encountered in locating and viewing sculpture. With any luck it might be entertaining!"

 

 

UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy Alumni Research Support Award

The School of Art History and Cultural Policy Alumni Research Support Award was established to support up to three annual Research Support Awards to the sum of €500 each. These grants are open to postgraduate students who are currently registered for the taught MA, MLitt or PhD programmes in the School. The Alumni Research Support Award is made possible by the alumni of the School of Art History and Cultural Policy and is intended to flexibly support and/ or enhance programme study and research expenses. Generous donations from School Alumni have allowed us to make six Alumni Research Support Awards since 2022.   (opens in a new window)Donate >>>>

UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy Alumni Newsletter 

 
Catch up on the School & our alumni in our biannual newsletter in which we share School activities and insights from students who benefit from the Alumni Research Support Award, and we spotlight the endeavours of our fantastic alumni. 

UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy

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