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Academy Discourse - God and Sex - What the Bible Really Says

Professor Michael Coogan, Director of Publications for the Harvard Semitic Museum and Lecturer on Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Harvard Divinity School

Thursday, 16 February 2012, Academy House

Opposing sides on abortion, same-sex marriage, and other so-called “family values” often appeal to the Bible in support of their contradictory positions, as though the Bible were an authority beyond question. But the Bible speaks with many voices, not one, and some of its values are no longer ours. A close look at the story of David and Bathsheba, one of the most famous and most ambiguous biblical narratives, will illustrate these issues.

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Academy Discourse - Count Dracula and Bram Stoker

Terry Eagleton

Wednesday, 19 April 2012, Academy House

Terry Eagleton was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has been a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and was formerly Thomas Warton Professor of English in the University of Oxford. He is presently Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Universities of Lancaster and Notre Dame, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of over forty works of literary, cultural and political criticism, which include studies of Irish history and culture such as Heathcliff and the Great Hunger. He has also written plays which have been staged in Ireland and Britain, including Saint Oscar, and a novel about Ireland entitled Saints and Scholars.

The lecture considered Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the context of some traditional notions of evil, including the very different presentation of the idea of evil in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman. It also raised the question of Stoker’s Irish Protestant background and its relevance to his fiction.

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The Isle is Full of Noises

Seamus Heaney in Conversation with Olivia O'Leary

Thursday, 2 February 2012, St. Ann's Church

On the 2nd of February the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Literatures in English hosted a public interview with Seamus Heaney and Olivia O’Leary in St. Ann’s Church Dawson Street. The interview opened a two day event run by the RIA entitled ‘Voices in the Ether: Irish Writing on the Radio’ and was attended by around 270 people.

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Marine Institute/Royal Irish Academy Lecture - Alien World - New Discoveries of Exotic Lifeforms & Volcanic Metal Chimneys in the Deep Ocean

Dr. Andy Wheeler, UCC (Chief Scientist) & the Irish-British VENTuRE Survey Scientific Team Tuesday, 24 April 2012, Academy House

Andy Wheeler led a groundbreaking Irish-led marine research mission aboard the national research vessel RV Celtic Explorer investigating life at 3,000 metres below the surface of the sea on the ‘45o North MAR hydrothermal vent field’ using the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Holland 1. These vents, which spew mineral rich seawater heated to boiling point by volcanic material in the earth’s crust below, are home to a rich variety of marine life that thrives in complete darkness on bacteria fed by chemicals.

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RIA and Science Media Centre Event - Introduction to the News Media for Ireland's Geoscientists

Thursday, 17 May 2012, 13:30 - 18:00, Academy House

Chair:

Fiona Fox – Chief Executive, Science Media Centre

Speakers:

Clive Mitchell – Press Officer, British Geological Survey

Tom Sheldon – Press Officer, Science Media Centre

Journalist Panel:

Dick Ahlstrom – The Irish Times

David Derbyshire – Daily Mail

Leo Enright – RTE Radio 1

Tom Kennedy – Science Spin

Mike McKimm – Environment

Correspondent, BBC NI

Geoscientist Panel:

David Ball – Independent Hydrogeologist

Garth Earls – Consulting Economic Geologist

Ian Jackson – OneGeology Project Co-ordinator

Dr. Deirdre Lewis – Technical Director, SLR Consulting Ireland

Prof. John McCloskey – Seismologist, University of Ulster

Prof. Pat Shannon – Petroleum Geologist, University College Dublin

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Humanities: Academy Discourse - Maria Edgeworth, Edmund Burke & the First Irish Ulysses

Professor James Chandler, University of Chicago

Friday, 22 June 2012, 6pm, Academy House

James Chandler is the director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities and holds the Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Professorship in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of two books on English Romanticism: Wordsworth's Second Nature (1994) and England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism, which won the 2000 Gordon J. Laing Award for distinction in academic publishing.

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Global Perspectives of Open Access

Speakers:

Prof Nicholas Canny, European Research Council's Working Group on Open Access

Geraldine Clement Stoneham, Knowledge and Information Manager, Medical Research Council UK, and RCUK Research Outputs Network

Dr Julia M Wallace, Manager, PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) Project

The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013.

Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet.

Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model’ of Open Access and the European Commission’s proposed ‘Green Model’.

More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx

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Open Access in Practice

Speakers:

Niamh Brennan, Programme Manager, Research Informatics, Trinity College Dublin

Dr Sandra Collins, Digital Repository of Ireland

Ruth Hegarty, Publications Manager, Royal Irish Academy

Dr Darius Whelan, Faculty of Law, University College Cork

Dr John Howard, UCD Librarian & RIAN

The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013.

Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet.

Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model’ of Open Access and the European Commission’s proposed ‘Green Model’.

More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx

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Public Research in Ireland and Understanding Ireland’s National Guidelines: an overview and Open access policies of funding bodies & their implementation: a panel discussion

Speakers:

Dr Patricia Clarke, Health Research Board

Dr Manus Ward, Science Foundation Ireland

Mr Joe Doyle, Enterprise Ireland

Dr Eucharia Meehan, Irish Research Council

The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013.

Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet.

Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model’ of Open Access and the European Commission’s proposed ‘Green Model’.

More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx

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Open Access and the Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences

Speakers:

Professor Keith Jeffery, School of History and Anthropology, Queens University Belfast

Professor Ronan McNulty, School of Physics, University College Dublin

Dr Kevin Lalor, School of Social Sciences and Law, Dublin Institute of Technology

Professor Stefan Decker, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland Galway

The Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Research Council held a forum on Open Access on May 2, 2013.

Representatives from Irish researchers, public research funders, publishers and industry met in the Royal Irish Academy to discuss the implications of rolling out Open Access to all publicly funded research in Ireland, including making research freely accessible without charge on the internet.

Speakers at the Forum considered how Open Access can support the best research to reach not only the best scientists but also a wider public audience. They considered whether and how Open Access can encourage greater use of research by small and medium enterprises, and explore how Irish Open Access policies measure up against the proposed UK ‘Gold Model’ of Open Access and the European Commission’s proposed ‘Green Model’.

More details: https://www.ria.ie/About/Our-Work/Policy/RIA-Initiatives/Making-Open-Access-Work-for-Ireland.aspx

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