UCD Festival Talks is a new podcast series that dips into our conversation archive to revisit some of the engaging literary and cultural chats from UCD Festival@home 2020. The UCD Festival is a unique showcase of the innovation, creativity and research that happens in UCD.
Emilie Pine in conversation with Sophie White and Emma Dabiri
UCD academic and author of Notes To Self Professor Emilie Pine talks to Sophie White about her recent widely-acclaimed collection dealing with the horrors of grief, addiction, mental illness, and the casual and sometimes hilarious cruelty of life and Emma Dabiri on a new way to talk about racial injustice: one that builds on the revolutionary ideas of the past and forges new connections.
9 Jun 2021
The Power of Giving
The generous spirit of giving that shines brightly in the UCD alumni community has a ripple effect.
The Gift of Giving knows no limit as philanthropy has the power to improve lives and transform society.
This has been a difficult year for many charities, but they have risen to the challenge and have rather unexpectedly thrived. Join us for this headline event as we discuss The power of giving and the important contributions that Foundations are making not only across Ireland but globally,
Eilis Murray, CEO Philanthropy Ireland will be joined in conversation with Human Rights, Equality & Social Justice Campaigner Denise Charlton, CEO of The Community Foundation of Ireland and Senator Joan Freeman, Founder of Pieta House and The Darkness into Light Campaign which has raised in excess of excess of €7million in 2021 alone.
9 Jun 2021
Temple Bar by Group ’91, 30 Years Later
Join three highly-esteemed UCD alumni – Shelley McNamara (Ulysses Medal 2019, Grafton Architects), Frank McDonald (Former Environment Correspondent, Irish Times) and Derek Tynan (DTArchitects) will discuss their relationship with Temple Bar. Asking the critical questions, architect, urban designer and UCD APEP lecturer Dr Alan Mee, will probe our panellists to uncover the fascinating story of late 1980s Dublin which brought about the Temple Bar vision. Two of the panellists (Shelley and Derek) were part of the original Group ’91 architectural design team and the third member (Frank) is a long-time resident of Temple Bar, and one of Dublin’s most astute urban commentators. Acknowledging that this is a challenging place in 2021, the panellists will discuss urban design issues and original intentions.
Introduced by Dr Ellen Rowley. Chaired by Dr Alan Mee.
Inside a recent episode
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
Published 9 Jun 2021 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We use about 50 % of all habitable land for agriculture, and that's about 35 % of all ice -free land around the world we use for animal agriculture. So it's a huge amount of space that we use, and the fact of the matter is we actually need that space. We need that space for dealing with our environmental problems, for rewilding, for greater biodiversity, for greater carbon sequestration, and we do research on this looking at, well, what is the DCA plant -based shift towards plant -based diets away from animal agriculture, and animal agriculture starts to shrink maybe as a proportion of our total production, and we see huge, huge impacts over time, and you can see actually we can buy ourselves about three to four years of carbon emissions if we use that land sensibly in terms of rewilding and drawing down carbon. […]
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