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Lunchtime Lecture at the Hunt Museum, Limerick

The Art of Looking is the title of a lunchtime lecture today in the Hunt Museum, Limerick. Nora Hickey, curator of education and collections at the Glucksman Gallery will deliver the lecture at 1pm. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend.

Postgraduate Study Fair, University of Limerick

The University of Limerick will host a postgraduate study fair tomorrow. This event will take place in EGO 10 in the main campus building from noon to 3pm and is open to anyone interested in finding out about postgraduate programmes or research opportunities in UL and other Irish institutions. For more information, contact. E-mail: mary.sweeney@ul.ie.

UCD Graduate Studies Opportunities Day

UCD's inaugural graduate studies opportunities day takes place tomorrow from 12.30pm to 7.30pm in the O'Reilly Hall, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4. There will be an opportunity to explore the range of programmes offered by each UCD college and school.

For more information and to pre-register for this event visit: www.ucd.ie/graduatestudies

Globalisation, Religion and Ethics Seminar

The Irish School of Ecumenics in collaboration with the department of religions and theology and the Institute for International Integration Studies, will host the following two seminars in Seminar Room C6.002, The Sutherland Centre, 6th Floor, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin. Seminars take place from 12.30pm until 2pm. Globalisation, Religion and Women's Human Rights by Marianne Heimbach-Steins, professor of social ethics, University of Bamberg, takes place tomorrow and Globalisation: Alternative Perspectives from Social and Religious Realities by François Houtart, Catholic University of Louvain takes place on Thursday, February 22nd. As places are limited contact Aideen Woods. E-mail: isedir@tcd.ie or tel: 01-2601144, ext. 101 if you wish to attend.

Re-evaluating Gender in Children's Literature

The fifth annual conference of the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature will take place on Friday, February 23rd and Saturday, 24th at The Church of Ireland College of Education in Rathmines, Dublin. The topic is re-evaluating gender in children's literature. The keynote address will be given by the children's literature scholar Prof Kerry Mallan, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Other conference papers explore wide areas of children's literature from Padraic Pearse to Harry Potter. Speakers come from as far afield as Taiwan and Boston, and as near as Newcastle and College Green.

Information from kosullivan@cice.ie or Mary.Thompson@spd.dcu.ie or tel: 01-497 00331

Creative Writing Competition for First Year University Students of German

Frst year university students of German in Ireland may be interested in a creative writing competition initiated by the Austrian Exchange Lecturers in Ireland Association in collaboration with the Austrian embassy Dublin, Austrian language schools, and Austrian Airlines. Four study trips to Austria in the summer of 2007 are being offered as prizes. Trips will include the costs for two- to three-week language courses in Vienna, Salzburg and Klagenfurt as well as return flights from London to Vienna.

Interested students should write a text of 400 to 500 words on the topic "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart kauft sich eine Hose und geht mit mir essen."

The deadline is Friday, March 9th. For further information contact the German department at NUI Galway (e-mail: katharina.walter@nuigalway.ie) or the Austrian embassy in Dublin (e-mail: dublin-ob@bmaa.gv.at).

GMIT Public Lecture Series

An new series of public lectures is taking place in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT), Castlebar, this spring.

The lectures, each of which will take place every Wednesday until March 28th, will be delivered by GMIT lecturers in areas such as sociology and heritage, business and technology, outdoor education, nursing and health sciences, architecture and construction, and engineering and environment.

Tomorrow The Stock Exchange: An Introduction is the title of a lecture by Hugh McBride, lecturer in business. Caring for the Elderly by by Kathleen Taheny-Murphy, lecturer in nursing, takes place on February 28th. There will be four further lectures.

All lectures take place in the Morrogh Bernard Lecture Theatre, GMIT Castlebar on Wednesdays at 8pm. They are open to the public and admission is free. Further information contact Regina Daly. Tel 091- 742826. E-mail: regina.daly@gmit.ie

Public Lecture Series on China

A public lecture series on China will run in the Central Library at 7.30pm each Tuesday in February and March. Today Emma Connolly will speak on Travelling in China followed by Dr Wang Jianhui with a talk titled Chinese Medicine on February 27th. The title of Dr Huan Xiong's talk on March 6th is Women in China Today and Yesterday.

On March 13th Dr Jorn-Carsten Gottward will speak on China Today. Prof Fan Hong's second talk, which takes place on March 20th, is entitled The Window of China: Beijing Olympic Games and the series will conclude on

March 27th with Shih Cheng-Hung who will speak on Chinese Cuisine.

For further information contact: Marie McSweeney, UCC, Tel: 021-4902371or Tina Healy, Cork City Libraries. Tel: 021-4924912.

UCC Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights launch and lecture

The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights at UCC will be formally launched on Tuesday, February 27th with the first in a series of annual distinguished lectures in criminal justice and human rights. Addressing one of the key questions for criminal justice and human rights today, Prof Conor Gearty, Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, LSE will speak on the topic: Criminal Justice and Human Rights: Rising to the Challenge of Counter-Terrorism. The lecture takes place in the Aula Maxima, at 6pm (registration from 5.30pm).

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