The 1998 Alexandra College Ardilaun lectures will take place tomorrow and Thursday in the College Concourse in Alexandra College, Dublin, at 3 p.m. both days. Tomorrow's lecture, The Origins and early years of the German Federal Republic, and Thursday's, From the building of the wall (August 1961) to its breach (9 November) 1989), will be delivered by Professor Eda Sagarra of the Department of German Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. The lectures are open to the public.
Good practice in development education is the theme of the National Committee for Development Education's winter school, which will be held in the Dublin Writers' Museum, Parnell Square, Dublin. On Friday, November 11th, the opening session will deal with development education and related areas of education, while the afternoon session will cover emerging standards in development education in both content and methodology. Saturday's sessions will look at the impact of development education initiatives and funding options.
The event is designed for people working in the areas of human rights, intercultural activities, adult and community education, youth and gender organisations, as well as primary, second-level and third-level education. The registration fee is £20 or £10 for the unwaged. Further details from NCDE, 16-20 South Cumberland Street, Dublin 2 (tel: (01) 662 0866; email: ncde@tinet.ie).
Friends of the Hugh Lane Gallery and Hamilton Osborne King are holding a series of art lectures, aimed at people who have an interest in art or who would love to get to know the subject. Topics which will be covered include Global interest in investing in Irish pictures, Irish sculpture in the early 20th century, What's "hot" and what's not in modern art and Art 1908 to date and the future. The speakers will include Barbara Dawson, director of the Hugh Lane Gallery, Bernard Williams from Christie's in London, Patrick Meade from Christie's in New York, Professor John Turpin of the National College of Art and Design and Nick Nicholson of Hamilton Osborne Kind.
The first lecture will be held on Thursday, November 12th at 7 p.m. in the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Charlemont House, Parnell Square, Dublin. Tickets cost £10, to include a wine reception. The other dates are January 21st and February 25th, 1999.
Those living in the Dublin 12 area may be interested in an exhibition on adult education which will take place in Pearse College, Clogher Road, on November 10th from 2.15 to 5 p.m. Local education groups will exhibit at the event and they will have details to hand of all the courses they provide.
During the afternoon there will be short presentations by speakers from groups involved in adult education, such as the adult literacy organisation, NALA, and the national umbrella body for adult learning, AONTAS. For further information contact Anna Dangerfield (tel: (01) 456 7501).
