Book Launch - Aula Maxima, UCC - Mon. 19th Sept. 2016
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You are cordially invited to the launch of 鈥楾ransdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability鈥�, a unique book which draws together the insights and perspectives of fifteen academics from across the disciplinary bounds at UCC (and a few from further afield) on this topical and pressing theme.
Authors (UCC unless stated):
John Barry (Queen鈥檚 深夜亚洲福利久久 Belfast), Edmond Byrne, Alessandro Chiodi, Paul Deane, Kieran Keohane, Stephan Maier (TU Graz), Owen McIntyre, Gerard Mullally, Michael Narodoslawsky (TU Graz), Brian 脫 Gallach贸ir, John O'Halloran, Mary O鈥橲haughnessy, Colin Sage, B茅n茅dicte Sage-Fuller, David Sheehan.
Professor John Naughton, guest speaker, at the launch of 鈥楾ransdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability鈥�
鈥屸�屸�孭ictured at the launch were a number of the book's authors: Professor John O'Halloran, Professor Brian 脫 Gallach贸ir, Dr Kieran Keohane, Dr B茅n茅dicte Sage-Fuller, Dr Gerard Mullally, Professor Edmond Byrne, Dr Colin Sage.
Book editors Sage, Mullally & Byrne at the launch, Aula Max, UCC.
About the book:
Demonstrating how a university can, in a very practical and pragmatic way, be re-envisioned through a transdisciplinary informed frame, this book shows how through an open and collegiate spirit of inquiry the most pressing and multifaceted issue of contemporary societal (un)sustainability can be addressed and understood in a way that transcends narrow disciplinary work. It also provides a practical exemplar of how far more meaningful deliberation, understandings and options for action in relation to contemporary sustainability-related crises can emerge than could otherwise be achieved. Indeed it helps demonstrate how only through a transdisciplinary ethos and approach can real progress be achieved. The fact that this can be done in parallel to (or perhaps underneath) the day-to-day business of the university serves to highlight how even micro seed initiatives can further the process of breaking down silos and reuniting C.P. Snow鈥檚 鈥榯wo cultures鈥� after some four centuries of the relentless project of modernity. While much has been written and talked about with respect to both sustainability and transdisciplinarity, this book offers a pragmatic example which hopefully will signpost the ways others can, will and indeed must follow in our common quest for real progress.
Postscript: The President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins to 脕ras an Uachtar谩in to formally present him with a copy on behalf of all the authors on 14th December 2016. This recognition for the book served to explictly acknowledge the response that academics centred around 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork have made (by enaging with this transdisciplinary process and subsequent research output) to the themes and calls of his Presidency. These include an exhortation to academics and their institutions to embrace the contemporary realities that 鈥榠n a complex world, we are called to understand the necessary relationship between the liberal arts 鈥� the foundations on which much academic learning must be built 鈥� and the fields of science and technology鈥�, so as to strive to realise a 鈥榗ulture for paradigm shift to happen鈥� to replace the debased 鈥榤odel of separatism鈥�.1 See also below.
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