Colum Kenny : CONFERENCE

‘Finding a voice or fitting in? Migrants and media in the new Ireland’. Accepted for ECREA's 2nd European Communication Conference ‘Communication Policies and Culture in Europe’, Barcelona, November 2008

‘Human rights and journalism education.’ Accepted for conference on Human Rights Education For a Sustainable Future: Celebrating 60 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Dublin, September 2008.

‘Contrasting or complementary: a critical analysis of Cardinal Avery Dulles' reflections on the nature of news media.’ Accepted for congress of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Stockholm, July 2008.

‘A double-edged sword: emerging Irish policy on media mergers’. Accepted for seminar on media ownership in Europe, University of Exeter, 10 June 2008.

Invited speaker, as non-party academic, to Fine Gael parliamentary party seminar, on future trends in Irish society and culture. Galway, Autumn 2007.

‘Human Rights: Freedom of speech in Europe and North America, an Irish perspective’. Seminar. Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University, 25 October 2007.

‘Significant journalism: television, sex abuse and the Catholic Church in Ireland’, Political Studies Association, Media & Politics Group Annual Conference, University of Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, UK. 9 November 2007.

Chair and respondent, Public lecture on ‘A history of the Poor Law in Ireland: a bibliographical survey’, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, 22 November 2007.

Chair. The second annual C.S. Lewis Lecture, by Dr Trevor Morrow: ‘Money, sex and new technology’. Dublin, 24 September 2007.

“Privacy and privilege”. Address to conference on ‘Privacy: Developments in the European Court of Human Rights’. Irish Centre for European Law: Royal Irish Academy, 13 December 2006.

“Nice architecture, pity about the scandal: King's Inns and Dublin in the 1790s”. Seminar. St Patrick's College, Drumcondra. 27 November 2006.

Invited address to OECD study group on Irish media matters relating to the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions. 19 October 2006.

[Invited to address the Irish Universities Association meeting on ‘HSS in the Digital/Media Age’, about the representation of Humanities and Social Sciences in the media (23 October 2006). This invitation had to be declined due to an unavoidable DCU commitment.]

“Defamation, privacy and media regulation”. Chair of session, Conference on the Defamation and Privacy Bills, Trinity College Dublin, School of Law, 30 September 2006.

“Branding, Identity and Young People: a Case Study”. Paper presented to the fifth International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture: ‘Mediating religion in the context of multicultural tension’, Stockholm, Sweden, 9 July 2006.

“What exactly does ‘local history’ mean?”. Paper. Federation of Local History Groups: Kildare, 6 May 2006.

“By no means relished by the gentlemen of the bar: King's Inns at Constitution Hill.” Paper presnted at ‘Bare Bones of a Fanlight: Georgian Dublin’ conference, UCD, 5 May 2006.

Chair and organiser, Symposium on Press Regulation, DCU, 30 April 2006. This symposium included a keynote address by the director of the United Kingdom Press Complaints Commission who came to Ireland especially for the event. It also included Irish press representatives.

“The media and Irish Catholicism”, Paper at conference ‘Irish and Catholic? Towards an understanding of identity’, Tallaght, 23 June 2005.

“Visible targets and invisible people: radio in Dublin”, Paper at conference on ‘Media and Belief in an Interdependent World’, The American University, Paris, 4-6 March 2005.

“Nolumus mutari: change and the legal profession”, Paper at conference on ‘Brian Merriman in the European Context’, Eighteenth Century Ireland Society in association with Cumann Merriman: University of Limerick, 11 June 2005.

“A Crucial Role: Television, Sex Abuse and the Catholic Church in Ireland”. Paper presented to the fourth International Conference on Media, Religion and Culture, Kentucky, USA, 2 September 2004.

Sole guest respondent to third plenary session keynote address, at the fourth International Conference on Media, Religion and Culture, Kentucky, USA, 4 September 2004.

“Reporting Sellafield: the challenge for journalism”. Independent guest address to conference of the Green Party of England and Wales, University of Lancaster, 11 September 2003.

“Community radio and public service broadcasting”. Address to conference of the Community Radio Forum, University of Cork, 4 September 2003.

“Adventures in training: the Irish genesis of the United Kingdom Select Committee on Legal Education, 1846”. Paper to British and Irish Legal History Conference, 4 July 2003. Also chaired a session.

“Church and fourth estate”. Address to seminar on religion and the media, DCU 4 April 2001. Seminar organiser.

“Media and the New Millennium”. Address to Rural Resource Development Conference, Ennis, Co. Clare, Autumn, 2000.

Chairman. Production funding opportunities for European audiovisual works of merit. Media Desk/European Parliament seminar. Dublin. Spring 2000.

Address (on behalf of the EU Media Desk), welcoming the European Film Academy to Dublin, where its 1999 annual meeting was held. Irish Film Centre, 19 June 1999.

“Shamrock or Maple Leaf - two emblems, one struggle? The question of cultural identities in a global television environment”. Address to the Royal Television Society. 18 November 1998.

Opening address. “Television - a business: a perspective for the future”. Conference organised by Film Makers Ireland & EU Media Desk, 7 November 1997.

Keynote address, “An era of change: DRTV and the future for digital media”. UK Channel 4 and Media Link conference. Dublin, 10 October 1997.

“The strength of national radio in Ireland and the opportunities for Radio Ireland”. Address to the Marketing Society, Stakis Hotel, 23 September 1997.

The Annual Heritage Lecture, Irish Museum of Modern Art, September 1996.

“Ethical implications of new technology for journalism”, to the Conference of the International Guild of Agricultural Journalists, Dublin, June 1996.

“News values in television”. Address to seminar, University of Nijmegan, Netherlands, May 1996.

Keynote address. “Newspapers in a democracy: plurality, diversity and freedom of expression and contribution to cultural diversity”, to ‘Forum on the future of the Newspaper Industry’, convened by Minister for Enterprise & Employment, May 1995.

In Alberta, Canada: Prof. Kenny has been both a panellist and a guest chairman at sessions of Canada's foremost broadcasting event, the Banff Television Festival.	Session chairman and contributor, Banff Television Festival, Alberta (Canada's premier television discussion event), 1993 and 1994.

“On history and the King's Inns”. Address to chief justice and other judges and member of King's Inns, Dublin, 6 April 1992.

“The film industry in Europe, 1991-1992”. Address to plenary session of the European Television and Film Forum, Nice, November 1991.

Keynote address. “The uses of media for community development”, to national delegate conference of the National Parents' Council, Dublin, 1990.

“The TV documentary: looking at the human race as an outsider”, presented as chairman of seminar, “The documentary, - art or politics”, Cork Film Festival, October 1990.

“Legal problems for journalists: a practical perspective”, to programming staff of national radio service, Dublin, November 1989.

Chairman. “Aspects relevant to marketing Irish film and television productions”, CTT/Irish Trade Board conference on international broadcasting opportunities, Dublin, June 1989. Also addressed this conference.

Invited to chair conference on the future of public service broadcasting, organised by the British Radio Academy and RTÉ, Dublin, December 1988.

“Broadcasting developments”, Address to Association of Advertisers in Ireland, April 1988.

Very many such events, most recently,

• Constructing the past: Themes and perspectives in the writing of Irish history since 1600. Hertford and Jesus Colleges Oxford. 14-15 March 2008.
• Newspapers: Past, present and future. National Library of Ireland. 7 March 2008.

‘Súil eile: another way of seeing minority language broadcasting’. In Language and Intercultural Communication, v, nos. 3 & 4 (Spring, 2006), pp.264-273.

‘It's just the media!’. In Redefining roles and relationships: our society in the new millennium. Ed. Harry Bohan and Gerard Kennedy (Dublin, 2001). pp.193-209.

‘The audiovisual challenge in Ireland’. In Conflict or cooperation in European television: The proceedings of the European Film and Television Forum, Nice, 21-23 November 1991. Manchester. European Institute for the Media. 1992. pp.63-68.