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Reminder: Equality Public Lecture Series: Doing Business Differently

Just a reminder about the Public Lecture series next week in UCD with Mick Wallace. Full details of the event are mentioned here.

Public Dialogue with Mick Wallace:Thursday, 24^th

April at 8pm.

Venue: Lecture Theatre Q015, Quinn School of Business, UCD

Doing Business Differently

How do ethical, political or moral obligations combine with business? Can we do business ‘differently’?

Mick Wallace, builder, developer, and philanthropist will be joined by Sara Burke, journalist, for a discussion on the subject of engaging in socially responsible projects and actions in business. This is a public dialogue, and there will be opportunity for audience members to take part in the discussion. The evening will end with a wine reception, to which you are all invited to attend.

This event is jointly run by the Equality Studies Centre within UCD’s School of Social Justice, and the Quinn School of Business.

All are welcome!

Equality Public Lecture Series: Doing Business Differently

Public Dialogue with Mick Wallace:Thursday, 24^th

April at 8pm.

Venue: Lecture Theatre Q015, Quinn School of Business, UCD

Doing Business Differently

How do ethical, political or moral obligations combine with business? Can we do business ‘differently’?

Mick Wallace, builder, developer, and philanthropist will be joined by Sara Burke, journalist, for a discussion on the subject of engaging in socially responsible projects and actions in business. This is a public dialogue, and there will be opportunity for audience members to take part in the discussion. The evening will end with a wine reception, to which you are all invited to attend.

This event is jointly run by the Equality Studies Centre within UCD’s School of Social Justice, and the Quinn School of Business.

All are welcome!

EQUAL-L: The EU Knowledge Economy

UCD Equality Studies Centre

UCD School of Social Justice

Egalitarian World Initiative (EWI)

Monday 26^th November 2007,

C214, Arts Block, UCD.

Followed by a reception in the Staff Common Room

Professor Mary Darmanin

EWI Marie Curie Fellow 2007, University of Malta.

The EU Knowledge Economy: A case study of the impact of supranational discourses on member states’ ICT policies.

ALL WELCOME

Please notify in advance if you require ISL services.

Please contact marie.moran@ucd.ie with any queries.

EQUAL-L: Inclusion Ireland Parents Seminar 2007

New developments have emerged in the area of Decision Making Capacity both in Ireland and internationally. Inclusion Ireland is fortunate to have secured the services of Dr. Michael Bach, Vice-President of the Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL), who will travel from Canada to provide a keynote address on the current debate in Legal & Decision Making Capacity comparing supported decision making with that of guardianship and substitute decision making - laws presently being considered here in Ireland.

The other topic for debate will be the Long Stay Health Charges that are causing much confusion and concern to service users, families and service providers

Inclusion Ireland Parents� Seminar 2007

Radisson SAS Hotel, Athlone, Co Westmeath

Saturday 3rd November 2007

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Programme

09.30am - Registration

10.15am - Welcome: Kevin Doyle - Chair, Inclusion Ireland Parents� Committee

10.20am - Official Opening

Session 1: �Supported Decision Making�

10.30am - International Perspective: Prof. Michael Bach, CACL

11.30am - Irish Perspective: M�ir�n McCartney, Solicitor

12.00pm - Open Forum & Questions & Answers: Chaired by Teresa Blake � Barrister at Law

12.45pm - Lunch

Session 2: �Long Stay Health Charges�

2.00pm - Service Provider Perspective: Wally Freyne, Director of Services, Daughters of Charity Services, Dublin & National Federation of Voluntary Bodies Rep

2.25pm � HSE Perspective: Seamus Mc Nulty Assistant National Director, Responsibility for Mental Health and Disabilities.

2.45pm - Parent Perspective: Frank Hyland, Chairperson St Raphael�s P & F

3.10pm - Health Charges Repayment Scheme: Pat Marron, General Manager

3.15pm - Open Forum & Questions & Answers: Chaired by Mary O�Rourke TD for Longford-Westmeath

4.20pm - Closing Remarks: Finula Garrahy, Inclusion Ireland Chairperson

To Book: http://www.inclusionireland.ie/parent_seminar_07_application.asp


Source: EQUAL-L List

The side to Gay Life we don't see: Aging

We never think about it. We go out most weekends; We glam up; We meet our mates; We score some hot young guy; We become the older stalwarts of the community by 25 & jaded by the process and after a couple of months/years out of it, we go back and do it all over again, all in the name of maintaining our view that we are young & continue to be attractive & did I mention young?
The NYTimes this week ran a fantastic article on the concept of growing old as an out gay man and the stigma & prejudice which is attached to this, with regards the provision of care. The article is very well put together, and does in many ways highlight a number of issues in our Society as a whole, the issue of care and whose role is care perceived to be for? It provides a very rude awakening for a culture of young gay men in this country and in most of the Western world where boundaries are broken down, almost on what seems like a daily basis these days. Thought provoking, but will it provide the incentive to do something about it.
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Aging and Gay, and Facing Prejudice in Twilight

Even now, at 81 and with her memory beginning to fade, Gloria Donadello recalls her painful brush with bigotry at an assisted-living center in Santa Fe, N.M. Sitting with those she considered friends, “people were laughing and making certain kinds of comments, and I told them, ‘Please don’t do that, because I’m gay.’”

The result of her outspokenness, Ms. Donadello said, was swift and merciless. “Everyone looked horrified,” she said. No longer included in conversation or welcome at meals, she plunged into depression. Medication did not help. With her emotional health deteriorating, Ms. Donadello moved into an adult community nearby that caters to gay men and lesbians.

“I felt like I was a pariah,” she said, settled in her new home. “For me, it was a choice between life and death.”

Elderly gay people like Ms. Donadello, living in nursing homes or assisted-living centers or receiving home care, increasingly report that they have been disrespected, shunned or mistreated in ways that range from hurtful to deadly, even leading some to commit suicide.

Some have seen their partners and friends insulted or isolated. Others live in fear of the day when they are dependent on strangers for the most personal care. That dread alone can be damaging, physically and emotionally, say geriatric doctors, psychiatrists and social workers.

The plight of the gay elderly has been taken up by a generation of gay men and lesbians, concerned about their own futures, who have begun a national drive to educate care providers about the social isolation, even outright discrimination, that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients face.

Source & contd: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/us/09aged.html?em&ex=1192161600&en=252f4521b8e5d635&ei=5087%0A

Right to Read Campaign (Equal-L)

Right to Read Campaign

Seminar

‘Literacy is the Entitlement of Every Child’

Mansion House, Dublin 2

Saturday, October 20^th 2007

10.30am: Welcome and Opening

Speaker: Cllr. Paddy Bourke, Lord Mayor of Dublin

10.45am: The Problem

Chair: Cllr. Mick Rafferty (Dublin City Council)

Speakers: Mark Candon (Principal, Sheriff Street, Dublin 1)

Brendan O’Sullivan (INTO)

11.30am: Question and Answer Session

11.45am: The Solution

Chair: Cllr. Liam Kelly (Dublin City Council)

Speakers: Norah Gibbons, Director of Advocacy Barnardos

Anne Marie Kelly, Divisional Librarian, Dublin City Council

12.15pm: Question and Answer Session

12.30pm: Tea and Coffee

12.45pm: The Right to Read Campaign

Chair: Marian Guibney (School Completion Programme)

Speaker: Cllr. Aodhán Ó Ríordáin,

North Inner City Councillor and Teacher

1.00pm: Question and Answer Session

1.20pm: Keynote Address

Speaker Niamh Bhreatnach

Minister for Education 1992-1997 and current member of Dún Laoghaire / Rathdown County Council

www.righttoread.ie
(via the EQUAL-L list)

Equality Studies Public Lecture Series (EQUAL-L)

Monday 15^th October 2007 at 7:30 pm
Room C214, Arts Block, UCD

Professor Eileen Kane
EWI Marie Curie Fellow 2006-07

The Real Differences Between the Sexes: What Do They Mean for Teaching and Learning?

ALL WELCOME

Please notify us in advance if you wish to avail of ISL interpretation.

Please contact marie.moran@ucd.ie with any queries.