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2019 TEDxQueensUniversityBelfast - 'OUTSIDE | IN'
Queens University Belfast hosted its first independently organised TED event on Thursday 23 May 2019.
Long time community worker Dr Jackie Redpath described an on-going process of generational transformation of children and young people in the Shankill community in Belfast, an area ravaged by industrial collapse, large scale redevelopment and Northern Ireland’s conflict. The area has declared itself a ‘Children and Young People Zone’ and is engaged in a 20 year process of coordinated and measured conversations with children, development pathways and sustained support, leading to individual and collective transformational change.
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Patrick's talk considers whether giving people money in the form of Universal Basic Income(UBI), an unconditional payment of around £1000GBP a month which would be given to every person, would help resolve violent conflict. This is explored through the example of the Northern Ireland peace process and makes the connection between inequality, crime, deprivation and living in a divided society. It suggested that poverty is the root cause of much of Northern Ireland’s continuing post-conflict division and that by wiping out material poverty a UBI could also transform our society and achieve lasting peace.
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With the rapid proliferation of pervasive electronic devices in our lives, the internet of things (IoT) has become a reality and its influence on our day to day activities is set to further increase with a projected 125 Billion connected devices by 2030. However, this poses serious security and privacy issues as we will no longer have direct control over with whom and what our devices communicate. Counterfeit, hacked, or cloned devices acting on a network are also a significant threat.
Professor O'Neill's talk discusses the insecurity of smart devices and what we need to do to address the issue.
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My name is Marlene Trimble, I am a 22 year old BSc Psychology graduate and I am currently employed full time with Mencap.
I had a very unique experience in getting into Queen’s University Belfast so I will be detailing myjourney, and ultimately the people who helped me along the way. I am hopeful that my talk will inspire others who may be in a similar position that I was in and will allow them access to the help I received. All odds were against me attending university but I made it.
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What would happen if we were all Narcissists? Right now you’re probably worried thinking that if that was the case, we would probably be living in a world in which everybody is only preoccupied about themselves, their own appearance, their own achievements and probably thinking which selfie they are going to post next. But what if I said that this could also have some advantages?
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Random and Reason appear to be opposites. But in combination they provide the answer to the elusive question ‘what is a good democratic system?’ And, strangely enough, people in Northern Ireland seem to like the idea a Random + Reason based democracy.
John Garry is Professor of Political Behaviour in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast.
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The Priests hit the musical headlines in April 2008 when they signed a £1m record deal with music giant Sony BMG. Fathers Eugene O'Hagan, his brother Martin, and David Delargy, are all Queen's University Belfast graduates and each has a busy parish in the diocese of Down and Connor.
Though their success was overnight, the unlikely trio have actually been singing together for the past 35 years, since they were pupils in St MacNissi's College at Garron Tower, where they were known as 'holy, holy, holy' by their peers.
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In Greek mythology, we read stories about sirens: beautiful creatures that entice sailors from deep waters to shallow rocky shores. These tales may be thousands of years old, but they’ve never been more relevant for us today. Smartphones, social media, emails, notifications, and funny cat videos cry out for our attention 24/7, leaving our attention divided and us feeling spread too thin.
In this talk, student entrepreneur Matthew Thompson shares how a ‘Deep Not Wide ‘philosophy has helped him trade a chaotic addiction-fuelled schedule for a simple life full of freedom and purpose.
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Kissing. Flirting. Love. These are some of most fascinating aspects of human life. But what separates the Romeos from the Tinder turn offs? Do we have scientific soulmates? And are looks really that important? Society tells us romance is responsible for relationships. The truth is, it’s all down to science; a captivating cocktail of chemistry, genetics, biology and evolution. Join Emer Maguire, international award winning science communicator and BBC radio presenter, as she guides us through the science of love.
Warning: This talk contains scientifically accurate musical comedy.
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Mark will take you on an emotive, exciting and inspiring voyage, telling you how a coalition of patients and healthcare professionals came together to identify inequalities that cancer patients face every single day of their lives and how they addressed these disparities to improve the health and well being of the citizens of Europe. This innovative work led to the development of the European Cancer Patients’s Bill of Rights (BoR), which Mark launched with patient groups and fellow healthcare professionals in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on World Cancer Day. Mark will highlight some examples of the impact that the BoR has had for both citizens and cancer patients across Europe, culminating in the prestigious 2018 European Health Award.
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There will also be entertainment slots built into TEDxQueensUniversityBelfast.
Manisha, a 4th year medical student at Queen's University Belfast, has been learning, teaching, and performing Bharatanatyam for almost 2 decades under the guidance of Guru Sri Prakash Yadagudde of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in London. Since moving to Belfast for her medical studies at Queen’s University, she has performed throughout the city and held workshops in Indian Classical Dance.
Bharatanatyam is a beautiful and precise South Indian classical dance form which intricately combines energetic physical movement with drama to portray stories from Indian folklore and Hindu mythology.
This is a piece in Rag Purvi Kalyani in praise of Lord Shiva, the Lord of dance. Sri Padmacharan’s poetic lyrics describe Shiva dancing at twilight, accompanied musically by his wife, Parvati and his son, Ganapathi, on symbols (who initially plays the wrong beat and is corrected by his mother). A devotee of Lord Shiva hears his powerful footwork, echoing as if the mountains were falling and, on seeing him, she says it was as if time itself had stopped to watch Shiva dance.