"Blarney and Beyond"
Yvonne Healy, storyteller
Presentation from 10 - 11:15am in the Lecture Theater (G160)
Q & A from 11:15am - noon in the Lecture Theater (G160)

Yvonne Healy is a Born Storyteller!
She didn’t kiss the Blarney Stone; she swallowed it. This award-winning raconteur was born across the water. She grew up with Irish stories and language on an American Main Street. Rollicking kids’ tales, weird Celtic legends, outrageous family lore, or thought-provoking adult fare: whether it’s blarney or beyond, this American and Irish storyteller opens windows to life, as real and touching as it gets. Funny, too!

The 400 Blows  film
2pm - 5pm in S105

The 400 Blows is a 1959 film directed by Francois Truffaut. A young Parisian boy, Antoine Doinel, neglected by his derelict parents, skips school, sneaks into movies, runs away from home, steals things, and tries (disastrously) to return them. Like most kids, he gets into more trouble for things he thinks are right than for his actual trespasses. Unlike most kids, he gets whacked with the big stick. He inhabits a Paris of dingy flats, seedy arcades, abandoned factories, and workaday streets, a city that seems big and full of possibilities only to a child's eye.

Life is Beautiful  film
9:30 - 11am in the Lecture Theater (G160)

1997 film directed by Roberto Benigni. A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.

 "Mental Health from a European Perspective: Same or Different from the United States?"
Presented by Carla J. Groh, PhD, PMHNP-BC
1 - 2:30pm in N008

The purpose of this presentation is to compare and contrast the delivery of mental health from the perspective of two European countries (Iceland and Ireland) and the United States. Although Iceland and Ireland share European roots, the mental health delivery systems are quite divergent. In recent years, both Iceland and Ireland have experienced catastropic economic crises; the impact of the economic downturn on the mental health network of each country and their ability to provide comprehensive mental health services will be explored.

In addition, similarities and differences between the three countries will be examined in terms of (1) common mental disorders (2) population-based risk factors; (3) barriers to assessment and treatment; and (4) how mental disorders are viewed within the three distinct cultures.

Amelie  film   
4:30 - 7pm in C121

2001 film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.  Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love.

The Allegro Series                                    
Featuring classical guitarist, Ana Vidovic 
7pm in the Lecture Theater (G160)

Cost: $10 general admission; $8 students and seniors

Ana Vidovic comes from the small town of Karlovac near Zagreb, Croatia, and started playing guitar at the age of 5, and by 7 had given her first public performance. At the age of 11 she was performing internationally, and at age thirteen became the youngest student to attend the prestigious National Musical Academy in Zagreb where she studied with Professor Istvan Romer. Ana's reputation in Europe led to an invitation to study with Manuel Barrueco at the Peabody Conservatory where she graduated in 2005.

Carbon Nation Film
5 - 7pm in the Lecture Theater (G160)

An optimistic (and witty) discovery of what people are already doing, what we as a nation could be doing and what the world needs to do to prevent (or at least slow down) the impending climate crisis.

Keynote Speaker
"Sustainability... Building for Everyone: TrinityHaus Perspective"
Dr. Mark Dyer
Director of TrinityHaus Research Centre for Sustainability and Innovation in the Built Environment
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
11am - 12:30pm in the Lecture Theater (G160)

Professor Mark Dyer was appointed to the Michael McNamara Chair in Construction Innovation at Trinity College Dublin in 2008, where he leads TrinityHaus, a research centre for innovation in Construction, Energy and Design. Before moving to Ireland, Mark pursued a career in both academia and the construction industry. He was the Professor in Civil Engineering at Strathclyde University between 2004 and 2008 as well as being chairman of the David Livingstone Centre for Sustainability. Prior to Strathclyde he worked for over twenty years on the design and construction of infrastructure projects including highways, power stations, offshore oil platforms, flood defenses, tailing dams, landfills in Europe, Africa and Asia. In 1997 he received a Foresight Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering which led to his appointment at Durham University for 4 years and more recently in 2008 a Japanese Society for Promotion of Science Research Fellowship. He has been appointed as a consultant for several organizations including UK Environment Agency, HR Wallingford and Studio Geotecncio Italiano and is a visiting professor at the University of Sienna, Italy and University of Karsetsat, Bangkok.