External Collaboration. Conor Newman is co-director with Dr Mark Stansbury (Classics NUIG) of the Columbanus: life and legacy project. The project has been central to the formation of an international scientific committee comprising membership from France, Italy and the UK, chaired by Prof. Jean-Michel Picard (UCD) and the development of an international project Making Europe: Columbanus and his Legacy announced in Bobbio in Nov. 2012. The next meeting of the Scientific Committee will take place in Vienna in November 2013, hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.