UCD Newman Centre Events

Prof. Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers), 'Causing the Cosmos'

Panel discussion on John Henry Newman's Idea of a University hosted by the UCD Newman Centre for the Study of Religions and the ND Newman Centre for Reason and Faith in the Museum of Literature Ireland/UCD Newman House, Wednesday 19th October 2022.

Finola Kennedy (economist and former Lecturer, University College Dublin)
Mette Lebech (Maynooth University)
Andrew Meszaros (St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth)
Dermot Moran (Boston College)
Paul Shrimpton (Magdalen College School, Oxford)
Chair: Colin Barr (University of Notre Dame)

Panel discussion on John Henry Newman's Idea of a University in the 21st Century, hosted by the UCD Newman Centre for the Study of Religions and the ND Newman Centre for Reason and Faith in the Museum of Literature Ireland/UCD Newman House, Wednesday 26th October 2022.

Speakers: Áine Mahon (University College Dublin) Paul Blaschko (University of Notre Dame) Katherine O’Donnell (University College Dublin) Kenneth Parker (Duquesne University; National Institute for Newman Studies)

Title: Psychopathology & Religious Experience
Date: Wednesday 13 April 2022
Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Tasia Scrutton (University of Leeds)

Brian Leftow (Rutgers University): Time, Eternity and Causation

This paper was presented at the conference God & Time IV held in UCD Newman House on Monday 29 August 2022. The conference was jointly organised by the UCD Newman Centre for the Study of Religions and the Irish Society for the Philosophy of Time.

Ryan Mullins (University of Lucerne): The Sooner Objection to Divine Temporality

This paper was presented at the conference God & Time IV held in UCD Newman House on Monday 29 August 2022. The conference was jointly organised by the UCD Newman Centre for the Study of Religions and the Irish Society for the Philosophy of Time.

Title: Mother and Baby Homes, Magdalene Laundries and survivors‘ call for an all-Ireland human rights-based response

This is the fifth UCD Newman Centre Public Lecture of the Autumn 2021/22 series, delivered by Dr. Maeve O'Rourke (National University of Ireland, Galway, Irish Human Centre) on Tuesday 7 December 2021.

Title: Wisdom in the light of Roger Bacon's (1214?–1292) thought.
Date: 4pm, Tuesday 14 December 2021
Speaker: Dr. Odile Gilon (Universite Libre de Bruxelles & UCD School of Philosophy; NeoplAT ERC Project)

Title: Contemporary Paganism, Magic and Megaliths

This is the third UCD Newman Centre Public Lecture of the Autumn 2021/22 series, delivered by Dr. Jenny Butler (University College Cork Study of Religions Dept.) on Tuesday 23 November 2021.

Title: Public moralities: How religious understandings of human nature and psychological understandings of the self influence the culture wars

This is the fourth UCD Newman Centre Public Lecture of the Autumn 2021/22 series, delivered by Prof. Bryan Fanning (University College Dublin School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice) on Tuesday 30 November 2021.

Title: Who Were the Monks? Contextualising Participation in Medieval Irish Ecclesiastical Communities within Current Conceptions of Human Mobility

This is the first UCD Newman Centre Public Lecture of the Autumn 2020/21 series, delivered by Dr. Elise Alonzi (UCD School of Archaeology) on Tuesday 29 September 2020.

Title:  The Call of Justice. A Jewish Voice in Philosophy.
Date: Tuesday 6 October 2020
Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Joseph Cohen (UCD School of Philosophy)

Title: Why I am Not Not a Buddhist

This is the third UCD Newman Centre Public Lecture of the Autumn 2020/21 series, delivered by Assoc. Prof. Katherine O'Donnell (UCD School of Philosophy) on Tuesday 13 October 2020.

Title: Could Prayer Work?

This is the fourth UCD Newman Centre Public Lecture of the Autumn 2020/21 series, delivered by Dr. Martin Pickup (University of Birmingham Dept. of Philosophy) on Tuesday 20 October 2020.

Title: Thinking About Society and Religion with Plato and David Foster Wallace

This is the fifth UCD Newman Centre Public Lecture of the Autumn 2020/21 series, delivered by Dr. Jonathan Greig (KU Leuven) on Tuesday 3 November 2020.

"Re-Thinking the Senses" - Prof Richard Kearney to UCD Newman Centre