Links to recordings of Centre presentations, such as the Newman Centre Online Public Lectures and the Newman Centre Annual Special Lectures, can be found below (order from most recent). 

 

Newman Centre Annual Lecture 2024/25

Sarah Coakley (Professor Emerita, University of Cambridge): 'Newman and Evolutionary Co-operation.'

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Newman's Idea of a University: Then and Now (2022)

Day 1: 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)

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Day 2: 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).

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God & Time IV (2022)

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

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

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Newman Centre Annual Lecture 2021/22

Tasia Scrutton (School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds): 'Psychopathology and Religious Experience.'

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Newman Centre Online Public Lectures 2021/22

1. Roja Fazaeli (TCD Near & Middle Eastern Studies): 'Female Religious Authority in Muslim Majority Contexts: Past Examples and Modern State-initiatives.'

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2. Maebh Harding (UCD Law): 'Article 41, Catholic teachings and the ossification of Victorian family power structures in Irish Law.'

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3. Jenny Butler (UCC Religions): 'Contemporary Paganism, Magic and Megaliths.'

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4. Bryan Fanning (UCD Social Policy, Work and Justice): 'Public moralities: How religious understandings of human nature and psychological understandings of the self influence the culture wars.'

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5. Maeve O'Rourke (NUIG Law): 'Mother and Baby Homes, Magdalene Laundries and survivors’ call for an all-Ireland human rights-based response.'

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Newman Centre Online Public Lectures 2020/21

1. Elise Alonzi (UCD Archaeology): 'Who Were the Monks? Contextualising Participation in Medieval Irish Ecclesiastical Communities within Current Conceptions of Human Mobility.'

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2. Joseph Cohen (UCD Philosophy): 'The Call of Justice. A Jewish Voice in Philosophy.'

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3. Katherine O'Donnell (UCD Philosophy): 'Why I am Not Not a Buddhist.'

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4. Martin Pickup (Oriel College, Oxford): 'Could Prayer Work?'

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5. Jonathan Greig (Austrian Academy of the Sciences and NeoplAT ERC Project): 'Thinking About Society and Religion with Plato and David Foster Wallace.'

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