News & Events

Upcoming conference:

Ethics and Sport

On Saturday October 19th at 10.00 a.m. the Department of Religions and Theology is having an interdisciplinary Conference on Ethics and Sport in the Trinity Longroom Hub.

The programme includes:

Reflection: Jack Gleeson (Religions & Theology student in Trinity College and star of Game of Thrones)

Opening Address: Pat Gilroy (former All-Ireland winning player and manager)

Sponsorship of Sport by Drink companies: Professor Joe Barry (TCD)

Games without Frontiers: Alan Kerins (Galway football and hurling star and charity worker)

Why I Fell out of Love with Cycling: Anthony Moran, former Honorary Vice-President Cycling Ireland Board

'Remembering Nevin': Emma Spence and Irish rugby legend Ollie Campbell

Fair Play Hall of Fames: the first inductee will be the late Nevin Spence

Women in sport: Dr Katie Liston (Sporting heroine and academic)

Panel discussion

PJ Cunningham (sports editor and publisher), John O'Mahony (twice All-Ireland winning manager), Hugo MacNeill (Irish rugby legend). Chair: Dr John Scally (TCD)

Closing Address: Olympic icon Ronnie Delany.

For further information and registration contact John Scally: jscally[at]tcd.ie.

Welcome to our new Assistant Professor in Early Christianity, Dr. Daniele Pevarello!

Having studied Theology at the Waldensian Faculty of Theology (Rome, Italy) and at the Kirchliche Hochschule Bethel (Bielefeld, Germany), Daniele Pevarello completed his PhD in Jewish and Early Christian studies at the University of Cambridge (England) with a thesis on the influence of Pythagoreanism on Early Christian asceticism. Since 2011, he has taught New Testament and Greek at the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the interaction between Early Christian thought and Graeco-Roman philosophy with particular emphasis on the construction of the religious identity and conceptual world of the early Christians.

We welcome Dr. Anja Kirsch, University of Basel, as Visiting Lecturer to the Department in Michaelmas Term 2013.

Following her studies of Religion, History and German Studies at the University of Hannover, Germany, Anja Kirsch worked at the Universities of Jena, Germany, and Basel, Switzerland. In 2013 she completed her PhD in Religious Studies with a thesis on the transmission of secular worldviews in socialist textbooks. Currently, Anja Kirsch is employed as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Basel. Her teaching and research interests include the history of Religious Studies, secular movements in the 19th and 20th century, and narrative theory.