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Professor Linda Hogan is admitted to Royal Irish AcademyOn May 26th 2023 Professor Linda Hogan was admitted as a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Membership is considered the highest academic honour in Ireland. The citation on her admittance read: “Linda Hogan is Professor of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin. A distinguished scholar, Professor Hogan is an internationally recognised leader in the field of social and political ethics. Known for her ground-breaking non-foundationalist ethics of human rights, Professor Hogan was recently awarded a doctorate honoris causa from Regis College, University of Toronto, for her outstanding contribution to the ethics of human dignity, conscience and rights.” Congratulations from everyone at the School on this wonderful recognition.
Public seminar exploring the life of Fr. Paolo Dall’Oglio
All are welcome to a public seminar on Wednesday 22nd November titled ‘In love with Islam, believing in Jesus’ to discuss the life and work of Fr. Paolo Dall’Oglio who disappeared 10 years ago in Syria. The expert panel includes Prof. Neville Cox, Fr. Michael O’Sullivan, Dr. Hajar Al Kaddo, Ms. Bernadette McGonigle, Dr Richard Kimball, and Sr. Deema Fayyad. The seminar is jointly organised by the MPhil in Contextual Theologies and Interfaith Relations programme, along with the TCD Dublin City Interfaith Forum and will take place in G16 ISE/Loyola Building 4.30-6.30pm. Places are limited so please RSVP to diogo.vara@gmail.
Congratulations to Maja Halilovic Pastuovic and Gillian Wylie on starting the new project GEMS!
There is widespread agreement across policy makers and the academic community that the video gaming ecosystem plays a substantial role in the process of radicalization. However to date there is no compelling evidence base to understand how the process takes place, or the best measures to prevent the radicalization process. Games as a Multi-layered Security Threat (GEMS) is an interdisciplinary, mixed-method and cross-sectoral project bringing together academic researchers, AI specialists, policy experts and a range of police authorities from across Europe to address this challenge. Prof Maja Halilovic Pastuovic and Prof Gillian Wylie have secured funding from Horizon Europe research and innovation programme to carry out 3 year long project into gaming ecosystem where Trinity College is the coordinating institution. The very successful kick-off meeting of the project was on 26th and 27th October in Dublin. Follow the link for more information about GEMS.
Dr David Mitchell gives keynote lecture at conference on language and conflict
The two-day international conference was held in Trinity Long Room Hub on 5 and 6 October 2023 and was entitled ‘From Homer to Hate Speech - A Humanities View on Language in Conflict’. It was organised by postgraduate students in Trinity’s School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies. Dr Mitchell’s talk was on ‘Irish language, conflict, and reconciliation in post-Agreement Northern Ireland’. It explored the contentious symbolic and political status of the Irish language in the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process, and discussed the impact of the Turas project in Belfast which is seeking to revive interest in Irish among people of a Protestant unionist background.
