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Taking place in Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin. Adequately juxtaposed with Halloween 2022, the Demons Good and Bad conference will explore the ambivalence of demons, e.g., in terms of their perceived spatial location, morality, physical essence, and functionality; their decline and rise in recent times; and implications of their perceived presence in multiple aspects of human life. Follow this link for more information / Registration

Registration is now open for the next in the ISE at 50 webinar series: Faiths in Changing Ireland: Belonging and Going Beyond which will take place on Thursday 6th October at 5pm. Prof Jude Lal Fernando will chair a panel including Prof Andrew Pierce and leaders of faith communities, for an exploration of the challenges and opportunities to institutionalised religions of emerging ways of believing and faith in a more secular and multi-religious Ireland. All are welcome, follow the link to register.

On 22 September, David Mitchell was interviewed live about the significance of the Northen Ireland census results, which for the first time in Northern Ireland’s 100-year history, have recorded a higher proportion of Catholics than Protestants.

Prof. Julian Goodare (University of Edinburgh), is the Keynote speaker at Demons: Good and Bad, a 2-days in-person conference, which takes place in Trinity College Dublin on 27th–28th October 2022. You are invited to join his Keynote Lecture which will be a FREE Livestreaming Event from the Trinity College Long Room Hub at 4 pm on 27th October 2002 - Book your place and receive the link via Eventbrite .

The School’s postgraduate research students are organising a one-day conference on October 21st, 2022. The conference seeks to explore how we as early career researchers navigate our work within the context of both our colourful lives and the troubling circumstances of political struggles, social movements, or climate change. Follow the link for more details.

In a world in which genuine forgiveness seems as rare a commodity as ever, this collection of essays offers an opportunity to explore where and in what forms forgiveness may be found in the Hebrew Bible--a text which is foundational for Western religions and the cultures they have influenced over the last two millennia. In the wake of renewed interest in forgiveness in antiquity and recent suggestions that it bears little resemblance to modern conceptions, this book investigates the ways in which the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament itself conceptualizes forgiveness. For more information and to purchase the book click here.