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.
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)
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)
Conference: God & Time IV (2022)
1. Brian Leftow (Rutgers University): 'Time, Eternity and Causation.'
2. Ryan Mullins (University of Lucerne): 'The Sooner Objection to Divine Temporality.'
Newman Centre Annual Lecture 2021/22
Tasia Scrutton (School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds): 'Psychopathology and Religious Experience.'
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.'
2. Maebh Harding (UCD Law): 'Article 41, Catholic teachings and the ossification of Victorian family power structures in Irish Law.'
3. Jenny Butler (UCC Religions): 'Contemporary Paganism, Magic and Megaliths.'
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.'
5. Maeve O'Rourke (NUIG Law): 'Mother and Baby Homes, Magdalene Laundries and survivors’ call for an all-Ireland human rights-based response.'
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.'
2. Joseph Cohen (UCD Philosophy): 'The Call of Justice. A Jewish Voice in Philosophy.'
3. Katherine O'Donnell (UCD Philosophy): 'Why I am Not Not a Buddhist.'
4. Martin Pickup (Oriel College, Oxford): 'Could Prayer Work?'
5. Jonathan Greig (Austrian Academy of the Sciences and NeoplAT ERC Project): 'Thinking About Society and Religion with Plato and David Foster Wallace.'