Staff and Postgraduate Research Seminar (and Associated Lectures)
Second Semester 2017–18
Wednesday 31 January:
1.45-2.15pm: Dr Aoife McGrath: What is a Poster Presentation?
2.15-3.00pm: Dr Andrew Meszaros: Ten Commandments of Clear Writing
Wednesday 7 February:
1.45-3.00pm: Prof. Kees de Groot (Tilburg):
“The Unacknowledged Presence of Christianity in Secularized Dutch Society”
Tuesday 13 February [Shrove Tuesday], 5.00pm, Renehan Hall
Irish Theological Quarterly Lecture (with Maynooth University Department of Sociology)
Prof. Kees de Groot (Tilburg): “The ‘Liquidation’ of the Church”
Wednesday 14 February [Ash Wednesday]:
1.45-3.00pm: Prof. Tobias Nicklas (Regensburg):
“The Role of Scripture in Catholic Theology”
Wednesday 28 February:
1.45-2.10pm: Brenda Farrell (PhD candidate):
“The place of Seán McDonagh in the theological discourse on ecology”
2.10-3.00pm: Prof. Patrick Manning (Walsh University, North Canton, Ohio):
“Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and the Laity”
Wednesday 14 March:
1.45-2.05pm: Chris McDermott (STL candidate),
“A Portrait of the Pharisees in Luke 5:17-26”
2.05-2.25pm: Sarah Boss (STL candidate),
“Jesus: an absent or present character in Acts?”
2.25-3.00pm: Dr Luke Macnamara OSB:
“Jesus Bridegroom and Baptiser - a Johannine Portrait”
Wednesday 4 April [Easter Wednesday]: [JOINT SEMINAR WITH TCD/LOYOLA]
1.45-2.10pm: Michel Simo (PhD candidate),
“Jon Sobrino and Pope Francis’s Languages of the Poor/Vulnerable: Journey from
the ‘Preferential Option for the Poor’ to the ‘Compassion for the Vulnerable’?”
2.10-3.00pm: Dr Gerard Norton OP (Irish Dominican Studium):
“Unicorns and other strange beasts that lurk in ancient texts of the Psalter”
Wednesday 18 April:
1.45-2.05pm: Robert McGivney (STL candidate),
“A Portrait of Simon the Pharisee in Luke 7:35-50”
2.05-2.25pm: Anthony Omodunbi (STL candidate),
“Appreciating Stephen’s Vision - a narrative approach”
2.25-3.00pm: Dr Robert Egan, “A Psychology of Sin Based on Bernard Lonergan”
Wednesday 2 May, 3.00-5.30pm:
Postgraduate presentations & poster sessions. Followed by postgraduate supper.