The second reunion within the framework of the Irish Romanian partnership, an agreement signed between the Romanian Cultural Institute and the Irish Embassy in Bucharest and meant to mark the Irish Presidency of the European Union, is to be held Thursday, February 21st 2013, 6 pm, at the Department of Political Science, Negulescu Hall (Str. Spiru Haret nr. 8).
The special guests are Dr. Stephen Kelly, with a talk on “A Sympathetic Realist: John Henry Newman and Irish Nationalism” and Dr. Andrew Pierce, with a talk on “Newman and the Idea of Equlibrium”. The presentations and the discussions and are to be held in English. Free acces, limited by the number of seats.
The event will be hosted by Dr. Andrei Marga, President of the Romanian Cultural Institute, H.E. Mr. Oliver Grogan, Republic of Ireland’s Ambassador to Romania, and Dr. Claudia Maria Udrescu, Deputy-dean of the Department of Political Science, University of Bucharest.
The event is organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute, the Irish the Embassy in Bucharest and the Department of Political Science within the University of Bucharest.
Dr. Stephen Kelly is a postdoctoral teaching Fellow with the Department of politics, History, Communications and Media, Liverpool Hope University and a part-time lecturer with the School of History and Archive, University College Dublin. Throughout his academic career he was the recipient of numerous honours and prizes, many of them related to the work of Cardinal John Henry Newman. He teaches modules on varieties of nationalism in modern Europe, as well as on the Anglo-Irish relations in the last 200 years. He has authored several articles and book chapters on these topics; he is also the author of the monographs “A conservative heart? The political thought of John Henry Newman” (Columba Press, Dublin 2012) and “Fianna Fáil, partition and Northern Ireland, 1926-1971” (Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 2013)
Dr. Andrew Pierce is Assistant Professor in Ecumenics at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin. His research interests centre on the connections between theological modernism and religious anti-modernism. A frequent commentator on ecumenical affairs, his recent publications include chapters in Karl Rahner: Theologian for the Twenty-First Century (Padraic Conway and Fainche Ryan, Eds; 2010) and George Tyrrell and Catholic Modernism (Oliver P Rafferty, SJ, Ed; 2010), as well as articles in The Furrow, Search, Doctrine & Life, Milltown Studies, Concilium, One in Christ and Oekumenische Rundschau. In 2008-09, Dr Pierce was a Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellow, and spent part of this time as a Visiting Fellow at the International Centre for Newman Studies at UCD, where he delivered the 2009 Newman Lecture. He serves as a member of the International Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO) and was the President of Societas Oecumenica, the European Association for Ecumenical Research between 2010 and 2012.
