Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies at Trinity College Dublin

03/06/2026

Prof. Jacob Erickson has published a new piece on Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical letter, Magnifica Humanitas. "Ecologies of Communication" can be found at Religion Dispatches.

He writes, "our technological and algorithmic aspirations are building projects. They emerge from fleshy bodies and powerful organizations of unwieldy matter. Their impacts scrape the earth just as much as their algorithms scrape data."

Watching Pope Leo XIV announce and release the first encyclical letter of his papacy last week felt achingly surreal. In our age of rapid technology, livestreaming and immediate access build an aura displaced for the genre. Encyclical letters were once messier, embodied experiences: copied by hand o...

02/06/2026

Prof. Siobhán Garrigan was one of a number of scholars of politics, philosophy, and theology invited by the Political Theology Network to remember Jürgen Habermas, the German philosopher and social theorist who died in March this year.

You can read Prof. Garrigan's contribution here:

We invited scholars of politics, philosophy, and theology to help us critically remember Habermas…

28/05/2026

Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne has published a new piece on the impact of Transitional Justice on Palestine. Entitled 'Containing Liberation - The Transitional Justice Industrial Complex in Palestine', Dr Browne's article has been published open access as part of an urgent compendium of international law interventions, entitled: "Rethinking International Law After Gaza."

Available here: https://bilc.bogazici.edu.tr/publications

27/05/2026

Trinity's Professor of Theology and Social Justice, Siobhán Garrigan, was last week in Canada talking about her latest book, A Theology of Home in a Time of Homelessness. The tour centred around her delivery of the John Albert Hall Lectures for 2026 which were this year held in Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, BC.

15/05/2026

On Thursday 14 May our Peace Studies students had a super tour of the UN as part of the annual Geneva field trip. The UN information programme included inputs from OCHA, the Human Rights Council and the Information Service plus a tour of the Palais de Nations.

The group was made up of master's students from International Peace Studies, and Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation, and was led by Prof. Gillian Wylie.

07/05/2026

The Navarra press covered Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne's recent public engagements in the Basque country. Dr Browne was an invited guest speaker at UPNA and in Tudela where he was discussing the ongoing Genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing taking place on the West Bank in Palestine.

Full article here:

Brendan Ciarán Browne, profesor del Trinity College de Dublín, analiza en Navarra el impacto del conflicto en las comunidades beduinas.

05/05/2026

On Wednesday 29 April the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies in Belfast welcomed 25 current and future diplomats from around the world who are part of the University of Oxford's Diplomatic Studies Programme. Dr David Mitchell spoke to the group on international dimensions of the Northern Ireland peace process.

28/04/2026

Prof. Jacob Erickson presented a paper as part of Drew University's 21st Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium, 17th-19th April in Madison, NJ, USA.

The conference brought together an array of prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines on the theme of "Apocalypse Now and When" and included a keynote from Prof. Catherine Keller.

Erickson's paper, "Inhabitants of the Earth," explored apocalyptic narratives surrounding climate displacement, the racialized and securitized narratives that surround the figure of the "climate refugee," and asked how theology and ethics might better tend to climate and mobility justice.

Read more on our website:
https://www.tcd.ie/religion/news-and-events/2026-news/drew-universitys-21st-transdisciplinary-theological-colloquium/

27/04/2026

Samuel Rogers, who is taking a PhD in Peace Studies, has had an article published in the Irish Examiner, asking where the debate is on conscription in Europe today as Germany introduces new laws assessing young men for military service.

Germany has introduced laws assessing young men for military service and preventing them travelling for extended periods without military consent, writes Samuel Rogers

22/04/2026

Congratulations to our new graduates who were awarded their MPhil degrees at Friday's ceremony. It was wonderful to see everyone again and celebrate the fruition of all the hard work and fantastic achievements together. Below are some photos from the day, which included a School reception for graduates and their family and friends.

Well done to everyone and best wishes for the future! 🎉🥂