"Beyond the Dark Clouds" Lecture Series - Dr Nancy Rourke

This is the final lecture in the 'Beyond the Dark Clouds' lecture series - "Building the Dream Together: The Meaning of Hope in the Anthropocene ".

This lecture will be given by Dr Nancy Rourke, Associate Professor and Interim Department Chair, Canisius College, Boston, US.

Dr Nancy Rourke has a PhD in theology from the Pontifical Institute of St. Patrick’s College of Maynooth (Ireland). She is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Theology and former Director of the College's Catholic Studies programme.

She teaches courses in Catholic ethics and religious studies and writes in areas of environmental ethics, health care ethics at the end of life, and meta-ethics. Nancy is a well-known scholar and author in the Catholic intellectual/ethical tradition and her latest publications focus on the embodiment of Laudato Si’ in contemporary discussions around climate and sustainable living.

In our second lecture series entitled ‘Beyond the Dark Clouds: Prophetic Voices from Around the World,’ we will be continuing our theme of education for hope. This year we will be focussing on how to humanise the world through the study of ethics, philosophy, technology and artificial intelligence as well as enquiring about the nature of values and mission in the contemporary higher education environment.

This series is a way of keeping our Catholic roots alive within our academic portfolio as well as contributing to debates in the public square concerning some of the most pressing ethical issues of our times. Please join us for these free lectures as we seek to try to heal a fractured world.

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