CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

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Wednesday, 28th August 2019
From 12.30 pm
Registration
Cregan Library DCU
St. Patrick’s Campus
Refreshments available
2.00 – 2.30 pm
Welcome – Lesley Prior and
Sandra Cullen,
Seamus Heaney Library
Religious Education:
Reconciling Realities
Images and words – Philip
McKinley
2.30 – 3.15 pm
Keynote Lecture 1
Anne Looney
Seamus Heaney Library
3.15 – 3.45 pm
Dialogue chaired by Sandra
Cullen
3.45 – 4.15 pm
Refreshments
Thursday, 29 August 2019
9.00 - 9.45 am
Keynote Lecture 3:
Abdullah Trevathan
9.45 - 10.15 am
Dialogue chaired by Lesley
Prior
10.15 - 10.45 am
Coffee Break
Veritas booksellers in attendance
10.45 - 12.00 pm
Workshops 1
Barbara Wintersgill: Big Ideas
in RE (E203)
Cora O’Farrell: Deep Talk
(D115)
Graeme Nixon: Religious
Education and the Sanitisation
of Religion (E301)
Salla Vainio: Using technology
to enhance the learning process
in religious spaces (E205)
1.15 – 2.00
Lunch: Silk Road Café,
Chester Beatty Library,
Dublin Castle
Friday, 30th August 2019
9.00 -9.45 am
Keynote Lecture 4:
Manfred Pirner
9.45-10.15 am
Dialogue
Chaired by Sonja Danner
10.15 - 10.45 am
Coffee Break
Veritas booksellers in attendance
10.45 – 12.00 pm
Workshops 2
Richard Rymarz: Difficult topics
in RE: Notes for practitioners
(E203)
Marios Koukounaras
Liagkis: Building Bridges in the
RE Classroom using
Drama/Theatre Techniques
(E205)
Oddrun Bråten and Kristian
Niemi National differences in
policy – similar practices?
(E301)
James Nelson & Lesley
Emerson: Addressing
controversial issues through
classroom deliberation (E303)
Saturday, 31st August 2019
9.00 - 10.15am
Workshops 3
Henk Pol: Using Sacred Texts to
Reconcile Realities in RE (E203)
James Nelson & Lesley
Emerson: Addressing
controversial issues through
classroom deliberation (E303)
Florin Tomoioaga: Environment
from an Orthodox Perspective
(E301)
Marios Koukounaras
Liagkis: Building Bridges in the
RE Classroom using
Drama/Theatre Techniques
(E205)
10.15-10.45 am
Coffee Break
Veritas booksellers in attendance
10.45 – 12.00 pm
Workshops 4
Graeme Nixon: Religious
Education and the Sanitisation
of Religion (E203)
Salla Vainio: Using technology
to enhance the learning process
in religious spaces (E205)
4.15 – 5.00 pm 2.00 – 5.00 pm
Keynote Lecture 2: o Tour of the Chester
Padraig ÓTuama Beatty Library
Seamus Heaney Library o The Enquiring Classroom
Project – Patricia Kieran
5.00 – 5.30 pm o Working with sacred
Dialogue chaired by Norman texts and objects in the
Richardson RE classroom
Sonja Danner: Holocaust
Education and RE (E203)
12.00 – 1.00 pm
EFTRE General Assembly and
Board Meeting for EFTRE
Members
Oddrun Bråten and Kristian
Niemi National differences in
policy – similar practices?
(E301)
Henk Pol: Using Sacred Texts to
Reconcile Realities in RE (E303)

Evening free 1.00 pm Lunch in College 12 - 12.30 pm

6.00 pm Barbeque Dining Room
(D block) Conference Reflections
Dave Francis
1.45 Meet in E Block to leave Chaired by Lesley Prior
DCU for visits:
1. Jesuit Centre for Justice 12.30 pm
and Peace
Close of Conference
2. St. Patrick’s Cathedral
3. The Sanctuary
4. Collins Barracks 12.45 – 1.30 pm
5. Romanian Orthodox Executive Meeting
Community
6. The Hugh Lane Gallery

7.30 pm
Conference Dinner
The Music Room
Christchurch Cathedral