MarriagEquality Conference in TCD

A quick note from MarriagEquality about an upcoming conference which is being organised in Trinity.

The Irish School of Ecumenics is holding a two-day conference this month on 'Why Marriage? Love and Justice in 21st Century Ireland'. The conference provides a framework for Christians to move towards an understanding and acceptance of same-sex unions and marriages.

The response to the conference has been very positive to-date and with only one week to go, members of the public are invited to attend the public debate on Wednesaday 21st May or to reserve a place for the all-day seminar on Thursday 22nd.

On the first day, Wednesday 21 May, there will be a public lecture on 'Equality and Just Love: A Framework for a Christian Ethic' by Professor Margaret Farley of Yale Divinity School. It will take place in the Walton Theatre, Arts Block, TCD, at 7.30pm. All are welcome.

The next day, Thursday 22, there will be an all-day seminar in IIIS Seminar Room, Level 6, TCD A rts Building, beginning at 9.30am. The seminar sessions will examine same-sex marriage from theological, legal and ecclesiastical perspectives. Seminar places are very limited, so booking is essential. The booking form can be downloaded from the ISE website, http://www.tcd.ie/ise/news/events.php.

About the visiting Professor
Professor Emeritus Margaret Farley of Yale Divinity school is the keynote speaker at the event and author of several books including 'Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics.

Farley has written more than 90 articles on topics such as celibacy, AIDS and faith, divorce, feminism and embryonic stem cell research and how they relate to religion. In addition, she has lectured on these topics in communities across the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Professort Farley will provide a framework that allows for the acceptance of same-sex unions and marriages within the Christian community.

We hop e to see you there.

Moninne Griffith

Coordinator

MarriagEquality

The Definite Description of Dublin Students

I have been looking for something to write up for today's entry. This is what I have come up with. Stereotypes perhaps but nonetheless quiet intriguing. :-)

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The Definite Description of Dublin Students

A UCD, a DIT and a Trinity student were in an airplane that crashed. They're up in heaven,and God's sitting on the great white throne.

God addresses the UCD student first:"What do you believe in?"

The UCD Student replies,"Well,I believe in power to the little people.I think people should be able to make their own choices about things and that no one should ever be able to tell someone else what to do.I also believe in feeling people's pain."God thinks for a second "Okay,I can live with that.Come and sit at my left."

God then addresses the DIT student: "What do you believe in?"

The DIT student replies,"Well,I believe that the combustion engine is evil and that we need to save the world from CFCs and that if any more freon is used, the whole earth will become a greenhouse and we'll all die."God thinks for a second : "Okay,that sounds good.Come and sit at my right."

God then addresses the Trinity student: "What do u believe in"

The Trinity student replys "i believe u are in my chair".

Equal-L: "Towards Journalism of Conscience: The Media and the Challenge of Rural

"Towards Journalism of Conscience: The Media and the Challenge of Rural
Poverty".

The lecture will be given by Palagummi Sainath, Rural Affairs editor of
The Hindu newspaper at the Swift Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity
College Dublin on Wednesday 28th November at 7pm. The lecture is
co-hosted by the IIIS, Dept of Anthropology at NUI Maynooth and
Connect-World.

The lecture is open to the public so all are welcome to attend.

Please find additional information on Palagummi Sainath below. Please
contact Sharon Jackson if you require further information on the event.

Queries:
Sharon Jackson
sharon.jackson@tcd.ie
Tel: +353 1 896 3668
Fax: +353 1 896 3939

www.tcd.ie/iiis
Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) The Sutherland
Centre Sixth Floor, Arts Building Trinity College Dublin 2 Ireland


Biography of Palagummi Sainath:

Palagummi Sainath has worked as a journalist reporting on development
and related issues in India for 26 years. He has won over 30 national
and international
journalism awards and fellowships, his most recent being the Ramon
Magsaysay award in 2007 for journalism, literature, and creative
communications arts. He has also won Amnesty International's Global
Human Rights Journalism prize (2000) and (with CNN's Jim Clancy) the
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Boerma prize
for work of 'international importance in addressing the issues of
hunger.' In November 2002, he became the first print media journalist to
win the 'Inspiration Award' at the Global Visions Film Festival in
Edmonton, Canada (with film maker Joe Moulins). The first working
journalist to win India's Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, Sainath is also a
winner of the BD Goenka prize for Excellence in Journalism, and has also
been an Eisenhower Fellow.

Sainath's book, 'Everybody Loves a Good Drought' (1996), has gone into
19 printings and has been translated into a number of languages. In the
last decade, he has spent on average three quarters of the year with
village people, reporting extensively on agrarian crises due to
neo-liberal policies, on the lack of sensitivity and efficiency by the
government and the bureaucracy, on farmer suicides in Maharashtra,
Andhra Pradesh and Kerala and also reported on the plight of the dalits.

Sainath's strength lies in his energy as an investigator, the rigour of
his research and the lucidity of his prose. A fine photographer and
public speaker, he is currently the Rural Affairs Editor of India's most
serious English language daily, The Hindu, of Chennai. The eminent
Indian journalist Nikhil Chakravartty once described Sainath's work as
"the conscience of the Indian nation." His work on poverty, hunger and
inequality has also won praise from the likes of Nobel Laureate Amartya
Sen who once described him as one of the world's great experts on hunger
and famine.

Sainath is actively involved in the training of journalists in the
poorest regions of India's countryside. He has also been teaching
journalism at the Sophia Polytechnic in Mumbai for 20 years. Many of
Sainath's students have themselves gone on to win major national awards.

Source: Equal-L

Equal-L: Global Peddlers and Local Networks: Cosmopolitanism at the Margins

Dr. Uma Kothari, Reader at the Institute of Development Policy
Management at the University of Manchester will give at talk on:

"Global Peddlers and Local Networks: Cosmopolitanism at the Margins"

in Seminar Room B, the Musuem Building, TCD on Nov 28th at 5 pm. All
welcome.

Details on Uma Kothari:
http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/staff/kothari_uma.htm

Queries:
Email: Geog@tcd.ie
Department of Geography at Trinity College, University of Dublin

Source: Equal-L

Supporting LGBT Lives in Ireland: A Study of Mental Health and Well-Being

Supporting LGBT Lives in Ireland: A Study of Mental Health and Well-Being

www.LGBTlives.ie

GLEN in collaboration with BeLonG To Youth Project have commissioned researchers from Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin to conduct the first significant study of LGBT mental health and well-being in Ireland. The study is funded by the National Office for Suicide Prevention.

The aim is to identify risk and resilience factors for LGBT mental health and suicide and to develop a model of best practice for LGBT mental health promotion and suicide prevention in an Irish context.

The online survey component of the study will explore various aspects of LGBT people’s lives in Ireland such as school, work, coming out, use of health care services and mental health. The online survey will go live on Thursday 1^st November 2007 and will run for approximately two months.

For more information contact Odhrán Allen, Director of Mental Health Strategy at GLEN on 01-4730563 or odhranallen@glen.ie

Please add the link www.LGBTlives.ie to your sites.. If you have any queries on this research contact Odhrán Allen at the above number. Please circulate this information through your contact lists and members.