CST Encounter Series: Linda Hogan

Ethical by Design? Catholic Social Teaching in the Age of AI

Friday, April 17, 2026
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Geddes Hall, Andrews Auditorium

Linda Hogan is an ethicist with extensive experience in research and teaching in pluralist and multi-religious contexts. Her primary research interests lie in the fields of inter-cultural and inter-religious ethics, social and political ethics, human rights and gender.

In addition to her academic role, Professor Linda Hogan was Vice-Provost/Chief Academic Officer and Deputy President at Trinity College Dublin (2011-16) and Head of Irish School of Ecumenics (2006-2010).

She has received a number of international professional honors including election to the Royal Irish Academy 2023, the award of an Honorary Doctorate by Regis College, University of Toronto, 2022, and election to the International Women’s Forum 2016. Recent national roles include appointment as Chair of the Expert Committee of the Creating Our Future Campaign, 2021 and her appointment as an Irish Representative to the UNESCO Intergovernmental Meeting of Experts which negotiated the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Paris 2021. Recent publications include “Justifying Human Rights: Plural Foundations, Embedded Universalism” in The Freedom of Human Rights: Subjects, Institutional Guarantees, Democracy, ed. Michael Krennerick, et al., and “Human Rights and the Vulnerabilities of Gender in a Climate Emergency,” in In Solidarity with the Earth: A Multi-Disciplinary Theological Engagement with Gender, Mining and Toxic Contamination, ed. Hilda Koster and Celia Deane-Drummond. She is the author of three monographs: Keeping Faith with Human Rights, Confronting the Truth, and From Women’s Experience to Feminist Theology, as well as numerous edited volumes.

Professor Hogan has delivered keynote lectures and led expert seminars across the globe, including at the universities of Georgetown, Washington DC, Melbourne, Oxford, Sydney, and Vienna. She delivered the Newman Lecture at the University of Oxford 2021, and the United Nations 70th Anniversary UN Declaration of Human Rights Lecture RIKK, University of Iceland in 2018. She has been a member of the Irish Council for Bioethics and has been a Board member of the Coombe Hospital, Science Gallery and Chair of the Board of the Marino Institute of Education. She has worked on a consultancy basis for a number of national and international organisations, focusing on developing ethical infrastructures.