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CURRICULUM VITAE Maria Baghramian, MRIA School of Philosophy, College , Dublin 4, Ireland Tel: 353-1-7168125 Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Department of Philosophy 1983-1990 PhD on Philosophy of Logic and Language Title: Logic, Language and Supervisor: Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) 1979-1983 BA Honours, Philosophy and Social Anthropology Double First and First Place in both subjects University of Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts 1975-77 First Place and Entrance Scholarship 1975 First Place and Prize 1976

AREAS OF EXPERTISE Philosophy of Language, Contemporary American Philosophy (Putnam, Davidson, Rorty and Quine), Relativism, Topics in Cognitive Science

CURRENT POSITIONS Head: University College Dublin (UCD) School of Philosophy 2011- Co-Director: Postgraduate Programme in Cognitive Science, UCD 2000- Editor: International Journal of Philosophical Studies (Taylor & Francis) 2003- Member of the (MRIA) 2010-

OTHER ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Head of School of Philosophy, UCD 2010- Assessor, UK Research Assessment Exercise 2012-14 Chair: Panel in Philosophical Studies and Theology, The Undergraduate Awards 2012- External Examiner, University of Kent 2012- Deputy Head, UCD School of Philosophy 2009-11 External Examiner, University of Aberdeen 2007-2010 Advisor, China Association for the Philosophy of Language 2008- Visiting Expert, National Endowment for Humanities: Summer School for College Teachers, Albuquerque, NM July 2007 International PhD and Research Advisor on Philosophy of Language China National Research Centre for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics 2005-2008 Mentor IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellowships 2006-2001 External Examiner, PhD, Cardiff University 2005- Subject Specialist in Philosophy, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher (Britain) 2001-2002 Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Winter-Spring 1997 Visiting Overseas Scholar, Department of Linguistics, M.I.T. Spring 1997 Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin 1986-1990

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES External Reviewer, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 2012 Peer Reviewer, World University Ranking 2009, 2011, 2012 IRCHSS Panel for Postgraduate Awards 2009 Member of Editorial Board, History of (Palgrave Macmillan) 2006- External Assessor, Institute for Culture and Society Research Award, Bloomsburg University, USA 2006 Referee for Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, MIT Press, Metaphilosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, Electronic Journal of Philosophy, Political Theory

AWARDS AND FUNDING Principal Investigator: Philosophical Revolutions: Pragmatism, Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy 2012-13 €6000

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Style In American Philosophy, Irish Research Council 2011-12 €6000 A Late Style for Philosophy in Cavell and Putnam, IRCHSS 2009-13 €63,834 Philosophical Minimalism, Irish Research Council 2009-11 €68,512 Consciousness and Embodiment, UCD Seed Funding 2012-13 €6000 Member of the Steering Committee, Leverhulme Trust Research Project (Principal Investigator: Crispin Wright, Aberdeen): Relativism and Limits of Rational Tolerance 2011-13 UK £249,148 Elected Member of Royal Irish Academy 2010 IRCHSS RDF (Rutgers/UCD visits) 2009 €6000 UCD President’s Research Fellowship 2008 €36000 Mind Association Major Conference Award 1996, 2007 UK £5000 Analysis Trust Conference Bursary 1996, 2007 UK £2700 NUI Publication Grant 2007 €2000 Research Seed Funding, UCD (sole recipient) 2006, 2009, 2012 €29000 Science at the Boundaries: A Study of Interdisciplinary Science 2004-6 €63,83 President’s Research Fellowship, UCD 2000 €29000 British Council Cultural Fund 1996 IRL £500 President’s Research Award, UCD 1996 IRL £6000 Faculty of Arts Research Award, UCD 1994-96 IRL £1600 University Publication Grants, UCD 1999, 2004 IRL £1000 University Discretionary Travel Awards, UCD 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004 Postgraduate Foundation Award, QUB 1983 Peel Prize in Philosophy, QUB 1982 Foundation Scholarship, QUB 1981,1982

RESEARCH PROJECTS The American Voice in Philosophy 2011-2014 APORO: Irish Network of Philosophical Research (Founder and co-ordinator) 2009- Network of Philosophers of Language and Thought 2006-2008 Pluralism Research Project (with Attracta Ingram) 1996-1998

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES Philosophical Revolutions: Pragmatism and the European Traditions May 2013 Royal Irish Academy Conference on Wittgenstein April 26 2013 Women and Politics Across Philosophical Traditions November 2012 , State and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Conference September 2011 The Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association July 2010 British Society for Philosophy of Science annual conferene July 2010 ‘Putnam@80’: Language, Mind and Science, UCD March 2007 Relativism, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin May 2003 Wittgenstein in Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin November 1999 Co-Organiser, International Conference on Cognitive Science for a New Millennium, UCD 1999 Pluralism and Liberalism, UCD Pluralism Project and Royal Irish Academy Philosophy Committee, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin May 1997 Lukasiewicz in Dublin, International Conference on the Work of Jan Lukasiewicz (sponsored by the Royal Irish Academy), UCD July 1996 The Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, UCD July 1996

RESEARCH WORKSHOPS Roundtable on Relativism, World Congress of Philosophy, Athens August 2013 Why Tolerate Religion? Perspectives on Brian Leiter November 2012 Race and Racism October 2012 APORO Workshop on September 2012 GroupThink: Joint Intentionality and the Extended Mind June 2012 The American Style in Philosophy June 2012 Celebrating Wittgenstein April 2012 APORO Workshop on Mind and Language December 2011 Realism and its Critics: Encountering Michael Devitt July 2011 Relativism: APORO Workshop May 2009 International Research Workshops in Philosophy of Language (x6) 2006-2008

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PUBLICATIONS Books Baghramian, M (Ed.) (2012) Donald Davidson: Life and Words. London/NewYork: Routledge. Baghramian, Maria (Ed.) (2012) Reading Putnam. London/New York: Routledge. Baghramian, M (2004) Relativism: The Problems of Philosophy Series. London/New York: Routledge. Baghramian, M & Ingram, A (Eds.) (2000) Pluralism:The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity. London/New York: Routledge. Baghramian, M (Editor and Author) (1999) Modern Philosophy of Language. London: J.M. Dent and Washington.

Books in Preparation Baghramian, M (2014) : Mind, Language and the World. Oxford: Polity Press. Baghramian, M (Ed.) (2013) The Many Faces of Relativism. London/New York: Routledge.

Book Chapters Baghramian, M (2013a) ‘Mapping Relativism’. In: Baghramian, M (Ed.), The Many Faces of Relativism. London/New York: Routledge. Baghramian, M & Jorgensen, A (2013b) 'Quine, Kripke, Putnam: Meaning, Necessity and Intuitions'. In: Beaney, M (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Baghramian, M (2012a) 'Introduction'. In: Donald Davidson: Life and Words. London and New York: Routledge. Baghramian, M (2012b) 'Relativism and Religion'. In: O'Rourke, F (Ed.), Human Destinies. Indiana: Notre Dame University Press. Baghramian, M (2012c) 'Hilary Putnam: A Life in Philosophy'. In: Baghramian, M (ed.), Reading Putnam. London/New York: Routledge. Baghramian, M. (2011) 'Constructed Worlds, Contested Truths'. In: Schantz, R & Seidel, M (Eds.), The Problem of Relativism in the Sociology of (Scientific) Knowledge. Frankfurt, Germany: Ontos. Baghramian, M (2010) 'Relativism: A Brief History'. In: Krausz, M (Ed.), Relativism: A Contemporary Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press. Baghramian, M (2010) 'I molti volti del relativismo'. In: Villa, V (Ed.), Schiavello, A (Trans.), Il Relativismo. Rome: Aracne Editrice. Baghramian, M (2010) 'Rorty, Davidson and Truth'. In: Tatraglia, J (Ed.), Richard Rorty. London/New York:Routledge Baghramian, M. (2008) Revised version 2013, 'Relativism about Science' Psillos, Stathis & Curd, Martin (eds.) (2008/2013). The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science. Routledge. Baghramian, M (2007a) 'Three Pragmatisms: Putnam, Rorty and Brandom'. In: Monroy, M, Silva, C & Vidal, C (Eds.), Following Putnam's Trail: On Realism and Other Issues. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. Baghramian, M (2001/2014) 'Relativism: Philosophical Aspects'. In: Pettit, P (Ed.), The International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences. Oxford: Pergamon/Elsevier Science. Revised and updated edition forthcoming in 2013-14. Baghramian, M (2000) '’On the Plurality of Conceptual Schemes''. In: Baghramian, M and Ingram, A (Eds.), Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity. London/New York: Routledge. Baghramian, M and Ingram, A (2000) 'Introduction’. In: Baghramian, M and Ingram, A (Eds.), Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity. London/New York: Routledge. Baghramian, M (1999) ‘Ireland in the Life of Ludwig Wittgenstein’. In: Flowers, FA (Ed.), Portraits of Wittgenstein. UK: Thoemmes Press.

Peer Reviewed Journal articles Baghramian, M (forthcoming) ‘The Depths and Shallows of Putnam’s Pragmatism’. Journal of Philosophical Research. Baghramian, M & Nicholson, A (forthcoming), ‘Mapping Self-Deception’. Philosophy Compass. Baghramian, M & Hamilton, R (2011) 'Relativism and the Norm of Truth'. Trópo, Rivista di Ermeneutica e Critica Filosofica III (1):33-51. Baghramian, M (2009) ‘From Realism Back to Realism: Putnam's Long Journey'. Philosophical Topics 36 (1):17-36. Baghramian, M (2008) 'Introduction'. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16 (1):1-3. Baghramian, M & Malpas, J (2006) 'Introduction: Special Issue on Donald Davidson (1917-2003)'. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 14 (3):307-312. Baghramian. M (2004) 'Special Issue on Relativism'. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 12 (3):243-347. Baghramian, M (1998) 'Why Conceptual Schemes'. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society XCVIII (Part II):287-307. Baghramian, M (1990) 'Rorty, Davidson and Truth'. Ratio 7 (2):101-116. Baghramian, M (1990) ‘Self-Deception: Strategies or Paradoxes?’ Irish Philosophical Journal 7(1):171-179. Baghramian, M (1991) 'The Paradoxes of Self-Deception: A Reply to Allen'. Irish Philosophical Journal 7(2):171-180. Baghramian, M (1986) ‘Strategies of Self-Deception'. Irish Philosophical Journal 3 (2):83-97.

Other Journals

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Baghramian, M & Guanlian, Q (2006) 'Introducing Philosophy of Language to Chinese Learners: A Dialogue with Qian Guanlin'. China Foreign Language 2:23-32. Baghramian, M (1992) ‘The Justification for Relevance Logic’. Philosophical Studies (I) XXXII (1):32-44.

Journal Editor Editor, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2012, Volume 20 (Issues 1-5):1-800. Editor, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2011, Volume 19 (Issues 1-5):1-800. Editor, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2010, Volume 18 (Issues 1-5):1-800. Editor, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2009, Volume 17 (Issues 1-5):1-800. Editor, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2008, Volume 16 (Issues 1-5):1-800. Editor, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2007, Volume 15 (Issues 1-5):1-800. Editor, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2006, Volume 14 (Issues 1-4):1-631. Editor, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2005, Volume 13 (Issues 1-4):1-631. Co-Editor with Jeff Malpas, Special Issue: Donald Davidson Commemorative Issue, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2005, Volume 13 (3):240-362. Editor, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2004, Volume 12 (Issues 1-4):1-525. Founding Editor: Perspectives International Journal of Postgraduate Philosophy, UCD School of Philosophy, 2006. Editor, Special Issue: Relativism, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 12 (3):243-357. Reviews Editor, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, London, New York: Taylor and Francis, 1992-2003, Volumes 1-12. Reviews Editor, Philosophical Studies (IRL), 1990-1992, Volumes 31 and 32.

Selected Conference Papers Baghramian, M (March 2013) ‘The Depths and Shallows of Philosophical Style’, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 40th Annual Meeting, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA. Baghramian, M (2012) ‘Why Interpretation Cannot be Naturalised’, The First European Pragmatism Conference, Rome, Italy. Baghramian, M & Papazian, M (2012) ‘Radical Translation and the Principle of Empathy’, International Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, Paris, France. Baghramian, M (2012) 'The Life Given to Us’, Celebrating Wittgenstein, Dublin, Ireland. Baghramian, M (2012) ‘Why Moral Relativism?’ Relative Values, Thessaloniki, Greece. Baghramian, M (2012) ‘The Depths and Shallows of Putnam's Pragmatism’, The American Style in Philosophy, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Baghramian, M (2011) ‘Truth: The Worst of All Goods, Response to Chase B. Wrenn’ American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Diego, California, USA. Baghramian, M & Azad, L (2011) ‘Imprisoned in a Period of Transition’, Experiencing Prison Warsaw, Poland Baghramian, M (2011) ‘Religious Diversity, Conversion and Relativism’ International Conference on Globalization and Localization: Theory, Problems and Practices of Religious Conversion in Europe, Riga, Latvia. Baghramian, M (2010) ‘Reference, Linguistic Intuitions, and Experimental Philosophy’, Summer Academy of Philosophy of Language, Guizhou University, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China. Baghramian, M (2009) ‘Relativism: Old and New’, Convegno Internazionale: Il Relativisimo, Sicily, Italy. Baghramian, M (2008) ‘Contextualism: Old and New’, First International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Guangzhou Foreign Language University, Guangzhou, China. Baghramian, M (2006) ‘The Perils of Alethic Normativity’, International Roundtable on Normativity and Truth, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Baghramian, M (2006) 'Semantic Externalism: The Critique of a New Paradigm', First National Research Conference on Philosophy of Language in China, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. Baghramian, M (2005) ‘The Fact-Value Dichotomy’, Meeting of Phronesis Research Group, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Baghramian, M (2005) ‘Anglo-American Philosophy of Language and the Analytic Tradition’, First China Summer School in Philosophy of Language, University of Sichuan, Sichuan, China. Baghramian, M (2004) ‘Three Pragmatisms’, Meeting on Pragmatism: Hilary Putnam's Pragmatism, University of Santiago De Compostela, Spain. Baghramian, M (2000) ‘Relativism and Incommensurability’, International Conference on 'Science and the Incommensurability of Meaning', Hanover, Germany. Baghramian, M (2000) ‘A Map of the World’, International Conference on Pragmatics and Semantics, Prague, Czech Republic. Baghramian, M (1999) ‘Davidson and the Indeterminacy of Meaning’, Paedea: The World Congress of Philosophy. Boston, USA Baghramian, M (1999) ‘Relativism: Analytic and Continental’, in "Roundtable on Analytic and Continental Philosophy", World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, MA, USA. Baghramian, M (1999) ‘Relativism and the Enlightenment’, Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Dublin, Ireland.

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Baghramian, M (November 1999) ‘Wittgenstein in Ireland’, Symposium on Wittgenstein, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland. Baghramian, M (May 1994) 'Quine, Davidson and the Indeterminacy of Translation', The Royal Irish Academy Conference on the work of Donald Davidson, Dublin, Ireland. Baghramian, M (May 1992) 'On Brains in Vats', The Royal Irish Academy Conference on the work of Hilary Putnam, Dublin, Ireland. Baghramian, M (May 1998) ‘Philosophy without Truth', The Royal Irish Academy Conference on the work of Richard Rorty, Dublin, Ireland.

Selected Book Reviews (2011) The Ayatollah's Democracy. The Irish Times: Book Reviews. (2010) Book of the Day. The Irish Times: Book Reviews (2009) Censuring An Iranian Love Story’. The Irish Times: Book Reviews. (2009) Things I've Been Silent About: Memories (by A. Nafisi). The Irish Times: Book Reviews. (1998) Reason, Truth and Self: The post-modern reconditioned (by M. Luntley), Philosophical Books 39 (1):38-42. (1994) Against Relativism (by J.F. Harris), Philosophical Books 35 (3):185-187. (1992) Varieties of Social Explanation (by D. Little), Philosophical Books 33 (1):59-61. (1990) Ethical Issues in the Psychotherapies (by M. Lakin), Philosophical Books 31 (2):107-108. (1988) Death of the Soul (by William Barrett), Canadian Philosophical Reviews 8 (2):43-46.

Academic Reports

Co-author of subject-specialist reports on the provisions for teaching philosophy at: Open University, Milton Keynes Publication Date: March 2002, Length: 6000 words, Authors: Subject specialist team of 5 Anglia Polytechnic University Publication Date: April 2002, Length: 5000 words, Authors: Subject specialist team of 3 Cambridge University Publication Date: May 2002, Length: 5500 words, Authors: Subject specialist team of 3 University of East Anglia Publication: June 2002, Length: 5000 words, Authors: Subject specialist team of 3 Published by: Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education 2002, Southgate House, Southgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1UB, England (Available at: www.qaa.ac.uk)

RESEARCH SUPERVISION Ph.D. Students Supervised to Completion Garry Elkins (USA), School of Philosophy. Probability Theory and the Proof of the Existence of God, 1998. Gayle Kenny (Australia), School of Philosophy. On the Many Ideas Of Conceptual Scheme: From Kant to Pragmatism and Beyond, 2002. Maire O’Neill (Ireland) IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar, School of Philosophy. Frege, Dummett and the Problem of Totalising Conceptions of Reality, 2006. Alessio Gemma (Italy), School of Philosophy. The Many Faces of Putnam's Realism, 2007. Ruth Egan (Ireland), School of Philosophy. Metaphyscial Possibilites, 2010. Brian Flanagan (Ireland), Ad Astra Scholar, School of Law (co-supervised with UCD Law School). “'Bound' Judicial Law-Making” 2011. Anna Nicholson (USA), Ad Astra Scholar, School of Philosophy. The Paradoxes of Self-Deception, 2011. Emma Nic Eodhasa (Ireland), Ad Astra Scholar, School of Philosophy. The Concepts of Consciousness, 2011. Stephanos Cherouvis (Greece), School of Philosophy. Ontological Commitments in Chomskyan Linguistics, 2012.

Research Masters Students Supervised to Completion Maire O’Neill, McTaggart’s Proofs of the Unreality of Time, 1995. Hugh Predergast, The Problem of Qualia in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, 1997. Karina Halley, Charles Taylor’s Rejection of Naturalist Conception of Human Agency, 1998. Michael G. Morrisey, The Riddle of Qualia: A Comparison of the Ideas of Nagel, Dennett and Chalmers, 2000. Eugene Bennett, Modularity of Mind and Language: An Investigation of Jerry Fodor’s Theory of Mind (funded by IRCHSS), 2000. Marek McGann, (co-supervised with Dept. of Psychology), The Impersonal Mind: A Reconciliation of the Dynamic Unconscious and Daniel C. Dennett’s Philosophy of Mind (funded by IRCHSS), 2000.

Current PhD Students Harvey Brockman. Topic: Philosophical intuitions and experimental philosophy Fergal McHugh. Topic: Late style in Hilary Putnam and Stanley Cavell (funded by the IRCHSS) Brian Morrissey. Topic: The possibility of relativism in science

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Patrizia Setola. Topic: Ethics and animals with regard to scientific evidence

Funded Postdoctoral Fellows Dr Jack Ritchi, IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2008. (Currently senior lecturer in University of Cape Town.) Dr Douglas Edwards, IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-11. (Currently Mary Curie Lecturer in University of Aberdeen.) Dr Sarin Marchetti, 2011-12. "Borsa di Perfezionamento all'estero" Postdoctoral Fellowship from Sapienza Università di Roma.

TEACHING Undergraduate Problems of Philosophy, Contemporary American Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of Mind

Postgraduate The Problem of Relativism, Pluralism: Cognitive and Political, Realism and its Discontents, The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam, The Cultural Mind, Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Member of the Royal Irish Academy Member of the American Philosophical Association (affiliated international member) Founding Member of the Society for Women in Philosophy, Ireland Member of the Irish Philosophical Club Member of the Irish Philosophical Society Member of the Aristotelian Society, UK

A SAMPLE OF CONTRIBUTION TO SCHOOL, COLLEGE AND THE UNIVERSITY Organiser of UCD Visiting Speakers Seminars: weekly seminars by distinguished Irish and visiting speakers (1990-94, 1995-96, 2011-13) Organiser of the UCD Agnes Cuming Lectures: including visits by Noam Chomsky, Alasdair MacIntyre, Daniel Dennett, Hilary Putnam, Christine Korsgaard, and John McDowell. Organiser of staff and postgraduate philosophy reading groups with participation from UCD and TCD. Co-ordinator of publicity and promotion for Philosophy Member of Post-Graduate Committee (1999-) Co-ordinator of School of Philosophy Postgraduate Committee (2008-2010) Co-ordinator of School of Philosophy Research Committee (2006-2009) Member of Finance Committee (2004-) Member of Staff-Student Committee (1992-1996) Member of UCD assessment board, lectureship in Philosophy (2000, 2001, 2007, 2012) and in Psychology (2011) Second-year Student Co-ordinator (2002-5) Organising Committee Member, Arts Postgraduate Day (1993-95); Lectures to Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Orientation Course (1995-98) Faculty of Arts, Orientation Day (1995-97, 2010-12) Member of Philosophy Committee, Royal Irish Academy (1997-2003) Member of the Editorial board, Pages (1995-98) Member of the Research Ethics Committee, The Irish College of General Practitioners (1990-94) Visiting Lecturer, Hilary Term, Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin (1997, 2002) Member of Panel of Referees, Royal Irish Academy Philosophy Conferences (1997, 1998, 2000) Member of Panel of Assessors (sub-panel of philosophy and theology), Government of Ireland Scholarships (1998- 2000; chair: 1999) External Assessor (appointment board), Lectureship in Philosophy, University College Cork (1999) External Assessor (appointment board), Lectureship in Philosophy, University College Galway (1999, 2000, 2009)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIETY UCD Representative: International Scholars at Risk Programme School of Philosophy Co-ordinator for Equal Access to University initiative Active member of Amnesty International

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