Media and Interviews
Radio and TV
Recorded Talks
Print Media
Film and Documentaries
Press Reviews
Radio and TV
Brian O’Donovan (GBH) interviews Richard Kearney about Hosting Earth (April 22, 2022)
Richard Kearney discusses Gaston Bachelard’s Ideas on Imagination and Dwelling on CBC Radio (March 8, 2022)
Recent Press and Media on Richard Kearney’s new book Touch: Recovering our most Vital Sense (2021)
‘Richard Kearney on Touch,’ The Philosopher & The News, Podcast Episode, 22 February 2021.
Interview with Brendan O’Connor on RTE Radio 1, 14 February 2021.
‘Is the Human Essence Becoming Digital? Professor Richard Kearney on the Social Dilemma, Excarnation,’ Keepin’ Kozy, Podcast Episode, 6 December 2020.
‘Screentime with John Fardy,’ Newstalk, Podcast Episode, 23 October 2020.
‘A Conversation with Richard Kearney,’ Mindful Monk, Podcast Episode, 31 July 2020.
‘Commemoration, Trauma and Recovery’, talk at the Commemoration and Conflict in Ireland, 1920-1922 conference (Queen’s University Belfast, 12 June 2017)
‘Re-Thinking the Senses’, Prof Richard Kearney to UCD Newman Centre (January 2017)
‘Bobby meets philosopher Richard Kearney’, interview by Bobby Kerr (Down to Business, May 28, 2016)
‘Richard Kearney: Antheism and Reimagining the Sacred, Part 2′ (Freestyle Christianity, February 2016)
‘Richard Kearney: Antheism and Reimagining the Sacred, Part 1′ (Freestyle Christianity, February 2016)
‘Richard Kearney and Sheila Gallagher on RTE Arena‘ (Dublin, January 2016)
‘After Atheism: New Perspectives on God and Religion, Part 1‘ (CBC Radio)
‘The God Who May Be: Richard Kearney on Narrative, Imagination and God,’ IDEAS, ed. David Cayley (CBC Radio)
‘The God Who May Be – Part 1‘ (CBC Radio)
‘The God Who May Be – Part 2 ‘(CBC Radio)
‘The God Who May Be – Part 3‘ (CBC Radio)
‘Religious Diversity, Truth and Authenticity,’ ABC Religion and Ethics (Aug 2012)
‘Desire: between Good and Evil,’ WBUR, Boston, 2005
‘The Pat Kenny Show – Interview with Richard Kearney,’ NewsTalk (Jan 2014)
‘Josh Cole interviews Richard Kearney,’ (May 2014)
‘Marian Finucane interviews Richard Kearney,’ RTE Radio (January 2014)
‘Irish Mind,’ IDA Ireland (April 2013)
‘Imagination’s Truth,’ Rebeca Smick interviews Richard Kearney in Toronto (Oct 13, 2012)
‘Miriam Meets Richard and Tim Kearney,’ RTE Radio (April 2011)
‘Richard Kearney on Anatheism: God After God‘ on Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature) with Robert Harrison, KZSU 90.1 – Stanford University
Recorded Talks
‘Richard Kearney — The Irish Influence’, The Irish Influence, 9 April 2021
‘St. Teresa of Ávila’s Many Mansions,’ St. Anselm Institute (April 5, 2019)
‘Eriugena: A Celtic Mystic?,’ Mystical Theology Network Conference, Boston College (March 2, 2019)
Wounds to Scars (Sheila Gallagher and Richard Kearney), The Denver Project For Humanistic Inquiry (May 2018).
‘Is Theology Dead?,’ The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) Colloquium Series (May, 2015)
‘Poetics of the Sacred,’ Boston University (November 2014)
‘The Ethics of Narrative,’ Boston College Annual Contemporary Philosophy Workshop (October 4, 2014)
‘Tanner Lectures: The Paradoxes of Empathy,’ Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University (April 10, 2014)
‘Keynote Address at the Annual Mormon Scholars in the Humanities Meeting,’ Claremont Graduate University (March 29, 2014)
‘Introducing the Guestbook Project,’ Mediakron Guestbook Project (2014)
‘Writing Trauma; From Memory To Fiction,’ The Theatre of Memory Symposium at the Abbey Theatre (2014)
‘A Matter of Belief,’ Florida International University (2014)
‘Reading the Flesh: Paul Ricœur and the Challenge of Carnal Hermeneutics,’ IPT Paris (Nov. 22, 2013)
‘On the Frontiers of Atheism,’ St Martin in the Fields Podcast (November 18, 2013)
‘Hospitality Initiative,’ Keynote Address at the Hospitality Summit, Oakland University, Michigan (May 3, 2013)
‘Narrative Imagination: the Power of Catharsis,’ Part One (Jul 8, 2013)
‘Narrative Imagination: the Power of Catharsis,’ Part Two: Questions and Answers (Jul 8, 2013)
‘Narrative and Catharsis,’ Loyola University Chicago Department of Theology (Mar 29, 2012)
‘Anatheism: a Poetics of the Sacred,’ Loyola University Chicago, Department of Theology (Mar 28, 2012)
‘Narrative Imagination and Catharsis,’ University of Toronto (Oct 13, 2012)
‘Imagination’s Truth: Panel Discussion,’ University of Toronto (Oct 13, 2012)
‘Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam,’ Rubin Museum of Art on ITunes (2011)
‘Is There a God after God?‘ a Panel Discussion with David Tracy, Merold Westphal, Jens Zimmermann, Catherine Cornille and Richard Kearney at Boston College (April 2010)
‘Re/Imagining the Sacred: Theism, Anatheism, Atheism,’ a dialogue with James Wood of the New Yorker (Nov 2010)
‘Partners in Dialogue,’ (2010)
‘Aliens, Strangers, and Monsters: The Role of Scapegoating in the Formation of Society,’ Boston College (2010)
Hosting the Stranger: Hospitality and Hostility in World Politics,’ conversation with Noam Chomsky, Ali Banuazizi, Stephen Pfohl and Richard Kearney at Boston College (April 2009)
‘Hosting the Stranger,’ Conference Week One (2009)
‘Hosting the Stranger,’ Conference Week Five (2009)
‘Guest Book Conference/Project Introduction,’ Boston College (2009)
‘Interreligious Dialogue and the Catholic Intellectual Traditions,’ a Panel Discussion with Richard Kearney, Catherine Cornille, John Makransky, James Morris, Edward Kaplan (April 2008)
‘Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness,’ a lecture and responses with John Makransky, Michael Himes, Richard Kearney (October 2007)
‘Land and Sovereignty in Ireland,’ Lecture followed by Q&A (April 2003)
Wrote and presented five CD’s:
- Ideas: The God Who May Be, Edited and Produced by David Cayley, CBC, Canada, 2006
- Imagination Now, American College of Greece, Athens, 2005
- Desire: between Good and Evil, WBUR, Boston, 2005
- Empathic Imagination: The Importance of Being Elsewhere, Palais des Congrès , Montreal, 2004
- Narrative Medicine, Palais de Congrès, Montreal, 2004
Wrote a screenplay entitled Once Upon a Story (two hour documentary to be directed by Terre Nash and produced by Richard Elson, Imageries Productions, Montreal)
Print Media
‘Del antropoceno al simbioceno: los imperativos del tacto en la era digital,‘ interview in Mensaje (2021)
‘Ο κόσμος στο «τέρας»,’ Ilias Magklinis, Technes & Grammata (January 17, 2021)
‘Intercultural Encounters as Hospitality. An Interview with Richard Kearney,’ Breffni O’Rourke, Journal of Virtual Exchange, Vol 1 (April 2018)
‘Narrative and Recognition in the Flesh: An Interview with Richard Kearney‘, Gonçalo Marcelo, Philosophy and Social Criticism (January 31, 2017)
‘Can we commemorate 1916 and the Somme together?’ The Irish Times (July 16, 2016)
‘Double Remembrance,’ Los Angeles Review of Books (July 1, 2016)
‘The Irish Enlightenment by Michael Brown review: a controversial study,’ The Irish Times (June 18, 1016)
‘Losing Our Touch,’ New York Times: Opinionator, The Stone (August 30, 2014)
‘How Atheists Can Still Believe In God,’ The Irish Times (May 2014)
On Being a Public Intellectual Dianoia (Spring 2014)
‘On Irish Famine and Abbey Theatre,’ Irish Times (2014)
‘Problems of Identity Trouble a Reeling Boston in the Aftermath of the Bombing,’ Irish Times (April 21, 2013)
‘Writing Trauma: Catharsis in Joyce, Shakespeare and Homer,’ ABC Religion and Ethics (Jul 2012)
‘Guest or Enemy? Welcoming the Stranger,’ ABC Religion and Ethics (Jun 2012)
‘The Power of Ideas: Why Politics Needs Philosophy,’ ABC Religion and Ethics (Jun 2012)
‘Airių filosofas Richardas Kearney,’ 15min.it (2013)
‘Art Show Paints a Picture of a Creative, Philosophical Family,’ Independent.ie (Dec 2012)
‘Anatheistic Excarnation: Philosophy, the End of God, the US, and Depression,’ Interview with Maggie Armstrong in Village, Ireland’s Political Magazine (Oct 2012)
‘Kearneys Make It a Family Affair,’ by Brian O’Connell of The Irish Times (Aug 2012)
Richard Kearney Interviewed by Andrew Hines, Figure/Ground Communication (Jul 2012)
‘Evil, Ethics, and the Imagination: An Interview with Richard Kearney,’ The Other Journal (March 6, 2012)
‘Hermeneutic of the Gift: a Dialog Between Richard Kearney and Eric R. Severson,’ Gift and Economy: Ethics, Hospitality and the Market, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2012)
‘Two Thinks at a Distance: Dialogue with William Desmond by Richard Kearney,’ (January 2011)
‘God after God’ in With Gifted Thinkers: Conversatons with Caputo, Hart, Horner, Kearney, Keller, Rigby, Taylor, Wallace, Westphal, ed Mark Manolopoulos, New York and Oxford: Europaische Hochshulschriften, Reihe 23: Theology (2009)
‘Kearney’s Choice‘ in Boston College Magazine, by William Bole, Vol. 68 No. 1 (Winter 2008)
‘On Stories: Dialogue with Paul Ricoeur,’ (Sept 2006)
‘The God Who May Be: Richard Kearney on Narrative, Imagination and God‘ (Transcription) IDEAS, ed. David Cayley, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto, Canada (2006)
‘Philosophy at the Limits of Reason Alone‘ in Leuven Graduate Philosophy Journal, edited Renee Ryan, KULeuven Press (2006)
“Quebec a Nation? Call an Expert,” interview by Laura Drake with R. Kearney in The Tyee (November 28, 2006)
‘A Conversation with Paul Ricoeur,’ Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 2 (Fall 2005)
‘Dialogue with Jean-Luc Marion On the Gift,’ Fordham University Press (2005)
‘An Interview with Richard Kearney: Facing God’ by Liam Kavanagh, in Journal of Philosophy and Scripture, Issue 1-2, ed. John Caputo (2004)
‘A Conversation with Richard Kearney‘ (with Felix O’Murchadha) in Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, vol. 8, no 3 (Fall, 2004)
‘A Conversation with Richard Kearney,‘ by Victor E Taylor (Fall 2004)
‘Thinking at the Limits: A Dialogue with Jacques Derrida‘ in Philosophy Today, vol. 48, no 1 (2004)
‘On the Gift: A Discussion between Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion, Moderated by Richard Kearney,’ in God, the Gift and Postmodernism, Indiana University Press (1999)
‘Cultural Perspectives: a Dialogue with Bono,’ in Across the Frontiers: Ireland in the 1990s: Cultural-Political-Economic, Wolfhound Press (1989)
‘Myth as the Bearer of Possible Worlds – An Interview with Paul Ricoeur,’ The Crane Bag, Vol. 2, No. 1/2, The Other Ireland (1978)
Films and Documentaries
Produced or co-produced the following Guestbook documentaries. All viewable at www.guestbookproject.com :
- The Hill at Georgetown (2013)
- Facing the Stranger: Beyond the Wall (2012)
- Under a Strange Sun (2012)
- Facing Strangers Across the Divide: Mitrovica (2011)
- Beyond the Walls: Derry/Londonderry (2011)
- Crosstalk: Jerusalem (2011)
- Reconciling Strangers (2010)
- Welcoming the Stranger: Bangalore (2010)
- At the Edge of the World: Skellig Islands (2010)
- Imagining the Stranger (2009)
- Songs of Sacred Eros (2008)
Wrote and co-presented five Television series and four radio series for Irish, British and French broadcasting companies (RTE, BBC, FRANCE CULTURE). For details see under Public Intellectual Activities in CV.
Wrote and co-directed (with Michael Kearney) a short film entitled, The Dance , which was awarded first prize for best first short at the International Film Festival in Cork, Ireland, 1974.
Wrote and presented a DVD entitled, Strangers, Aliens and Monsters (2001), co-produced by Boston College, Irish Film School (UCD), Lancaster University (AV and Politics), Leuven, Belgium (Philosophy), The American College of Greece and the European University Institute (Florence). The 80 minute documentary also features interviews by the author with Paul Ricoeur, Julia Kristeva, Umberto Eco and Charles Taylor. It has been screened in eight countries to date and is the centerpiece of an International Intervarsity Seminar involving six Universities in North America and Europe.