Waters will speak on Saturday at the conference.
Author and journalist with The Irish Independent, John Waters, will be speaking at the University of Notre Dame in America at the 18th annual Fall Conference.
According to the college, the Fall Conference of the Centre for Ethics and Culture (CEC), University of Notre Dame in Indiana will explore “the perennial problem of good and evil and the significance of the distinction for human flourishing and the common good, and the place of good and evil in the theory and practice of various academic disciplines.”
At the conference, Waters will be talking about “When Evil Becomes Virtual: Cyberspace, Failing Media, and the Hoax of the ‘Holocaust of Tuam'”.
Waters previously spoke at the University of Navarra in Pamplona in April about the Tuam babies.
John Waters "To begin with this talk about the history of Catholicism in Ireland, I would like to start in the present with this town" pic.twitter.com/RxapEinFjQ
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“Almost 1,000 babies were killed by nuns, this is effectively what is being said, buried in a septic tank in the back, credible or not, it has gone around the world as if it is fact.
“The same story emerged in 2014, no change from the present version except now there is an enquiry which has issued a preliminary report and simply repeated the same allegations. No news, no facts, no change in the evidence and yet this story has gone around the world for the second time in three years as though it were true, as though it were proven.
“There was an orphanage [in Tuam] between 1925 and 1961. During that period, many babies died of natural causes and some of them were buried on the site, it is not surprising if human bones were found there.
“In 1975, two boys were playing on the site, one of their feet went through part of the ground where they were playing and they found below a vault in which there were some bones, they thought, the boys said [they saw five or six skeletons].
“Everybody knew there had been an orphanage on the site and it was not surprising for anyone at that time that there were human bones found on the site.
“And yet, in 2014, this story was resurrected, as it were, by a local historian who wrote an article and it became global news,” Waters said at the University of Navarra earlier this year.
The CEC’s Fall Conference is the largest annual interdisciplinary academic conference hosted on campus each year and will take place between 9-11 November.
Waters will take to the stage on the very last day and will feature some time between 3:15 – 4:30pm as part of one of the main sessions at the conference on Saturday.
He has previously spoken at the conference back in 2014, when he presented a lecture entitled ‘The Thinking Heart of Man’.
Furthermore, in 2013 he gave a presentation entitled, ‘Three Chords and the Desire for Truth: Rock’N’Roll as Search for the Infinite’.
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In that particular presentation, Waters discussed the work of different Rock ‘N’ Roll musicians and examined the way in which this work reflects a musician’s longing for something much greater than the drugs, sex and fame that is normally associated with the genre.
Attempts to contact John Waters by JOE were unsuccessful at the time of writing.
More than 90 presentations will be offered during the three-day conference.
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