2025 Conscience

Participants on the Conscience in October 2025

Veronica O’Keane (Ireland)

Veronica O’Keane, 66 years old , is a retired psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry (Trinity College Dublin). In the past decade she has advocated for marriage equality and reproductive rights in Ireland. As part of her public-facing activities she has organised national and international mental health and neuroscience events that have raised awareness of mood […]

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Necmettin Çalışkan (Turkiye)

Necmettin Çalışkan was born in 1973 in Daren, Malatya. He is a theologian, academic, businessman, and Member of Parliament for Hatay. He graduated from Imam-Hatip High School. He graduated with honors from Al-Azhar University’s Faculty of Theology in 1995. He completed his master’s and doctorate at Ankara University. He received the titles of assistant professor

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María Plata Díaz (Spain)

Su compromiso principal es con Palestina, defendiendo la libertad y los derechos humanos del pueblo palestino a través de iniciativas y movimientos locales en el Estado español, así como mediante la coordinación internacional de la Flotilla Global. Considera que la acción directa, el activismo comunitario y la solidaridad concreta son herramientas fundamentales para romper el

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