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5 Sep 2016: This a selection of past research initiatives at the VHI, which have either been brought to completion or are not currently active. For more information please contact the project's principal investigator or the VHI team.

29 Apr 2016: This innovative new Centre links together the work of CAFOD, CSAN, Von Hügel Institute, Cambridge, Las Casas Institute, Oxford, and Durham University in the development and communication of Catholic Social Thought.

8 Dec 2016: Dr Sara Silvestri, on Thursday 8 December at 6pm at City University of London. The event is organised by the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) and is free to attend. Click here for more details.

14 Oct 2016: On Saturday 19 November VHI Research Associate

23 Sep 2016: The VHI was founded in 1987 to ‘preserve and develop’ the Catholic traditions of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.

26 Jul 2016: Dr Elif Çetin are co-authors, with Christopher Hill, of the chapter "Il fenomeno migratorio e i problemi del multiculturalismo in Italia" (Migration and the challenges of Italian multiculturalism), in Maurizio Carbone and Simona Piattoni (

20 Jan 2016: gave a talk on "Understanding faith in migrants’ lives: challenges & opportunities for social cohesion in a diverse Europe" on 19th January at the new CAMMIGRES SEMINAR SERIES "Spotlight on faith and

26 Mar 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. New issue of Reviews in Religion and Theology, now based at the VHI, just published.

24 Feb 2016: In recent years he has completed a new English translation of the entire Greek Bible, available from Kevin Mayhew Publishers, as well as books on St Paul (Not That Man, 2009)

3 Feb 2016: VHI Director of Research and St Edmund's College Bye-Fellow

29 Apr 2016: Dr Sara Silvestri was a guest speaker at the Home Affairs Committee conference on countering extremism held in Cambridge on April 21st, and which is part of the evidence gathering of the government inquiry into Countering Extremism.

21 Oct 2016: We are pleased to announce the programme for our 2016-17 themed lecture series, entitled 'Dynamics of Dis/Agreement'.  Throughout our social, political, and cultural lives—online as well as offline—we see increasing oppositional and bitter

16 Apr 2016: Throughout our social, political, and cultural lives—online as well as offline—we see increasing oppositional and bitter disagreement. Have we forgotten the virtues of disagreement in moving towards agreement? Have we forgotten how to disagree

15 Jan 2016: The group led by Dr Flavio Comim will read and discuss The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render

14 Mar 2016: s article "Modernity and the Economics of Gift and Charity: On Ivan Illich's Critique of Abstract Philanthropy" has recently been published in the New York-based journal of critical theory,

1 Sep 2016: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Simon Ravenscroft publishes book chapter in French edited collection on Ivan Illich. has a chapter in the recently published collection, Ivan Illich, l'alchimiste des possibles (Paris

5 Apr 2016: Ben Quash is the first Professor of Christianity and the Arts at Kings College London where he pioneered a new MA in Christianity and the Arts in collaboration with the National

27 May 2016: Most biblical, theological and philosophical understandings of mercy were conceived in very different contexts to our own, globalised and urbanised world.

27 May 2016: Music is a key element of the culture which forms us. How can the musical arts represent mercy? Can it discourage or encourage its practice?

5 Apr 2016: VHI Research Associate Dr Lidia Ripamonti has written an article for Huffington Post Italia to coincide with International Autism Awareness Day on 2nd April.