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11 Oct 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Op-Ed and Book Chapter on EU Migration Policies by Elif Cetin.

15 Dec 2017: In its 30th anniversary year, the VHI was relaunched with a bold expansive vision: to become the first Institute of Advanced Studies in Europe inspired by a catholic worldview, and to create a home for critical catholic inquiry in the heart of the

15 Dec 2017: This is a most exciting time to get involved with the VHI: a transformative intellectual vision with deep roots and far-reaching potential is taking shape at the heart of one of the world’s oldest and most influential universities; unique in

15 Mar 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Rev Dr Boris Gunjević. Boris received his PhD in 2012 from the Catholic Theological Faculty in Zagreb, Croatia. He was ordained in 1998. In December 2013 he was colloquized into the

28 Apr 2017: John Henry Newman has been celebrated as a great thinker and as a great stylist. Yet Newman insisted that his elegance as a writer was no more than an accidental side-effect of his commitment to expressive clarity. But is that true?

6 Mar 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Dr Gorazd Andrejč. Name:. Dr Gorazd Andrejč. Member for. 7 years 1 month. A unique institute of advanced studies inspired by Catholic thought and culture, focussed on contemporary

18 May 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Dr Gianmarco Contino. Gianmarco was appointed in 2019 a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Cancer Genomic Medicine and Honorary Consultant at the University of Birmingham.

15 Dec 2017: Our vision for the VHI's future is fresh, bold and expansive: We have relaunched the Institute to be the first Institute of Advanced Studies in Europe inspired by a catholic worldview; We will provide a home for critical catholic inquiry in the

6 Apr 2017: Jointly organised with the Baroness Warsi Foundation & the Woolf Institute

20 Sep 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Professor Walter van Herck. Walter Van Herck is a philosopher of religion trained at the Jesuit University of Antwerp and the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. His PhD

15 Dec 2017: The Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry has a 30-year track record as a leading interdisciplinary research institute in the University of Cambridge, developing the critical resources of a catholic worldview for a better shared future.

13 Nov 2017: The lecture looks at the poetry of George Mackay Brown and Patrick Kavanagh through the lens of two key texts by the modernist poet and writer, David Jones: the Preface to The Anathemata and Art and Sacrament.  All three writers were Catholic;

19 Dec 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Jeroen Jans. Jeroen is a PhD Student in empirical religious studies at Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) since 2016. In 2012 he obtained his master degree in Theology and

16 Feb 2017: Most discussions of dialogue, consensus, disagreement and the like rest on an ideology of liberal pluralism. The paper will offer a critique of this ideology in general, and ask how agreement and disagreement appear in light of this.

31 May 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Professor Heidemarie Winkel. Heidemarie Winkel was educated in sociology and economics at the University of Trier (Germany); she completed her Habilitation (professoral thesis) at the

31 Oct 2017: How does the creation of credit enable something to come from nothing? This talk will explore the metaphysics of credit by considering it as distinct from market exchange and in relation to grounds for faith.

28 Apr 2017: How do disagreement and eventual agreement function in politics? What works? What doesn’t? Are the ways we conduct political discourse changing? The last year has arguably seen a loss of the virtues of reasonable, textured disagreement in politics

18 May 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Dr Gianmarco Contino. Name:. Dr Gianmarco Contino. Member for. 6 years 11 months. A unique institute of advanced studies inspired by Catholic thought and culture, focussed on

19 Jan 2017: PHILIP ALLOTT with a response from MARK ENGELMAN. A central theme of Philip Allott’s recent book Eutopia is that the human mind uses a dialectical process of contradictions, dilemmas, and paradoxes to form reality at every level, social and

27 Feb 2017: Julian Baggini, Lorna Donlon, and Michael O'Loughlin CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE! Please note that this event will take place on Thursday 9th March in the College Chapel, and not in the Garden Room on Friday as previously announced.

6 Mar 2017: The video of Terry Eagleton's lecture 'How to Disagree Without Being a Liberal Pluralist' and of the Annual Von Hügel Lecture by Cardinal Luis Tagle are now available online on our YouTube Channel The complete collection of video and audio

15 Mar 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Rev Dr Boris Gunjević. Name:. Rev Dr Boris Gunjević. Member for. 7 years 1 month. A unique institute of advanced studies inspired by Catholic thought and culture, focussed on

17 Nov 2017: Lidia Ripamonti has published five articles in the new Edith Stein - Lexikon (Herder, 2017).

31 May 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Professor Heidemarie Winkel. Professor Heidemarie Winkel. Name:. Professor Heidemarie Winkel. Member for. 6 years 11 months. A unique institute of advanced studies inspired by

20 Sep 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Professor Walter van Herck. Professor Walter van Herck. Name:. Professor Walter van Herck. Member for. 6 years 7 months. A unique institute of advanced studies inspired by Catholic

11 Oct 2017: Dr Vlado Kmec published a new journal article: Transnational and Local: Multiple Functions of Religious Communities of EU Migrants in Dublin in  Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, Volume 5 (2017) pp. 20-39.   

6 Mar 2017: On Sunday 5 March the VHI Director, Dr Philip McCosker, will run the Cambridge Half Marathon in support of our Institute.

17 Nov 2017: On the 5 hundredth anniversary of the publication of Martin Luther's Ninety Five Theses in Mainz, one of our former Visiting fellows, Dr Fintan Lyons O.S.B., a monk of Glenstal Abbey, Ireland has published a book, Martin Luther his Challenge Then

20 Sep 2017: On Friday 15 September the Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry held its first annual Research Day.

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19 Jan 2017: The Price of Truth: Herbert McCabe on Love, Politics and Death Perhaps the greatest theologian of the English-speaking world in the late twentieth century, the Dominican Herbert McCabe never thought of himself as a political theologian.

19 Dec 2017: The VHI is delighted to welcome doctoral student Jeroen Jans from Radboud University (the Netherlands) who will be spending a few months in Cambridge to work on his PhD in empirical religious studies.

6 Jun 2017: The VHI is seeking a dynamic and innovative Development Officer to support a major fundraising campaign

16 Jan 2017: Former VHI Director Prof John Loughlin has published a new article on Human Dignity: the Foundation of Human Rights and Religious Freedom in Memoria y civilización, Vol 19 (2016).  Professor Loughlin, who is currently a Research Fellow at

15 Dec 2017: The VHI is delighted to host the launch of The Archbishop of Canterbury Lent Book 2018 Say it to God: In Search of Prayer, introduced by Professor Sarah Coakley and the book's author,

9 Jun 2017: VHI Research Associate, Dr Flavio Comim, is organising a three-day conference on 19, 20 and 21 June on ‘the capability approach’. This is the second annual Cambridge Capability Conference and it will take place at the Centre of Development

4 Dec 2017: The Von Hügel Lecture 2018 POPE FRANCIS’ REVOLUTION OF MERCY: AMORIS LAETITIA AS A NEW PARADIGM OF CATHOLICITY Cardinal Blase Cupich   Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia represents a paradigm shift for the Church’s ministry.

11 Oct 2017: The VHI is delighted to welcome Professor Walter Van Herck, Professor Heidemarie Winkel, and Professor Ralf Wüstenberg as new Senior Research Associates beginning 1st October 2017.

18 Oct 2017: We are delighted to announce that Research Associate

25 Apr 2017: Former VHI Director, Professor John Loughlin, and Cristina Odone, Director of the Legatum Institute's 'Centre for Character and Values', have recently co-authored a research report on positive parenting and family values.

18 May 2017: Dr Thana Cristina de Campos has recently published a book based on her doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford titled The Global Health Crisis: Ethical Responsabilities (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

3 Nov 2017: The Early Detection Program based at the CRUK/Cambridge Cancer Centre, University of Cambridge, and the Von Hügel Institute (VHI) are planning an interdisciplinary workshop to explore methodological, bioethical and societal Impasses of early

12 Jun 2017: VHI Research Associate Dr Elif Çetin was recently interviewed on the issue of Europe's policies towards refugees and asylum-seekers. Çetin's research focuses on politicisation of immigration, immigration politics, political discourse formation,

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9 Jun 2017: Dr Sara Silvestri recently spoke on BBC Cambs on counterterrorism and religious ideology in the wake of the recent terror attacks in the UK. She was also interviewed on TRT World and (for Spanish speakers) on La Segunda.

15 Dec 2017: Books De Campos, Thana Christina, The Global Health Crisis: Ethical Responsibilities, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Elliot, David, Hope and Christian Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

19 Oct 2017: On Monday 24 July the VHI held a seminar to present the key findings of the research project

18 Apr 2017: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. New paper for the UN Development Programme by Flavio Comim. has authored a background paper to the Global Human Development Report prepared by the United Nations Development Program.

20 Jan 2017: Given that P is projected with speed V from the point r = r0, θ = 0 in the directionperpendicular to OP , find the equation of the orbit under the assumptions.

17 Nov 2017: Elif Cetin have hosted several events to present highlights of the recently completed Roundtable discussion organised jointly with the Centre for International Policy Studies and the Social Movements and Civil Society Research Group of City