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12 Oct 2020: VHI researchers Professor Ralf Wuestenberg and Dr Zeina Barakat (European University Flensburg/ VHI, St Edmund College) recently participated in the Hafis -Menschenrechtsdialog Weimar workshop that took place on the 23-24 of September 2020 in Weimar.

1 Jul 2014: The Von Hugel Institute is saddened to learn of the death in a car accident of Rev Dr John Hughes, Dean of Jesus College. Rev Hughes, a noted specialist on the relationship between Catholic Social Teaching and economics, delivered one of the VHI

29 Apr 2016: We are pleased to announce the launch of the Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice on 13th June 2016.

14 Jan 2016: Former VHI director Prof John Loughlin and research associate

1 Apr 2019: Cambridge University Press has announced the publication of Patents on Life: Religious, Moral, and Social Justice Aspects of Biotechnology and Intellectual Property, edited by Thomas C. Berg, Simon Ravenscroft. The volume includes several c

16 Nov 2016: The November special issue of the US journal Current History, dedicated to the theme of Diasporas, features an article on notions of transnational Islam by VHI Director of Research

2 Aug 2018: Patents on Genetic Resources?

3 Feb 2014: The Human Person in Catholic Social Teaching: Biblical Perspectives

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 Feb 2021: Hosted in conjunction with the Faculty of Divinity New Testament Senior Seminar

31 May 2022: The Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology and the Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry will be hosting a joint research seminar, examining the theme "Literature and Spiritual Living." The discussion will be facilitated by present

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.   

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

5 Jul 2018: In June the VHI had two days of exciting meetings in Cambridge with Prof Brad Gregory, Director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, and Dr Don Stelluto, the Associate Director, about future collaboration between our two institutes.

4 Apr 2014: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Professor Ryan delivers lecture at the Madariaga College of Europe Fundation in Brussels. gave a lecture on “Eurozone Debt Restructuring – undesirable but unavoidable” at the

26 Feb 2020: The VHI was delighted to welcome Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald to St Edmund's College on 7 February as he delivered a fascinating annual Von Hügel Lecture titled 'Christians in the Arab World: The Present Situation'.

27 Sep 2023: On 5-8 September 2023 the Von Hügel Institute is hosting the International conference 'Conflict Resolution and Interreligious Encounter', jointly organised with the Wasatia Graduate School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at the

3 Oct 2020: The Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry (VHI), based at St Edmund’s College in the University of Cambridge invites applications for the position of Administrator.

13 May 2014: VHI research Associate

19 Jun 2019: VHI Research Associate

17 Jan 2014: The complete collection of audio recordings of VHI events and seminar series is available to view and download on the Cambridge University Streaming Media Service Our videos are also available on our YouTube Channel Uploads CHRISTIANS IN THE ARAB

21 Oct 2016: Over the last year the VHI has been reconsidering its mission. As we look towards our thirtieth anniversary year, which will fall in the 2017-18 academic year, it is a good time to refresh our vision and identity. The first fruits of that process

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

6 May 2022: The latest issue of Reviews in Religion & Theology (Jan-April 2022) is now online and freely available to those with institutional access. It includes review articles on Natural Theology, by Owen Anderson, and on the Decolonisation of Theological

9 May 2018: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Sara Silvestri attends workshop on Catholic Social Teaching at the Notre Dame London Gateway and speaks on religion, war and migration. VHI Research Associate and Bye Fellow of St

4 Apr 2014: Dr Sara Silvestri has been recently quoted in two recent news articles on the

2 Nov 2020: An online event on Tuesday 3 November 2020, 5.30-6.45pm GMT (by Zoom), celebrating the launch of: David Jones and the Art of Theology: Becoming Beauty At this celebratory launch event, author Elizabeth Powell (La Retraite Fellow in Theology and

23 Jan 2014: VHI Research Associate Dr Roman Cholij has completed a research report on Law and Religion.

8 Nov 2018: On the 23rd of October the  Von Hügel institute held an evening presentation in the lecture room of the Jesuit America Magazine Office in the Avenues of America, Manhattan, with our growing network of New York frie

2 Dec 2014: Prof Gamble's lecture on the Crisis of the UK Political Class is featured on the New Statesman’s rolling politics blog: "Democratic crisis: how do we stem the remorseless rise of nationalists and populists?"

20 Jul 2018: VHI's Research Associate Çetin has recently completed a report on socio-economic, political, legal and institutional aspects of migration governance in Turkey, as part of the EU-funded Horizon2020 RESPOND project Multilevel Governance of Mass

15 Jul 2020: VHI Research Associate, Professor Wojciech Szczerba, has published a new article examining the concept of Imago Dei in biblical writings, theological tradition and modern philosophy in the context of religious inclusion and human dignity: The

14 Sep 2015: At the 33rd International Symposium on Economic Crime, Jesus College, Cambridge, 6-13 September 2015, VHI Research Associate

29 Aug 2014: Professor Loughlin is one of the leading academics who will speak at Theology Plus, an innovative conference for sixth-form students interested inTheology and Religious studies, which will take place on Friday 7th November at Worth School and Worth

2 May 2014: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Sovereign debt restructuring: the ECB’s troubling policy conundrum. has published in Policy Review "Sovereign debt restructuring the ECBs troubling policy conundrum". A unique

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.

10 Feb 2014: Dr Sara Silvestri will give a public talk on European and US Approaches to Religion in Foreign Policy: Responses to the Arab Uprisings and Beyond at Chatham House, London on Tuesday 11 February 2014 at 17:30.

6 Feb 2014: Dr Sara Silvestri is one of the organisers of the Wilton Park Conference Religion, foreign policy and development: making better policy to make a bigger difference, held on 5-7 February 2014 in association with Wilton Park, The Foreign &

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.

15 Jan 2014: Congratulations to Professor John Loughlin, Director of the VHI, who has been included in the 2013 edition of Who's Who.

16 Sep 2015: Contemporary discourse in bioethics and healthcare policy frequently arrives at an impasse caused by disagreement, often unspoken, about what constitutes ‘health’.

12 Dec 2019: The Von Hügel Institute is saddened to learn of the death of Father Frank McHugh, who was the institute's Director from 1990 to 2000.

12 May 2014: The week of May 12th 

4 Apr 2018: Wonder is the capacity of the mind and heart to be seized by the breadth of reality. The ancient Greeks regarded wonder as the basis of philosophy because it undergirds the ultimate homecoming by which one returns to the depth of being.

10 Jul 2014: VHI Research Associate

15 Jan 2014: Dr Frank Madsen has published a new article on Organ Transplantation and Transnational Organised Crime on the RUSI Journal (Oct 2013, Vol. 158, No. 5). Dr Madsen also leads the Research Programme on Illicit Trade in Organs at the Von Hügel

24 Feb 2014: Professor John Loughlin has been appointed to the Chaire Ganshof van der Meersch at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) for the academic year 2013-14. The programme of his lecture series is available here. The opening lecture European

31 Jul 2014: Sir Tom Phillips KCMG, who has recently been appointed Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies, has agreed to join the

19 Jun 2014: Professor John Ryan's newest article on Policy Review: The German economic model and the Eurozone crisis.

17 Jan 2019: VHI Senior Research Associate