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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.

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

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

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.

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

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

10 Jul 2014: VHI Research Associate

30 Nov 2018: Say it to God: In Search of Prayer was chosen as the 2018 Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book and welcomed by many as an honest, accessible guide to freshen their practice of prayer in the midst of busy modern life. In Touched by God, Gioia moves

17 Jan 2019: VHI Senior Research Associate

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

10 Mar 2015: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Dr Silvestri awarded research grant by Charles Plater Trust. had been awarded a research grant by the Charles Plater Trust for a project on the contribution of Catholic social thought

6 Oct 2015: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Patents on Life: Through the Lenses of Law, Religious Faith and Social Justice. A unique institute of advanced studies inspired by Catholic thought and culture, focussed on

31 Jul 2014: Congratulations to Mr Francis Campbell on his appointment as Vice-Chancellor of St Mary's University College, Twickenham, a Catholic university in London. Mr Campbell is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's College and a member of the

5 Mar 2014: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Dr Silvestri gives lecture on European Muslim women at ULB. gave a guest lecture on Muslim women in Europe at the Universite' Libre de Bruxelles on 12 February 2014. On 20 February

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

17 Feb 2021: jointly organised with St Edmund's College Combination Room

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.

12 Dec 2019: An insightful piece by Dr Catherine Osbourne on the VHI research project '

23 Sep 2019: VHI Research Associate Vladimir Kmec's response to Johathan Chaplin's chapter 'From Inspiration to Implementation: Laudato Si, Public Theology and the Demands of Energy Policy' has been published in the volume In Search of Good Energy Policy

12 Jun 2014: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Dr Sara Silvestri on LBC radio and new publication on religious diversity. VHI Research Associate and Senior Lecturer in International Politics at City University) was interview by

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28 Jun 2022: Professor Alison Cornish's (NYU and President of the Dante Society of America) lecture will be based on her new, ground-breaking book, Believing in Dante, which offers a compelling new take on Dante's Divine Comedy with modern sensibilities in mind,

29 Jan 2018: VHI Senior Research Associate,

15 Jan 2014:   The Churchill Archives Centre and Cambridge Public Policy are jointly hostig a two day conference to discuss the complex interfaces between politics and religion, at home and abroad, in modern Britain. The conference will take place on 12-13

21 Oct 2015: religious non-governmental organisations in the field of migration in the UK.

23 Jan 2018: This project, led by Professor Ralf Wüstenberg and co-sponsored by the DAAD/Cambridge Hub with the Europa-University Flensburg, brings together scholars and practitioners with expertise in different country-specific cases of political

15 Jan 2014: Professor John Loughlin has been invited by the Cambridge University European Society to give a talk about the current issues regarding the frameworks for the future of the European Union and of the UK as Member State.

17 Mar 2014: Professor John Loughlin, Director of the Von Hügel Institute, Fellow of St Edmund's College and Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, will deliver the Gaudium et Spes Lecture 2014: "Religion in the Public Sphere

15 Jan 2014: A comment piece by VHI research associate Dr Sara Silvestri on counter-terrorism laws in Britain. Sara is a Senior Lecturer at City University London and an Affiliated Lecturer with the POLIS Department at Cambridge University.

4 Dec 2017: The Pope’s immediate goal is to enable a more reliable and realistic approach in deciphering the experiences of people in modern family life.

24 Feb 2014: Westminster Archbishop Vincent Nichols, who is to be made a cardinal by Pope Francis on Saturday, has criticised the Government’s welfare cuts for tearing apart the safety net that protects the poorest families in our communities. VHI Director

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

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

24 Feb 2014: On Saturday 22 February the Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols was one of 19 new cardinals appointed by Pope Francis.

8 Jun 2018: The full report of the joint VHI-DAAD international workshop ‘here.

24 Jun 2015: The Von Hugel Institute is saddened to learn of the death of Professor Frank Delmartino on Sunday, 21 June 2015. Prof. Delmartino co-founded the Institute for European Policy at KU Leuven and he was a noted specialist on European integration. Last

4 Mar 2014: The Irish Times reports on Professor Mary McAleese challenging and stimulating lecture, which she delivered last Friday at the University of Cambridge. The video of the event will be available soon! 

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,

25 Jan 2024: VHI Reading Group for Lent 2024 During Lent Term 2024, VHI Research Associate Dr Flavio Comim will lead an online reading group to discuss Daniel Chandler’s Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?

25 Nov 2015: One Day Symposium

1 Mar 2018: Following an election process at the meeting of the Governing Body on 22 February, St Edmund's College is pleased to announce that the Vice-Master Elect is Dr Philip McCosker.

17 Feb 2021: jointly organised with St Edmund's College Combination Room

17 Feb 2021: Within Palestine, Arab Christians are publicly visible as providers of religiously based discourses on social solidarity and the common good, for example in the form of contextual theologies.

21 Nov 2014: The video of the panel discussion '

22 Sep 2014: Professor John Loughlin was interviewed on the topic of separatist and indipendence movements in Europe, including Scotland, Catalonia and Wales.

5 Jul 2018: On 29th June VHI's Research Associate

21 May 2015: Two recent publications on migration policy by Dr Elif Cetin: The Italian left and Italy's (evolving) foreign policy of immigration controls on the Journal of Modern Italian Studies (JMIS)  A comment piece on the many implications of recent EU