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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

2 Aug 2018: negotiations on a new international  treaty on Genetic Resources and IP.

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

21 Oct 2015: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. New publication from the Caritas in Veritate Foundation.

12 May 2014: Mandaville: the first workshop, hosted by UNFPA in New York, had a focus on the Post 2015 development goals; the second set of activities, jointly organised with Brookings Institution, took place

10 Jul 2014: VHI Research Associate

5 Mar 2014: On 20 February 2014 Dr Silvestri accepted the invitation to serve in the Advisory Board of Religion News Service.

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 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

3 Oct 2019: VHI Senior Research Associates Professor Gill Goulding gave a paper on 'Authority and Vulnerability' at the invitation-only colloquium of the International Association of Catholic Bioethicists (IACB) in Quebec, in June 2019.

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 &

28 Jun 2022: 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

14 Dec 2018: VHI Research Associate Vlado Kmec awarded the European Award for European Security and Defence for his research and his European engagement.

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

27 Oct 2016: The Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry (VHI), based at St Edmund’s College in the University of Cambridge invites applications for the new position of Development Executive.

4 Oct 2019: VHI Research Associate Clericalism and Sexuality. Link to the article Full text  

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

16 Sep 2015: SPECIAL WORKSHOP ISSUE: papers from the conference have been published as a special journal issue of The New Bioethics (Vol.

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

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8 Aug 2019: The Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry (VHI) is looking for a dynamic and innovative Development Officer to support its fundraising campaign along with the VHI Director, VHI development collaborators and the College’s Development

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

26 Mar 2014: This project led by Professor Ralf K.

4 Apr 2018: Her recent books include Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology and Consciousness (Orbis, 2015) and The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and the Power of Love (Orbis 2013) which received

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.

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

6 Jun 2017: The Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry (VHI), based at St Edmund’s College in the University of Cambridge invites applications for the new position of Development Officer.

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! 

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 Jun 2023: In Spring 2023, Sir James MacMillan CBE, world-renowned conductor and composer, delivered the Von Hügel Lecture at St Edmund's College: 'Music as a Sacred Language: A Catholic Composer's Perspective'. After a nearly two-year pandemic pause, the

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

25 Jan 2024: new members!

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.

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.

5 Jul 2018: Search site. Von Hügel Institute. for Critical Catholic Inquiry. Book chapter on Genetics and IP by Dr Roman Cholij. has authored a chapter on 'Genetics and Intellectual Property' in the volume Beyond the Limits: Consequences of Technological

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

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

11 Oct 2017: Professor John Loughlin, former VHI Director and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund's Colllege, has been appointed Visiting Professor at the Department of Politics, Policy and International Relations of St Mary's University, Twickenham.

13 Jan 2015: Inequality is back at the centre of the public discourse. Is this good or bad news for the European Union?

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

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

25 Nov 2015: One Day Symposium

8 May 2014: VHI Director Professor John Loughlin was interviewed by Voice of Russia UK, along with representatives of different think-tanks, to discuss a recent report on Britain's ethnic minority groups. Read more:

21 Jun 2017: He comments: ‘I’m delighted by this news. The VHI and IRCI share very similar visions and are at exciting stages of our respective developments.

5 Jan 2022: The October 2021 Issue of Reviews in Religion and Theology is now online and freely available to those with institutional access. The international reviews journal, edited by Philip McCosker and Vittorio Montemaggi, is published from the Von Hügel

17 Jan 2014: The Lecture  inaugurated the new VHI Seminar Series on "Faith and Governance" for the academic year 2013-14.

15 Jan 2014: Dr Sara Silvestri, VHI Research Associate and Senior Lecturer in International Politics at City University London, has commented on the news of the creation of  new office at the US Department

1 Aug 2014: On 16 July 2014 Dr Elif Cetin will be working on this project as research assistant.

28 May 2019: VHI's Research Associate Dr Çetin has been appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), where she is conducting research for her upcoming book on migration politics in UK and