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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.