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Flavio Comim speaks on 'Aporophobia' at Human Development Report Seminar in New York

Reading Group: Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice

This year’s Lent Term online reading group led by Flavio Comim will start on Wednesday 26 January. Participants will discuss Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined by Ingrid Robeyns (Open Book Publishers, 2017) and the author will join the group for the final session. For registration...

Student Essay Competition

The Von Hügel Institute and the Woolf Institute are delighted to launch a new annual essay competition for St Edmund's students! The theme of the 2021-22 competition is "Forgiveness". The competition is open to all students of St Edmund’s College. To participate, students are invited to submit an essay on any aspect of the...

Latest Issue of Reviews in Religion and Theology

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 Institute in association with Wiley-Blackwell. Read more

William Simpson PhD has been awarded the Cardinal Mercier Prize 2021

VHI Research Associate William Simpson PhD PhD has been awarded the Cardinal Mercier Prize 2021 (awarded to John F. Wippel in 1981, and to Nicholas Rescher in 2005) for his thesis, What’s the matter? Toward a neo-Aristotelian Ontology of Nature . This prestigious prize is given for monographs which are related to...

Wojciech Szczerba chairs Debate on Limits of Progress and Development

VHI Research Associate Wojciech Szczerba has organised and chaired the online debate “The World with (no) borders”. Speakers included Dr Edgardo Colon-Emmeric (Duke University) and Dr Joachim Klose (Konrad Adenauer Foundation Saxony). The debate is available HERE

VHI Research Associates, Zeina Barakat and Ralf Wüstenberg, launch PhD Program on Peace and Conflict Resolution

VHI Research Associate, Zeina Barakat and VHI Senior Research Associate, Ralf Wüstenberg launched the homepage for the PhD Program at the Europa-Universtät Flensburg, on Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East: https://www.uni-flensburg.de/en/trilateral-graduate-school/ . The program, funded by the Federal...

Vacancy: VHI Administrator (part-time/temporary)

Vacancy: Executive Officer

Up to £34,000 per annum plus benefits including free meals on duty and car park (subject to availability) 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 Executive Officer. The VHI seeks a dynamic, pro-...

VHI Research Associate, Daniel De Haan, appointed to new position at University of Oxford

VHI Research Associate, Daniel De Haan, appointed to new position at University of Oxford Read more here: https://www.campion.ox.ac.uk/news/jesuits-and-dominicans-collaborate-new...

VHI Research Associate, Zeina Barakat, participates in panel on teaching the Holocaust in the Arab world

VHI Research Associate, Zeina Barakat, participates in panel on teaching the Holocaust in the Arab world Read more here: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/teaching-holocaust-a...

VHI Visiting Scholar, Greg Peters, publishes book on Thomas à Kempis

VHI Visiting Scholar, Greg Peters, publishes book on Thomas à Kempis Read more here: https://wipfandstock.com/9781532657061/thomas-a-kempis/

Reading Group: Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice

Student Essay Competition

Latest Issue of Reviews in Religion and Theology

William Simpson PhD has been awarded the Cardinal Mercier Prize 2021

Wojciech Szczerba chairs Debate on Limits of Progress and Development

VHI Research Associates, Zeina Barakat and Ralf Wüstenberg, launch PhD Program on Peace and Conflict Resolution

Vacancy: Executive Officer

VHI Research Associate, Daniel De Haan, appointed to new position at University of Oxford

VHI Research Associate, Zeina Barakat, participates in panel on teaching the Holocaust in the Arab world

VHI Visiting Scholar, Greg Peters, publishes book on Thomas à Kempis

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