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Professor Colin Williams is travelling to Minsk, Belarus, this month to give a Plenary Opening Address 'Official Bilingualism in the UK' at the Conference Bilingualism in Law in Practice: The Experience of Belarus and the United Kingdom , organised by the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the British Embassy in...

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. Below is a message by the Master of St Edmund's College, Catherine Arnold, to the College Fellows: "I am sorry to inform you that Father Frank McHugh, Emeritus Fellow, Acting Dean 1979-80...

On 31 October Dr Flavio Comim gave a presentation on 'The Multi-Dimension of Aporophobia' at the Human Development Report Seminar of the United Nation Development Programme in New York. ABOUT THE PRESENTATION Aporophobia is a neologism formulated by the Spanish philosopher Adela Cortina that means 'rejection of the poor'...

The new volume Patents on Life: Religious, Moral, and Social Justice Aspects of Biotechnology and Intellectual Property , edited by Thomas C. Berg (University of St Thomas, Minnesota), Roman Cholij (St Edmund’s College, Cambridge), and Simon Ravenscroft (Magdalene College, and St Edmund's College, Cambridge), has been...