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New paper for the UN Development Programme by Flavio Comim

Dr Flavio Comim has authored a background paper to the Global Human Development Report prepared by the United Nations Development Program. The paper ' B eyond the HDI? Assessing alternative measures of human development from a capability perspective ' explores how the human development perspective can be enlarged by using...

New issue of Reviews in Religion and Theology published from VHI

The latest issue of Reviews in Religion and Theology has been published by Wiley-Blackwell. The journal moved to the Von Hügel Institute in October 2015, and is edited by VHI director Dr Philip McCosker . Volume 24, Issue 2 includes three review articles, by Mark W. Hamilton on the Enlightenment and Egyptian religion...

Simon Ravenscroft responds to George Scialabba and publishes review essay on irony

Dr Simon Ravenscroft has written a response to a recent essay by George Scialabba for the Luce Project on Religion and Its Publics , based at the University of Virginia. Scialabba's essay, entitled 'Against Everything' and published in The Baffler , explores the social theory of the late Catholic radical Ivan Illich...

Sara Silvestri writes editorial and is interviewed on recent ECJ religious discrimination ruling

Dr Sara Silvestri has recently been interviewed on the religious discrimination in the workplace ruling of the European Court of Justice: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/amid-rise-anti-veil-legislation-european-high-court-says-employers-can-now-ban-headscarf-work/ She has also published the following editorial on the...

Philip McCosker to give the Notre Dame Student-Alumni Lecture in London on 5th April

VHI Director Dr Philip McCosker will be giving the Notre Dame Student-Alumni Lecture in London on Weds 5th April from 6-8pm. The lecture, entitled 'Catholic: Paradoxical Identities', marks the 11th year of the Student-Alumni Lecture Series , which brings together Notre Dame students, alumni, and leaders in academia from...

Vlado Kmec speaks on role of religion in conflict at CEC conference

VHI Reserch Associate Dr Vladimir Kmec gave a talk on the role of religion in conflict and peace at a meeting of the Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Thematic Reference Group of the Conference of European Churches in Brussels on Monday, 27 February 2017.

Sara Silvestri was guest speaker at World Congress on Pastoral Care of International Students

Dr Sara Silvestri was a guest speaker at the IV World Congress on the Pastoral Care of International Students , organised by the Pontifical Council for Migrant and Itinerant People (Rome, 28 Nov - 2 Dec 2016). She addressed the challenges of modernity and globalisation to university life and to Christian witness . The...

Director runs Cambridge Half Marathon in support of the Institute

On Sunday 5 March the VHI Director, Dr Philip McCosker, will run the Cambridge Half Marathon in support of our Institute. If you would like to contribute to the Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry's Appeal to support and endow its many activities of research, outreach, and education, please follow this link...

Video of VHI lectures now available on YouTube

The video of Terry Eagleton's lecture 'How to Disagree Without Being a Liberal Pluralist' and of the Annual Von Hügel Lecture by Cardinal Luis Tagle are now available online on our YouTube Channel The complete collection of video and audio recordings of recent and past VHI events is also available on the Cambridge...

The VHI welcomes new Research Associates

The VHI is pleased to welcome Professor Bernard Laurent as a new Senior Research Associate, and Dr Gorazd Andrejč, Dr Gianmarco Contino, Rev Dr Vlado Kmec, and Rev Dr Boris Gunjević as new Research Associates, from February 2017. Bernard Laurent is an economist, a lecturer at the EMLYON Business School and a Visiting...

New paper for the UN Development Programme by Flavio Comim

New issue of Reviews in Religion and Theology published from VHI

Simon Ravenscroft responds to George Scialabba and publishes review essay on irony

Sara Silvestri writes editorial and is interviewed on recent ECJ religious discrimination ruling

Philip McCosker to give the Notre Dame Student-Alumni Lecture in London on 5th April

Vlado Kmec speaks on role of religion in conflict at CEC conference

Sara Silvestri was guest speaker at World Congress on Pastoral Care of International Students

Director runs Cambridge Half Marathon in support of the Institute

Video of VHI lectures now available on YouTube

The VHI welcomes new Research Associates

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