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Launch of Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice on 13 June in London

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice on 13th June 2016. This innovative new Centre links together the work of CAFOD, CSAN, Von Hügel Institute, Cambridge, Las Casas Institute, Oxford, and Durham University in the development and communication of Catholic Social...

Dr Sara Silvestri speaks at Home Affairs Committee Conference on Countering Extremism

Dr Sara Silvestri was a guest speaker at the Home Affairs Committee conference on countering extremism held in Cambridge on April 21st , and which is part of the evidence gathering of the government inquiry into Countering Extremism. Featuring in the panel "Tackling Radicalisation and the Counter Extremism Strategy" she...

Papers from VHI Health Conference now published in The New Bioethics

Papers from the VHI conference ‘ Navigating Impasses in Bioethics: Rethinking Ill Health ’ held at the VHI in December 2015 are now published as a special issue of The New Bioethics (Vol. 22, Issue 1, 2016). The conference brought together scholars and practitioners from very diverse fields to consider the definitions of...

Dr Simon Ravenscroft writes at ABC Religion & Ethics on laughter, folly and theology

ABC Religion & Ethics have published an essay by VHI Research Associate Dr Simon Ravenscroft entitled 'Levity and Theology: On Playing the Fool in the Academy and Life' . The piece draws on Simon's research on the political and social meaning of laughter and the comic, particularly the theologically-inflected...

Dr Lidia Ripamonti featured at Huffington Post Italia with article on autism

VHI Research Associate Dr Lidia Ripamonti has written an article for Huffington Post Italia to coincide with International Autism Awareness Day on 2nd April. Entitled "Di autismo non ci si ammala e non ci si cura" (Autism is not an illness in need of a cure), the piece reflects on how our understanding of autism is rapidly...

New issue of Reviews in Religion and Theology, now based at the VHI, just published

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 23, Issue 1 includes reviews of Nicholas Adams' Eclipse of Grace: Divine and Human Action in Hegel , Johannes...

Article on Ivan Illich published in Telos by Dr Simon Ravenscroft

Dr Simon Ravenscroft 's article "Modernity and the Economics of Gift and Charity: On Ivan Illich's Critique of Abstract Philanthropy" has recently been published in the New York-based journal of critical theory, Telos. The essay examines the theological and philosophical underpinnings of the work of the radical Catholic...

Article by Prof Tom Berg reflects on last year's Patents on Life conference

Professor Tom Berg has published a highly recommended, detailed reflection on the findings of our 'Patents on Life' conference, which took place last September here in Cambridge. Professor Berg teaches in the School of Law at the University of St Thomas in Minnesota, and co-chaired the conference, which was jointly...

Dr Simon Ravenscroft's article on 'Patenting Life' at ABC Religion & Ethics draws on our September conference

VHI researcher Dr Simon Ravenscroft has written an article for ABC Religion & Ethics, entitled 'Patenting Life: Rethinking Social Justice, the Politics of Knowledge and Theologies of Property'. This draws on the findings of our September 'Patents on Life' conference, to set out the relevance of theological thinking...

E-learning kit on religion and conflict published by Dr Silvestri for the UK Department for International Development

VHI Director of Research and St Edmund's College Bye-Fellow Dr Sara Silvestri has published an e-learning kit on religion and conflict for the UK Department for International Development through the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre: http://www.gsdrc.org/professional-dev/religion-and-conflict/

Launch of Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice on 13 June in London

Dr Sara Silvestri speaks at Home Affairs Committee Conference on Countering Extremism

Papers from VHI Health Conference now published in The New Bioethics

Dr Simon Ravenscroft writes at ABC Religion & Ethics on laughter, folly and theology

Dr Lidia Ripamonti featured at Huffington Post Italia with article on autism

New issue of Reviews in Religion and Theology, now based at the VHI, just published

Article on Ivan Illich published in Telos by Dr Simon Ravenscroft

Article by Prof Tom Berg reflects on last year's Patents on Life conference

Dr Simon Ravenscroft's article on 'Patenting Life' at ABC Religion & Ethics draws on our September conference

E-learning kit on religion and conflict published by Dr Silvestri for the UK Department for International Development

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