Clericalism and Sexuality
Dr Luigi Gioia
The VHI is planning a 3-year interdisciplinary research project on Clericalism and Sexuality. The goal is a more adequate description, sufficient to focus attention on appropriate concerns, which is a condition for effective and humane responses and engagements.
Refining Trust: Palestine in Comparative Perspective
Professor Ralf Wüstenberg
This project, co-sponsored by the DAAD/Cambridge Hub and the Europa-University Flensburg, and brings together scholars and practitioners with expertise in different country-specific cases of political reconciliation post -1989 (with a particular focus on the German reunification, but also including the South African transition and the case of Ireland) to discuss key questions on both the conditions for political reconciliation and its perspectives for Palestine.
Methodological, Bioethical and Societal Impasses of Early Detection of Cancer
Dr Gianmarco Contino
The Early Detection Program based at the CRUK/Cambridge Cancer Centre, University of Cambridge, and the Von Hügel Institute (VHI) are hosting an interdisciplinary workshop to explore methodological, bioethical and societal Impasses of early detection of cancer.
Navigating Impasses in Bioethics: End of Life, Disability, and Mental Illness
Dr Lidia Ripamonti, Dr Thana de Campos
This project aims to discuss issues arising from current legislation on medically assisted suicide for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, with a specific focus on mental health. It brings together divergent, often conflicting, perspectives (legal, medical, ethical, anthropological, philosophical, and theological) to re-think key concepts, such as quality of life, dignified death, autonomy/dependency, mental capacity, unbearable suffering, cultural and social attitudes toward disability.
Migration, Religion and Catholic Social Thought
Dr Sara Silvestri, Dr Elif Çetin
This project, funded by the Plater Trust, addresses the following questions: What is the Catholic contribution in the field of migration in the UK? In what ways is Catholic social thought affecting /shaping/ inspiring the work of those involved in services provision for migrants/asylum seekers and in decision making about asylum and migration?
Development as Common Good
Dr Flavio Comim
Contemporary development theories emphasise the importance of increasing 'individual freedoms' without giving enough emphasis to what substantively means to have a good life. These theories, inspired by economics and liberal political philosophy, ignore the importance of common good and human values in shaping social policy and development strategies. The project explores the limitations of current development discourses and puts forward a framework for thinking of common good as a social objective.
