Events this month
What’s coming up this month?
This page offers a rundown of events and activities, updated approximately once per month. This listing includes some crossposted events from other parts of the University. Where further information is not available on this website, links are provided below.
For additional information, to look further ahead, or investigate past events, head to the main Event listings page.
February 2026
Every Tuesday (until 17 March):
New Rabbinic literature reading groups
14:00 at the Faculty of Divinity
10 February | IRR seminar: Selassie is the chaplain
UK Armed Forces’ Rastafari and chaplaincy provision
Dr Joseph Powell, University of Cambridge
11 February | Book talk: Earthmoving—
Extractivism, war, and visuality in Northern Kurdistan
With Prof Eray Çayli (Hamburg)
11 February | Exhibition opening: Maimonides from Scratch
at Manchester Jewish Museum until June
17 February | Department of Sociology book launch:
Ece Temelkuran, Nation of Strangers: Building home in the 21st century
Discussant: Burhan Sönmez; co-hosts: Tobias Müller (CRASSH) & Zeina Al-Azmeh (Department of Sociology)
17 February | Seminar: Wisdom regarding her body
The Meneket Rivkah and an ethics of female embodiment
Dr Ranana Dine, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago
17 February | Lunar New Year reception
Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology hosts an afternoon social at the Faculty of Divinity
23 February | Indian Religions Research seminar
Knowing reality, loving the Lord: thought, feeling, and non-duality
in the theology of Madhusudana Sarasvati (c1540–1640)
Namrata Narula (Cambridge)
24 February | IRR seminar: Cowboys and Catholic
Image and identity in US “trad” Catholicism
Dr Tom Ovens, University of St Andrews
March 2026
5 March | Bennett lecture: The Qur’an and Arabian Jews at the beginning of Islam
Pembroke College, Cambridge
10 March | IRR seminar with CenSAMM | Many Faces of Christianism + The Baton and the Cross
Trinity College
11 March | Yerushah lecture 2026:
Embodying change: Jewish women treading new pathways
Rabbi Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz and Jen Taylor-Friedman
--Page last updated, 10 February 2026--