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.
March 2026
16 March | Cambridge Festival 2026 starts
runs to 2 April – full details on the Festival website (linked below)
16 March | Communities of Research and Practice
Discrimination; Faith and Ecology
17 March | Rabbinic literature reading group
Midrash Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer
18 March | Panel dialogue: One earth, many verses:
Peacebuilding with wisdom and the poetic spirit for a world in rupture
with Cambridge Peace Education Research Group
18 March | Are natural disasters inevitable? Insights from science and religion
Prof Robert White (Faraday Institute) at Emmanuel College
A Cambridge Festival event
21 March | Sultans, syntax, and scripture: exhibition curators' talk
Dr James White (Oxford) at Queens’ College Old Library
A Cambridge Festival event
22 March | The pen and the programme: Islamic/Muslim futures in the age of AI
Dr Yasmin Ismail & Dr Reham Hosny, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
A Cambridge Festival event
23 March | Book talk: Half Jew–Full Life with Dr Georgette Bennett
The unlikely journey of a voluntary Jew from Nazi persecution to the American dream
Prof Esra Özyurek chairs (also available via livestream)
23 March | Flows of flavour: rethinking Muslim foodways beyond borders
Dr Stefan Williamson Fa, Dr Joud Alkorani & sweetmaker Sameh Asami, Corpus Christi College
A Cambridge Festival event
24 March | Nature connection: a Muslim perspective
Dr Davide Pettinato, Cambridge Central Mosque
A Cambridge Festival event
25 March | Deadline for Entangled Otherings 2026
Call for papers: “Palestine as a symbol”
27 & 28 March | Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions
Featuring keynotes from Dr Ankur Barua & Prof Dr Monica Juneja
Faculty of Divinity (registration required)
28 March | An end to war: Creating peace in a turbulent world
Cambridge University Baha’i Society host at Sidney Sussex College
A Cambridge Festival event
28 March | The sound of the Silk Road: Burushaski music and dance from the Himalayas
Musicians and performers from Hunza, supported by EssaNoor Associates. Hughes Hall College
A Cambridge Festival event
April 2026
02 April | Legally coding humans, nature, and technology with Bhumika Billa
Cambridge Union Society
A Cambridge Festival event
22 April | Postgraduate pre-conference for Political Theologies
On the rule of law, constitutions, and the common good
St John’s College. Registration essential
23 April | The story of constitutions: discovering the we in us
An Imagining Sacred Lands public lecture from Prof Wim Voermans
Michaelhouse, Trinity St, Cambridge. Register via Eventbrite.
27 April | Political Theologies masterclass with Laura K Field
Registration required (opening soon)
27 April | Furious minds: The making of the MAGA New Right
An Imagining Sacred Lands public lecture with Laura K Field
Michaelhouse, Trinity St, Cambridge. Register via Eventbrite.
28 April | Research Forum breakfast.
Details sent directly to members.
--Page last updated, 17 March 2026--