Events

What was the shape of interfaith encounters between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries in South Asia? Dr Ankur Barua & Dr Anindya Purakayastha co-host an exploratory online conversation.

How does linguistic & cognitive diversity affect human ability to conceptualise and represent God?

An Alumni Festival workshop with the God, Language and Diversity team. Booking essential.

What was it like to live as a medieval Nepo Baby? 

An interactive Alumni Festival workshop with the Genizah Research team.

Join PhD students Peach and Reem to learn about their work on food, faith and community in Cambridge and beyond.

An interactive Alumni Festival workshop, with lunch.

Can you identify a composer’s religious affiliation based on what you hear?

An Alumni Festival session with Dr Ankur Barua.

Most Christians today do not want to be anti-Jewish, but some still accidentally make anti-Jewish remarks from time to time.

Learn more and think over how to avoid common pitfalls at this interactive Alumni Festival session with academics involved in training clergy.

As nations, communities and individuals, how can we discontinue our familiar high-emitting lifestyles? Could attention to the seven virtues and religious principles of restraint help?

Prof Julian Allwood (Engineering) and Prof Andrew Davison (Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford) discuss, drawing on their forthcoming book.

A US–Europe comparative perspective:

The US elections have thrown into sharp relief that Far Right movements are domestic, as well as transnational and global players. How are these movements beginning to transform the world? Dr Marietta van der Tol presents.

Official launch event: All are welcome for this afternoon of talks & lectures, including the Centre’s inaugural lecture: Alexander Chow on Worlding Chinese Christianity. Followed by a celebratory drinks reception. Advance registration advised.

The wind blows where it wishes, and each bears its proper form (像): exploring theological possibility of “re-denominization” in Chinese Christianity today—a CCCT event with guest speaker Prof Xutong Qu (Tsinghua University China)