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Cambridge Interfaith Programme

 
  • 24Mar

    Faith, Gender, and the Question of Agency—organised by the Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies.

  • 15Mar

    Opening 23 February, the exhibition of William Blake’s work at the Fitzwilliam Museum promises to “explore Blake’s boundless imagination” in the context of his European contemporaries, and with attention to mysticism and spiritual regeneration. Visiting together, we will bring our diverse knowledges into conversation.

  • 13Mar

    In session two, the Religion and Ecology reading group will discuss Robin Wall Kimmerer’s study, Braiding Sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants (Penguin, 2020).

  • 12Mar

    [Date changed.] Dr Alyson Wharton (University of Lincoln) will discuss the interfaith dimensions of urban architecture in the Ottoman East in the late 19th and early 20th century.

  • 11Mar

    The Cambridge Religious Anarchism Reading Group is exploring the theme “God is King”. On Monday 11 March, the focus is chapter two of Daniel Weiss’s recent monograph, which considers Moses Mendelssohn's position, asking “Who can command violence, and who should obey?”

  • 08Mar

    At the Faculty of Divinity, Hina Khalid and Dr Ankur Barua are hosting a celebration of South Asian music as theology. 

  • 05Mar

    The October 7th attack by Hamas on Israel and the ensuing war in the Gaza Strip compelled many, especially scholars, to take public positions. The constraints of the debate in the German public sphere are specific, emotional, often alienating to everyone not deemed ‘German enough,‘ and paralyzing for peace advocates.Off-University hosts a conversation-format discussion with Esra Özyürek (Cambridge) & Irit Dekel (Indiana). 

  • 29Feb

    The second of three ‘Hierarchies of Racism?’ roundtables organised by the REACH Research Hub (Wolfson College, Cambridge).

  • 26Feb

    CIP is pleased to be partnering with the Faculty of Divinity and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) to invite applications for funded Visiting Fellowships for scholars from the Global South under the theme Religious Boundaries.

  • 22Feb

    Qohelet: A New Reading and a New Seeing

    Professor Menachem Fisch (Tel Aviv University) and Debra Band

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