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Read more at: Interactive: Interfaith at the Cambridge Festival
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Interactive: Interfaith at the Cambridge Festival

17 March 2025

The 2025 Cambridge Festival opens this Wednesday (19 March) offering a mix of online, on-demand and in-person events covering all aspects of the world-leading research happening at Cambridge. Born in 2021 as the Festival of Ideas joined forces with Cambridge Science Festival, this is a chance to meet researchers and...


Read more at: Interfaith under scrutiny: a research–practice encounter
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Interfaith under scrutiny: a research–practice encounter

12 March 2025

Since September, CIP postdoc Dr Anastasia Badder has been spending a day-a-week working with the Faith & Belief Forum, a national NGO. The goal is to identify synergies, test scope for research collaborations, and (when possible) observe current interfaith practice “in the wild”. Asked to take two steps back and...


Read more at: Vacancy: Project Coordinator

Vacancy: Project Coordinator

12 March 2025

The Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology is seeking a part-time Project Coordinator to support the day-to-day running of this new initiative. Based in the Faculty of Divinity the Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology's mission is to facilitate global and cross-cultural dialogues on Chinese theology and serve as an...


Read more at: New appointment for Dr Marietta van der Tol
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New appointment for Dr Marietta van der Tol

12 March 2025

Dr Marietta van der Tol to take up the Landecker Lectureship at the Faculty of Divinity The Alfred Landecker Foundation has awarded Dr Marietta van der Tol (Trinity College) one of its prestigious Landecker Lectureships, carrying €600,000 in funding for the five-year project “Imagining Sacred Lands: the ‘Russian World’, ‘...


Read more at: CfP: Temporality and religion
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CfP: Temporality and religion

10 March 2025

The organisers of the 2025 CIRF Student Symposium are pleased to publish the call for papers. Call for papers: Temporality and religion: bound and unbound in time Faculty of Divinity, Monday 23 June 2025 Religions and spiritual traditions have long grappled with our temporalised existence: what is time? Is it linear...


Read more at: Funding: Pump Priming for Knowledge Exchange
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Funding: Pump Priming for Knowledge Exchange

3 March 2025

The Cambridge Interfaith Knowledge Hub is pleased to announce a call for applications for Pump Priming funding. Grants of up to £1000 are available to support collaborations between Cambridge academics and external stakeholders. Update: This call has now moved to a rolling deadline. The spending deadline of 15 July...


Read more at: Event report: Reading signs with Tomáš Halík
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Event report: Reading signs with Tomáš Halík

28 February 2025

Last December, the Cambridge Interfaith Programme hosted Tomáš Halík: A Cambridge Conference with the generous support of the Sekyra Foundation. Lead organiser and Halík specialist Aden Cotterill reflects: “The event was a resounding success, offering a rare opportunity to critically engage with and celebrate Halík’s work...


Read more at: Award: Casting new values to bridge hearts & minds
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Award: Casting new values to bridge hearts & minds

28 February 2025

Congratulations are due to Dr Anastasia Badder, whose collaboration with Dr Nikolai Kazantsev (IfM) won a competition for interdisciplinary research proposals. Earlier this month, Anastasia and Nikolai participated in a University of Cambridge Bridging STEM and AHSS Hearts & Mind event. Hosted at the West Hub, the...


Read more at: Event report: Food + Faith
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Event report: Food + Faith

17 February 2025

On February 11, responding to emergent interests amongst Cambridge Interfaith Research Forum members, Dr Anastasia Badder, Dr Stefan Fa, and Prof Jörg Haustein welcomed Professor Heather Sharkey (University of Pennsylvania) to kick off an exploratory discussion around faith & food. In recent decades, the humanities...


Read more at: Event report: Cabinet of Crisis
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Event report: Cabinet of Crisis

4 February 2025

On 19 January, in partnership with the Faith & Belief Forum and in the lead up to the annual Interfaith Youth Summit co-hosted with the LSE Faith Centre, Dr Anastasia Badder (CIP) and Lauryn Duncan-Rouse (F&BF) convened the workshop Cambridge without Water. Held at Michaelhouse, this interactive event aimed to...


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Profile: Religious studies at the 2025 Alumni Festival

9 July 2025

Attending the Cambridge Alumni Festival this September? Our team has plenty of options lined up— On Friday 26 September we’re offering a rolling programme of workshops...

Event report: Whose knowledge is it?

9 July 2025

A student-led decolonisation conference On Tuesday 17 June 2025, the Faculty of Education hosted Whose Knowledge Is It? – a student-led decolonisation conference organised by...

Call for papers: Translating Maimonides

8 July 2025

Dr Anastasia Badder has teamed up with academics in Southampton, London & Cambridge to host this year’s virtual conference with the European Association of Jewish Studies. The conference centres around the theme “Translating Maimonides” and the call draws attention to Maimonides’ resonance among diverse religious and non-religious communities.