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Read more at: International Symposium 'The Khidr Dialogues: Leaps of Faith, Religious Encounters and Shared Sacred Landscapes' & Photo Exhibition on Sacred Landscapes
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International Symposium 'The Khidr Dialogues: Leaps of Faith, Religious Encounters and Shared Sacred Landscapes' & Photo Exhibition on Sacred Landscapes

21 April 2021

CIP is delighted to invite you to the international symposium 'The Khiḍr Dialogues: Leaps of Faith, Religious Encounters & Shared Sacred Landscapes ' on 6 May 2021, online from 10:30 to 18:30 BST. During the symposium, we will inaugurate 'Shared Sacred Landscapes', an exhibition of photography. Further information is...


Read more at: What would a more just future look like? Mind Over Chatter Podcast

What would a more just future look like? Mind Over Chatter Podcast

19 April 2021

In this episode of Mind Over Chatter, a Cambridge University Podcast, Professor Esra Özyürek, CIP Academic Director, joins Dr Alexa Hagerty and Dr Natalie Jones to discuss what the future of fairness, justice, and equality should look like, and how their research can help to bring about a fairer society.


Read more at: 'Becoming Muslim': Interview with Professor Esra Özyürek for CAM, the Cambridge Alumni Magazine
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'Becoming Muslim': Interview with Professor Esra Özyürek for CAM, the Cambridge Alumni Magazine

13 April 2021

Why do Germans convert to Islam? How do Muslims become German? And, what are the recent directions of Holocaust education programmes in Germany? In 'Becoming Muslim' , an interview for the Lent Term issue of CAM, the Cambridge Alumni Magazine, Professor Esra Özyürek reflects on her ethnographic research of religion, culture and the politics of identity in contemporary Europe.


Read more at: Introduction to Scriptural Reasoning in German Published

Introduction to Scriptural Reasoning in German Published

2 April 2021

A short German-language introduction to the interfaith practice of Scriptural Reasoning by Cambridge researcher Dr Julia Snyder has now been published. Scriptural Reasoning brings people of different faith traditions together to read scriptures and build understanding.


Read more at: Vacancy: CIP Communications and Programme Manager (Part Time, Fixed Term)
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Vacancy: CIP Communications and Programme Manager (Part Time, Fixed Term)

31 March 2021

Cambridge Interfaith Programme (CIP) seeks an enthusiastic and creative Communications and Programme Manager to join a dynamic team who carry out research and public engagement in the broad area of interreligious relations.


Read more at: CIP Seminar in Inter-religious Relations, Easter Term 2020/21
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CIP Seminar in Inter-religious Relations, Easter Term 2020/21

26 March 2021

CIP Seminar in Inter-religious Relations continues online in the Easter Term of 2020/21, with talks by Professor Ayala Fader, Professor Niloofar Haeri and Professor Jackie Feldman.


Read more at: Cambridge in Your Classroom
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Cambridge in Your Classroom

26 March 2021

Aimed a students aged 14-18, the Cambridge in Your Classroom project features short video lectures by experts from the Faculty of Divinity, who consider some of the big questions of religion, philosophy and ethics.


Read more at: Call for Research Proposals: Armenian-Turkish Relations

Call for Research Proposals: Armenian-Turkish Relations

23 March 2021

Early career researchers (within 4 years of PhD degree) and advanced level PhD candidates are invited to submit proposals for projects on Armenian-Turkish relations with a contemporary focus. The application deadline is 24 May 2021, 5:00pm (GMT).


Read more at: RESEARCH: Professor Esra Özyürek and Dr Ezgi Guner to give a talk for the Religion, Race and Racism Seminar Series

RESEARCH: Professor Esra Özyürek and Dr Ezgi Guner to give a talk for the Religion, Race and Racism Seminar Series

16 March 2021

Professor Esra Özyürek and Dr Ezgi Guner will give a talk on 'Anti-Black Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Multiracial Fantasies of Pax Ottomana in Turkey' for the Seminar Series: Religion, Race and Racism - Transnational Conversations on 22 March 2021.


Read more at: Cambridge Festival 2021 Panel: An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (30 March)
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Cambridge Festival 2021 Panel: An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (30 March)

4 March 2021

Seven researchers, seven images and seven presentations – each seven minutes long… This experimental panel invites the audience to engage with visual research of interfaith relations and shared religious environments by producing collaborative ‘chain poems’ to be used as prompts in the Q&A with the researchers. 'An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words' is organised as part of Cambridge Festival 2021 .


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