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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...


Read more at: Call for papers: Entangled Otherings 2025
NEWS: Entangled and Disentangled Otherings project awarded DAAD-Cambridge funding

Call for papers: Entangled Otherings 2025

31 January 2025

Entangled Otherings explores the complicated relationships between antisemitism, islamophobia, and other kinds of racism and discrimination. This multi-year project is a collaboration between the Cambridge Interfaith Programme, the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University in Berlin, Birkbeck...


Read more at: Event report: Exploring a modern-day scripture
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Event report: Exploring a modern-day scripture

27 January 2025

Earlier this month, the Faculty of Divinity hosted a one-day symposium to explore a highly contemporary scripture: the Satsaṅga Dīkṣā, authored in the opening months of 2020. Tilak Parekh, a co-convenor and member of the Cambridge Interfaith Research Forum, reports: The Satsaṅga Dīkṣā Symposium was held on Friday, 17...


Read more at: New book: Constitutional Intolerance
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New book: Constitutional Intolerance

16 January 2025

The Fashioning of the Other in Europe’s Constitutional Repertoires Out this month from Cambridge University Press, Constitutional Intolerance draws examples from France, the Netherlands, Hungary and Poland to illustrate the author’s key point: vulnerability towards intolerance is inscribed in the structures of the law...


Read more at: Kicking off with Cambridge FC
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Kicking off with Cambridge FC

10 January 2025

As propagators of imaginative collaborations, the Cambridge Interfaith team are always curious to hear about new cross-sector conversations. We are therefore delighted to hear about the latest project from Dr Joseph Powell, a British Academy Research Fellow and active member of the Cambridge Interfaith Research Forum...


Read more at: Job opportunity: CIP Administrator (part time)
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Job opportunity: CIP Administrator (part time)

3 January 2025

The Cambridge Interfaith Programme wishes to appoint an agile, organised, and efficient Programme Administrator with excellent interpersonal skills. The duties of this varied role will include maintaining CIP's records including partnership and research databases, serving as first-point-of-contact for enquiries...


Read more at: Special issue: Materiality of Interreligious Encounters
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Special issue: Materiality of Interreligious Encounters

19 December 2024

We are pleased to announce publication of Material Religion 20.5, with proceedings from CIP’s 2023 conference. CIP hosted Materiality and the Future of Inter-Religious Encounters in September 2023. The two-day cross-disciplinary conference was convened by Dr Anastasia Badder (Cambridge) and Dr Lea Taragin-Zeller (HUJI)...


Read more at: Opportunity: ODA Visiting Scholar
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Opportunity: ODA Visiting Scholar

18 December 2024

Would your research benefit from time in Cambridge? The Faculty of Divinity invites applications from scholars from developing countries for the next academic year. Eligibility is determined with reference to the list of ODA recipients. Visits will be for a term (two to three months) during the academic year 2025–2026. The...


Read more at: PhD Funding: Islamic Studies
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PhD Funding: Islamic Studies

17 December 2024

The Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge invites applications for two fully-funded doctoral awards in Islamic Studies for candidates wishing to commence research from 1 October 2025. These opportunities are made possible by the generosity of the Hartwell and Sheikh Zayed Funds. The Hartwell Studentship is...


Read more at: Reflection: Footsteps in Cambridge
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Reflection: Footsteps in Cambridge

11 December 2024

The opportunity to join a Summer School with the Cambridge Interfaith Programme is limited by capacity as well as other considerations. As a result, we ask potential participants to tell us a little about themselves and their interests, and what they hope to do subsequently. Among those who joined our joint programme this...


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Art for a Better World on show in Cambridge

26 March 2025

How can academics and artists collaborate for positive social change? That was the question behind Art for a Better World, an exhibition translating research about pressing...

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...

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...