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Over three days in June, the Second Parliamentary Conference in Interfaith Dialogue convened in Rome. Three scholars from the Cambridge Interfaith Research Forum attended: Dr Ayesha Ulhaq [AU], whose newly-minted PhD documents the emotional geography of British Muslim women; Dr Marietta van der Tol [MvdT], whose latest book documents intolerance in…

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. Building on the success of last year’s series, we’ve planned for refreshments and the chance to stay and chat with researchers after each session. Options include:God, midrash and li…

A student-led decolonisation conferenceOn Tuesday 17 June 2025, the Faculty of Education hosted Whose Knowledge Is It? – a student-led decolonisation conference organised by a group of postgraduate researchers committed to interrogating knowledge hierarchies and colonial legacies within academic institutions.Maryam Bham, PhD candidate and Cambridge…

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.From …

Across three panels on May 2 2025, speakers explored various dynamics of the “inter” on the intricately “inter-religious” landscapes of South Asia in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.This hybrid symposium was co-convened by Dr Soumen Mukherjee (Smuts Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre of South Asian Studies), Dr Ankur Barua and Dr Hina Khalid…

Knowledge exchange with Footsteps BCF & friendsOn 30 April 2025, the Cambridge Interfaith Programme team brought together a combination of guests and interested scholars to consider the broad topic of faith in climate action. The following report was prepared by Noah Rouse, a Faculty of Divinity graduate and alumnus member of Cambridge Interfaith R…

Navigating complex discourse:Cambridge insights on defining Islamophobia in 2025In a May 20 seminar at the University of Cambridge, scholars, practitioners, and students convened to delve into the complexities surrounding Islamophobia, antisemitism, and their intersections with broader societal frameworks. The session, rich with insights and debate…

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 spend nine months identifying synergies, testing scope for research collaborations, and (when possible) observing current interfaith practice “in the wild”.Reflecting on the second quarter, Anastasia writes: As in my …

Finishing or finished your doctorate? Keen to pursue further research in the domain of inter-religious relations?Inviting expressions of interestThe Faculty of Divinity is inviting expressions of interest from recently completed or final stage doctoral students whom the Faculty might support in this year's round of applications for British Academy …

Austrian novelist Eva Menasse has written the foreword to a new German edition of Esra Özyürek’s Subcontractors of Guilt.As publishers Klett Cotta ready a series of events in the German-speaking world, we offer an English summary of Menasse’s remarks—courtesy of Cambridge MPhil student Valentin Herdeg.Can Muslims become part of “the West”? If so, h…

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 social challenges into expressive art showing in Cambridge for the next two weeks.The work was initiated by two researchers from the Open University as part of a project entitle…

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 thought-leaders working in pionee…

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 consider the successes and challenges…

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 interface between Western and East…

Dr Marietta van der Tol to take up the Landecker Lectureship at the Faculty of DivinityThe 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’, ‘Hungarian World’, and ‘Holy …