16 Mar 2021
RESEARCH: Professor Esra Özyürek and Dr Ezgi Guner to give a talk for the Religion, Race and Racism Seminar Series
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. Their talk is part of a panel part of a panel on 'The Crescent, Colour and Capitalism: Migration and Int…
4 Mar 2021
Cambridge Festival 2021 Panel: An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (30 March)
2:00pm-3:30pm on Tuesday 30 MarchBook your free ticket here. 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&…
3 Mar 2021
Call for Applications: Academic Summer School in Inter-Faith Relations, University of Cambridge (9-20 August 2021)
Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme (CIP), University of Cambridge, invites applications for the Academic Summer School in Inter-Faith Relations, to be delivered online from 9 to 20 August 2021.For further details and application instructions, please visit https://www.interfaith.cam.ac.uk/cip-summer-school-2021.An early registration discount of 20%is a…
19 Feb 2021
RESEARCH: New CIP YouTube Playlist & Research Seminar in Inter-Religious Relations Now Available Online
Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović: 'Spatio-temporal proximities: Bosnian Dinaric karst after unhoming ruptures'Dr Justin Meggitt: 'Starting from a different place: radical dissent and the reception of Islam among early Quakers and Unitarians'
3 Feb 2021
RESEARCH: Book now to attend CIP's Research Seminar in Inter-religious Relations in February 2021
For Lent term 2021, we are continuing the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme (CIP) Research Seminar series online. Chaired by Dr Giles Waller, these 40 minute talks will explore a wide range of inter-faith topics from from multi-disciplinary perspectives. There will be an opportunity for attendees to ask questions after each talk.Join us by registerin…
25 Jan 2021
RESEARCH: Indian Religions Research Seminar: 'Borderlines Across “Hindu” and “Non-Hindu” Worlds' (Lent 2021)
The Indian Religions Research Seminar in the Faculty of Divinity brings you an exciting lineup of speakers in the Lent Term. The framing theme for the talks will be 'Borderlines Across “Hindu” and “Non-Hindu” Worlds'. To access these events, follow the provided Zoom links. January 25, 2.15–4.15 pm (GMT)Dr Mou Banerjee, University of Wisconsin–Madis…
29 Dec 2020
RESEARCH: Indian Religions / Religious Studies Seminar, Lent Term 2020-21
This Research Seminar subdivides into termly seminars for specialists in Islam, Judaism, and the religious traditions of India. Speakers may have premodern or contemporary interests, and may present papers on the basis of a very wide range of intellectual interests and disciplinary traditions. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
FACULTY OF DIVINITYIndian Reli…
6 Nov 2020
New PhD Studentship: Making British Islam Across Generations
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD studentship for Making British Islam Across Generations (Faculty of Divinity - Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative)In January 2021, applications were invited for an AHRC CDA doctoral studentship offered by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, to start in the October or…
22 Oct 2020
Social Isolation in Bosnia, Xenia Series talk
On 17 September 2020, Dr Safet HažiMuhamedović, CIP Research Associate in Inter-Faith Relations, gave the inaugural talk for the Xenia Series: Seminars in Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage. This is not another academic conversation about the coronavirus, yet it may as well start from the utter disorientation experienced by some of us a…
7 Oct 2020
Upcoming online lecture: ‘Scripture and Violence: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Perspectives’
The 2020 Annual Beach Lecture at Newbold College will be delivered this year by three researchers from the Divinity Faculty’s Cambridge Inter-faith Programme: Julia Snyder, Daniel Weiss, and Omar Shaukat. The talk will focus on the ‘Scripture and Violence’ project currently based at CIP, which is also the subject of a recent book from Routledge.The…
15 Sep 2020
RESEARCH: Book now to attend CIP's Webinars in October & November 2020
CIP Research Seminars go online with talks by Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović, Dr Jörg Haustein and Dr Justin Meggitt CIP Research Seminars normally take place in the Faculty of Divinity on Friday afternoons with tea and cake, but this term we will be going online (so remember to bring your own tea and cake!). Chaired by Dr Giles Waller, these 40 minute …
1 Sep 2020
NEWS: Press Release: Scripture and Violence book out today
Scripture and Violence, edited by Dr Julia Snyder and Dr Daniel H. Weiss, is now out and available at a bookseller near you.PRESS RELEASE:Scriptures rarely a significant motivating factor behind violence, say researchersActive engagement with ‘difficult’ passages in Qur’an and Bible could help generate creative solutions to present-day problems, ne…
15 Jul 2020
RESEARCH: Julian Göpffarth and Esra Özyürek on Muslim Public Intellectuals in the German Far Right
See the recent article by Julian Göpffarth and Professor Esra Özyürek, 'Spiritualizing Reason, Rationalizing Spirit: Muslim Public Intellectuals in the German Far Right'. 'As these intellectuals combine the tropes of German nationhood and European civilisation, the far right builds connections with the growing Muslim demographic in Germany', note G…
15 Jul 2020
NEWS: Professor Esra Özyürek Interviewed on Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia, which featured in the cityscape of Istanbul as a church, a mosque and a museum, has been 'reverted' to a mosque by presidential decree on 10 July 2020. Professor Esra Özyürek, in an interview for a Religion Media Centre article, considers the building’s international significance and the timing of the decision.
15 Jul 2020
NEWS: Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage Goes Online with Success
CIP Research Associate, Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović, has convened with his SOAS colleagues the first online summer school in Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage.The coronavirus lockdown raised various questions for the team organising the 2020 SOAS Summer School in Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage. Previous courses relied on …