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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 …

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 timeFaculty of Divinity, Monday 23 June 2025Religions and spiritual traditions have long grappled with our temporalised existence: what is time? Is it linear, cyclical, or something else altoge…

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 continues to apply, and application…

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 as a theologian, dissident, …

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 schedule included panels on the val…

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 have seen a turn towards the mate…

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 explore present and future water crises…

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 Institute for the Study of Antisem…

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 January 2025, at the Faculty of D…

From September to November 2024, Maira Guardascione completed an internship with the Cambridge Interfaith Programme. A student in the Faculty of Philosophy & Educational Sciences at Turin University, Maira’s time in Cambridge was supported by the Erasmus+ traineeship scheme. Maira reflected on her experience as the final weeks approached:The Erasmu…

The Fashioning of the Other in Europe’s Constitutional RepertoiresOut 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. Minorities in time and spaceDr…