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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…

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.Partnering with local football …

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, coordinating & supporting CIP-related…

We are pleased to announce publication of Material Religion 20.5, with proceedings from CIP’s 2023 conference. An online launch event will be held on 21 May at 15:00 BST.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…

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 Faculty will pay for direc…

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 offered at the Overseas fee …

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 summer was Toqueer Quyyam,…

What does the future hold for interfaith relations? What research is needed? What knowledge do researchers and practitioners hold that might benefit each other? And what do policymakers need to know?During Inter Faith Week 2024, the Cambridge Interfaith Programme coordinated a series of cross-sector interviews to explore these questions. Motivated …

CIP Deputy Director Professor Daniel Weiss is in the USA for the 2024 annual joint meeting of the American Academy of Religion & the Society of Biblical Literature, alongside other Cambridge researchers.Among activities on the bill is a panel discussion of Weiss’s monograph: Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence (CUP, 2023).O…