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Read more at: Religion, conflict, dialogue - a one-day symposium
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Religion, conflict, dialogue - a one-day symposium

20 June 2023

Last Thursday (June 15, 2023), CIP was pleased to host a one-day student symposium on the theme Religion Conflict Dialogue. Devised by three first-year PhD students with the Cambridge Interfaith Programme's support, the schedule was bursting at the seams with fresh research and creativity. Media and dialogue The opening...


Read more at: "A long and fruitful dialogue": Özyürek and Dekel
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"A long and fruitful dialogue": Özyürek and Dekel

12 June 2023

Responding to questions at her inaugural lecture, Professor Esra Özyürek referred briefly to the work of Dr Irit Dekel (Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington). The two academics are well-acquainted with each other’s work. In recent times, they have begun to document...


Read more at: Congratulating Don Stebbings Prize-winner Hina Khalid
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Congratulating Don Stebbings Prize-winner Hina Khalid

8 June 2023

We are delighted that Hina Khalid, a third-year PhD student and highly-committed researcher in the domain of inter-religious researchers has been recognised by the Faculty of Divinity. Hina is one of three students to be awarded the 2023 Don Stebbings Prize, as recognition of her outstanding contribution to the Faculty...


Read more at: New video: Özyürek inaugural lecture with captions
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New video: Özyürek inaugural lecture with captions

6 June 2023

On 3 May 2023, the Faculty of Divinity hosted the inaugural lecture of Professor Esra Özyürek, Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths and Shared Values and the Academic Director of Cambridge Interfaith Programme. Introducing the lecture, Professor Richard Rex (a historian of the English Reformation) characterised...


Read more at: Congratulating Peter Ochs, 2023 Lucas Prize recipient
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Congratulating Peter Ochs, 2023 Lucas Prize recipient

5 June 2023

Awarded by the University of Tübingen’s Faculty of Protestant Theology, the Leopold Lucas Prize honours the memory of the Jewish rabbi and scholar Dr Leopold Lucas, who died at Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. Professor Peter Ochs has been recognised for his role in the development and dissemination of Scriptural...


Read more at: New videos: sessions from April’s South Asia colloquium
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New videos: sessions from April’s South Asia colloquium

31 May 2023

In April 2023, Dr Ankur Barua and Hina Khalid convened an online series on the topic of Inter-religious relations in South Asia, together with Dr Pranav Prakash (Christ Church, Oxford). Zoom recordings from four sessions are now available to watch again on the Faculty of Divinity YouTube channel. Learn more about each...


Read more at: Opportunity for postdoctoral researchers
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Opportunity for postdoctoral researchers

25 May 2023

Finishing or finished your doctorate? Keen to pursue further research in the domain of inter-religious relations? Inviting expressions of interest The 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...


Read more at: Jewish--Muslim musical encounters in Kentucky and Minnesota
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Jewish--Muslim musical encounters in Kentucky and Minnesota

20 April 2023

Spring 2023 takes musicologist Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz on tour with visits to Centre College (a small Protestant-foundation liberal arts college in Danville, KY) and a two-day residency at Carleton College, Minnesota. Accompanying her are musicians Mostafa Benhmad and Abdallah Hachami, travelling from France and Morocco...


Read more at: New publication: Modern Jewish philosophy and the politics of divine violence
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New publication: Modern Jewish philosophy and the politics of divine violence

18 April 2023

Is commitment to God compatible with modern citizenship? Daniel Weiss provides new readings of four modern Jewish philosophers – Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin – in light of classical rabbinic accounts of God's sovereignty, divine and human violence, and the embodied human being as...


Read more at: New publication: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany
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New publication: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany

4 April 2023

Published on 4 April 2023, Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany is an ethnographic study comparing the intents and consequences of education programmes among Turkish- and Arab-background Muslims living in Germany. The book is Professor Esra Özyürek's third monograph, and the...


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Call for papers: Seeing Muslimness

28 March 2024

An interdisciplinary conference for scholars, researchers, and practitioners, co-convened by Madiha Noman—a PhD student in the Faculty of English and affiliate of the Cambridge Interfaith Research Forum—and Abdul Sabur Kidwai of King’s College London. Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2024.

Event report: Celebrating South Asia’s sonic spaces

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Earlier this month, Hina Khalid and Ankur Barua co-hosted a Mehfil— a “gathering to entertain or praise”, to extend students’ exposure to South Asian soundscapes. The event...

Exploring religion and economic development

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