Videos

Below you will find a selection of videos showcasing the diverse work of researchers connected with the Cambridge Interfaith Programme.

We host activities and events that run online or hybrid and make recordings available where possible. A larger back-catalogue can be found in the Faculty of Divinity YouTube channel where there are dedicated playlists featuring our work and activities.

2026

January 2026: Professor Abdulla Galadari (Khalifa University) and Professor Daniel Weiss (Cambridge) discuss how the Qur‘an and the Gospel of John present Christ’s origins. Event hosted and recorded by Oxford Interfaith Forum.

2025

November 2025: Cambridge researchers Peach Hoyle, Reem Fatthelbab and Dr Stefan Fa Williamson offered bitesize talks on faith, food and community as part of UK Inter Faith Week. 

Dr Emily Qureshi-Hurst is a Philosopher of Religion and Science and teaches Theology and Natural Science and related topics in the Faculty of Divinity. Her book Decoding the Cosmos builds on lectures given in Cambridge and in her previous role at Oxford. What better way to celebrate its publication than a joint event with the Oxford Interfaith Forum? Featuring responses from DPhil candidate Allan Furic and Professor Mark Harris. 

October 2025: Prof Esra Özyürek hosts Sahar Francis (human rights lawyer) and the Rev Ashraf Tannous (pastor in Beit Sahour and Bethlehem) to discuss contemporary challenges facing Palestinian Christians. With the Cambridge Centre for Palestine Studies.

May 2025: Editors Dr Anastasia Badder and Dr Lea Taragin Zeller celebrate publication of a special issue of Material Religion, based on their 2023 Cambridge conference.

Dr habil Claire Gallien introduces her new study of Orientalism and how the Islamicate Canon was shaped in the 17th and 18th centuries. With Dr Majid Daneshgar (Kyoto University, Japan) and Dr Michele Petrone (Napoli L’Orientale).

February 2025: In a guest lecture, Dr Peter Mandaville (George Mason University) addresses the new geopolitics of faith—how states use religion in foreign policy.

2024

November 2024: Professor Esra Özyürek launches the Interfaith Futures series, with short cross-sector conversations about what the future holds for research and practice. Recorded in and around UK Inter Faith Week, the conversations have a UK focus.

June 2024: Dr Anna Lefteratou is joined by Professor George van Kooten (Cambridge), Dr Daniel Weiss (Cambridge), Dr Emma Greensmith (Oxford) and Dr Aaron Pelttari (Edinburgh) to probe the significance and resonance of her detailed reexamination of the so-called Homeric Centos.

May 2024: Sir David Khalili delivers a guest lecture on The Art of Peace. This evening event followed a day of roundtables exploring peacebuilding and philanthropy, with the Cambridge Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development.

2023

September 2023: Professor Esra Özyürek and Dr Daniel Weiss discuss Weiss’s study of modern Jewish philosophy and divine violence. The book investigates the ethics of four different Jewish thinkers living in 19th and 20th-cetury Europe. At the Cambridge Alumni Festival.

June 2023: Dr Georgette Bennett and Jerry White discuss their coauthored book, Religicide. Their goal is to push for recognition of anti-religious violence as a specific crime within international law and so address a gap impacting vulnerable minorities.

May 2023: Professor Esra Özyürek reworks the format of an inaugural lecture, inviting Prof Sarah Colvin (Cambridge), Prof David Feldman (Birkbeck UoL), and Dr Michael Banner (Cambridge) to respond to her book, Subcontractors of Guilt. 

2022

September 2022: CIP academic director Prof Esra Özyürek leads an anthropologists’ trialogue with Dr Tim Jenkins (Cambridge) & Prof Michal Kravel-Tovi (Tel Aviv).