School of Social and Political Science

Interreligious Encounters & Creative Practice: Symposium & Exhibition

Exhibition
19 January - 19 February 2026
09:00 - 17:00
Varies (Please see description)
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Interreligious Encounters & Creative Practice is an interdisciplinary event exploring how creative practices shape, challenge, and reimagine encounters and forms of coexistence between different faiths. Open to both academic audiences and wider communities, the event invites contributors to reflect on the potential of creative media to interrogate dominant models of religious difference and to offer new perspectives on the lived realities of interreligious interaction, particularly in sacred and contested spaces.

  • A symposium
    19–21 January 2026
    Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh
    10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
  • An exhibition of creative practice outputs
    19th January- 19th February 2026
    Chaplaincy Centre, University of Edinburgh
    1 Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AL

This event is organised by the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, Religions for Peace UK, and the University of Edinburgh (Social Anthropology, Religion & Public Life Research Cluster & Alwaleed Centre) and generously funded by Religions for Peace UK and the Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, University of Edinburgh.

Additional information and registration details are available here:

https://llc.ed.ac.uk/centre-for-the-study-of-islam-in-the-contemporary-world/international-exhibition-interreligious

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/events/item/religious-encounters/