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Tuesday 14th May 2024
6pm
The Cambridge Union
Toby France
Toby is a second year historian at Corpus Christi. As a Christian he has had the joy of following Jesus for several years now and loves getting to share how God has changed his life with others and how his faith shapes his identity.
Sanjana Trivedi
Sanjana, is a second year History student from Magdalene College and a Hindu student passionate about raising awareness about Hinduism and Hinduphobia, She considers herself a voice for Hindu students and a source of information and comfort.
Dr. Desmond Biddulph
Dr. Desmond Biddulph is President of The Buddhist Society, the longest established Buddhist charity in the nation (Est. 1924), celebrating its centennial this year. He provides leadership to the Buddhist Society as a national provider for the world’s fourth largest faith to a South Asian UK population of more than three million as well as an additional 200,000 Buddhists. He is dedicated in the voluntary sector and has contributed over forty years of service in making known the teachings of Buddhist principles and culture to the general public, government and other faiths and encouraging their practice. He is the author of many Buddhist books, articles and was the editor of The Middle Way.
Gavriel Sacks
Gavriel Sacks is the President of the Cambridge University Jewish Society. He is a first-year at Trinity Hall reading history. His father was a Rabbi growing up, and he comes from a South African religious Modern Orthodox family, and recently chose to spend his gap year learning more about Judaism and its texts. You can mostly find him in the Seeley library wearing his Kippah (a skullcap), which occasionally has the glorious Spurs cockerel as a design.
Opinderjit Takhar
Dr Opinderjit Kaur Takhar MBE is Associate Professor and Director of the multi award winning Centre for Sikh and Panjabi Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. In January 2022, she was elected as President of ‘Theology and Religious Studies UK’ (TRS-UK), as its first ever President of colour. Opinderjit was awarded the MBE in 2018 for her services to Higher Education and to the Sikh and Panjabi community. More recently, she was honoured as one of 75 women of Indian heritage to have a global impact of her work by the Deputy British High Commissioner to India to mark 75 years of Indian Independence. Opinderjit’s projects include raising awareness of healthy lifestyles and organ donation in faith communities. She has published numerous articles on Sikhs and Panjabis and is consultant to the BBC on Sikhi and the Sikhs.
Dr. Iman Dawood
Iman Dawood is currently a Postdoctoral Research and Outreach Associate at the Centre for Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, where she is researching new trends and trajectories in Islamic activism in the UK. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her doctoral research examined the emergence, evolution, and impact of the Salafi movement in the UK.
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