An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Cambridge Festival Panel, 2021

HadžiMuhamedović, Safet

Abstract

This experimental panel invites the audience to engage with visual research of interfaith relations and shared religious environments by producing collaborative ‘chain poems’ to be used as prompts in the Q&A with the researchers. 'An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words' is organised as part of Cambridge Festival 2021.

Panellists
Dr Marlene Schäfers, University of Cambridge
Dr Reza Masoudi, SOAS University of London
Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović, University of Cambridge
Dr Sami Everett, University of Cambridge
Samuel Tettner, University of Manchester
Professor Tom Selwyn, SOAS University of London

Rituals, language, architecture and everyday landscapes across the world continue to be shaped by dynamic relationships between people of different beliefs. In various forms, interfaith connections are everywhere! Yet, they are also frequently contested and disrupted by political actors. This experimental panel engages some emerging academic questions on interfaith environments through visual research. Each of the six contributors showcases a single photograph from their own research archives and provides a 1,000-words-long explanation of how the image speaks to some aspect of interfaith relations. Before we proceed to their explanation, however, we test the adage that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’. All of the participants in the audience are invited to analyse each image for a minute and write some words of association on the virtual whiteboard. These words form six different ‘chain poems’ on inter-faith relations.

The panel is organised by Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović, Research Associate in Inter-Faith Relations at the University of Cambridge, as part of the project 'Shared Sacred Landscapes: Interfaith Dialogues in Cambridge', supported by the Public Engagement Starter Fund, University of Cambridge. For more information about the project, visit https://www.sharedsacred.com.

Citation

HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2021, March). An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Cambridge Festival Panel, 2021. Presented at Panel: An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Cambridge Festival 2021), Online

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: Panel: An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Cambridge Festival 2021)
• Start Date: Mar 30, 2021
• End Date: Mar 30, 2021
• Acceptance Date: Sep 1, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Apr 26, 2021
• Publication Date: Apr 26, 2021
• Deposit Date: Nov 26, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 27, 2121
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: interfaith relations, visual research, ethnography, image
• Publisher URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSeXSOA-_Ik
• Additional Information: Event Type : Workshop