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Faith and the City

Faith and the City Logo Faith and the City is a series of thought provoking and challenging discussions and dialogues that are led by speakers who are authorities and critiques in the broad field of cohesion, identity, faith, value and politics. This is in partnership with Bradford District Faiths Forum.


Bradford is a richly diverse City and District and this lecture series looks to celebrate, highlight and raise awareness of the multi-faith make up of Bradford and support cohesion by bringing international, national, regional and local speakers to the District.

For forthcoming events visit our News and Events Section.


Past speakers include;

 Speaker Title
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown 'Reclaiming Faith from Religion and Politics'
Imtaz Khaliq, MBE, FRSA 'Creative Leadership'
Peter Oborne 'The Troubled Relationship between the Coalition Government and British Islam'
Fatima Bhutto 'Songs of Blood and Sword'
Indarjit Singh 'The Relevance of Sikhism Today'
William Dalrmple 'An Audience with William Dalrymple'
Canon Chris Chivers and Anjum Anwar MBE 'Clash of Civilisations or chance to co-operate?'
Dr Ed Kessler 'State of Play in Jewish-Muslims Relations'
Professor Ludi Simpson 'Statistics of Diversity in Britain and Bradford - Are we Sleepwalking to Segregation?'
Mona Siddiqui 'Islam and Citizenship - a Theological Debate?'


We are constantly looking for interesting speakers. If you would like to suggest a speaker please email faithandthecity@bradford.ac.uk

International and EU Students

With 22% of our students joining us from over 110 different countries, we are used to giving newcomers to Bradford a very warm welcome.

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