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Perspectives

Perspectives is the Woolf Institute magazine published twice a year.

Current edition: Translation and Interpretation

Taking the anniversary of the King James Version as our inspiration, we have selected the subject of translation and interpretation as our theme for this issue of Perspectives. Highlights of this edition include Mike Levy, a recent CMJR graduate, talking to the Director of the Stephen Spender Trust about how translating poetry can help to bring greater understanding and tolerance; our Jerusalem Trust Fellow AJ Levine, discussing life as a Yankee Jewish Feminist teaching New Testament Studies in the buckle of the Bible Belt and Simon Schama on religion, history and his new appointment as the "History Tzar" by the Coalition Government.

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Marginalised Minorities

Discussions at the Institute over the past six months have focused on Marginalised Minorities against the backdrop of our study of relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims. With our stream of international visiting fellows, student exchanges and collaborations within the academy, we are sensitive to developments in policy and other symptoms of change in relations between and treatment of faith groups, nationally and internationally. Yet the theme has also attracted wider public attention of late, not least during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Scotland and England, in the many column inches deconstructing what David Cameron's plans for a Big Society really mean for communities, and in Angela Merkel's admission of the "utter failure of multiculturalism in Germany".

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Faith and Reason

As we recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of our work against the backdrop of the 800th anniversary of the University of Cambridge, the theme of this issue arose as from our discussion of the place of faith and reason in education. It is part of the quest to respond effectively to the needs of interfaith relations in a wider, often secular society.

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Writing for Perspectives

^{Perspectives features news and developments at the Institute, including student and alumni updates, and academic articles from a range of highly respected contributors. Due to limitations of space we can only print a list of suggested further reading for our academic articles but if you are interested in a particular area we are usually able to issue full academic bibliographies on request.}

Editorial Board

Esther Haworth, Ed Kessler: Editors
Alice Thompson, Editorial Assistant
Emma Harris, Sub Editor
Trisha Kessler, Culture
Lars Fischer, Features

Submissions

We welcome readers' responses and contributions. If you wish your material to be considered for publication, please email it to perspectives@woolf.cam.ac.uk and identify it 'for publication'. Images should be supplied as 300 dpi jpgs, at least A5 size (148 x 210 mm). We also welcome audio and audio-visual material for Perspectives online. Files can be emailed, uploaded to an ftp site (please provide details) or burned on to a CD.