The David Patterson Lectures, named in honour of the Centre’s Founder President, occur weekly during Oxford terms and are open to the public. Please find a list of this term’s lecture titles listed below.
For information on how to register for the lectures online, please follow the links in our Term Programme. To watch a selection of previously recorded David Patterson Lectures, please click here. If you have any queries about the lectures, please contact Ms Priscilla Lange at academic.administrator@ochjs.ac.uk.
Hilary Term 2022 Schedule
Thursdays 18.00-19.00**
Please note that lectures marked with ** will take place online via Zoom
Week 1, 20 January**
Professor Boaz Huss (Ben-Gurion University)
Book launch: Mystifying Kabbalah: Academic Scholarship, National Theology and New Age Spirituality
In order to participate in this lecture, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpf-CqrTopGd34PEdHHq3FhFZrB3s50BQi
Please see the flyer for this lecture here
Week 2, 27 January**
Dr Xiuyuan Dong (Shandong University)
‘Maimonides’ Cosmogony-Prophetology Puzzle Revisited’
In order to participate in this lecture, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqdeqorDgqGtVOTEYZLNKljcTJbyxXBRIj
Week 3, 3 February
Professor Job Y. Jindo (Academy of Jewish Religion)
‘What Is Biblical Monotheism? One God, Two Jews, Three Opinions, and Many More’
Week 4, 10 February
Professor Yaakov Ariel (University of North Carolina)
‘From Communism to Buddhism: the Spiritual and Communal Journeys of Allen Ginsberg’
Week 5, 17 February
Dr Sebastian Musch (Osnabrück University)
‘Dreaming of Stones, Walls, and Mountains – China in German-Jewish Thought’
Week 6, 24 February
Dr Mira Niculescu (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
‘From Insight Meditation to “Jewish Mindfulness”: Understanding Cultural Translation and Religious Transformation in the Light of Cultural Globalization Today’
Week 7, 3 March
Dr Shimon Lev (Tel-Hai Academic College)
‘Gandhi and the Jews – The Jews and Gandhi ‘
Week 8, 10 March
Professor Lionel Obadia (University of Lyon)
‘Black is the New Jew?: The Emerging “Jewitch” Movement, Between Jew Age and Neo-Witchcraft’
ALL ARE WELCOME
Refreshments provided after the lecture