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.
Trinity Term 2021 Schedule
Thursdays 18.00-19.00 via Zoom
Week 1, 29 April *Please note that this lecture will start at 5pm*
Professor Abigail Green (Oxford), Professor Simon Levis Sullam (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), Professor Jessica Marglin (University of Southern California), and Professor Derek Penslar (Harvard University); ‘Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism’
Week 2, 6 May
Dr Daniel Herskowitz (Oxford) in discussion with Prof. Judith Wolfe (University of St. Andrews), Prof. Elliot R. Wolfson (University of California, Santa Barbara), and Prof. Peter Trawny (University of Wuppertal); Book Launch: ‘Daniel M. Herskowitz’s Heidegger and His Jewish Reception’
Week 3, 13 May
Dr Merav Rosenfeld-Hadad (Cambridge), ‘Accounts of Arab-Jews in Israel’
Week 4, 20 May
Dr Justin Cammy (Smith College), ‘The Life and Destruction of the Vilna Ghetto: Sutzkever and Yiddish Memory Writing’
Week 5, 27 May
Dr Leah Garrett (CUNY), Book Launch: ‘X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two’
Week 6, 3 June
Professor Erich Gruen (Berkeley) and Professor Alison Salvesen (Mansfield) with closing remarks by Professor Martin Goodman (OCHJS), ‘The Septuagint In the Hellenistic World’
Week 7, 10 June
Professor Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa), ‘Partings of the Ways: Exit Ramps and Divorce Papers’
Week 8, 17 June
Professor Alan Silman (Oxford), ‘Matrilineal or Patrilineal Descent: How Modern Genetic Studies have Shone Light on Jewish History’