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.
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.
Lectures will be presented in a hybrid format which will be accessible both online (see below) and in person in the Catherine Lewis Lecture Room (refreshments to follow). No need to register if attending in person.
Trinity Term 2025
Thursdays (**unless otherwise stated), 18:00–19:00
Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG
All lectures will be presented in a hybrid format, which will be accessible both online (see below) and in person in the Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre. Refreshments to follow. All are welcome to attend.
Week 1, 1 May
No lecture. Please note that two lectures will take place in Week 4; please see further information below.
Week 2, 8 May
Dr Shlomo Guzmen Carmeli (Bar-Ilan University)
When Exceptions Become the Rule: Ex-Territoriality and the Meron Disaster
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gFOYCh1ISXSlxuJJB2VkMw
Week 3, 15 May
Professor Noah Hacham (Hebrew University)
Restoration: The Communal Institutions of Egyptian Jewry after the Diaspora Revolt
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/l_L-h90cTiO71C49NVnocQ
Week 4, 20 May (Tuesday) CANCELLED
In association with the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society
Professor Avraham Faust (Bar-Ilan University)
The Achaemenid Economic “Revolution”, The Restoration of Temples, and the Return to Zion
Week 4, 22 May
Dr Ilana Wartenberg (Tel Aviv University)
Judeo-Latin in the Hebrew transmission of the Theorica Planetarum as manifest in Ms. Reggio 42 from the Bodleian Library
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zZXYK4gkTOy4kq2PRH3PNA
Week 5, 29 May
Professor Golda Akhiezer (Ariel University)
Beyond Forgery: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on the Hebrew Manuscripts’ Inscriptions of the Abraham Firkovich First Collection
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/-bi_exUkQ4ucX7cKegW3pw
Week 6, 5 June
Professor Gary Rendsburg (Rutgers)
Jews along the Silk Road
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Hx18MmixSbCz22omtVqsrA
Week 7, 12 June
Professor Nicholas de Lange (Cambridge)
Travel Through a Foreign Country: Translating a Modernist Masterpiece
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/59mT7i2cSuKj2yCHD0Ypew
Week 8, 19 June
Dr Keren Fraiman and Dr Dean Bell (Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Chicago)
Judaism in the 21st Century: Key Themes and Emerging Trends
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: