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.
Hilary Term 2023
Week 1, 19 January
Dr Fitzroy Morrissey (All Souls), ‘Between Judaism and Islam: Samuel Miklos Stern and 20th-century Jewish Orientalism’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEldO6gpzojH9CqPFR2c9ZdsZzG6B3Z1574
Please see the poster for this lecture here.
Week 2, 26 January
Dr Emily Rose, ‘The Expulsion of Jews from England (1290): It is Not What You Think’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpdu-tpjstH9bcLwpArWwR1ns1Euo_Nwa0
Please see the poster for this lecture here.
Week 3, 2 February
Dr Judith Weiss (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), ‘Circle within a Circle: The Sphericity of the Sefirot in Thirteenth Century Kabbalah’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcufuuhrjMsHNy3CFhvajxE3W2QmudONA7r
Please see the poster for this lecture here.
Week 4, 9 February
Professor Susanne Marten-Finnis (University of Portsmouth/University of Bremen), ‘One Hundred Years of Modern Jewish Art Criticism in Berlin. Rachel Wischnitzer – El Lissitzky – Ilya Ehrenburg’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpcO6hqzItG9LkwHlYajwN91kYecGDuy8c
Please see the poster for this lecture here.
Week 5, 16 February
Professor Tzahi Weiss (The Open University of Israel), ‘The Emergence of the Sefirotic Literature’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEldOCsrjIpGN311P2xVqFwUQ-IpSNYdkkl
Please see the poster for this lecture here.
Week 6, 23 February
Professor David Aberbach (McGill University), ‘Mendele’s Natural History (Toldet HaTeva) and the Ecology of Jewish Nationalism’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYocuisqz4pGdwILqCR48xU8jueX0kOQQcg
Please see the poster for this lecture here.
Week 7, 2 March
Professor Oded Lipschits (Tel Aviv University), ‘New Light on Jerusalem and its Surroundings during the Reign of King Manasseh’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuduygqj8iHtKU7pq6MFdxr9p6mN_FdDLZ
Please see the poster for this lecture here.
Week 8, 9 March
No lecture this week.