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.
Michaelmas Term 2021 Schedule
Thursdays 18.00-19.00
Thursdays 6.00-7.00 pm (UK time)
Clarendon Institute Building, Walton Street (unless otherwise stated)
Week 1, 14 October **ONLINE LECTURE**
Dr Kerem Tinaz (Koç University); Dr Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano (University of Pennsylvania); in conversation with Professor Laurent Mignon (Oxford)
‘Book Launch: Sephardic Trajectories’
In order to register for this lecture, please click on the link and https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkce-ppzguGdHwjFJu70u47E6BeFxlYRDL
Please see the poster for this lecture here
Week 2, 21 October
Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, ‘More on Christian Hebraism in Medieval England: New Evidence from a Manuscript from John Selden’s Collection’
Please see the poster for this lecture here
Week 3, 28 October **Please note that this lecture will take place simultaneously in ORIEL COLLEGE and ONLINE**
Professor Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa), ‘Partings of the Ways: Exit ramps and Divorce papers’
Please see the poster for the Speakers Lecture Series here
Week 4, 4 November
Dr Lucy Pick (University of Chicago), ‘Encounter in Toledo? Maimonides, Samuel ibn Tibbon, and Michael Scot’
Please see the poster for this lecture here
Week 5, 11 November
Dr Daniel Waller (Oriel), ‘The Art of Magical Narrative: Persuasive Storytelling in Jewish Aramaic Spell Texts from Late Antique Babylonia’
Please see the poster for this lecture here
Week 6, 18 November
Dr Adam Shear (University of Pittsburgh), ‘Medieval Hebrew Books: The View from the Sixteenth-Century Printshop’
Please see the poster for this lecture here
Week 7, 25 November
Dr Jeremiah Coogan (Keble), ‘The Anxieties of Shared Books in Late Ancient Palestine’
Please see the poster for this lecture here
Week 8, 2 December
No lecture this week. See information under ALFRED LEHMANN MEMORIAL LECTURE