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 2023
Week 1, 27 April
No lecture this week. See The Fourth Alfred Lehmann Memorial Lecture.
Week 2, 4 May
Dr Norman Solomon (OCHJS), ‘Pre-Launch Talk: Making Sense of “God”: What God-Talk Means and Does’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0odu6vqDorHdbDFaE9EBqGeSNZddSl1GqW
Please see the poster for this lecture here.
Week 3, 11 May
Dr Yaacov Falkov (Tel Aviv), ‘“I’m Being Punished Despite My Complete Innocence!”: Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) Meets Holocaust Refugees from the German-Occupied Part of Poland, 1939-1941’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtdOyhqz4oGNw0d0ZIPt_8I3KUChSckKij
Please see the poster for this lecture here.
Week 4, 18 May
Dr Harald Samuel (OCHJS), ‘Epigraphic Hebrew “Finds”—and the Abuse of Historical Linguistics in Their Decipherment’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpceChpjguHdaQi4TYRU2YaZjQEmRS1vEa
Please see the poster for this lecture here.
Week 5, 25 May
Professor Jose Martinez Delgado (University of Granada), ‘A Newly Discovered Autograph of Maimonides: A Judaeo-Arabic Glossary with Judaeo-Romance Glosses (TS NS 163.57)’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAuceqtrj8qE9FIwf0s31frHofrTU5xwo4K
Please see the poster for this lecture here.
Week 6, 1 June
Ms Alicia Vergara Murillo (OCHJS), ‘Determining belonging: The State of Israel and the Question of Emerging Jewish Communities’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpcu6opz4iHNOBMR5T7LOmDivw0HafbVrc
Please see the poster for this lecture here.
Week 7, 8 June
Professor Yoav Alon (Tel Aviv University), ‘Deportation, Exile and Internment: The Irgun and Stern Gang’s Members in Detention Camps in Africa, 1944- 48’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0udOyoqjMiE9Yt03ieI2J7iWvEmU8GYN4P
Please see the poster for this lecture here.
Week 8, 15 June
Dr Martina Mampieri (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), ‘The Spectacularization of Violence: The Giudiate and Theological Anti-Judaism in Early-Modern Rome Garb’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpd-uuqTgqHN0xaH7dTbfReGrbb0BLGSfQ
Please see the poster for this lecture here.