Each year, the Centre hosts a lecture in memory of Professor Edward Ullendorff (1920-2011), FBA and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies until his death. Professor Ullendorff was a leading specialist of Semitic linguistics with particular emphasis on the languages of Ethiopia. This series of annual lectures held in his memory hosts distinguished linguists, philologists, and literary historians working on Hebrew and Semitic languages.
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Seventh Edward Ullendorff Memorial Lecture
Tuesday, May 23 2023 at 6pm UK Time
Professor David Taylor (AMES), ‘”Not a Jewish Language, Not a Jewish Subject”? A Brief History of Jewish Syriac Scholarship’
This lecture will be a hybrid session which will be accessible both online via Zoom and in person at the Catherine Lewis Lecture Room of the Clarendon Institute Building, Walton Street. No need to register if attending in person. In order to participate in this lecture online, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctde6gqTItGNKgmrgbcoG0TnwdMFMWbEcT.
Please see the poster for this lecture here.