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 2025
Thursdays, 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, 23 January
Professor Paul Franks (Yale University): ‘Kabbalah of the Post-Kantian Idealists: The Christian Kabbalah Project’s Significance for German and Jewish Philosophy’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/mpfWvH1QTYee5Q7y1YGKTw
Week 2, 30 January
Professor Marcello Fidanzio (Università della Svizzera Italiana): ‘The Caves of the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Material Approach to the Qumran Quest’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dfjVFebCQDK5Vzmg5zivng
Week 3, 6 February
Dr Na’ama Seri-Levi: ‘Mapping Wandering Routes: Exile and Nomadism among Polish-Jewish Refugees during World War II’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/LMuH4Pl8QBuqbpmnFw_Qpw
Week 4, 13 February (IN PERSON ONLY)
Michael David Rosenfeld (Vrije Universiteit in Belgium): ‘The multiple identities of Jacob Israël De Haan (1881-1924): Ultra-orthodox, queer, anti-Zionist, Jewish Nationalist’ (Preview screening of Zvi Landsman’s film, Jacob de Haan: A Voice Out of Time, followed by Q&A)
Week 5, 20 February
Dr Yoav Ronel (AMES/OCHJS): ‘Literature and the Humanities: Maya Arad, Matan Hermoni and the Surprising Rise of the Logic of the Market’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/K99iI6vSRwezBCkPfdNruQ
Week 6, 27 February
Professor Eyal Ben-Eliyahu (University of Haifa): ‘A New Methodology for Studying Tannaitic Literature from a Spatial Perspective’
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/a1tzJY7RRgmvc1ZlSwqG5Q
Week 7, 6 March
Professor Avishai Bar-Asher (Hebrew University)
Middle Eastern Roots of Jewish Esotericism: Restoring the Earliest Commentary on Sefer Yeṣirah from the Cairo Genizah
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/yprU3MWsTgyX_fFle_FWvw
Week 8, 13 March
Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (OCHJS) and Dr César Merchán-Hamann (OCHJS)
Jewish Languages and Book Culture: A New Study of the Immaterial Jewish Heritage
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/fEUh_H6uRiuNZkvz7yv8pg