• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: UCL Institute of Jewish Studies
• Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion

Thursday 22 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Interpreting Collection in the Dead Sea Scrolls
  Hindy Najman ((University of Oxford), Eibert Tigchelaar (KU Leuven)

Thursday 29 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - A Philosopher Walks into a Satyr-Play: The Symposium, The Cyclops, and the Queering of Genre
  Daniel Boyarin (University of California, Berkeley)

Thursday 5 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Budd Schulberg’s endgame: the apprehension of Leni Riefenstahl and holding Nazi film to account, 1945
  Michael Berkowitz (UCL)

Thursday 12 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Pius XII before, during and after the Shoah: a historical issue
  SIMON WIESENTHAL LECTURE, Alberto Melloni (University of Modena-Reggio)

Wednesday 18 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Re-approaching the Babatha archive
  N CONJUNCTION WITH THE ANGLO ISRAEL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Kimberley Czajkowski (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 19 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Locating Hebrew Rusia: A Problem of Medieval Hebrew Nomenclature for Old Rus
  Alexander Kulik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Title TBC
  Judith Schlanger (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies)

Thursday 3 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - 21st-century Ashkenazic Hebrew
  Lily Kahn (UCL), Sonya Yampolskaya (UCL)

Thursday 10 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - The Jewish and Christian Aramaic-speaking communities in Iraq
  Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 15 December 2020 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Of Chicken and Eggs: Jewish Political Agency in the Context of Jewish SelfGovernment in the Polish Lands
  François Guesnet (UCL)