PAST ACTIVITIES ARCHIVE

 

2012 EVENTS

22/10/12 Holocaust day-conference

1-4/07/12 International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ), Manchester 2012

01/03/12 Open Evening

2011 EVENTS

25/11/11 Medical Ethics Conference

10/11/11 Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society Lecture

10/10/11 New Directions in Holocaust Research Conference

26/05/11 Anglo-Israel Archeaological Society Lecture

13/05/11 Holocaust Workshop

SHERMAN LECTURES

2013 Derek Penslar on "What is Israel Studies?"

2012 Philip Alexander on "The Messianic Idea within Judaism"

2011 Martin Goodman on "Toleration within Judaism"

2010 Bernard Jackson on "Halakah, Inheritance and the 'Heritage of Israel'"

2009 Sander Gilman on "Confronting the Present in the Past: German Jewish Exiles in London 1933-1950"

2008 Melissa Raphael-Levine on "A Post-Holocaust Theology of Jewish Art"

2007 Gadi Ben-Ezer on "Ethiopian Jews Encounter Israel: Social, Psychological and Cultural Perspectives of the Immigrant and Refugee in Society"

2006 Ada Rapoport-Albert on "Women in Jewish Mysticism"

2005 Barry Kosmin on "Rethinking the Jewish World in the 21st Century"

2004 Daniel Sperber on "The Modern Study of Halakhah"

2003 Fred Rosner on "Jewish Medical Ethics in the 21st Century"

2002 Tony Kushner on "Refugees Then and Now"

2001 Norman Solomon on "Torah from Heaven" 

2000 Judith Plaskow on "Contextualising Sex": summaries

1999 David Patterson on "The Religious Dimension in Modern Hebrew Literature": abstracts

1998 Bernard Wasserstein on "The Jerusalem Question in International Diplomacy 1798-1998": abstracts

RESEARCH SEMINARS

2012-13; 2011-12; 2009-10; 2008-09 ; 2007-08; 2006-07; 2005-06; 2004-05; 2003-04; 2002-03; 2001-02; 2000-01; 1999-00; 1998-99

CONFERENCES

2008 JudaicaFest (2008)

2008 Anti-Semitism and the Emergence of Sociological Theory Conference (2008)

2002 Jewish Heritage at Rylands Day Conference

2000 Limmud Day

1998 Manchester and Zionism: The Community, the University and the State of Israel Day Conference (21 October)

UNIVERSITY LECTURE SERIES AND SEMINARS

2008 Religion and the Welfare State Lecture Series

2008 W. G. Sebald Seminar

2003 Rabbinics Seminar Series: On the Chief Rabbi's essay

EXTRA-MURAL LECTURES

2002 Bernard Jackson, "Agunah: The Halakhic Sources"

2001-02 Southport Rep Council Lecture Series: "Us and Them: Jewish Identity, Ancient and Modern"

2001 MMU Lectures on "Jews in Society"

2000 Abstracts/Transcripts 

1998-99 Abstracts/Transcripts

CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES

2007 Frank Adam, "The Arab Israel Conflict: A History with Complexities" and Ya'akov Wise, "Piety, Poverty and Persecution; A Radical New Look at Anglo-Jewish History 1880-1980"

2006 Frank Adam, "A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict", Clive Gilbert, "Russian Jewry 1800-1917", and Jeremy Michelson, "The Holocaust - A World Tragedy'

2005 Jeremy Michelson, "The History of the Jews in the Middle Ages', Michael Tunnicliffe, "Five Hebrew Scrolls" and Frank Adam, "A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict"

2004 Frank Adam, "A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict"

2003 Jeremy Michelson and Clive Gilbert, "Two centuries of Russian Jewry" and Frank Adam "Israel"

SURVEY OF JEWISH STUDIES COURSES IN THE UK

2010; 2007-08; 2005-06; 2004-05; 2003-04; 2002-03; 2001-02; 2000-01

INAUGURAL LECTURE

1998 Professor Jackson on "An Academician's View of Jewish Law", 18 November 1998 (full text)