Institute of Jewish Studies at UCL Seminar Programme Spring 2016

Thursday January  21^st – Evening lecture IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND

Piet van Boxel – The Popes and the Jews in 16th Italy:  a convoluted encounter

Drinks served from 6.30pm followed by Lecture at 7.00pm   Venue: G46 (HO Schild Pharmacology lecture theatre), Medical Sciences building, UCLEntrance via Malet Place, off Torrington Place

Thursday February 4^th  – Lecture at 5.30pm

Simon Muir – Brothers-in-arms with Nazi Germans: Jews in Finland during World War II

Venue: Chadwick G08, Chadwick Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Wednesday March 2^nd – Simon Wiesenthal Memorial Lecture at 6.30pm

Rainer Kampling – The future of the past: Reflecting on Jewish history under the signs of shadow and hope

Venue: J.Z. Young lecture theatre, UCL Anatomy Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT (just south of the main entrance)

Wednesday March 9^th – Lecture in conjunction with UCL Institute of the Americas  at 6pm

Nathan Wachtel – The ‘Jewish Indian Theory’: The Problem of the Origin of the American Populations

Venue: Gustave Tuck lecture theatre. Followed by a reception in the South Cloisters

Thursday March 17^th – Richard Barnett Memorial Lecture in conjunction with the Jewish Historical Society of England time t.b.a.

David Abulafia – The first Sephardim in the Atlantic

Venue: Gavin de Beer room, UCL Anatomy Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT (just south of the main entrance)

And coming in the last week of July (dates to be confirmed) – The IJS summer conference

Jewish Languages

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