JEWISH TALKS OXFORD

Feb, 2012

Talks of Jewish Interest in Oxford

Please send any talks you wish to have listed to jewishtalks@oxfordchabad.org

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'Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects’ lecture series presents

‘The Arab Spring and its Implications in the Region: Perspectives from an Israel and a Palestinian’

Professor Shai Feldman, Brandeis University 

Dr. Khalil Shakiki, Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research

Monday, 13 February at 8 p.m.

At the Montgomery Room, Lincoln College

The lecture is free and open to the public

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Oxford European Studies Centre presents

Dr Laurent Mignon

University Lecturer in Turkish / Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford

“From Aleph to Elif: The birth-pangs of Judeo-Turkish literature”

Mon, 20 February, 5pm

At the European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road

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St Hugh’s College and The Maison Française d’oxford are pleased to announce the following talk:

Wednesday 22 February, 5.00pm, at Mordan Hall, St Hugh’s College

“Rescuing the Jews in France during the Holocaust: Backgrounds, Networks, Characters”

A lecture by Patrick CABANEL, Professor of Contemporary History, Université de Toulouse

A member of laboratory FRAMESPA in Toulouse, director of the review Diasporas. Histoire et sociétés, specialised in the history of religious minorities and the construction of the national and secular State in France, Patrick Cabanel published Juifs et protestants en France, les affinités électives XVIe-XXIe siècle (Fayard, 2004), Chère Mademoiselle… Alice Ferrières et les enfants de Murat, 1941-1944 (Calmann-Lévy, 2010), and co-edited Histoire régionale de la Shoah en France (Éditions de Paris, 2011). His latest book, Histoire des Justes en France, was published by Armand Colin in February 2012.

Chair: Ruth HARRIS, New College

Conveners: Laurent DOUZOU, CNRS-MFO and Anna-Magdalena ELSNER, St Hugh’s College 

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