Sunday 1st and Monday 2nd December 2019 Oriel College, University Oxford Organizers: Hindy Najman (Oriel); Daniel Weidner (ZFL); Adriana X. Jacobs (St. Cross); Yael Fisch (Oriel); Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (Oriel) Is a common reading possible across languages, cultures, and disciplines? Under what terms may texts be compared and shared while […]
Worcester College, Oxford 22–25 July 2019 Under the presidency of Prof. Susan Gillingham Printable version of the Programme. MONDAY 22 July 2.00 pm Committee Meeting 4.30 pm Registration 6.00 pm Reception sponsored by the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford 6.30 pm Dinner 8.15 pm Prof. Herrmann Spieckermann (Göttingen) “ The […]
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TRS-UK recently posted the following on their website: TRS-UK (the umbrella organisation for all UK Departments of Theology & Religious Studies and the relevant subject associations) is very grateful for the recent British Academy report on ‘Theology and Religious Studies Provision in UK Higher Education’, despite its sobering statistics. The study of religion(s) and […]
This conference brings prominent biblical scholars and scholars of Judaism together for a conversation about the foundations of our fields. We want to generate a discussion of how a biased understanding of Judaism became integral to the discipline. This conversation is about understanding, healing and changing that discussion through critical thinking and ethical reading. The conference will take […]
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge 7–9 January 2019 Under the presidency of Prof. Susan Gillingham Printable version of the programme. MONDAY 7 January 2.00 pm Committee Meeting 4.30 pm Registration 6.00 pm Reception sponsored by the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge 6.30 pm Dinner 8.15 pm Presidential Address: Prof. Susan Gillingham (Oxford) “Bifocal reading: […]
The Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School will take place at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies from September 2-13, 2019. The cost of the school is £300 per student for 30 hours of language instruction. Application forms may be downloaded from the Centre’s website: www.ochjs.ac.uk; Closing date: Monday […]
