Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture
The Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture series was revived by Professor Geoffrey Cantor. It is now organised by a committee representing the subject areas of History and Philosophy of Science, Jewish Studies, Mathematics, and Computing.
New Series
- 2023 - Dr Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University): Mendeling Jews: A History of Racial Genetics
- 2021 - Asa S. Mittman (California State University-Chico): Far From Jerusalem: The Exclusion of Jews on Christian Maps
- 2020 - Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic
- 2019 - Yulia Egorova (Durham): Defining anti-Semitism in the global context of prejudice: perspectives from Social Anthropology
- 2018 - Mitchell G. Ash (University of Vienna): Not only Freud: Jewish Scientists and Scholars at the University of Vienna, from the Habsburg era until the early Post-War years
- 2017 - Michael Krom (Haifa University & University of Leeds, Emeritus) The Dead Sea: What it is, why it is disappearing… and can we do anything about it disappearing?
- 2015 - Erika Hagelberg (Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo; Cheney Fellow in the Arts, University of Leeds): The Construction of Genetic Identities: The Case of the Jewish Genome (15 Dec 2015)
- 2014 - Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute, University of London): Muslims, Jews, Christians, and the Astrolabe: The Establishment of a New Science in the 12th Century
- 2013 - Steven Gimbel - Einstein's Jewish science
- 2012 - Jenifer Glynn - My Sister, Rosalind Franklin
- 2011 - Sander Gilman - Why the Jews are the smartest people in the universe, and why this is a bad thing
- 2010 - Geoffrey Cantor - Darwin among the Jews
- 2009 - Karen Parshall - James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World
- 2008 - Noah Efron - A Passion for the Universal: Science, Jews and Others
- 2007 - Judith Grabiner - Chance, Fairness, Jews, and Judaism
- 2006 - Stephen Frosh - Psychoanalysis, Nazism, and "Jewish Science"
- 2005 - Norbert M. Samuelson - Reflections on the Importance of Maimonides for Contemporary Jewish Thought: In Memoriam of the 800th Anniversary of His Death
- 2004 - Jean-Pierre Kahane - Raphael Salem: His Life, His Work, and His Influence on Mathematics
- 2003 - David B. Ruderman - Medicine, science and the transformation of Jewish culture in early modern Europe
- 2002 - Menachem Fisch - Reading God's Two Books: Science and the Talmud's Debate on Religion
Original Series
A link to the archival holdings, including manuscript and boxed copies, can be found here:
- 1985 - The Hon. Greville Janner MP (President of the Commonwealth Jewish Council and Labour MP for Leicester West), Race Discrimination and the Law - A Jewish Dimension, 21 May 1985
- 1984 - Emeritus Professor H L Price (Professor of Mathematics for Applied Science at Leeds 19641982), Brodetsky: His Work, and How We Coped without Computers, 14 May 1984
- 1983 - The Honorable Terence Prittie (editor of Britain and Israel), Whose Jerusalem?, 16 May 1983
- 1982 - Professor Leon Mestel (Professor of Anatomy at the University of Sussex), Astronomy - A Mirror to Physics, May 1982
- 1981 - Shlomo Argov (Israeli Ambassador to Great Britain), Europe and Arab-Israeli Peacemaking: A Critique, 18 May 1981
- 1980 - Eric Moonman (formerly Labour MP for Basildon, and a Director of the Group Relations Educational Trust), EEC Policy in Relation to the Middle East, Israel and Matters Concerning Jews, 19 May 1980
- 1979 - J. A. Wheeler (Ashbel Smith Professor and Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics of the University of Texas at Austin, and Joseph Henry Professor of Physics Emeritus at Princeton), Albert Einstein: His Strength and His Struggle, 8 May 1979 click on publication details for library catalogue entry (published 1980)
- 1977 - T. G. Cowling (Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Leeds), Isaac Newton and Astrology, 16 May 1977 T. G. Cowling: Isaac Newton and Astrology
- 1976 - The Rt. Hon. The Lord Fisher of Camden: Brodetsky - Leader of the Anglo-Jewish Community, 17 May 1976
- 1973 - Sydney Goldstein (Harvard University): Views on the meaning of Zionism and of applied mathematics fifty years ago and now
- 1973 - The Rt. Hon. The Lord Ritchie-Calder (Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, California, and formerly Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, Edinburgh University), The Internationalist in the World of Nationalism, 14 May 1973
- 1970 - Cornelius Lanczos (Professor Emeritus , Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies): Judaism and Science
- 1967 - Issac Berenblum (Jack Cotton Professor of Cancer Research and Head of the Department of Experimental Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel): The use of the scientific method in bio-medical research : the ninth Selig Brodetsky memorial lecture
- 1967 - S. Levenberg: European Jewry today
- 1966 - M.James Lighthill (Royal Society Research Professor, Imperial College of Science and Technology): Waves in liquids and gases
- 1964 - James Parkes (Director of the Parkes Library): The new face of Israel
- 1963 - Louis Rosenhead (Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Liverpool): Professor Selig Brodetsky : scholar, dreamer, man of action
- 1962 - Edwin H. Samuel: Britain's Legacy to Israel
- 1960 - Morris Ginsberg (Emeritus Professor of Sociology in the University of London): Nationalism: A reappraisal
- 1959 - Eliahu Elath: Hebrew and the Jewish renaissance