User:Carcharoth/Article incubator/Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture

Series of memorial lectures commemorating the mathematician Selig Brodetsky. The first lecture was held in 1960.


 * 1960 - Eliahu Elath - Hebrew and the Jewish Renaissance
 * 1961 - Morris Ginsberg - Nationalism - A Reappraisal
 * 1962 - Edwin Samuel - Britain's Legacy to Israel
 * 1963 - Louis Rosenhead - Professor Selig Brodetsky: scholar, dreamer, man of action
 * 1964 - James Parkes - The new face of Israel
 * 1965 - - 
 * 1966 - M. J. Lighthill - Waves in liquids and gases
 * 1967 - Schneier Levenberg - European Jewry today
 * 1968 - Isaac Berenblum - The use of the scientific method in biomedical research
 * 1969 - - 
 * 1970 - Cornelius Lanczos - Judaism and science
 * 1971 - - 
 * 1972 - Sydney Goldstein - Views on the meaning of Zionism and of applied mathematics fifty years ago and now
 * 1973 - Ritchie Calder - The internationalist in the world of nationalism
 * 1974 - - 
 * 1975 - - 
 * 1976 - Samuel Fisher - Brodetsky, leader of the Anglo-Jewish community
 * 1977 - Thomas George Cowling - Isaac Newton and astrology
 * 1978 - - 
 * 1979 - John Archibald Wheeler - Einstein: His Strength and His Struggle
 * 1980 - Eric Moonman - EEC policy in relation to the Middle East, Israel and matters concerning Jews
 * 1981 - Shlomo Argov - Europe and Arab-Israeli peacemaking : a critique
 * 1982 - Leon Mestel - Astronomy, a mirror to physics
 * 1983 - Terence Prittie - Whose Jerusalem?
 * 1984 - H. L. Price - Brodetsky, his work, and how we coped without computers
 * 1985 - Greville Janner - Race discrimination and the law : a Jewish dimension
 * 1986 - A. D. Young - The Technion and future developments in civil aviation
 * 1987 - - 
 * 1988 - - 
 * 1989 - Harold Fisch - Two nations or one? : the crisis in zionism

Lecture series discontinued after 1989 and revived in 2002 -


 * 2002 - Menachem Fisch - Reading God's Two Books: Science and the Talmud's Debate on Religion
 * 2003 - David B. Ruderman - Medicine, science and the transformation of Jewish culture in early modern Europe
 * 2004 - Jean-Pierre Kahane - Raphael Salem: His Life, His Work, and His Influence on Mathematics
 * 2005 - Norbert M. Samuelson - Reflections on the Importance of Maimonides for Contemporary Jewish Thought: In Memoriam of the 800th Anniversary of His Death
 * 2006 - Stephen Frosh - Psychoanalysis, Nazism, and "Jewish Science"
 * 2007 - Judith Grabiner - Chance, Fairness, Jews, and Judaism
 * 2008 - Noah Efron - A Passion for the Universal: Science, Jews and Others
 * 2009 - Karen Parshall - James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World
 * 2010 - Geoffrey Cantor - Darwin among the Jews
 * 2011 - Sander Gilman - Why the Jews are the smartest people in the universe, and why this is a bad thing
 * 2012 - Jenifer Glynn - My Sister, Rosalind Franklin
 * 2013 - Steven Gimbel - Einstein’s Jewish science
 * 2014 - Charles Burnett - Muslims, Jews, Christians, and the astrolabe: The establishment of the new science in the 12th century
 * 2015 - Erika Hagelberg - The Construction of Genetic Identities: The Case of the Jewish Genome
 * 2016 - [appears not to have taken place this year]
 * 2017 - Michael Krom - The Dead Sea: What it is, why it is disappearing… and can we do anything about it disappearing?
 * 2018 - Mitchell G. Ash de:Mitchell Ash - Not only Freud: Jewish Scientists and Scholars at the University of Vienna, from the Habsburg era until the early Post-War years

External link

 * Selig Brodetsky Lecture, University of Leeds
 * University of Leeds, Centre for Jewish Studies