Centre for Jewish Studies Academic talks at the Arts Lecture Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester. Intermittent Thursdays at 4pm

Thu 23 February: Stacey Gutkowski (King’s College London), ‘Cultivating a Reasonable Self: Young Secular Jews and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict’

Thu 9 March: Sammy Smooha (University of Haifa), ‘Israeli Democracy in Comparative Perspective’

Thu 23 March: Jacob Eriksson (University of York), ‘Sweden’s recognition of Palestine in 2014: Rationale and effects in theory and practice’

Thu 27 April: Brian Klug (Oxford), ‘Words of Fire: Ahad Ha’am and the Jewish Future’

Thu 11 May: Amnon Aran (City University London), ‘Framing and Foreign Policy: Israel’s Response to the Arab Uprisings’