Whidden Lectures

The Whidden Lectures are a lecture series at McMaster University, founded in 1954 by E. Carey Fox. [ [http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/story.cfm?id=2037 McMaster Daily News ] ] They commemorate Howard P. Whidden, who was Chancellor of the university from 1923 to 1941. [ [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=9397705 Three Aspects of Stuart England ] ] They were first given in 1956. Many of the lectures have been published in book form, by Oxford University Press.

*1956 C. W. de Kiewiet: The Anatomy of South African Misery [OUP 1957]
*1957 Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru: The Evolution of India [OUP 1958]
*1958 Ronald Syme: Colonial Elites: Rome, Spain and the Americas [OUP 1958]
*1959 Charles De Koninck: The Hollow Universe [U. De Laval, 1964]
*1960 George Norman Clark: Three Aspects of Stuart England [OUP 1960]
*1961 William Foxwell Albright:.New Horizons in Biblical Research [OUP 1966]
*1962 J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Flying Trapeze: Three crises for physicists [OUP 1965]
*1963 Ian T. Ramsey: Models and Mystery [OUP 1964]
*1964 David Daiches, The Paradox of Scottish Culture: the Eighteenth Century Experience [OUP 1964]
*1965 William Arthur Lewis: Politics in West Africa [George Allen & Unwin, 1965]
*1966 Anthony Blunt: Picasso's 'Guernica' [OUP 1969]
*1967 Northrop Frye: The Modern Century [OUP 1967]
*1970 Eric Ashby: Masters and Scholars;: Reflections on the rights and responsibilities of students
*1973 Edward Togo Salmon: The Nemesis of Empire [OUP 1974]
*1974 Richard Stockton MacNeish
*1975 Noam Chomsky: Reflections on Language
*1983 A. J. Ayer: Freedom and Morality
*1986 John Rupert Martin
*1988 Tom Stoppard: The Event and the Text
*1993 Alan James Ryan
*1997 Elizabeth Loftus
*2000 Bruce Meyer: Canadian Literature and the Western Tradition
*2001 Steven V. W. Beckwith
*2002 Cancelled
*2003 Jean-Daniel Stanley
*2005 Donna Haraway

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