Lectures since 1904

Title Lecturer Year
Human Carrying Capacity: Concepts, Methods and Models Joel E. Cohen 2000
Special Presentation: Films and Discussion of Population Issues Joel E. Cohen 2000
Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation and Urban Order Sir Peter Hall 2000
The End of the City? ‘The report of my death was an exaggeration’ Sir Peter Hall 2000
On Aristotle’s Notion of the Soul Michael Frede 2000
Constitutionalism and Civil Society Stanley Katz 2000
Institutions, Regulation and Development Jean-Jacques Laffont 2000
The Making of an International Civil Society Akira Iriye 2000
Perception, Imagination and Science Roger N. Shepard 1999
The Grounds of Science and of Ethics Roger N. Shepard 1999
How the Ears’ Works Work: Auditory Sensory Transduction A. James Hudspeth 1999
Getting in Tune: Auditory Frequency Selectivity A. James Hudspeth 1999
The Dappled World Nancy Cartwright 1999
Invoking the Constitution Ineptly Abner J. Mikva 1999
The American University: Dinosaur or Dynamo? Frank H. T. Rhodes 1999
Composing Life after Death Jonathan Harvey 1998
The Place of Consciousness Robert Nozick 1998
Sex and Death on the Edge of Europe: Slavonian Demography 1683-1900 Eugene A. Hammel 1998
‘To Civility and Man’s Use’: History, Geography, and Nature Ian G. Simmons 1998
Environment, Population, Consumption, and Sustainable Development – The Great Challenges of Our Time Norman Myers 1998
Tropical Forests: Their Future and Our Future Norman Myers 1998
Science, a Round Peg in a Square World Harold Kroto 1998
C60: Buckminsterfullerene, Not Just a Pretty Molecule Harold Kroto 1998
Failed Visions and Unexpected Adaptations – Reflections on the Interaction of Society and Communications Technology Robert Lucky 1998
How Will We Connect? – Rethinking the World’s Communications in the Age of the Internet Robert Lucky 1998
Property and Expropriation: Themes and Variations in American Law Carol M. Rose 1998
The Origins of American Democracy Gordon S. Wood 1998
The Origins of American Freedom Eric Foner 1998
Archaeology, Genetics and Linguistic Diversity: Towards a New Synthesis Colin Renfrew 1997
The Sapiens Paradox, Or Why Did People Get Smart So Late? Colin Renfrew 1997
Chicken Little Was Right: The Sky Is Falling Eugene Shoemaker 1997
Things That Went Bump in the Night (and Shook the Earth) Eugene Shoemaker 1997
Reflections on a Life in Public Service Alan K. Simpson 1997
Virtue, Deed and Word – Confucian Paths to Immortality Tu Weiming 1996
Escapism: Another Look at Nature and Culture Yi-Fu Tuan 1996
Tangles, Bangles and Knots John Horton Conway 1996
Fractran: A Ridiculous Logical Language John Horton Conway 1996
Two Russian Revolutions Yegor Gaidar 1996
Five Years of the Democratic Experiment in Russia Yegor Gaidar 1996
Anger and Revenge Myles Burnyeat 1996
Ancient Freedoms Myles Burnyeat 1996
Happiness and Tranquility Myles Burnyeat 1996
Reflections of a Former Speaker Thomas Foley 1996
Untitled Herbert Stein 1996
Untitled Charles Schultze 1996
Metaphors of Causation George Lakoff 1995
A Servant of Two Masters Robin Donkin 1995
Our Universe and Others Martin Rees 1995
How Much Cosmology Can We Really Believe? Martin Rees 1995
Untitled William Leuchtenberg 1995
Awakenings Revisited Oliver Sacks 1994
Prehistoric Riverine Settlement in Amazonia: A Revisionist Perspective with Contemporary Implications William Denevan 1994
How Decisions Happen in Organizations James March 1994
Learning in Organizations John March 1994
Photochemistry in an Ordered Universe – Using Light as a Scalpel, and a Crystal as Operating Table John Polanyi 1994
The Responsibility of the Scientist in an Age of Science John Polanyi 1994
Present Status of the Standard Model in Particle Physics Carlo Rubbia 1994
Beyond the Standard Model Carlo Rubbia 1994
Naturalism and Dualism in the Study of Language and Mind Noam Chomsky 1994
The Separation of Powers during the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson Gerhard Casper 1994
The Spiderless Web: Exploring the History of Criminal Justice Lawrence M. Friedman 1994
Beyond Free Trade to Fair Trade Neil Kinnock 1994
Business and Corruption: Framing the Haitian Question Michael Laguerre 1994
Population and Practical Reason Amartya Sen 1994
Mobile DNA: Ubiquitous and Unusual Genetic Elements Maxine Singer 1993
Mobile Genetic Elements in Mammals Maxine Singer 1993
Line-1: A Mobile Element in the Human Genome Maxine Singer 1993
A Piece of Sunshine Hendrick van de Hulst 1993
Far from the Stars – in the Midst of Astronomy Hendrick van de Hulst 1993
Comparative Capitalism – The Japanese Difference Chalmers Johnson 1993
California Employers Could and Should Apply Rational Economic Principles to Control Health Care Costs Alain Enthoven 1992
European Community, International Trade and World Unity Jean-Claude Dischamps 1992
California in the World Earl Pomeroy 1992
The Imagined Problem of U.S. Isolationism Walter LaFeber 1992
The Tocqueville Problem Walter LaFeber 1992
Jefferson and the Course of U.S. Foreign Policy Walter LaFeber 1992
How Does a Glue Work? Pierre-Gilles de Gennes 1992
Ultradivided Matter Pierre-Gilles de Gennes 1992
Classical Conditioning: Is There a Cellular Alphabet for Learning? Eric Kandel 1992
Sensitization: The Long and Short of Long-Term Memory Eric Kandel 1992
Habituation: A Reductionist’s Strategy to the Study of Procedural Learning Eric Kandel 1992
Cell and Molecular Biological Approaches to Learning and Memory Eric Kandel 1992
The Fractal Geometry of Nature’s Complexity Benoit Mandelbrot 1992
Fractals: For the Pleasure of the Mind and the Pleasure of the Eye Benoit Mandelbrot 1992
Sauer’s Origins and Dispersals: Its Implications for the Geography of Disease Peter Haggert 1992
Sacrifice, Surplus and the Soul Romila Thapar 1992
The World Economy after the Cold War C. Fred Bergsten 1991
Governing the Marketplace: The American Revolution and the American Corporation Pauline Maier 1991
Reconstructing American Political History Barry D. Karl 1991
The Body Transparent: What More Can NMR Do For Biology and Medicine? Paul C. Lauterbur 1991
Why Did It Take So Long? The Nature and Origins of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Paul C. Lauterbur 1991
Heaven Is No Holiday – Eternal Life in the View of the Sufis and of Muhammad Iqbal Annemarie Schimmel 1991
There’s More to Trade Than Trade John N. Turner 1990
Greenhouse Warming: The Prospects for Collective Action Thomas C. Schelling 1990
Cultures Clifford Geertz 1990
Countries Clifford Geertz 1990
Towns Clifford Geertz 1990
Anthropologist Clifford Geertz 1990
After the Fact: Indonesia, Morocco and the Recurrent Clifford Geertz 1990
Qualitative Reasoning: How We Think Our Way through the Day Herbert Simon 1990