Lectures since 1904

Title Lecturer Year
Liberal Education: The View From Cognitive Science Herbert Simon 1990
Literary Criticism as Cognitive Science Herbert Simon 1990
Landscapes Without Llamas: Celebrating a Sauerian Tradition David Lowenthal 1990
The Inca Civil War and the Establishment of Spanish Power in Peru John H. Rowe 1990
Paradoxes of Women’s Citizenship: Jury Service The Case of the Broken Baseball Bat Linda K. Kerber 1989
Paradoxes of Women’s Citizenship: Property The Case of the Confiscated Farm Linda K. Kerber 1989
The Fortunes of Some British Mavericks Geoffrey P. Smith 1989
The Fortunes of Some American Mavericks Geoffrey P. Smith 1989
Parties and Mavericks: On the Necessity of Political Parties in Anglo-American Democracies Geoffrey P. Smith 1989
The Big Bang Revisited Early Nucleosynthesis in an Inhomogeneous Universe William Fowler 1989
The Age of the Observable Universe William Fowler 1989
Estimating the Inestimable II Kenneth Boulding 1989
Estimating the Inestimable I Kenneth Boulding 1989
What Hopes for Progress: How Can We Realize Human Potential? Kenneth Boulding 1989
What Hopes for Plenty: Can We Abolish Poverty Kenneth Boulding 1989
What Hopes for Peace: Can We Abolish War? Kenneth Boulding 1989
What Hopes for a Better World Kenneth Boulding 1989
The Bajio: Mexico’s Earliest Colonial Frontier Karl Butzer 1989
Physical Theory, Brain Theory, Theories of Everything Gerald Edelman 1989
Morality, Law and Politics Jürgen Habermas 1988
The Concept of Practical Reason Jürgen Habermas 1988
Philosophy and the Fragments of Enlightenment Bernard Williams 1988
Direction of Time Stephen Hawking 1988
Black Holes, White Holes, and Worm Holes Stephen Hawking 1988
Origin of the Universe Stephen Hawking 1988
Identifying the Killers: Old World Diseases in 16th-Century Meso-America and the Caribbean Woodrow Borah 1988
The Morals of Trade Philip Hawley 1988
Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution Robert R. Palmer 1988
Paradoxes of Women’s Citizenship: Military Obligation The Case of the Fired Stenographer Linda K. Kerber 1988
The External Debt Problem: Not Only a Financial Question Jes Herzog 1987
Moral Conflict and Political Legitimacy Thomas Nagel 1987
Is Biology an Autonomous Science? Ernst Mayr 1987
Current Controversies in Evolutionary Biology Ernst Mayr 1987
The Transforming Gene of a Leukemia Virus David Baltimore 1987
Control of Antibody Gene Expression David Baltimore 1987
Geometry and Physics: The Future Sir Michael F. Atiyah 1987
Geometry and Physics: The Past Sir Michael F. Atiyah 1987
Enzymology to the Rescue of Medicine Frank H. Westheimer 1987
Are Our Universities Rotten at the ‘Core’? Frank H. Westheimer 1987
Christian Platonism Henry Chadwick 1987
International Banking and Domestic Politics: Perspectives on Debt and Development Andrew Brimmer 1986
The Justification of Logical Laws Michael A. E. Dummett 1986
Ecological Aspects of Disease in Human Populations Robert M. May 1986
When Two and Two Do Not Make Four: Nonlinear Problems in Ecology Robert M. May 1986
Toward Healthy Development in Childhood and Adolescence David A. Hamburg 1986
International Cooperation for Health in Developing Countries David A. Hamburg 1986
Avoiding Nuclear War: Crisis Prevention and U.S. – Soviet Relations David A. Hamburg, 1986
To Claim the High Ground: Geography For the End of the Century David R. Stoddart 1986
A Geographer Looks at the San Joaquin Valley James J. Parsons 1986
The Intellectual’s Role in the Modern World Reinhard Bendix 1986
Women and Democratic Citizenship: The Personal and the Political: Can Citizenship Be Democratic? Carole Pateman 1985
Women and Democratic Citizenship: Votes for Women and Citizenship Carole Pateman 1985
Women and Democratic Citizenship The Appeal to Reason: Early Feminism, the Individual and the Citizen Carole Pateman 1985
A Reconception of Philosophy Nelson Goodman 1985
Evolutionary Biotechnology Manfred Eigen 1985
Optimization in the Universe of Nucleic Acid Sequences Manfred Eigen 1985
Replication Kinetics and the Concept of Quasi-Species Manfred Eigen 1985
Medical Technology Assessment in the Nation: Present State and Future Needs Frederick Mosteller 1985
Contributions of Meta-Analysis to Statistics and Health Frederick Mosteller 1985
Frontiers of Health Assessment Frederick Mosteller 1985
Domesday Book and Domesday Geography Clifford Darby 1985
Half Empty or Half Full: Observations on Soviet Historiography Nicholas V. Riasanovsky 1985
How to Become Immortal without Really Trying: Taoism and the Nature of Ritual Kristofer M. Schipper 1985
Corporate Decision Making: An Economist’s View Juanita M. Kreps 1984
The Socratic Fallacy Gregory Vlastos 1984
Socrates’ Disavowal of Knowledge Gregory Vlastos 1984
Mythical Thought and Social Life Claude Levi-Strauss 1984
The Birth of Historical Societies Claude Levi-Strauss 1984
Non-Linear Optics and Spectroscopy Nicolaas Bloembergen 1984
Lasers in Science and Technology Nicolaas Bloembergen 1984
The Landscape as Overlapping Neighborhoods: Some Reflections on the Struggle for Existence Torsten Hagerstrand 1984
Ancient Near Eastern Concepts of Life after Death: A Background of the Judeo-Christian Tradition Wilfred Lambert 1984
Human Rights and Wrongs in the United States Jeane J. Kirkpatrick 1983
Relativism Richard Rorty 1983
Spectroscopic Studies in Astrochemistry Gerhard Herzberg 1983
Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure Gerhard Herzberg 1983
Chemical Bonds in Biology Linus Pauling 1983
The Development of the Concept of the Chemical Bond Linus Pauling 1983
My Life with Lincoln Kenneth M. Stampp 1983
The Immortality of the Soul Among North American Indians Ake Hultkranz 1983
Questions Arising from My Model and Others Freeman J. Dyson 1982
An Abstract Model for the Origin of Life Freeman J. Dyson 1982
Experimental and Theoretical Background Freeman J. Dyson 1982
Origins of Life Freeman J. Dyson 1982
The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: Beyond Function Ada Louise Huxtable 1982
The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: Beyond Style Ada Louise Huxtable 1982
Unique and Unusual Patterning of Behaviour as a Consequence of Isolation Carleton Gajdusek 1982
Genetic, Toxic, and Deficiency Diseases in High Incidence in Isolated Populations Carleton Gajdusek 1982
Infectious Diseases in Isolated Populations Carleton Gajdusek 1982
An Atlantic World: Perspectives on the Making of Colonial America Donald Meinig 1982
In Quest of National Interest: The Foreign Policy of the People’s Republic of China Robert A. Scalapino 1982
Former Lives, or the Man Who Met the People in His Dream Wendy O'Flaherty 1982
Business Morality Shareholder Proposals as Tools for Change? Nicholas De B. Katzenbach 1981
Freedom, Equality and Democracy: Political Equality and Economic Liberty Robert A. Dahl 1981
The Great Debate in Parliament over America, 1774-75 Robert W. Tucker 1981
Freedom, Equality and Democracy: The Idea of Political Equality Robert A. Dahl 1981
The Collapse of Imperial Authority Robert W. Tucker 1981
The Imperial-Colonial Status Quo Robert W. Tucker 1981
Origins of the American Revolution: The Imperial View Robert W. Tucker 1981
Out of Tutelage? Europe’s Changing Attitude to America David I. Marquand 1981