In 1928, Miss Edith Zweybruck established the Foerster Lectureship to honor the memory of her sister Agnes A. Foerster and her brother-in-law Constantine E. A. Foerster. Miss Zweybruck requested that lectures be given "on the immortality of the soul or other kindred subjects. Such lecture is not to form a part of the regular college course and shall be delivered by some person especially qualified therefore and especially appointed for the purpose."
| Title | Lecturer | Year |
| The Search for Paradise | Sudipta Kaviraj | 2024 |
| On Uncertainty: Wittgenstein: Habits of Thought and Thoughts of Habit | Jane Taylor | 2019 |
| Souls in Other Selves, and the Immortality of the Body | Marilyn Strathern | 2018 |
| Embodied Souls — Lessons from Neurology | V.S. Ramachandran | 2016 |
| Immortality of the Soul – An Ancient Egyptian Invention? | Jan Assmann | 2015 |
| A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins | Svante Pääbo | 2014 |
| Considering Dogs | Alexandra Horowitz | 2013 |
| The Quest for Heaven is Local: How Spiritual Experience is Shaped by Social Life | Tanya Luhrmann | 2013 |
| Happiness and Ultimate Good | Peter Singer | 2012 |
| A Passion for Waiting: Messianism, History, and the Jews | Leon Wieseltier | 2012 |
| From Salvation to Spirituality | Susumu Shimazono | 2010 |
| Explaining Transformation: Material Miracles and Their Theorists in the Later Middle Ages | Carolyn Walker Bynum | 2009 |
| God’s Problem and Human Solutions: How the Bible Explains Suffering | Bart Ehrman | 2008 |
| Thinking about Religion, Belief, and Politics | Talal Asad | 2008 |
| The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach | Christof Koch | 2006 |
| Equal Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams and the Roots of a Constitutional Tradition | Martha Nussbaum | 2006 |
| The Soul of Brutes: A Sixteenth Century Debate | Carlo Ginzburg | 2004 |
| Being No One: Consciousness, the Phenomenal Self, and the First-Person Perspective | Thomas Metzinger | 2004 |
| Trobriand Rebirth and the Fate of the Soul: An Old Debate Revisited | Gananath Obeyesekere | 2003 |
| The Hope of Heaven: A Spiritual Universe | Robert Merrihew Adams | 2002 |
| Body and Soul in Plato and Descartes | Sarah Broadie | 2000 |
| The Place of Consciousness | Robert Nozick | 1998 |
| Composing Life after Death | Jonathan Harvey | 1998 |
| Virtue, Deed and Word – Confucian Paths to Immortality | Tu Weiming | 1996 |
| Awakenings Revisited | Oliver Sacks | 1994 |
| Sacrifice, Surplus and the Soul | Romila Thapar | 1992 |
| Heaven Is No Holiday – Eternal Life in the View of the Sufis and of Muhammad Iqbal | Annemarie Schimmel | 1991 |
| Physical Theory, Brain Theory, Theories of Everything | Gerald Edelman | 1989 |
| Christian Platonism | Henry Chadwick | 1987 |
| How to Become Immortal without Really Trying: Taoism and the Nature of Ritual | Kristofer M. Schipper | 1985 |
| Ancient Near Eastern Concepts of Life after Death: A Background of the Judeo-Christian Tradition | Wilfred Lambert | 1984 |
| The Immortality of the Soul Among North American Indians | Ake Hultkranz | 1983 |
| Former Lives, or the Man Who Met the People in His Dream | Wendy O'Flaherty | 1982 |
| Personality Post-Mortem: Psychological States Attributed to the Deceased | George Devereux | 1981 |
| The Spirituality of Man’s Nature | Elizabeth Anscombe | 1979 |
| Mortal Neurons, Immortal Monads | Jerome Y. Lettvin | 1979 |
| Ancient Egyptian Ideas on the Reunion of Soul and Body | Erik Hornung | 1978 |
| The Soul and the Land of the Dead: South Asian Views | Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf | 1978 |
| Reflections on Science and Human Rationality | Stefan Amerdamski | 1976 |
| Does Knowledge Grow? | Thomas S. Kuhn | 1976 |
| Space as an Image of Time | Rudolf Arnheim | 1975 |
| Computers and the Mind | Seymour Papert | 1973 |
| The Makropoulos Case | Bernard A. Williams | 1972 |
| Participatory Evolution, the Drive of Creation | Charles Birch | 1971 |
| The Brain and the Soul | Sir John C. Eccles | 1969 |
| The Biology of Dreaming as an Approach to the Mind | Michel Jouvet | 1969 |
| Eternal Life and Social Action Now | James A. Pike | 1963 |
| Mind Fossils, Human Culture, and Eternity | Loren C. Eiseley | 1962 |
| The Meaning of Resurrection | Jacques Courvoisier | 1961 |
| Symbols of Eternal Life | Paul J. Tillich, | 1960 |
| Matter, Mind, and the Question of Survival | Aldous Huxley | 1960 |
| Platonic Trends in Christian Thought and Mysticism | Paul Henry | 1956 |
| Immortality | H. J. Paton | 1955 |
| Human Personality and the Possibility of Its Survival | C. D. Broad | 1954 |
| The Teaching of Immortality in Buddhism | G. P. Malalasekera | 1953 |
| Pantheism and Personal Immortality | Radoslav A. Tsanoff | 1951 |
| The Hindu View of Eternal Life | T. M. P. Mahadevan | 1949 |
| Is a Future Life Possible? | Curt John Ducasse | 1947 |
| Immortality and Fulfillment | Edward Lambe Parsons | 1945 |
| Imagination and Immortality | Arthur Cushman McGiffert | 1944 |
| The Human Soul and the Cosmic Mind | William Pepperell Montague | 1943 |
| Immortality: The Relativity of Death | William Ernest Hocking | 1942 |
| Earliest Traces of the Belief in Our Civilization | Axel W. Persson | 1941 |
| The Immortality of the Soul in Greek Religion and Philosophy | Martin P. Nilsson | 1940 |
| The Spiritual Character of Man and Its Relation to the Philosophy of Politics | Fulton J. Sheen | 1938 |
| The Belief in Immortality and the Triumph of Christianity | Henri Grégoire | 1938 |
| The Hope of Immortality | Douglas Clyde McIntosh | 1937 |
| The Experience of Immortality | Harold E. B. Speight | 1936 |
| The Premises of Our Faith in Immortality | Willard Learoy Sperry | 1935 |
| The Life of the Spirit | Walter Goodnow Everett | 1934 |
| The Meaning of Death | Ralph Barton Perry | 1933 |
