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The Page-Barbour
Lecturers
1907-2005
Year
Speaker and Title of the Lectures 1907
Silas Weir Mitchell. Some Literary Reminiscences.
1908
Basil Gildersleeve. Hellas and Hesperia.
1909
Charles W. Eliot. Conflict Between Individualism and Collectivism in a Democracy
1910
Thomas R. Lounsbury. The Early Literary Career of Robert Browning.
1911
William Henry Welch. Development of Medicine As a Science.
1912
None
1913
James Bryce. Ancient Democracy.
1914
Arthur Twining Hadley. Undercurrents in American Politics.
1915
William Howard Taft. The Presidency.
1916
Archibald Cary Coolidge. Origins of the Triple Alliance.
1917
John Henry Wigmore. Problems of Law.
1918
None
1919
None
1920
William Roscoe Thayer. The Art of Biography.
1921
None
1922
Thomas Nelson Page. Dante and His Influence.
1923
None
1924
John Huston Finley. The Making and Mission of America.
1925
James Thomson Shotwell. The Security of Nations.
1926
Alexander Frederick Whyte. Asia in the Twentieth Century.
1927
Alfred North Whitehead. Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect.
1928
Walter Lippmann. American Inquisitors.
1929
William E. Dodd. The Statecraft of Woodrow Wilson.
1930
Frederick Paul Keppel. The Foundation.
1931
Albert J. Nock. The Theory of Education in the United States.
1932
Lindsay Rogers. Crisis Government.
1933
T.S. Eliot. After Strange Gods.
1934
Henry Norris Russell. The Solar System and Its Origin.
1935
John Dewey. Liberalism and Social Action.
1936
Robert Millikan. Cosmic Rays.
1937
Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker. The Beginnings of American Civilization.
1938
Wolfgang Kohler. Dynamics in Psychology.
1939
Heinrich Bruning. The Changing Background of Democracy.
1940
Carl Louis Becker. Modern Democracy.
1941
Reginald Aldworth Daly. The Floor of the Ocean.
1942
Irwin Panofsky. The Gothic Style.
1943
Gilbert Chinard. The Sage of Monticello.
1944-48
None
1949
W.H. Auden. The Enchafed Flood.
1950
Archibald Thomson Davison. Bach and Handel.
1951
Allan Nevins. The Statesmanship of the Civil War.
1952
James B. Conant. Education and Liberty.
1953
Dennis H. Robertson. Britain in the World Economy.
1954
Theodosius Dobzhansky. The Biological Basis of Human Freedom.
1955
George E. Mylonas. Ancient Mycenae.
1956
N.P. Mott. Atomic Structure and the Strength of Metals.
1957
S. Lane Faison. German Art in the Age of Bach.
1958
None
1959
B.F. Skinner. Education: A Technology of Behavior.
1960
Fred Hoyle. New Theories on the Origin of Stars and Elements.
1961
Northrop Frye. The Well-Tempered Critic.
1962
Leo Strauss. The City and The Man.
1963
Don K. Price. The Scientific Estate.
1964
John W. Milnor. Topology From the Differential Viewpoint.
1965
Marjorie Hope Nicholson. Pepys’ Diary and the New Science.
1966
John Wheeler-Bennett. The Crown, the Empire, and the Commonwealth.
1967
Chen Ning Yang. Symmetry Principles in Physics.
1968
R.W. Fleming. The University Now: Reflections of a President.
1969
James Willard Hurst. The Legitimacy of the Business Corporation.
1970
Charles Sterling. Studies in French 15th Century Painting.
1971
Jean Gottmann. The People and Their Territory: Reconsideration of a Basic Relationship.
1972
Sir John Summerson. Victorian Architecture in London.
1973
Robert Coles. (Title unavailable.)
1974-95
None
1995
Thomas P. Hughes. Metaphors Shaping Modern History: Creation, Mechanization, and Control.
1996
Johannes Fabian. Moments of Freedom: On Anthropology and Popular Culture
1997
James C. Scott. The State and People Who Move.
1997
Ian Hacking. Strange Voyagers: The Epidemic of Dissociative Fugue in France, 1886-1910.
1997
Barbara Stafford. Visual Analogy: Reviving the Art of Love.
1998
Nobel Peace Laureates Conference.
Ira Katznelson. Southern Politics Revisited: Reflections on Representation, Partisanship, and Social Change in the Last Half-Century. 1999
Wole Soyinka. The Muse at War: African Expression and the Siege of Censors
2000
Maurice Kriegel: A History of Jewish Messianism in the Modern World.
2001
Dr. Charles Joyner:Meeting of the Waters: The Current of Southern Music
2002 Maurice Godelier: In and Out of Western Tradition: The delicate balance of Social Anthropology 2004 Freeman Dyson: Life in the Universe 2004
Richard Rorty: The Priority of Imagination Over Reason
For more information, please contact
M. Jamie Ferreira, Page-Barbour and Richard Lectures Committee Chair or Aaron Wall, Assistant to the Page-Barbour and Richard Lecture Committee.
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