Whidden Lectures
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The Whidden Lectures are a lecture series at McMaster University, founded in 1954 by E. Carey Fox.[1] They commemorate Howard P. Whidden, who was Chancellor of the university from 1923 to 1941.[2] 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[3]
- 1957 Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru: The Evolution of India[4]
- 1958 Ronald Syme: Colonial Elites: Rome, Spain and the Americas[4]
- 1959 Charles De Koninck: The Hollow Universe[5]
- 1960 George Norman Clark: Three Aspects of Stuart England[6]
- 1961 William Foxwell Albright:.New Horizons in Biblical Research[7]
- 1962 J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Flying Trapeze: Three crises for physicists[8]
- 1963 Ian Ramsey: Models and Mystery[9]
- 1964 David Daiches, The Paradox of Scottish Culture: the Eighteenth Century Experience[9]
- 1965 William Arthur Lewis: Politics in West Africa[10]
- 1966 Anthony Blunt: Picasso's 'Guernica'[11]
- 1967 Northrop Frye: The Modern Century[12]
- 1970 Eric Ashby: Masters and Scholars;: Reflections on the rights and responsibilities of students
- 1973 Edward Togo Salmon: The Nemesis of Empire[13]
- 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
- 2006 Brian Massumi
- 2007 Mervyn Morris
- 2008 Mahmood Mamdani
- 2009 Sean B. Carroll
- 2011 Sara Ahmed
- 2012 Ray Jayawardhana
