Annual public lecture
The Romanes Lecture is a prestigious free public lecture given annually at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, England.
The lecture series was founded by, and named after, the biologist George Romanes, and has been running since 1892. Over the years, many notable figures from the Arts and Sciences have been invited to speak. The lecture can be on any subject in science, art or literature, approved by the Vice-Chancellor of the University.
List of Romanes lecturers and lecture subjects
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
- 2000 William G. Bowen — At a Slight Angle to the Universe: The University in a Digitized, Commercialized Age
- 2001 Neil MacGregor — The Perpetual Present. The Ideal of Art for All
- 2002 Tom Bingham — Personal Freedom and the Dilemma of Democracies
- 2003 Paul Nurse — The great ideas of biology
- 2004 Rowan Williams — Religious lives
- 2005 Shirley M. Tilghman — Strange bedfellows: science, politics, and religion
- 2006 Lecture was to have been delivered by Gordon Brown, but was postponed
- 2007 Dame Gillian Beer — Darwin and the Consciousness of Others
- 2008 Muhammad Yunus — Poverty Free World: When? How?
- 2009 Gordon Brown — Science and our Economic Future
2010s
2020s
See also
References
The text of each Romanes Lecture is generally published by Oxford University Press using the "Clarendon Press" imprint, and where appropriate the citation for an individual lecture is listed in the published works of each author's entry in Wikipedia.
- Romanes lectures, University of Oxford, 1986–2002, Oxford, Bodleian Library: MSS. Eng. c. 7027, Top. Oxon. c. 827
- Oxford lectures on philosophy, 1910–1923, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1908–23.
- Oxford lectures on history, 1904–1923, Oxford, The Clarendon Press 1904–23, which includes "Frontiers", by Lord Curzon, the Romanes lecture for 1907, "Biological analogies in history", by Theodore Roosevelt, the Romanes lecture for 1910, "The imperial peace" by Sir W. M. Ramsay, the Romanes lecture for 1913 and "Montesquieu" by Sir Courtenay Ilbert, the Romanes lecture for 1904.
- J.B. Bury, Romances of chivalry on Greek soil, being the Romanes lecture for 1911, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1911.
- Sir E. Ray Lankester: Romanes Lecture, Nature and Man, Oxford University Press, 1905
Notes
- ^ Never delivered, due to Acton's illness, but many notes are extant, see Herbert Butterfield, Man and His Past (1955), p. 63, and p.234 of A History of the University of Cambridge: 1870-1990 by Christopher Brooke, CUP, ISBN 0-521-34350-X
- ^ Sen, Amartya (1999). Reason before identity. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199513895.
- ^ Hinton, Geoffrey (2024). "Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence?". youtube.com. University of Oxford.
- ^ Anon (2024). "Romanes Lecture". ox.ac.uk.
External links
- Romanes Lectures since 1892 at the University web site.
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