Whidden Lectures

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

Notes

1. ^ McMaster Daily News
2. ^ Three Aspects of Stuart England
3. ^ OUP 1957
4. ^ ^{a b} OUP 1958
5. ^ U. De Laval, 1964
6. ^ OUP 1960
7. ^ OUP 1966
8. ^ OUP 1965
9. ^ ^{a b} OUP 1964
10. ^ George Allen & Unwin, 1965
11. ^ OUP 1969
12. ^ OUP 1967
13. ^ OUP 1974