Whidden Lectures

1956 series of lectures at McMaster University

The Whidden Lectures are a lecture series at McMaster University, funded 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: You Must Remember This: Illusions of Memory[14]
* 2000 Bruce Meyer: Canadian Literature and the Western Tradition
* 2001 Steven V. W. Beckwith, Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, "Rocket Science and Little Green Men"
* 2002 Cancelled
* 2003 Jean-Daniel Stanley, Deltas Global Change Program, Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, "World Deltas: Archeological and Environmental Perspectives"
* 2005 Donna Haraway, Professor of the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz, "We Have Never Been Modern"
* 2006 Brian Massumi, Professor of Communication, Université de Montréal, "The Ideal Streak—Why Visual Representation Always Fails," "Potential Politics and the Primacy of Preemption," and "Affect and Abstraction"
* 2007 Mervyn Morris, Poet and Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and West Indian Literature, University of the West Indies, "Playing with the Dialect of the Tribe: West Indian Poetry"
* 2008 Mahmood Mamdani, Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and Political Science at Columbia University, "Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror"
* 2009 Sean B. Carroll, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Wisconsin, "Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species" and "Endless Forms Most Beautiful: Evo-Devo and an Expanding Evolutionary Synthesis"
* 2011 Sara Ahmed, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London, "On Being Included: On Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life" and "Wilful Subjects: On the Experience of Social Dissent"
* 2012 Ray Jayawardhana, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics, University of Toronto, "Rocks, Ice and Penguins: Searching for Clues to Planetary Origins in Antarctica"
* 2013 Jasbir Puar, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, "Ecologies of Sensation,Sensational Ecologies: Sex and Disability in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine"
* 2014 Joanna Aizenberg, Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, "Stealing from Nature: Bioinspired Materials of the Future"
* 2016 Amber Miller, Professor of Physics and Dean of Science at Columbia University, "Nature's Ultimate Time Machine: Photographing the Infant Universe", "Cosmological Observations from the Stratosphere"
* 2017 Daphne Brooks, Professor of African American Studies, Theater Studies, and American Studies at Yale University, "The Knowles Sisters' Political Hour: Black Feminist Sonic Dissent at the End of the Third Reconstruction", "If You Should Lose Me": The Archive, the Critic, the Record Shop & the Blues Woman"
* 2018 Joanna Bryson, Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at the University of Bath, "The Good, the Bad, and the Synthetic"
* 2019 Kim TallBear, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment, Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, "Tipi Confessions and the RELAB: Decolonizing Indigenous Sexualities and Research-Creation"

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Whidden Lecture Home Page

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
14. ^ Donaldson (Ed.), Jeffery (September 1997). "Faculty Newsletter, September 1997, Volume 24.1" (PDF).

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