• 1954 - 1970
• 1971 - 1980
• 1981 - 1990
• 1990 - 1999
• 1999 - 2000
• 2000 - 2001
• 2001 - 2002
• 2002 - 2003
• 2003 - 2004
• 2004 - 2005
• 2005 - 2006
• 2006 - 2007
• 2007 - 2008
• 2008 - 2009

1954 - 1970

October 1954

(3 lectures)
Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Vice-President of India
New Delhi, India
India and World Affairs

October 1955

Miss Barbara Ward (Jackson)
Interplay of East and West

October 25, November 1 and 5, 1956

Dr Julian Huxley
London
The Possibilities of Life, Mind, Man

March 3, 10 and 17, 1959

Professor Morris Bishop
Ithaca, New York
The Great River at the White Man's Coming/The Missionary and the Coureur du Bois: Sagard and Brandûlé/Champlain

January 12, 17 and 19, 1961

Professor Arnold Toynbee
Westmorland, England
The Present Day Experiment in Western Civilization: The Experiment in Hellenization/The Attraction of the Western Way of Life/Parliamentary Democracy on Trial

November 1961

Sir Douglas Copland
London
The Changing Structure of the Western Economy

January 1963

Dr A.L. Rowse
Oxford, England
The Political Uses of History/The Role of Germany in Modern History/The Responsibility of the Historian

March 1964

Professor E.E. Rich
Cambridge University
Montreal and the Fur Trade - "The French Background"/The American Frontier/The Northwest Company

February 1967

Professor Max Beloff
Commonwealth Weakness, Britain

October 1968

(3 lectures)
Dr Elizabeth Han Suyin
London
Asia Today - Two Outlooks

1971 - 1980

November 1971

(3 lectures)
Lord Peter Ritchie-Calder
Science and Social Change: Science and International Relations/Science and Human Rights/Science and Posterity

November 1972

(2 lectures)
Professor Robert Sinsheimer
California Institute of Technology
Genetic Engineering - Ambush or Opportunity

November 7, 1973

Mr Saul Bellow
University of Chicago
Joyce's Ulysses: A Personal View

March 1974

Professor Robert N. Bellah
University of California (Berkeley)
Relevance of Man's Religious Experience

March 20, 24 and 26, 1975

Sir Fred Hoyle
Dockray, England
The Emergence of Intelligence in the Universe/Cosmological Theories and Controversies/The History of Matter

December 7, 1975

Mr Yehudi Menuhin
London
Interpretation in Music and in Life

April 8, 1976

Dr Alexander King
The International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study, Paris
A New Economic Order - Is it Necessary or Feasible?

November 25, 1976

Professor Derek de Solla Price
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Craftsmanship and Jigsawpuzzling in Science

March 30, 1977

Professor Edwin Reischauer
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Japanese-American Relations

November 9 and 10, 1977

Professor E.O. Wilson
Harvard University, Massachusetts
The Evolution of Social Behaviour

May 9, 1979

Dr Jane Goodall
Tanzania, East Africa
Chimpanzees in the Wild: Perspectives on Primate Behaviour

October 29, 30 and 31, 1979

Dr Richard Feynman
California Institute of Technology
Light and Matter - The Modern View: Photons - Particles of Light/Quantum Behaviour/Interaction of Light and Matter

November 22, 1979

Mr Ved Mehta
New Yorker magazine,
New York
Mahatma Gandhi and Modern India

1981 - 1990

March 23 and 24, 1981

Professor Ralf Dahrendorf,
Director, London School of Economics
London
A Swing to the Right? Socio-political Changes in the Western World/The European Community at the Beginning of the 1980s

December 1 and 2, 1981

Dr Saunders MacLane
University of Chicago
How Mathematicians Get New Ideas/Distortion of Science by Politics

March 9 and 10, 1982

Professor Gwendolen Carter
Florida
Apartheid: Dying or Resurgent/The African States Seek Economic Liberation

May 16, 18 and 20, 1983

Mr I.F. Stone
Washington
The Trial of Socrates Revisited: What Plato Doesn't Tell Us: The Case for the Prosecution/How Easily Socrates Might Have Won Acquittal/Plato on Trial: The Hidden Horrors of a Perfect City

September 19 and 21, 1984

Lord William McCarthy
Oxford, England
The Limits of Trade Union Power

May 13, 15 and 17, 1985

Dr Francis Crick
Salk Institute, California
How Do We See Things?/The Search-Light Hypothesis/The Problem of Awareness

April 7 and 9, 1987

Mr John Mortimer
London
The Art of Advocacy/Clinging to the Wreckage

November 26 and 27, 1987

Dr Christopher Hill
London
Milton and the English Revolution/Bunyan and His World/The End of the World

March 28, 29 and 30, 1988

Dr Kirk Varnedoe
Museum of Modern Art
New York
Fine Disregard: Inventions in Early Modern Art - New Space: Near and Far/New Time: Fragmentation and Repetition/Overview: The Flight of the Mind

March 15, 1989

Dr Sally Falk Moore
Harvard
Nationalism, Cultural Pluralism and the State

February 5, 6 and 7, 1990

Dr Gerald Edelman
Neurosciences Institute,
Rockefeller University,
New York
Morphology and Mind: Topobiology: The Problem of Morphology/Neural Darwinism: The Problem of Perception/The Remembered Present: Problems of Consciousness

1990 - 1999

Listening Earth series

March 19, 1990

Dr Norman Myers
Oxford
Safeguarding the Biosphere: What Cost: What Payoff?

March 20, 1990

Dr Francis Bretherton
University of Wisconsin
Understanding the Earth System

March 21, 1990

Dr Daniel Boorstin
Washington
America: Discovery, Invention or Creation?

Other

March 5, 1991

Dr C.N. Yang
SUNY (Stony Brook)
Symmetry and Physics

May 22 and 23, 1991

Mr Pierre Boulez
Composer, Paris
Répons/How to Develop a Musical Idea

December 7, 1992

Mr Arthur Ashe
Living with AIDS

March 5, 1993

M. Jacques Attali
European Bank for Reconstruction and Redevelopment, London
Europe on the World Stage in the Twenty-First Century

March 29, 1993

(roundtable - closed circuit)
Mr Mikhail Gorbachev
The New World Order

October 29, 1993

Mr Witold Lutoslawski
Composer
Warsaw
About the Element of Chance in Music

December 7, 1993

Dr Barbara Ehrenreich
New York
Can Feminism Change the World?

March 1, 1994

Ms Margaret Drabble
British novelist and biographer
The Corpse in the Garden: Concealments and Disclosures in Fiction and Biography

April 19, 1994

Professor Rudolph Marcus
California Institute of Technology
Life in Science: Interaction of Theory and Experiments

September 27, 1994

Sir David Akers-Jones
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Horizons

October 20, 1994

Dr Nancy Wexler
Columbia University
Huntington's Disease: Member of an Expanding Family of Disorders

November 1, 1994

Mr Paul Sacher
Conductor
Switzerland
Paul Sacher Remembers Béla Bartók

October 17, 1995

Ms Catherine Bertini
World Food Programme
Rome
Women Eat Last

November 30, 1995

Professor Yves Coppens
Collège de France, Paris
From Africa, the Cradle, to America, the New World: The Prehistory of Man and the Peopling of the Earth

March 19, 1996

Professor Roger Schank
Institute for Learning Sciences,
Northwestern University, Illinois
Why most schooling is irrelevant: Computers and the future of learning

November 4, 1996

Dr Bernard Kouchner
President of the Development and Cooperation Commission of the European Parliament,
Founder of Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders)
Conflict Prevention in an Age of Global Anxiety

January 21, 1997

Mr John Horgan
Journalist, Scientific American
The End of Science

September 30, 1997

Dr Oliver Sacks
Neurologist and author
Neurology and the Soul

October 28, 1997

Dame Cicely Saunders
St. Michael's Hospice
London, UK
Lessons in Living from the Dying

November 17, 1998

Dr Luc Montagnier
AIDS on the Threshold of the Year 2000: Merging Western Experiences and African Realities

January 26, 1999

Professor Carl Djerassi
Stanford University
Science-in-fiction is not science fiction

1999-2007

Ape or Angel: The Evolutionary View of Humanity
(Tripartite series co-sponsored with Mossman and Cummings lectures)

October 6, 1999

Dr Eugenie C. Scott
National Center for Science Education
Berkeley, California
The Great Controversy

October 13, 1999

Dr Paul Ewald
Amherst College, Massachusetts
What's Catching: The Darwinism of Disease

October 20, 1999

Dr Steven Mithen
University of Reading (UK)
Becoming Human: The Evolution of Mind and Language

Other

March 8, 2000

Dr Paul Crutzen
Director, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry,
Germany
The Importance of the Tropics in Atmospheric Chemistry

October 12, 2000

Dr Jonathan Miller
Author, director, physician
London, UK
Laughing Matters: Humour and Comedy

November 16, 2000

Dr Vartan Gregorian
President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Libraries and Reading in the Computer Age

February 12, 2002

Dr. Wangari Maathai
founder of the Green Belt Movement, Kenya
Standing up for the Environment

March 19, 2002

Sir John Maddox
Editor,(retired) Nature
London, UK
What remains to be discovered

May 23, 2002

Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan
Creating a Culture of Peace

October 9, 2002

William Galston: Religion and Liberal Society

October 10, 2002

Richard John Neuhaus: "Liberal Democracy and Acts of Faith"

December 3, 2002

Sandra Steingraber: Protecting the First Environment: The Ecology of Pregnancy and Childbirth

March 27, 2003

Herman E. Daly: Uneconomic Growth and The Illth of Nations: Defining the Optimal Scale of the Macro Economy

April 22, 2004

Steven Sanderson: Global Poverty Alleviation and the Impoverishment of Wild Nature

October 16, 2004
Shirin Ebadi: Democracy: The Precondition to Peace

October 1, 2005

Professor Michael Ignatieff
Harvard University
Canada in the World: The Challenges Ahead

September 14, 2006

Dr. Deepak Chopra
Religion and Spirituality

October 21, 2006

Professor Richard Dawkins
Queerer than We Suppose: The Strangeness of Science

October 20, 2007

Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director, UN Habitat
Divided Cities: Caught between hope and despair

October 18, 2008

James Gustave Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
Capitalism and the Environment - from Crisis to Sustainability