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The '''Bampton Lectures in America''' are either a series of lectures, or single lecture, delivered during the academic year by a prominent scholar on a topic of their choosing. The lectures, modeled on the [[w:Bampton Lectures|Bampton Lectures]] at [[Oxford]], were established by a bequest from Ada Byron Bampton Tremaine. The lectures are subsequently published by [[Columbia University Press]].

Originally an annual event, only 12 lectures were delivered between 1969 and 2007, with two each for the entirety of 1970s and 1990s. Since 2007 the lectures have been held on a biennial basis.

== Past Lectures ==
{|
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Number'''
| '''Year'''
| '''Speaker'''
| '''Title'''
|-
|1
|1948   
|Arnold J. Toynbee: 
|The Prospect of the Western Civilization
|-
|2
|1949   
|Paul R. Hawley
|“New Discoveries and Their Effect”
|-
|3
|1950  
|Charles H. Dodd
|“Faith and Ethics in Early Christianity”
|-
|4
|1951
|Lewis Mumford
|“Art and Technics”
|-
|5
|1952
|James B. Conant
|“Modern Science and Modern Man”
|-
|6
|1953
|Alan Gregg
|“Where Medicine Belongs Today”
|-
|7
|1954
|John Baillie
|“The Idea of Revelation in the Light of Recent Discussion”
|-
|8
|1955
|Lionello Venturi
|”Four Steps toward Modern Art”
|-
|9
|1956
|Joel H. Hildebrand
|”Science in the Making”
|-
|10
|1957
|Brock Chisholm
|”The Expanding Concept of Health”
|-
|11
|1958
|Eric Lionel Mascall
|”The Importance of Being Human”
|-
|12
|1959
|Sir Anthony Frederick Blunt
|”The Art of William Blake”
|-
|13
|1960
|Detlev W. Bronk
|”The Status of Science and Modern Society”
|-
|14
|1961
|W. Barry Wood, Jr
|”From Miasmas to Molecules”
|-
|15
|1962
|Paul Tillich
|”Christianity and the Encounter of the World Religions”
|-
|16
|1963
|Northrop Frye
|”The Development of Shakespearean Romance”
|-
|17
|1964
|Fred Hoyle
|”Man and the Universe”
|-
|18
|1965
|Robert Hanna Felix
|”Mental Illness: A Yielding Enigma”
|-
|19
|1966
|Alasdair MacIntyre
|”The Dispute about God: Victorian Relevance Contemporary Irrelevance”
|-
|20
|1966   
|Paul Ricoeur
|”Religion, Atheism and Faith”
|-
|21
|1968
|Sir John Summerson
|”Victorian Architecture: Four Studies in Evaluation”
|-
|22
|1969
|Jacob Bronowski
|”Magic, Science and Civilization”
|-
|23
|1975
|Paul Ramsey
|”Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine”
|-
|24
|1976   
|Symposium 
|”Titian - His Word and His Legacy”
|-
|25
|1980   
|Symposium
|”Bernini and the Baroque”
|-
|26
|1982
|Anthony Kenny
|”Faith and Reason”
|-
|27
|1983
|Steven Weinberg
|”On the Art of Science”
|-
|28
|1984
|William Arrowsmith
|”Innovation and Tradition in Euripides”
|-
|29
|1986
|Zellig Harris
|”Language and Information”
|-
|30
|1987
|Peter Brown
|”Poverty and Power in the Later Roman Empire”
|-
|31
|1988 
|Robert C. Gallo
|”Old Plagues and New Pandemics: Microbe Hunting Revisited”
|-
|32
|1990  
|Annemarie Schimmel
|”Yusuf's Fragrant Shirt: Images in the Phenomenology of Islam”
|-
|33
|1991   
|James Cahill
|”The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China”
|-
|33<ref>The press release for the 2001 lecture numbers it the 33rd in the series, though most records indicate that it is the 34th lecture, and the following lecture in 2007 was numbered the 35th. [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/01/03/33rd_bampton_lecture.html 33rd Bampton Lecture to Be Delivered March 8], 5 Mar. 2001, Columbia News.</ref>
|2001
|Archbishop Demetrios
|”Saint John Chrysostom: Anthropological Insights for Our Time”
|-
|35
|2007   
|Jonathan Riley-Smith
|”The Crusades, Christianity and Islam”
|-
|36
|2009
|Irving Weissman
|”Speculations on Stem Cells and the Mind”
|-
|37
|2011
|Wendy Freedman
|”A Runaway Universe”
|-
|38
|2013
|Liam Gillick
|”Creative Disruption in the Age of Soft Revolutions: A series of four lectures”
|}

== External links ==
* [http://ircpl.org/bampton-lectures/ Bampton Lectures in America - Institute for Religion, Culture, & Public Life]

== References ==
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[[Category:Lectures and panels]]