Bampton Lectures in America

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 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

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	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

• Bampton Lectures in America - Institute for Religion, Culture, & Public Life

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