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.

Originally an annual event, the lectures have occurred somewhat sporadically since the 1970s.

According to literature, the 2001 lecture was the 33rd and the 2007 lecture the 35th. No record of the 34th (unless there's a miscount) exists.

Past Lectures

• 1948 Arnold J. Toynbee: “The Prospect of the Western Civilization”
• 1949 Paul R. Hawley: “New Discoveries and Their Effect”
• 1950 Charles H. Dodd: “Faith and Ethics in Early Christianity”
• 1951 Lewis Mumford: “Art and Technics”
• 1952 James B. Conant: “Modern Science and Modern Man”
• 1953 Alan Gregg: “Where Medicine Belongs Today”
• 1954 John Baillie: “The Idea of Revelation in the Light of Recent Discussion”
• 1955 Lionello Venturi: ”Four Steps toward Modern Art”
• 1956 Joel H. Hildebrand: ”Science in the Making”
• 1957 Brock Chisholm: ”The Expanding Concept of Health”
• 1958 Eric Lionel Mascall: ”The Importance of Being Human”
• 1959 Sir Anthony Frederick Blunt: ”The Art of William Blake”
• 1960 Detlev W. Bronk: ”The Status of Science and Modern Society”
• 1961 W. Barry Wood, Jr: ”From Miasmas to Molecules”
• 1962 Paul Tillich: ”Christianity and the Encounter of the World Religions”
• 1963 Northrop Frye: ”The Development of Shakespearean Romance”
• 1964 Fred Hoyle: ”Man and the Universe”
• 1965 Robert Hanna Felix: ”Mental Illness: A Yielding Enigma”
• 1966 Alasdair MacIntyre: ”The Dispute about God: Victorian Relevance Contemporary Irrelevance”
• Paul Ricoeur: ”Religion, Atheism and Faith”
• 1968 Sir John Summerson: ”Victorian Architecture: Four Studies in Evaluation”
• 1969 Jacob Bronowski: ”Magic, Science and Civilization”
• 1975 Paul Ramsey: ”Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine”
• 1976 Symposium: ”Titian - His Word and His Legacy”
• 1980 Symposium: ”Bernini and the Baroque”
• 1982 Anthony Kenny: ”Faith and Reason”
• 1983 Steven Weinberg: ”On the Art of Science”
• 1984 William Arrowsmith: ”Innovation and Tradition in Euripides”
• 1986 Zellig Harris: ”Language and Information”
• 1987 Peter Brown: ”Poverty and Power in the Later Roman Empire”
• 1988 Robert C. Gallo: ”Old Plagues and New Pandemics: Microbe Hunting Revisited”
• 1990 Annemarie Schimmel: ”Yusuf's Fragrant Shirt: Images in the Phenomenology of Islam”
• 1991 James Cahill: ”The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China”
• 2001 Archbishop Demetrios: ”Saint John Chrysostom: Anthropological Insights for Our Time”[1]
• 2007 Jonathan Riley-Smith: ”The Crusades, Christianity and Islam”