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Past Page-Barbour Speakers

1907 Silas Weir Mitchell. Some Literary Reminiscences.
1908 Basil Gildersleeve. Hellas and Hesperia.
1909 Charles W. Eliot. Conflict Between Individualism and Collectivism in a Democracy
1910 Thomas R. Lounsbury. The Early Literary Career of Robert Browning.
1911 William Henry Welch. Development of Medicine As a Science.
1912 None
1913 James Bryce. Ancient Democracy.
1914 Arthur Twining Hadley. Undercurrents in American Politics.
1915 William Howard Taft. The Presidency.
1916 Archibald Cary Coolidge. Origins of the Triple Alliance.
1917 John Henry Wigmore. Problems of Law.
1918 None
1919 None
1920 William Roscoe Thayer. The Art of Biography.
1921 None
1922 Thomas Nelson Page. Dante and His Influence.
1923 None
1924 John Huston Finley. The Making and Mission of America.
1925 James Thomson Shotwell. The Security of Nations.
1926 Alexander Frederick Whyte. Asia in the Twentieth Century.
1927 Alfred North Whitehead. Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect.
1928 Walter Lippmann. American Inquisitors.
1929 William E. Dodd. The Statecraft of Woodrow Wilson.
1930 Frederick Paul Keppel. The Foundation.
1931 Albert J. Nock. The Theory of Education in the United States.
1932 Lindsay Rogers. Crisis Government.
1933 T.S. Eliot. After Strange Gods.
1934 Henry Norris Russell. The Solar System and Its Origin.
1935 John Dewey. Liberalism and Social Action.
1936 Robert Millikan. Cosmic Rays.
1937 Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker. The Beginnings of American Civilization.
1938 Wolfgang Kohler. Dynamics in Psychology.
1939 Heinrich Bruning. The Changing Background of Democracy.
1940 Carl Lotus Becker. Modern Democracy.
1941 Reginald Aldworth Daly. The Floor of the Ocean.
1942 Irwin Panofsky. The Gothic Style.
1943 Gilbert Chinard. The Sage of Monticello.
1944-48 None
1949 W.H. Auden. The Enchafed Flood.
1950 Archibald Thomson Davison. Bach and Handel.
1951 Allan Nevins. The Statesmanship of the Civil War.
1952 James B. Conant. Education and Liberty.
1953 Dennis H. Robertson. Britain in the World Economy.
1954 Theodosius Dobzhansky. The Biological Basis of Human Freedom.
1955 George E. Mylonas. Ancient Mycenae.
1956 N.P. Mott. Atomic Structure and the Strength of Metals.
1957 S. Lane Faison. German Art in the Age of Bach.
1958 None
1959 B.F. Skinner. Education: A Technology of Behavior.
1960 Fred Hoyle. New Theories on the Origin of Stars and Elements.
1961 Northrop Frye. The Well-Tempered Critic.
1962 Leo Strauss. The City and The Man.
1963 Don K. Price. The Scientific Estate.
1964 John W. Milnor. Topology From the Differential Viewpoint.
1965 Marjorie Hope Nicholson. Pepys’ Diary and the New Science.
1966 John Wheeler-Bennett. The Crown, the Empire, and the Commonwealth.
1967 Chen Ning Yang. Symmetry Principles in Physics.
1968 R.W. Fleming. The University Now: Reflections of a President.
1969 James Willard Hurst. The Legitimacy of the Business Corporation.
1970 Charles Sterling. Studies in French 15th Century Painting.
1971 Jean Gottmann. The People and Their Territory: Reconsideration of a Basic Relationship.
1972 Sir John Summerson. Victorian Architecture in London.
1973 Robert Coles. (Title unavailable.)
1974-95  
1995 Thomas P. Hughes. Metaphors Shaping Modern History: Creation, Mechanization, and Control.
1996 Johannes Fabian. Moments of Freedom: On Anthropology and Popular Culture
1997 James C. Scott. The State and People Who Move.
1997 Ian Hacking. Strange Voyagers: The Epidemic of Dissociative Fugue in France, 1886-1910.
1997 Barbara Stafford. Visual Analogy: Reviving the Art of Love.
1998 Nobel Peace Laureates Conference.
1999 Ira Katznelson. Southern Politics Revisited: Reflections on Representation, Partisanship, and Social Change in the Last Half-Century.
1999 Wole Soyinka. The Muse at War: African Expression and the Siege of Censors
2000 Maurice Kriegel. A History of Jewish Messianism in the Modern World.
2001 Dr. Charles Joyner.Meeting of the Waters: The Current of Southern Music
2002 Maurice Godelier. In and Out of Western Tradition: The delicate balance of Social Anthropology

2004

Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University

Life in the Universe

A Friendly Universe

Looking for Life

Possible Futures

2004

Richard Rorty, Stanford University

The Priority of Imagination Over Reason

Getting Rid of Appearance-Reality Distinction
Universalist Grandeur and Analytic Philosophy
Romanticism, Narrative Philosophy, and Human Finitude

2005

Stephen Muhall, Oxford University.

The Conversation of Humanity

Language, Philosophy and Sophistry: from Wittgenstein to Plato
Conversing about Conversation: Heidegger and Gadamer, Oakeshott and Rorty
Lectures and Letters as Conversation: Cavell as Educator

2005

Dan Segal, Pitzer College

Modernity and the History Monopoly

Social Evolutionary Thought and the Misrecognition of History
Remembering History Without 'Having a History'
'The Great Transformation' without its Beginning or End

2006

T.J. Clark, Berkeley

The Exchange of Women

2007

Natasha Trethewey, Emory University

Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Present
Past
Future

2008

Louis Menand, Harvard

Academic Pickles

The Problem of General Education
Interdisciplinarity and Anxiety
'Why Do Professors All Think Alike?