Whidden Lectures
Whidden Lectures adalah rangkaian mata kuliah di McMaster University, yang didanai pada tahun 1954 oleh E. Carey Fox.[1] Mereka memperingati Howard P. Whidden, yang merupakan rektor dari Universitas tersebut dari tahun 1923 sampai 1941.[2] Mata kuliah ini pertama kali disampaikan pada tahun 1956. Banyak yang telah diterbitkan dalam bentuk buku, oleh Oxford University Press.
- 1956 C. W. de Kiewiet: The Anatomy of South African Misery[3]
- 1957 Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru: The Evolution of India[4]
- 1958 Ronald Syme: Colonial Elites: Rome, Spain and the Americas[4]
- 1959 Charles De Koninck: The Hollow Universe[5]
- 1960 George Norman Clark: Three Aspects of Stuart England[6]
- 1961 William Foxwell Albright: New Horizons in Biblical Research[7]
- 1962 J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Flying Trapeze: Three Crises for Physicists[8]
- 1963 Ian Ramsey: Models and Mystery[9]
- 1964 David Daiches: The Paradox of Scottish Culture: the Eighteenth Century Experience[9]
- 1965 William Arthur Lewis: Politics in West Africa[10]
- 1966 Anthony Blunt: Picasso's 'Guernica'[11]
- 1967 Northrop Frye: The Modern Century[12]
- 1970 Eric Ashby: Masters and Scholars: Reflections on the Rights and Responsibilities of Students
- 1973 Edward Togo Salmon: The Nemesis of Empire[13]
- 1974 Richard Stockton MacNeish
- 1975 Noam Chomsky: Reflections on Language
- 1983 A. J. Ayer: Freedom and Morality
- 1986 John Rupert Martin
- 1988 Tom Stoppard: The Event and the Text
- 1993 Alan James Ryan
- 1997 Elizabeth Loftus: You Must Remember This: Illusions of Memory[14]
- 2000 Bruce Meyer: Canadian Literature and the Western Tradition
- 2001 Steven V. W. Beckwith, Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, "Rocket Science and Little Green Men"
- 2002 Cancelled
- 2003 Jean-Daniel Stanley, Deltas Global Change Program, Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, "World Deltas: Archeological and Environmental Perspectives"
- 2005 Donna Haraway, Professor of the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz, "We Have Never Been Modern"
- 2006 Brian Massumi, Professor of Communication, Université de Montréal, "The Ideal Streak—Why Visual Representation Always Fails," "Potential Politics and the Primacy of Preemption," and "Affect and Abstraction"
- 2007 Mervyn Morris, Poet and Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and West Indian Literature, University of the West Indies, "Playing with the Dialect of the Tribe: West Indian Poetry"
- 2008 Mahmood Mamdani, Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and Political Science at Columbia University, "Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror"
- 2009 Sean B. Carroll, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Wisconsin, "Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species" and "Endless Forms Most Beautiful: Evo-Devo and an Expanding Evolutionary Synthesis"
- 2011 Sara Ahmed, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London, "On Being Included: On Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life" and "Wilful Subjects: On the Experience of Social Dissent"
- 2012 Ray Jayawardhana, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics, University of Toronto, "Rocks, Ice and Penguins: Searching for Clues to Planetary Origins in Antarctica"
- 2013 Jasbir Puar, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, "Ecologies of Sensation,Sensational Ecologies: Sex and Disability in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine"
- 2014 Joanna Aizenberg, Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, "Stealing from Nature: Bioinspired Materials of the Future"
- 2016 Amber Miller, Professor of Physics and Dean of Science at Columbia University, "Nature's Ultimate Time Machine: Photographing the Infant Universe", "Cosmological Observations from the Stratosphere"
- 2017 Daphne Brooks, Professor of African American Studies, Theater Studies, and American Studies at Yale University, "The Knowles Sisters' Political Hour: Black Feminist Sonic Dissent at the End of the Third Reconstruction", "If You Should Lose Me": The Archive, the Critic, the Record Shop & the Blues Woman"
- 2018 Joanna Bryson, Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at the University of Bath, "The Good, the Bad, and the Synthetic"
Notes
sunting- ^ McMaster Daily News
- ^ Three Aspects of Stuart England
- ^ OUP 1957
- ^ a b OUP 1958
- ^ U. De Laval, 1964
- ^ OUP 1960
- ^ OUP 1966
- ^ OUP 1965
- ^ a b OUP 1964
- ^ George Allen & Unwin, 1965
- ^ OUP 1969
- ^ OUP 1967
- ^ OUP 1974
- ^ Donaldson (Ed.), Jeffery (September 1997). "Faculty Newsletter, September 1997, Volume 24.1" (PDF).