Whidden Lectures

The Whidden Lectures are a lecture series at McMaster University, funded in 1954 by E. Carey Fox. ^[1] They commemorate Howard P. Whidden, who was Chancellor of the university from 1923 to 1941. ^[2] They were first given in 1956. Many of the lectures have been published in book form, by 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"
• 2019 Kim TallBear, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment, Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, "Tipi Confessions and the RELAB: Decolonizing Indigenous Sexualities and Research-Creation"

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Whidden Lecture Home Page

1. "McMaster Daily News". Archived from the original on 2012-02-06. Retrieved 2007-05-26.
2. "Three Aspects of Stuart England". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
3. OUP 1957
4. OUP 1958
5. U. De Laval, 1964
6. OUP 1960
7. OUP 1966
8. OUP 1965
9. OUP 1964
10. George Allen & Unwin, 1965
11. OUP 1969
12. OUP 1967
13. OUP 1974
14. Donaldson (Ed.), Jeffery (September 1997). "Faculty Newsletter, September 1997, Volume 24.1" (PDF).