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The Romanes Lecture is a prestigious free public lecture given annually at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. The lecture series was founded by, and named after, the biologist George Romanes, and has been running since 1892. Over the years, many notable figures from the Arts and Sciences have been invited to speak. The lecture can be on any subject in science, art or literature, approved by the Vice-Chancellor of the University.

List of Romanes lecturers and lecture subjects

1890s

1892 William Ewart Gladstone — Mediæval Universities (A report of the speech is available in the digital archive of The Nation.)
1893 Thomas Henry Huxley — Evolution and Ethics (See also a contemporary review of Huxley's lecture)
1894 August Weismann — The Effect of External Influences upon Development
1895 Holman Hunt — The Obligations of the Universities towards Art
1896 Mandell Creighton — The English National Character
1897 John Morley — Machiavelli
1898 Archibald Geikie — Types of Scenery and their Influence on Literature
1899 Richard Claverhouse Jebb — Humanism in education

1900s

1900 James Murray — The Evolution of English Lexicography

(Also available at The Oxford English Dictonary site

1901 Lord Acton — The German school of history

1902 James Bryce — The Relations of the Advanced and the Backward Races of Mankind

1903 Oliver Lodge — Modern views on matter

1904 Courtenay Ilbert — Montesquieu

1905 Ray Lankester — Nature and Man

1906 William Paton Ker — Sturla the Historian

1907 Lord Curzon — Frontiers (part 1

)

1908 Henry Scott Holland — The optimism of Butler's Analogy

1909 Arthur Balfour — Questionings on Criticism and Beauty

1910s

1910 Theodore Roosevelt — Biological Analogies in History (Available in the collection African and European Addresses

1911 J.B. Bury — Romances of chivalry on Greek soil

1912 Henry Montagu Butler — Lord Chatham as an orator

1913 William Mitchell Ramsay — The imperial peace: an ideal in European history

1914 J. J. Thomson – The atomic theory

1915 E. B. Poulton – Science and the Great War

1916

1917

1918 Herbert Henry Asquith — Some Aspects of the Victorian Age

1919

1920s

1920 William Ralph Inge — The Idea of Progress

1921 Joseph Bédier — Roland à Roncevaux

1922 Arthur Stanley Eddington — The theory of relativity and its influence on scientific thought

1923 John Burnet — Ignorance

1924 John Masefield — Shakespeare & spiritual life

1925 William Henry Bragg — The Crystalline State

1926 G.M. Trevelyan — The Two-Party System in English Political History

1927 Frederick George Kenyon — Museums and National Life

1928 D. M. S. Watson — Palaeontology and the Evolution of Man

1929 Sir John William Fortescue

1930s

1930 Winston Churchill — Parliamentary Government and the Economic Problem

1931 John Galsworthy — The Creation of Character in Literature

1932 Berkley Moynihan

1933

1934 William Rothenstein — Form and content in English Painting

1935 Gilbert Murray — Then and Now

1936 Donald Francis Tovey — Normality and Freedom in Music

1937 Harley Granville-Barker — On Poetry in Drama

1938 Lord Robert Cecil — Peace and Pacifism

1939 Laurence Binyon — Art and freedom

1940s

1940

1941 William Hailey — The position of colonies in a British commonwealth of nations

1942 Norman H. Baynes — Intellectual liberty and totalitarian claims

1943 Julian Huxley — Evolutionary Ethics (50 years after his grandfather gave the lecture)

1944

1945

1946 John Anderson — The machinery of government

1947 Lord Samuel — Creative Man

1948 Lord Brabazon of Tara — Forty years of flight

1949 Claud Schuster — Mountaineering

1950s

1950 John Cockcroft — The development and future of nuclear energy

1951 Maurice Hankey — The science and art of government

1952 Lewis Bernstein Namier — Monarchy and the party system

1953 Viscount Simon — Crown and Commonwealth

1954 Kenneth Clark — Moments of Vision

1955 Albert Richardson — The significance of the fine arts

1956 Thomas Beecham — John Fletcher

1957 Ronald Knox — On English translation

1958 Edward Bridges — The State and the Arts

1959 Lord Denning — From Precedent to Precedent

1960s

1960 Edgar Douglas Adrian — Factors in mental evolution

1961 Vincent Massey — Canadians and Their Commonwealth

1962 Cyril Radcliffe — Mountstuart Elphinstone

1963 Violet Bonham Carter — The impact of personality in politics (45 years after her father gave the lecture)

1964 Harold Hartley — Man and Nature

1965 Noel Annan — The Disintegration of an Old Culture

1966 Maurice Bowra — A case for humane learning

1967 Rab Butler — The Difficult Art of Autobiography

1968 Peter Medawar — Science and Literature

1969 Lord Holford — A World of Room

1970s

1970 Isaiah Berlin — Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament (Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 14 February 1971)

1971

1972 Karl Popper — On the Problem of Body and Mind

1973 Ernst Gombrich — Art History and the Social Sciences

1974 Solly Zuckermann — Advice and Responsibility

1975

1976 Iris Murdoch — The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato banished the artists

1977

1978 George Porter — Science and the Human Purpose

1979 Hugh Casson — The arts and the academies

1980s

1980 Jo Grimond — Is political philosophy based on a mistake?

1981 A.J.P. Taylor — War in Our Time

1982

1983

1984–5 Miriam Louisa Rothschild — Animals and Man

1986 Nicholas Henderson — Different Approaches to Foreign Policy

1987 Norman St. John-Stevas — The Omnipresence of Walter Bagehot

1988 Hugh Trevor-Roper — The Lost Moments of History (A revised version

at the NYRB.)

1989

1990s

1990 Saul Bellow — The Distracted Public

1991 Gianni Agnelli — Europe: Many Legacies, One Future

1992 Robert Blake — Gladstone, Disraeli and Queen Victoria (The Centenary Lecture)

1993 Henry Harris — Hippolyte's club foot: the medical roots of realism in modern European literature

1994 Lord Slynn of Hadley — Europe and Human Rights

1995 Walter Bodmer — The Book of Man

1996 Roy Jenkins — The Chancellorship of Oxford: A Contemporary View with a Little History

1997 Mary Robinson — Realizing Human Rights:"Take hold of it boldly and duly..."

1998 Amartya Kumar Sen — Reason before identity

1999 Tony Blair — The Learning Habit

2000s

2000 William G. Bowen — At a Slight Angle to the Universe: The University in a Digitized, Commercialized Age

2001 Neil MacGregor — The Perpetual Present. The Ideal of Art for All (Newsletter report of the lecture

)

2002 Tom Bingham — Personal Freedom and the Dilemma of Democracies

2003 Paul Nurse — The great ideas of biology

2004 Rowan Williams — Religious lives

2005 Shirley M. Tilghman — Strange bedfellows: science, politics, and religion

2007 Dame Gillian Beer — Darwin and the Consciousness of OthersFurther Information

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