Sir Douglas Robb Lectures
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The Sir Douglas Robb Lectures are a lecture series that have existed at the University of Auckland in New Zealand since 1968. The series is named in honor of Sir Douglas Robb, and is noted for producing physicist Richard Feynman's QED lectures.
A partial list of lectures is as follows:[1]
| Lecturer | Year | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| John Kenneth Galbraith | 1968 | - |
| Steven Runciman | 1970 | The eastern churches and the secular state |
| Wilfred David Borrie | 1972 | Population, environment and society |
| Macfarlane Burnet | 1973 | The biology of aging |
| William Henry Pickering | 1974 | Exploring our solar system |
| W. J. M. Mackenzie | 1975 | Political adaptivity |
| John Russell Brown | 1976 | Theatre for today |
| Ivan Illich | 1978 | The art of suffering |
| Richard Feynman | 1979 | The behaviour of light and electrons[2] |
| Harry Hinsley | 1980 | The rise and fall of the modern international system |
| Richard Leakey | 1981 | Human Origins |
| Bernard Lewis | 1982 | Historical roots of the Islamic revolution |
| Carleton Gajdusek | 1983 | Man in isolation |
| Ngugi Wa Thiong’o | 1984 | The politics of language in African literature |
| Hermann Bondi | 1985 | The world of physics |
| Stephen Jay Gould | 1986 | Charles Darwin and the science of history |
| Laura Nader | 1987 | Controlling processes |
| E. P. Thompson | 1988 | Customs in common |
| William John Francis Jenner | 1989 | The power of China's pasts |
| Ian Brownlie | 1990 | Treaties and indigenous peoples |
| Colin Blakemore | 1991 | Images in the brain |
| Marshall Sahlins | 1992 | The anthropology of history in Polynesia |
| Carole Pateman | 1993 | Women and democracy |
| Lewis Wolpert | 1994 | The unnatural nature of science |
| Bernice Johnson Reagon | 1996 | The place of song in African American history |
| Immanuel Wallerstein | 1997 | Utopistics, or historical choices of the 21st century |
| Paul Krugman | 1998 | What happened to Asia? |
| Judy Chicago | 1999 | Women and art |
| Steven Weinberg | 2000 | [cancelled for illness] |
| Steven Pinker | 2001 | Language, mind, and evolution |
| David_Barker | 2002 | Mothers, babies and health in later life |
| Bryan Sykes | 2003 | The interpretation of genes |
| Marina Warner | 2004 | Magic and transformation in contemporary literature and culture[3] |
| Carl Wieman | 2005 | Two breakthroughs in physics research |
| Jared Diamond | 2006 | Science, history and human societies |
| Yash Ghai | 2007 | Organisation of the state in multi-ethnic societies |
| Sheldon Rothblatt | 2008 | "The uses of the university" revisited |
| Frans de Waal | 2009 | Our inner ape |
| Nicholas Stern | 2010 | The challenges for global collaboration and rationality[4] |
| Tariq Ali | 2011 | Empire and its futures |
| Alison Gopnik | 2012 | The philosophical baby: What children’s minds can teach us about the big questions |
| Kwame Anthony Appiah | 2013 | Identity, Honour, Politics[5] |
| Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson | 2014 | The Human Cost of Inequality[6][7] |
| Stuart Firestein | 2016 | Science and uncertainty[8][9] |
References
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- ^ "Sir Douglas Robb Lectures 2013". University of Auckland. University of Auckland. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- ^ "Sir Douglas Robb Lectures 2014". University of Auckland. University of Auckland. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- ^ "The equality debate: Inequality in NZ under spotlight". 2014-05-12. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
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