- 2011 Professor Amartya Sen (Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University):
‘Reasoning and Disagreement’
- 2010 Professor Roy Foster (Carroll Professor of Irish History, University of Oxford):
‘Senses of Reality: Writing the Biography of a Revolutionary Generation’
- 2009 Dr James H Billington (Librarian of Congress): ‘A Humanist’s Conversation with the Twentieth Century
(Isaiah Berlin, 1909–1997)’
- 2008 Professor Timothy Garton Ash (Professor of European Studies
in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St
Antony’s College, Oxford, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
Stanford University): ‘Isaiah Berlin and the Challenge of Multiculturalism’
- 2007 Dr Michael Ignatieff (Deputy Leader
of the Canadian Liberal Party and MP for Etobicoke-Lakeshore, Toronto,
Ontario;
former Carr Professor of Human Rights Practice, Harvard University): ‘Isaiah Berlin on Political Judgement: Theory versus Practice’
- 2006 Professor Michael Walzer (UPS Foundation Professor,
School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton):
‘The
Paradox of National Liberation: India, Israel, Algeria’
- 2005 His Excellency Dr Jorge Sampaio, President of
Portugal:
‘Portugal and Europe: Routes of Change’
- 2004 Sir Tom Stoppard OM: ‘Drawing on the Wall of Plato’s
Cave’
- 2003 Professor Avishai Margalit (Professor of Philosophy,
Hebrew
University of Jerusalem): ‘Compromise and Appeasement: Between Peace
and
Justice’
- 2002 Dr Eva Hoffman: ‘The Romance of Difference and the
Question
of Tolerance Today’
- 2001 Professor Jared Diamond (Department of Physiology,
University
of California at Los Angeles’ School of Medicine): ‘Ecological
Collapses
of Pre-Industrial Societies’
- 2000 Dr Orlando Figes (Professor of History, Birkbeck
College,
London): ‘The Cultural Tradition of St Petersburg’
- 1999 Professor Charles Rosen (formerly Professor of Music
and
Social Thought at the University of Chicago): ‘Tradition without
Convention: The Impossible Nineteenth-Century Project’
- 1998 Jonathan Z Smith, (Professor of the Humanities,
University
of Chicago): ‘Close Encounters of Diverse Kinds’
- 1997 Simon Schama (Professor of Art, History and
Archaeology, Columbia University): ‘History and the Literary
Imagination’.
- 1996 Conor Cruise O’Brien (Writer & Diplomatist;
Pro-Chancellor,
University of Dublin): ‘Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson: Mutually
Antipathetic
Minds’
- 1995 Christopher Ricks (Professor of English, Boston
University):
‘Editing Early Eliot’
- 1994 Bernard Williams (White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford):
‘The Liberalism of Fear’
- 1993 Dr Hans Kung (Professor of Ecumenical Theology,
University
of Tübingen): ‘Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World
Ethic’
- 1992 Professor Fritz Stern (Professor of History, Columbia
University in the City of New York): ‘Historians and the Catastrophes
of
our Time: Private Experience and Public Explication’
- 1991 (Inaugural Lecture) Professor Stephen Jay Gould
(Professor of Geology and Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology, and
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative
Zoology, Harvard University): ‘Making Sense of the Unpredictable: The
Role of History and Contingency in
Science’
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