The University Lectureship
The University Lecture was established at Boston University in 1950 for the purpose of honoring members of the faculty engaged in outstanding research. The lecture provides an opportunity for all members of the University community—as well as the general public—to meet a distinguished scholar discussing a topic of recognized excellence. Each spring, all members of the faculty are invited to make nominations for the subsequent year’s lecturer. The University Lecturers from the previous five years act as the Graduate School’s Nominating Committee. The lectures are open to the public.
Brenton R. Lutz, The Living Blood Vessels, December 11, 1950
Edgard Sheffield Brightman, Persons and Values, April 16, 1951
Warren O. Ault, The Self-Directing Activities of Village Communities in Medieval England, December 10, 1951
Sanford B. Hooker, The Individualities of the Human Blood, April 17, 1952
Elmer A. Leslie, The Intimate Papers of Jeremiah, December 11, 1952
Karl Geiringer, The Bachs — A Family Portrait, April 8, 1953
William Malamud, Psychosomatics — A Medical Definition of Body-Mind Relationship, December 8, 1953
Edward Wagenknecht, The Unknown Longfellow, April 8, 1954
Walter G. Muelder, The Idea of a Responsible Society, December 9, 1954
Albert Morris, Homicide: An Approach to the Problem of Crime, April 14, 1955
Frank T. Nowak, Russian Imperial and Soviet Foreign Policy, December 6, 1955
Chester S. Keefer, Medical Science and Society, April 10, 1956
Gerald W. Brace, The Age of the Novel, December 11, 1956
Donald D. Durrell, The Search for Better Schools, April 9, 1957
William C. Boyd, Genetics and the Races of Man, December 11, 1957
William O. Brown, Racial Issues in South Africa and the American South, April 24, 1958
Leland C. Wyman, Navaho Indian Painting: Symbolism, Artistry, and Psychology, February 17, 1959
Peter A. Bertocci, Education and the Vision of Excellence, March 23, 1960
L. Harold Dewolf, Acknowledgement of Non-Christian Contributions to Christian Faith and Life, November 2, 1960
Walter J. Gensler, Making Molecules: Ways to New Polyunsaturates, December 11, 1961
Robert E. Moody, A Proprietary Experiment in Early New England History: Thomas Gorges and the Province of Maine, April 23, 1963
Lashley G. Harvey, The “Walled” Towns of New England, April 15, 1964
Amiya Chakravarty, The Emergent Design, April 22, 1965
Franz J. Inglefinger, Medical Technosis, April 12, 1966
David Aronson, Real and Unreal: The Double Nature of Art, May 9, 1967
Robert S. Cohen, Science: Life and Death, April 25, 1968
Theodore Brameld, Our Climactic Decades: Mandate to Education, May 14, 1969
Albert R. Beisel Jr., Erotica and the Law, April 22, 1971
John Malcolm Brinnin, Pray You, Undo this Button: The Sentimental Strategies, April 25, 1972
Irwin T. Sanders, The Search for Community in a Complex Society, December 3, 1973
Helen H. Vendler, The Recent Poetry of Robert Lowell, April 3, 1974
Joseph H. Silverstein, The University Music School: Its Uses and Its Future, December 9, 1975
Lynn Margulis, The Early Evolution of Life, January 26, 1978
J. Michael Harrison, Sound and the Way It Controls Animal Behavior, November 8, 1978
John Findlay, Ethics as an Art, March 12, 1980
Paul N. Rosenstein-Rodan, The New International Economic Order — The Relation Between the Haves and the Have-Nots in the Year 2000, March 26, 1981
Sidney A. Burrell, The Scottish Dimension in Irish History, April 1, 1982
Millicent Bell, Meaning and Unmeaning: Henry James, April 11, 1983
Richard H. Clarke, Star Wars Surgery: What Chemical Physics Has to Offer the Operating Room of the Eighties, April 9, 1984
Howard Clark Kee, Medicine: Miracle and Magic in the Roman World, April 8, 1985
Norman M. Naimark, Terrorism and the Fall of Imperial Russia, April 14, 1986
William B. Kannel, Conquest of Coronary Heart Disease: Epidemiologic Contributions of the Framingham Study, March 23, 1987
Peter L. Berger, Moral Judgment and Political Action, October 26, 1987
Phyllis Curtin, Views of Life and Education Gleaned from Performance, October 27, 1988
Stephen Grossberg, Human Vision and Neural Computation: Illusion and Reality in the Mind’s Eye, October 25, 1989
Christopher Ricks, Literature and the Matter of Fact, October 30, 1990
H. Eugene Stanley, Fractal Landscapes in Physics and Biology, October 21, 1991
Jean Berko Gleason, Language Acquisition and Socialization, October 19, 1992
Nancy Kopell, Rhythms and Clues: Mechanisms of Self-Organization in Nature, October 18, 1993
Lukas Foss, A Twentieth-Century Composer’s Confessions About the Creative Process, October 24, 1994
Roger Shattuck, The Rule of Excess: Faust and Frankenstein, October 10, 1995
Glenn C. Loury, The Divided Society and the Democratic Idea, October 7, 1996
Charles R. Cantor, After the Human Genome Project: a Peek at Future Biomedical Science and Technology, October 20, 1997
Michael Mendillo, Astronomy through a Glass Darkly — Searching for Extended Atmospheres of Planets, Moons, and Comets, October 5, 1998
Robert Dallek, Presidential “Disability”: An American Dilemma, October 18, 1999
Robert G. Bone, From Judgment to Settlement: The Changing Character of American Courts, October 16, 2000
David H. Barlow, The Origins of Anxiety and Its Disorders, October 15, 2001
Stanley Rosen, Comfortable Virtue: Remarks on the Enlightenment, October 21, 2002
Charles DeLisi, Crossing the Watershed: Biological and Other Worlds in the Post-Genomic Era, October 20, 2003
William C. Carroll, Macbeth and the Show of Kings, April 28, 2005
George Annas, American Bioethics after Nuremburg: Pragmatism, Politics, and Human Rights, November 10, 2005
Barbara B. Diefendorf, Blood Wedding: The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in History and Memory, October 25, 2006
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