Sir Douglas Robb Lectures

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]

LecturerYearTopic
John Kenneth Galbraith1968-
Steven Runciman1970The eastern churches and the secular state
Wilfred David Borrie1972Population, environment and society
Macfarlane Burnet1973The biology of aging
William Henry Pickering1974Exploring our solar system
W. J. M. Mackenzie1975Political adaptivity
John Russell Brown1976Theatre for today
Ivan Illich1978The art of suffering
Richard Feynman1979The behaviour of light and electrons[2]
Harry Hinsley1980The rise and fall of the modern international system
Richard Leakey1981Human Origins
Bernard Lewis1982Historical roots of the Islamic revolution
Carleton Gajdusek1983Man in isolation
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o1984The politics of language in African literature
Hermann Bondi1985The world of physics
Stephen Jay Gould1986Charles Darwin and the science of history
Laura Nader1987Controlling processes
E. P. Thompson1988Customs in common
William John Francis Jenner1989The power of China's pasts
Ian Brownlie1990Treaties and indigenous peoples
Colin Blakemore1991Images in the brain
Marshall Sahlins1992The anthropology of history in Polynesia
Carole Pateman1993Women and democracy
Lewis Wolpert1994The unnatural nature of science
Bernice Johnson Reagon1996The place of song in African American history
Immanuel Wallerstein1997Utopistics, or historical choices of the 21st century
Paul Krugman1998What happened to Asia?
Judy Chicago1999Women and art
Steven Weinberg2000[cancelled for illness]
Steven Pinker2001Language, mind, and evolution
David_Barker2002Mothers, babies and health in later life
Bryan Sykes2003The interpretation of genes
Marina Warner2004Magic and transformation in contemporary literature and culture[3]
Carl Wieman2005Two breakthroughs in physics research
Jared Diamond2006Science, history and human societies
Yash Ghai2007Organisation of the state in multi-ethnic societies
Sheldon Rothblatt2008"The uses of the university" revisited
Frans de Waal2009Our inner ape
Nicholas Stern2010The challenges for global collaboration and rationality[4]
Tariq Ali2011Empire and its futures
Alison Gopnik2012The philosophical baby: What children’s minds can teach us about the big questions
Kwame Anthony Appiah2013Identity, Honour, Politics[5]
Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson2014The Human Cost of Inequality[6][7]
Stuart Firestein2016Science and uncertainty[8][9]

References
  1. "Sir Douglas Robb Lectures 2012". University of Auckland. University of Auckland. Archived from the original on 6 May 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  2. "Richard Feynman: The Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures · British Universities Film & Video Council". bufvc.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  3. "Marina Warner to give Robb Lectures this year". The Big Idea. 2004-03-21. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  4. "Nicholas Stern to present Robb Lectures". Sciblogs. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  5. "Sir Douglas Robb Lectures 2013". University of Auckland. University of Auckland. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  6. "Sir Douglas Robb Lectures 2014". University of Auckland. University of Auckland. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  7. "The equality debate: Inequality in NZ under spotlight". 2014-05-12. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  8. "Sir Douglas Robb Lectures 2016". University of Auckland. University of Auckland. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  9. "Sir Douglas Robb Lectures - Science and Uncertainty". Stuff Events. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
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