Lecture
Garrett Hardin (1972-1973)
Oct 23, 1972
“Population: The Solution is in Our Minds” Garrett Hardin was Professor of Human Ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a prominent environmentalist. He specialized in human population dynamics, evolution and the history of science. Hardin authored the [...]
Robert Baffour (1971-1972)
Feb 16, 1972
“The Role of Education in Developing Nations” Robert Baffour was a noted Ghanaian nuclear engineer, businessman, and civil servant. He was a professor and vice-chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University, a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the president of [...]
Bertram Vivian Bowden (1971-1972)
Oct 05, 1971
“The Education Scene in North America and Europe” Lord Bertram Vivian Bowden was the principal of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. After earning his PhD in natural sciences from Cambridge, Bowden taught physics at a number of schools. [...]
Jean Chrétien (1970-1971)
Mar 17, 1971
“The Unfinished Tapestry: Indian Policy in Canada” At the time of his Dunning Trust lecture, Jean Chretien was the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. He was born in Quebec in 1934 and graduated from Laval University. In 1963, he was elected to the House of [...]
Harry Street (1969-1970)
Mar 25, 1970
“Privacy and the Law” Harry Street was a professor of English Law at the University of Manchester and a jurist. He was previously a teacher at the Harvard Law School. He authored “Freedom, the Individual and the Law.” Much of his work focused on civil liberties and tort [...]
Gordon Brown (1969-1970)
Jan 30, 1970
“Aspects of the Interaction Between Technology and Society” Gordon Brown was a professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an authority on servomechanisms – automatic feedback control systems – and their application to emerging computer [...]
Michael Swann (1969-1970)
Nov 05, 1969
“The Scientist’s Uneasy Conscience” Michael Swann was principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, where he was also a professor of natural history. Swann was a biologist and zoologist whose research addressed cell division and fertilization. At the time [...]
Milton Rokeach (1969-1970)
Oct 22, 1969
“Freedom, Responsibility and Political Ideology” Milton Rokeach was a professor of social psychology at Michigan State University. He was known for his study of the relationship between individual psychology and the formation of social and political attitudes and beliefs. [...]
Claude Bissell (1968-1969)
Jan 30, 1969
“Academic Freedom -The Student Version” Claude Bissell was the president of the University of Toronto. After completing graduate work in English and Philosophy, he returned to University College at the University of Toronto in 1941, leaving temporarily the next year to join [...]
C. Eric Lincoln (1968-1969)
Jan 24, 1969
“The New Blacks in Search of a Self” C. Eric Lincoln was a professor of sociology and religion at the Union Theological Seminary in NYC. He authored the influential Black Muslims in America and was one of the first scholars to study African-American Islam. He taught at a [...]