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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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  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.