1998-99
- Gerald R. Fink, Director, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. We’re Off to See the Genome.
- Judith Butler, Chancellor’s Professor, University of California at Berkeley. Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Kinship.
1997-98
- Hon. Rex Nettleford, Deputy Vice Chancellor & Prof. of Continuing Studies, Univ. of W. Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Cultural Identity and Development: A Caribbean Perspective.
1996-97
- Byron S.J. Weng, Prof. of Government & Public Administration, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong. China’s One Country, Two Systems’ Policy and Its Implications for Sino-American Relations.
- Clifton R. Wharton, Former Deputy Secretary of State. Presidential Politics and Foreign Policy: Diminishing America’s Global Stature.
1995-96
- Helen Vendler, Professor of English, Harvard University. Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
1994-95
- Ross Chambers, Prof. of French and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan. Aspects of Literature.
- Leo Bersani, Class of 1950 Professor of French, University of California at Berkeley. Homos.
1993-94
- Martha Nussbaum, University Professor & Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Brown University. Upheavals of Thought: A Theory of the Emotions.
- Ronald Takaki, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley. A Past Re-Visioned: The Making of Multicultural America.
1992-93
- Bruno Latour, Professor at the Ecole National Superieure des Mines, Paris.
From Baboons to Nuclear Plants: A Common Geneaology for Technology and Society. - Peter Brooks, Professor of Humanities, Yale University. The Place of the Body in Modern Narrative.
1991-92
- Maynard Solomon, Professor of Music, Julliard. Mozart: A Family Portrait
- Terrence Sejnowski, Professor of Biology & Physics, UCSD and the Salk Institute. The Computational Brain
1990-91
- John & Jean Comaroff, Professors of Anthropology, University of Chicago. Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa.
- Sir Roger Penrose, Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University. Three Worlds and Three Mysteries.
1989-90
- Myles Burnyeat, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, UK. Freedom, Anger, and Tranquility: An Archeaology of Feeling.
- Susan Moller Okin, Professor of Politics, Brandeis University. The Public/Domestic Dichotomy.
1988-89
- Peter H. Nye, Professor Emeritus, Plant Science, Oxford University. Towards the Quantitative Control of Crop Production and Quality.
- Bert Vallee, Professor of Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences & Medicine, Harvard. University How Zinc Affects Biology and Medicine and the Fundamentals of Our Lives.
1987-88
- Houston Baker, Professor of English & Human Relations, University of Pennsylvania. Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s WritingBaron Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker,
- Emeritus Professor of Physics & Philosophy, Universities of Munich & Hamburg. Philosophical and Political Consequences of Modern Science.
1986-87
- Charles Tilly, Professor of Sociology & History, New School for Social Research. War, States, and Collection Action.
- Irving Janis, Professor of Psychology, Yale University. Crisis Decision-Making in the Nuclear Age.
1985-86
- Edward Said, Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University. Culture and Imperialism
- Ernst Mayr, Professor Emeritus, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Evolutionary Biology and Philosophy.
1984-85
- John E. Casida, Professor of Entomology, University of California at Berkeley. Retrospective and Prospect Views on Chemicals, Man, and the Environment.
- Jurgen Habermas, Director, Max Planck Institute, Munich. Discourse on Modernity.
- Herbert York, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego. The Nuclear Arms Race
1983-84
- Quentin Skinner, Professor of Political Science, University of Cambridge, UK. The Idea of Liberty: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives.
1982-83
- Maarten Brands, Professor of Modern History, University of Amsterdam. Re-Inventing Europe.
- Paul de Man, Professor of French & Comparative Literature, Yale University. Rhetoric Aesthetics
1981-82
- John T. Noonan, Jr., Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley. Bribery.
- Patrick Suppes, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University. Rationality
1980-81
- Donald Kennedy, President Stanford University. Health, Science and Regulation.
- Rosemary Cramp, Professor of Art & Archaeology, Durham University, UK. The Viking Achievement.
1979-80
- Robert J. Lifton, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University. From Healer to killer: The Doctors of Auschwitz.
- Walter J. Ong, Professors of English & Humanities in Psychiatry, Saint Louis University. Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness.
1978-79
- Marvin Minsky, Professor of Science, Computer Science Dept., MIT. The Construction of the Mind.
- Arthur Kantrowitz, Chairman, AVCO-Everett Research Laboratory, Inc. A Technologist Looks at Anti-Technology.
1977-78
- Jean Seznec, Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford. Revival and Metamorphoses of the Gods in Nineteenth Century Art and Literature.
- David Grene, Professor of Social Thought, University of Chicago. Shakespeare: Politics, History, and Poetry.
1976-77
- Rene Girard, Professor of French & the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University. Sacrifice, Symbolic Thought and Judeo-Christian Culture.
- Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics & Philosophy, MIT. Concepts of Language.
1975-76
- Edward O. Wilson, Professor of Zoology, Harvard University. Sociobiology.
- Walle J.H. Nauta, Profesor of Psychology, MIT. Mammalian Behavior and the Anatomy of the Brain
1974-75
- Charles Rosen, Pianist & Writer. Music and the Perspectives of Historical Criticism.
1973-74
- Zhores Medvedev, Soviet Biologist & Critic. Intellectual Dissent in the Soviet Union.
- Harry Bober, Professor of the Humanities, New York University. Celtic Illuminated Manuscripts: Enigmas and Mysteries.
1972-73
- Elting Morison, Killian Professor of the Class of 1926, MIT. Celtic Iluminated Manuscripts: Engimas and Mysteries.
- Garrett Hardin, Professor of Biology, University of California at Santa Barbara. The Value and Dignity of Life.
1971-72
- C.T. deWit, Professor of Theoretical Production Ecology, Agricultural University, the Netherlands. Theoretical Production Ecology: An Attempt Toward Integration
- David Daube, Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley. Civil Disobedience in Antiquity.
1970-71
- Jerzy Neyman, Professor of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley. A Statistician’s Experience in Three Domains of Science: Astronomy, Cancer, and Weather Modification.
- Oswei Temkin, Professor of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy.
1969-70
- Yigael Yadin, Professor of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. From the Hasmoneans to Bar-Kochba: Archaelogical Findings and Finds in the Wilderness of Judea.
- Samuel H. Beer, Professor of Government, Harvard University. The Politics of American Federalism.
1968-69
- Michel Jouvet, M.D., Faculty of Medicine, University of Lyons, France. Sleep and Dreams.
1967-68
- Henry Eyring, Professor of Chemistry & Metallurgy, University of Utah. The Scientific Models We Live By.
- Dame Helen Louise Gardner, Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, UK. Shakespeare’s Tragic Art.
1966-67
- Madame Jacqueline de Romilly, Professor of Greek, The Sorbonne. Aspects of Time in Greek Tragedy.
1965-66
- A. Frey-Wyssling, Department of General Botany & Electron Microscopy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Ultra-Structural Cell Organization
1964-65
- Richard Feynman, Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology. The Character of Physical Law.
1963-64
- C. Vann Woodward, Professor of History, Yale University. The First Reconstruction in Light of the Second.
- Kingsley Davis, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley. New Perspectives on Population: Change and Response in Modern Demographic History.
1962-63
- H.L.A. Hart, Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, UK. Mind and Deed in the Law.
- Alexander Hollaender, Director, Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Some Basic Problems in Radiation Biology.
1961-62
- Harry Harlow, Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin. The Nature of Love and Affection in Primates.
- William Haller, Professor of English, Barnard College, Columbia University. The Elect Nation on Puritanism Reconsidered.
1960-61
- Meyer Shapiro, Professor of Fine Arts, Columbia University. Abstract Painting
LISTING OF UNIVERSITY AND MESSENGER LECTURES – 1924-1960
