Jefferson Lecture - List of Jefferson Lecturers

List of Jefferson Lecturers

The following table lists the Jefferson Lecturers and the titles of their lectures.

Year Lecturer Lecture Title
1972 Lionel Trilling "Mind in the Modern World"
1973 Erik Erikson "Dimensions of a New Identity"
1974 Robert Penn Warren "Poetry and Democracy"
1975 Paul A. Freund "Liberty: The Great Disorder of Speech"
1976 John Hope Franklin "Racial Equality in America"
1977 Saul Bellow "The Writer and His Country Look Each Other Over"
1978 C. Vann Woodward "The European Vision of America"
1979 Edward Shils "Render Unto Caesar: Government, Society, and Universities in their Reciprocal Rights and Duties"
1980 Barbara Tuchman "Mankind's Better Moments"
1981 Gerald Holton "Where is Science Taking Us?"
1982 Emily Vermeule "Greeks and Barbarians: The Classical Experience in the Larger World"
1983 Jaroslav Pelikan "The Vindication of Tradition"
1984 Sidney Hook "Education in Defense of a Free Society"
1985 Cleanth Brooks "Literature and Technology"
1986 Leszek KoĊ‚akowski "The Idolatry of Politics"
1987 Forrest McDonald "The Intellectual World of the Founding Fathers"
1988 Robert Nisbet "The Present Age"
1989 Walker Percy "The Fateful Rift: The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind"
1990 Bernard Lewis "Western Civilization: A View from the East"
1991 Gertrude Himmelfarb "Of Heroes, Villains and Valets"
1992 Bernard Knox "The Oldest Dead White European Males"
1993 Robert Conquest "History, Humanity and Truth"
1994 Gwendolyn Brooks "Family Pictures"
1995 Vincent Scully "The Architecture of Community"
1996 Toni Morrison "The Future of Time"
1997 Stephen Toulmin "A Dissenter's Story"
1998 Bernard Bailyn "To Begin the World Anew: Politics and the Creative Imagination"
1999 Caroline Walker Bynum "Shape and History: Metamorphosis in the Western Tradition"
2000 James M. McPherson "'For a Vast Future Also': Lincoln and the Millennium"
2001 Arthur Miller "On Politics and the Art of Acting"
2002 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "Mr. Jefferson and the Trials of Phillis Wheatley"
2003 David McCullough "The Course of Human Events"
2004 Helen Vendler "The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar"
2005 Donald Kagan "In Defense of History"
2006 Tom Wolfe "The Human Beast"
2007 Harvey Mansfield "How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science"
2008 John Updike "The Clarity of Things: What Is American about American Art"
2009 Leon Kass "'Looking for an Honest Man': Reflections of an Unlicensed Humanist."
2010 Jonathan Spence "When Minds Met: China and the West in the Seventeenth Century"
2011 Drew Gilpin Faust "Telling War Stories: Reflections of a Civil War Historian"
2012 Wendell Berry "It All Turns on Affection"
2013 Martin Scorsese

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