The Romanes Lecture is a prestigious free public lecture given annually at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, England.
The lecture series was founded by, and named after, the biologist George Romanes, and has been running since 1892. Over the years, many notable figures from the Arts and Sciences have been invited to speak. The lecture can be on any subject in science, art or literature, approved by the Vice-Chancellor of the University.
The RomanesLecture is a prestigious free public lecture given annually at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, England. The lecture series was founded by...
Kingdom, which would set Romanes on the path to a fruitful and lasting relationship with Charles Darwin. During his youth, Romanes resided temporarily in...
pessimistic views in his RomanesLecture of 1920, "The Idea of Progress" and in his Evening Standard articles. In his RomanesLecture he said that although...
Huxley's 1893 RomanesLecture, "Evolution and Ethics", is exceedingly influential in China; the Chinese translation of Huxley's lecture even transformed...
public lectures since it was founded in 1597 The Reith Lectures, broadcast annually on the BBC, founded in honour of Lord Reith The RomanesLectures, on...
Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199513895. News coverage of the 1998 RomanesLecture in the Oxford University Gazette. Sen, Amartya (February 1986), Food...
the study of art". While at Oxford, Clark was greatly impressed by the lectures of Roger Fry, the influential art critic who staged the first Post-Impressionism...
gave the RomanesLecture, entitled "Science and the human purpose", at the University of Oxford in 1978; and in 1988 he gave the Dimbleby Lecture, "Knowledge...
Friday, 13 June 2008 "Adam Smith Lecture at Glasgow University". Yunus Centre. Retrieved 13 August 2012. "RomanesLecture". University of Oxford. "Muhammad...
continued his academic work. In May 1939, he gave the prestigious RomanesLecture in Oxford on Art and Freedom, and in 1940, he was appointed the Byron...
"Bright Star" Bonfire of the Humanities on YouTube, Andrew Motion's RomanesLecture (2011) at Oxford University (video) Papers of Andrew Motion at the...
World of Sound (1920) William Henry Bragg, The Crystalline State – The RomanesLecture for 1925. Oxford, 1925. William Henry Bragg, Concerning the Nature...
from five universities, including Oxford, where he delivered the 1931 RomanesLecture taking as his subject "Shakespeare and Spiritual Life". Galsworthy...
year of the two anniversaries 1915. Science and the Great War: The RomanesLecture for 1915 Clarendon Press, Oxford. Fellow of the Royal Society in June...
(1998) Balfour, Arthur James. Criticism and Beauty: A Lecture Rewritten, Being the RomanesLecture for 1909 (Oxford, 1910) online Cecil, Robert, and Arthur...
Cold War. Also in 1952, Namier was given the honour of delivering the RomanesLecture, on which subject Namier chose Monarchy and the Party System. In 1917...
to visitors. The theatre is used for music recitals, lectures (such as the annual RomanesLecture), conferences, and for various ceremonies held by the...
form… Those who heard him on a great occasion, as when he gave his Romaneslecture at Oxford or his British Association presidential address at Birmingham...
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internationally, refocusing its appeal. In November 1997, she delivered the RomanesLecture in Oxford on the topic of "Realizing Human Rights"; she spoke of the...
The Silliman Memorial lectures series has been published by Yale University since 1901. The lectures were established by the university on the foundation...
Taylorian Lecture on "Poetry and the First World War". In 1966 he gave the RomanesLecture. Bowra was at Harvard when the post of vice-chancellor fell unexpectedly...
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