The Whidden Lectures are a lecture series at McMaster University, founded in 1954 by E. Carey Fox. They commemorate Howard P. Whidden, who was Chancellor of the university from 1923 to 1941. They were first given in 1956. Many of the lectures have been published in book form, by Oxford University Press.
1956 C. W. de Kiewiet: The Anatomy of South African Misery1957 Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru: The Evolution of India1958 Ronald Syme: Colonial Elites: Rome, Spain and the Americas1959 Charles De Koninck: The Hollow Universe1960 George Norman Clark: Three Aspects of Stuart England1961 William Foxwell Albright:.New Horizons in Biblical Research1962 J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Flying Trapeze: Three crises for physicists1963 Ian Ramsey: Models and Mystery1964 David Daiches, The Paradox of Scottish Culture: the Eighteenth Century Experience1965 William Arthur Lewis: Politics in West Africa1966 Anthony Blunt: Picasso's 'Guernica'1967 Northrop Frye: The Modern Century1970 Eric Ashby: Masters and Scholars;: Reflections on the rights and responsibilities of students1973 Edward Togo Salmon: The Nemesis of Empire1974 Richard Stockton MacNeish1975 Noam Chomsky: Reflections on Language1983 A. J. Ayer: Freedom and Morality1986 John Rupert Martin1988 Tom Stoppard: The Event and the Text1993 Alan James Ryan1997 Elizabeth Loftus2000 Bruce Meyer: Canadian Literature and the Western Tradition2001 Steven V. W. Beckwith2002 Cancelled2003 Jean-Daniel Stanley2005 Donna Haraway2006 Brian Massumi2007 Mervyn Morris2008 Mahmood Mamdani2009 Sean B. Carroll2011 Sara Ahmed2012 Ray Jayawardhana