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 Misery
1957 Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru: The Evolution of India
1958 Ronald Syme: Colonial Elites: Rome, Spain and the Americas
1959 Charles De Koninck: The Hollow Universe
1960 George Norman Clark: Three Aspects of Stuart England
1961 William Foxwell Albright:.New Horizons in Biblical Research
1962 J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Flying Trapeze: Three crises for physicists
1963 Ian Ramsey: Models and Mystery
1964 David Daiches, The Paradox of Scottish Culture: the Eighteenth Century Experience
1965 William Arthur Lewis: Politics in West Africa
1966 Anthony Blunt: Picasso's 'Guernica'
1967 Northrop Frye: The Modern Century
1970 Eric Ashby: Masters and Scholars;: Reflections on the rights and responsibilities of students
1973 Edward Togo Salmon: The Nemesis of Empire
1974 Richard Stockton MacNeish
1975 Noam Chomsky: Reflections on Language
1983 A. J. Ayer: Freedom and Morality
1986 John Rupert Martin
1988 Tom Stoppard: The Event and the Text
1993 Alan James Ryan
1997 Elizabeth Loftus
2000 Bruce Meyer: Canadian Literature and the Western Tradition
2001 Steven V. W. Beckwith
2002 Cancelled
2003 Jean-Daniel Stanley
2005 Donna Haraway
2006 Brian Massumi
2007 Mervyn Morris
2008 Mahmood Mamdani
2009 Sean B. Carroll
2011 Sara Ahmed
2012 Ray Jayawardhana
