| Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
1980 | ||
| Jan. 26 | Baker, George | Family Law (a) |
| Feb. 2 | Parker, Geoffrey | Conscience and Power: Philip II of Spain, History and Legend (a) |
| Feb. 9 | Mandel, Eli | A Poet's Work: Readings and Comments (a) |
| Feb. 16 | Wilson, Michael H. | Colour Perception (a) |
| Feb. 23 | Fraser, John | China -- The Myth and the Reality (a) |
| March 1 | Leach, Edmund | Michelangelo's Genesis: An Anthropologist's View (a) |
| March 8 | Renzhi, Hou | Outstanding Ancient City Ruins in the Deserts of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China (a) |
| March 15 | Reynertson, Joan | Film: A Theatre of Dreams (a) |
| March 22 | Weinshilboum, Richard | The Chemistry of the Brain (a) |
| March 29 | Huxley, Andrew | Muscle Physiology: Old and New Discoveries (a) |
| Sept. 27 | Robertson, Gordon | Canada: Constitutional Crossroads (a) |
| Oct. 4 | Kreith, Frank | Solar Energy: Promise and Reality (a) |
| Oct. 11 | Williams, Tennessee | Readings and Discourse (a) |
| Oct. 18 | Coren, Stanley | The Psychology of Visual Illusion (a) |
| Oct. 23 | Lama, Dalai | The Buddhist View of Reality (a) |
| Oct. 25 | Scriver, Charles | You and the New Genetics (a) |
| Nov. 1 | Abrams, M.H. | The Radical Ambiguity of William Blake |
| Nov. 8 | Levy, Julia | Early Cancer Detection by Blood Tests (a) |
| Nov. 15 | Gilmore, Paul C. | Where are Computers Going? (a) |
| Nov. 22 | Arrott, Anthony | Pattern and Rhythm in Physics and Art (a) |
| Nov. 29 | Souther, J.G. | The Volcanoes Around Us (a) |
1981 | ||
| Jan. 31 | Kraay, Colin M. | The Coinage of Athens and the Ancient World (a) |
| Feb. 7 | Pate, Brian D. | PET: A Radiochemist's View of the Brain at Work (a) |
| Feb. 14 | Beck, Brenda | A Folk Epic of South India: Hierarchy, Heroism and Fate (a) |
| Feb. 21 | Friedrichs, Christopher R. | Urban Revolutions: Past and Present (a) |
| Feb. 28 | Blandau, Richard J. | The Threat of Overpopulation (a) |
| March 7 | Leaper, Robert | The State of the Welfare State (a) |
| March 14 | Schwartz, Gary | New Frontiers in Biofeedback and Behavioural Medicine (a) |
| March 21 | Symons, Julian | The Mystique of the Detective Story (a) |
| March 28 | Davidson, Donald | Paradoxes of Irrationality (a) |
| April 4 | Sellar, Don | Life Under Reagan (a) |
| April 25 | Diplock, Lord | The Role of the Courts in the 1980s (a) |
| Sept. 26 | Dore, Ronald P. | The Inner Mechanism of Japan Inc. (a) |
| Oct. 3 | Minkowski, Alexandre | Practical Medicine and the Developing World (a) |
| Oct. 10 | Tickner, French | The Opera: An Exotick and Irrational Entertainment (a) |
| Oct. 17 | Dyson, Freeman | Life in the Universe (a) |
| Oct. 24 | O'Brien, Conor Cruise | The Press and the World (a) |
| Oct. 31 | Goetz-Stankiewicz, Marketa | The Czech Theatre (a) |
| Nov. 7 | Hoffman, Martin M. | Understanding Diabetes: What Everyone Should Know (a) |
| Nov. 14 | Crispo, John | Industrial Relations: Mandate for Canada (a) |
| Nov. 21 | Doran, Charles | Canadian-American Relations under the Reagan Administration (a) |
| Nov. 28 | Shoyama, Thomas | Canada's Economy: Prospect and Policy (a) |
1982 | ||
| Jan. 23 | Stone, Lawrence | The Modern Family and Its Origins (a) |
| Jan. 30 | Weiss, Stephen | Lifestyle Change and Health Enhancement (a) |
| Feb. 6 | McGregor, Maurice | An Anglophone in Quebec (a) |
| Feb. 13 | Chaput-Rolland, Solange | Quebec After Patriation (a) |
| Feb. 20 | Brink, Bert | Land Use in B.C. -- An Ecological Perspective (a) |
| Feb. 27 | Klein, Lawrence | Recent Challenges to Keynesian Economic Policies (a) |
| March 6 | Singer, J. David | International Security in the 1980s (a) |
| March 13 | Chitty, Dennis | Do Lemmings Commit Suicide? (a) |
| March 20 | Williams, David | Environment and the Law (a) |
| March 27 | Skilling, H. Gordon | Poland and the Future of Eastern Europe (a) |
| April 3 | Wasserburg, G.J. | Stars, Gas, Dust and Planets (a) |
| Sept. 25 | Richards, Rex | NMR: A New Window on the Human Body: Medical Applications (a) |
| Oct. 2 | West, Jolyon | Violence (a) |
| Oct. 9 | Calvin, Melvin | Energy: Growing and Engineering Hydrocarbons (a) |
| Oct. 16 | Hebert, Jacques | Canadian Youth and the Developing World (a) |
| Oct. 23 | Rosen, Charles | Rhythm and the Passage of Time in the 20th Century. |
| Oct. 30 | Burns, Peter T. | The State of Privacy in Canada: Was Orwell Right? (a) |
| Nov. 6 | Kerr, Clark | Prospects for Higher Education in the U.S. -- 1982-2000 (a) |
| Nov. 13 | Thomas, Lewis | Matters Unsettled by Science (a) |
| Nov. 20 | Meekison, Peter | Whither Western Canada? (a) |
| Nov. 27 | Haslam, Gerald | Newspaper Publishing: Truth or Profits (a) |
1983 | ||
| Jan. 29 | Martin, Joseph B. | Hormones and the Brain (a) |
| Feb. 5 | Mishan, Ezra | Faith, Capitalism and Technology (a) |
| Feb. 12 | Meincke, Peter | Small is Profitable (a) |
| Feb. 19 | Miller, Robert | Genetic Engineering: How it Can Affect You. (a) |
| Feb. 26 | Singer, J. David | Military Strategy, Political Tactics and Survival (a) |
| March 5 | Pentz, Michael J. | A European Scientist Looks at Nuclear Weapons (a) |
| March 12 | Juneau, Pierre | The Future of National Broadcasting (a) |
| March 19 | Ross, Ian | The Scottish Enlightenment and that Gadfly David Hume (a) |
| March 26 | Peebles, James | The Origin of the Universe (a) |
| April 9 | Mitford, Jessica | Inside Muckraking (a) |
| Sept. 17 | Dickson, Brian | The Forgotten Party: The Victim of Crime (a) |
| Sept. 24 | Saywell, William | China's Race Against Time: Modernization and Education (a) |
| Oct. 1 | Rule, Margaret | A Tudor Warship: King Henry VIII's Mary Rose (a) |
| Oct. 8 | Pedersen, George | Education Under Seige: Academic Freedom and the Cult of Efficiency (a) |
| Oct. 15 | Astbury, Alan | W and Z.: The New Particles and the New Physics (a) |
| Oct. 22 | Simon, Brian | The I.Q. Controversy: The Case of Cyril Burt (a) |
| Oct. 29 | Cone, Edward | Hearing and Knowing Music (a) |
| Nov. 5 | Hillis, W.E. | The Impending Crisis in Forestry (a) |
| Nov. 12 | Cahill, Kevin M. | AIDS: A Medical and Social Problem (a) |
| Nov. 19 | Franklin, Ursula | Technology and Society: The Case of Ancient China (a) |
| Nov. 26 | Rachman, S.J. | Fear and Courage (a) |
1984 | ||
| Jan. 28 | Fairweather, Gordon | The Year of Orwell and Human Rights (a) |
| Feb. 4 | Arai, Thomas Y. | Canada and the Pacific Potential (a) |
| Feb. 11 | Hopkins, Jeffrey | Buddhism: Compassion and Wisdom (a) |
| Feb. 18 | Chase, R.L. | Deep Sea Vents: Lava and Life Under the Sea (a) |
| Feb. 25 | Rice, Condoleezza | East-West Security: Prospects for Peace (a) |
| March 3 | Birch, Daniel | Teaching in Babel: The Vancouver School System (a) |
| March 10 | Masson, Jeffrey M. | Freud and Truth (a) |
| March 17 | Bloch, Konrad | The Chemistry of Evolution (a) |
| March 24 | Towers, George N. | Medical Botany and the Environmental Challenge (a) |
| March 31 | Lavin, Irving | The Unity of the Arts and the Early Baroque Opera House |
| Sept. 15 | Tanaka, Hideo | The Role of Law in Japan: Comparisons with the West (a) |
| Sept. 22 | Wilson, Bertha | Children: The Casualties of a Failed Marriage (a) |
| Sept. 29 | Kazhdan, Alexander | Byzantine Culture (a) |
| Oct. 6 | Larkin, Peter | How Salmon Find Their Way Home (a) |
| Oct. 13 | Dobell, A.R. | Economics and Politics in British Columbia (a) |
| Oct. 20 | Hiatt, Howard H. | Misplaced Priorities: The Human Costs of the Arms Race (a) |
| Oct. 27 | Mandelbrot, Benoit | The Fractal Cosmos: New Shapes in the Sciences and Art (a) |
| Nov. 3 | Pylyshyn, Xenon | Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind (a) |
| Nov. 10 | MacKinnon, Catherine | Pornography (a) |
| Nov. 17 | Gold, Phil | The Cloud of Cancer with the Ever Increasing Silver Lining (a) |
| Nov. 24 | Crick, Bernard | The Other Orwell: Getting Away from 1984 (a) |
1985 | ||
| Jan. 26 | Pearson, Richard | Asian Archaeology: Recent Discoveries (a) |
| Feb. 2 | Findley, Timothy | Matter Over Mind: The Imagination in Jeopardy (a) |
| Feb. 9 | Fowler, William | The Quest for the Origin of Elements (a) |
| Feb. 16 | Reed, Les | Reshaping Forest Policy (a) |
| Feb. 23 | Nichols, Marjorie | Reflections on the Media (a) |
| March 2 | Kitchen, Martin | Winston Churchill and the Soviet Union (a) |
| March 9 | Hampshire, Stuart | Past and Present in the Morality of Politics (a) |
| March 16 | Hubel, David | Vision and the Brain (a) |
| March 23 | Elton, Geoffrey | Roads to Civil War in England (a) |
| March 30 | McCrum, Michael | Elitism, Egalitarianism and Excellence (a) |
| Sept. 21 | Strangway, David | Exploring the Planets (a) |
| Sept. 28 | Fisher, Roger | Negotiating with the Russians and Your Wife (a) |
| Oct. 5 | Gottlieb, Michael | AIDS: Medical Science in Action (a) |
| Oct. 12 | Holling, C.S. (Buzz) | Ecosystem Design: Local Surprise and Global Change (a) |
| Oct. 19 | Saywell, William | Relevance and Our Universities: Responsibility or Red Herring? (a) |
| Oct. 26 | MacDonald, George F. | Raven's Treasure House: Northwest Indian Art and Culture (a) |
| Nov. 2 | Atwood, Margaret | Blood and Thunder (a) |
| Nov. 9 | Shainman, Irwin | Mozart: Myth and Reality (a) |
| Nov. 16 | Golding, William | Thoughts and Readings (a) |
| Nov. 23 | Helliwell, John | Canada's Economic Performance, 1955 to 1990 (a)(v) |
| Nov. 30 | Herzberg, Gerhard | The Space Between the Stars (a)(v) |
1986 | ||
| Jan. 18 | Palmer, Geoffrey | Reforming Parliament: The Case of New Zealand (a)(v) |
| Jan. 25 | Caldwell, John | The News from Halley's Comet (a)(v) |
| Feb. 1 | Galdikas, Birute | Orangutangs: People of the Forest (a)(v) |
| Feb. 8 | Simon, Herbert A. | Why Economists Disagree (a)(v) |
| Feb. 15 | Smith, Michael | Genetic Engineering -- 1986 (a)(v) |
| Feb. 22 | Fromkin, Victoria | Brain, Mind and Language (a)(v) |
| March 1 | Lewis, Stephen | The United Nations: What Does the Future Hold? (a)(v) |
| March 8 | Goldfarb, Martin | The Role of Polling in Canadian Society (a)(v) |
| March 15 | Dasgupta, Partha | The Silent Food War (a)(v) |
| March 22 | Kleinman, Arthur | Bodily Idioms of Distress (a)(v) |
| March 29 | Donaldson, John | The Courts: The Citizen's Non-nuclear Deterrant (a)(v) |
| Sept. 27 | Kamenka, Eugene; Tay, Alice Erh-Soon | Life Under Communism: Soviet Union and China (a)(v) |
| Oct. 4 | Sinclair, Lister | Enlightenment in the Mass Media Age (a)(v) |
| Oct. 11 | Braybrooke, David | Concepts of Justice (a)(v) |
| Oct. 18 | Cottrell, Alan | Engineering the Future (a)(v) |
| Oct. 25 | Schawlow, Arthur | Lasers and Man (a)(v) |
| Nov. 1 | Bernabo, Christopher | The Role of Science in Environmental Decision Making (a)(v) |
| Nov. 8 | Harris, R. Cole | Canada and the American Question (a)(v) |
| Nov. 15 | Griffin, Keith | World Hunger and the World Economy (a)(v) |
| Nov. 22 | Borden, John H. | Who is Managing the Forests -- Man or the Mountain Pine Beetle? (a)(v) |
| Nov. 29 | Goldman, John M. | Cures in Cancer (a)(v) |
1987 | ||
| Jan. 24 | Samuelson, Paul | The Economic Future (a)(v) |
| Jan. 31 | Russell, James | Byzantine Archaeology: A City Revealed (a)(v) |
| Feb. 7 | Simpson, Geoffrey | Patronage in Canada (a)(v) |
| Feb. 14 | Weill, Hans | Asbestos, Science and Public Policy (a)(v) |
| Feb. 21 | Hall, Judith G. | Medical Genetics and Your Family (a)(v) |
| Feb. 28 | Fisher, John P. | Information and Decisions in a Democracy (a)(v) |
| March 7 | Mitchell, Donald | The Mahler Phenomenon (a)(v) |
| March 14 | Gotlieb, Allan E. | Canada and the U.S.: Trade and Realities (a)(v) |
| March 21 | Bain, George S. | Industrial Relations: Conflict or Cooperation (a)(v) |
| March 28 | Polanyi, John | The Molecular Dance in Chemical Reactions (a)(v) |
| Sept. 26 | North, Peter | Sex, Spies and Secrets (a)(v) |
| Oct. 3 | Kyrieleis, Helmut | Excavations at Olympia (a)(v) |
| Oct. 10 | Chadwick, Owen | The Role of Religion in History (a)(v) |
| Oct. 17 | Brewer, Jesse | High-Temperature Superconductivity (a)(v) |
| Oct. 24 | Bell, E. Arthur | Botany and the Survival of Mankind (a)(v) |
| Oct. 31 | Calne, Donald B. | New Approaches to Old Diseases (a)(v) |
| Nov. 7 | Slynn, Gordon | Trade Across Frontiers -- A Legal Perspective (a)(v) |
| Nov. 14 | Seidensticker, Edward | The World's First Novel: "Tale of the Genji" (a)(v) |
| Nov. 21 | Djwa, Sandra | Frank Scott: "The Politics of the Imagination" (a)(v) |
| Nov. 28 | Vogt, Erich | The Kaon Factory (a)(v) |
1988 | ||
| Jan. 23 | Kennedy, Duncan | Radicalism in Elite Institutions (a)(v) |
| Jan. 30 | Calami, Peter | Illiteracy: Naming the Guilty Party (a)(v) |
| Feb. 6 | Sheehan, Nancy | Education and Society: Insights from the Past (a)(v) |
| Feb. 13 | Gallo, Robert | Viruses, Cancer and AIDS: Today and Tomorrow (a)(v) |
| Feb. 20 | Fullerton, Donald | The Outlook for Global Banking (a)(v) |
| Feb. 27 | Taylor, Charles | The Inner Self (a)(v) |
| March 5 | Israel, Werner | From White Dwarfs to Black Holes: The Story of a Revolutionary Idea (a)(v) |
| March 12 | Foell, Earl | The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (a)(v) |
| March 19 | Dye, Kenneth | Financial Management and the Federal Deficit (a)(v) |
| Sept. 24 | Fairweather, Gordon | Canada's New Immigration and Refugee Policy (a)(v) |
| Oct. 1 | Arrott, Anthony | Science and Peace: Coping with Our Creations (a)(v) |
| Oct. 8 | Briggs, Winslow | Plants that Follow the Sun (a)(v) |
| Oct. 15 | Sontheimer, Kurt | Thomas Mann and his Political Engagement (a)(v) |
| Oct. 22 | Levy, Julia | A New Approach to Cancer Therapy (a)(v) |
| Oct. 29 | Darnton, Robert | The Literary Revolution of 1789 (a)(v) |
| Nov. 5 | Eberts, Mary | The Equality Gap: Canadian Law and Women's Reality (a)(v) |
| Nov. 12 | Wagner, Gottfried H. | Nietzsche and Wagner: Their Oeuvres and Personalities (a)(v) |
| Nov. 19 | Hochachka, Peter William | Men of the Andes and Seals of Antarctica (a)(v) |
| Nov. 26 | Webb, Pauline M. | The Media and Morality (a)(v) |
1989 | ||
| Jan. 28 | Keown, Paul A. | New Parts for Old: An Odyssey in Medicine (a)(v) |
| Feb. 4 | Schafer, Murray | An Evening with Murray Schafer (a)(v) |
| Feb. 11 | Newman, Peter C. | Does Canada Have a Future? (a)(v) |
| Feb. 18 | Baird, Patricia | Genetics and Health Care: Challenge and Choice (a)(v) |
| Feb. 25 | Lipset, Seymour | Distinctive Nations: The Values and Cultures of Canada and the U.S. (a)(v) |
| March 4 | Fleming, John | The Insurance Crisis (a)(v) |
| March 11 | Heinke, Gary | Our Failing Urban Infrastructure (a)(v) |
| March 18 | Nisbet, Euah | Change on Planet Earth (a)(v) |
| March 25 | Schelling, Thomas | Strategic Arms Control: What Makes Sense? (a)(v) |
| April 1 | Kenny-Wallace, Geraldine | Molecular Choroegraphy with Lasers (a)(v) |
| Sept. 23 | Ambrose, Stephen | Eisenhower, Nixon and the Modern American Presidency (a)(v) |
| Sept. 30 | Steiner, Zara | Mrs Thatcher's Britain: An Outsider's View (a)(v) |
| Oct. 7 | LeClezio, J.M. | Sacred Cities (a)(v) |
| Oct. 14 | French, Marilyn | Beyond Power (a)(v) |
| Oct. 21 | Rudrum, Alan | The Domination of Nature: Early Modern Thought and Ecological Crisis (a)(v) |
| Oct. 28 | Evans, Robert | Why Some People are Healthy and Others are Not (a)(v) |
| Nov. 4 | Pommaret-Imaeda, Francoise | Inside Bhutan (a)(v) |
| Nov. 11 | Woodside, Alexander | Emperors and Democrats in China (a)(v) |
| Nov. 18 | Lipsey, Richard | High-Tech and the Global Economy: Where is it Taking Canada? (a)(v) |
| Nov. 25 | Gale, Robert | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Accidents, and Nuclear War (a)(v) |