The 36th Bampton Lectures will be delivered by Irving Weissman, the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research and Director of the Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Institute at Stanford University. He is also the 2008 Koch Prize Winner for advances in the biomedical sciences.
Co-Sponsored with the Department of Religion and the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University.
- “Adult Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine,” Wednesday, January 21, 5-7pm
- “Cancer and Leukemia Stem Cells: A New Paradigm for Research, Diagnosis and Therapy,” Thursday, January 22, 5-7pm
- “Embryonic and Pluripotent Stem Cells: Science and Medicine meet Politics and Religious Organizations,” Tuesday, January 27, 5-7pm
- “Self and Nonself: Co-evolution of Stem Cells and Immunity and Speculations on Stem Cells and the Mind,” Thursday, January 29, 5-7pm
Past Bampton Lectures
1948 – Arnold J. Toynbee: The Prospect of the West Civilization
1949 – Paul R. Hawley: New Discoveries and Their Effect
1950 – Charles H. Dodd: Faith and Ethics in Early Christianity
1951 – Lewis Mumford: Art and Technics
1952 – James B. Conant: Modern Science and Modern Man
1953 – Alan Gregg: Where Medecin Belongs Today
1954 – John Baillie: The Idea of Revelation in the Light of Recent Discussion
1955 – Lionello Venturi: Four Steps toward Modern Art
1956 – Joel H. Hilderbrand: Science in the Making
1957 – Brock Chisholm: The Expanding Conception of Health
1958 – Eric Lionel Mascall: The Importance of Being Human
1959 – Sir Anthony Frederick Blunt: The Art of William Blake
1960 – Detlev W. Bronk: The Status of Science in Modern Society
1961 – W. Barry Wood, Jr.: From Miasmas to Molecules
1962 – Paul Tillich: Christianity and the Encounter of the World Religions
1963 – Northrop Frye: The Development of Shakespearean Romance
1964 – Fred Hoyle: Man and the Universe
1965 – Robert Hanna Felix: Mental Illness: A Yielding Enigma
1966 – Alasdair MacIntyre: The Dispute about God: Victorian Relevance and Contemporary Irrelevance
- Paul Ricoeur: Religion, Atheism and Faith
1968 – Sir John Summerson: Victorian Architecture: Four Studies in Evaluation
1969 – Jaco Bronowski: Magic, Science and Civilization
1975 – Paul Ramsey: Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine
1976 – Symposium: Titian, His World and His Legacy
1980 – Symposium: Bernini and the Baroque
1982 – Anthony Kenny: Faith and Reason
1983 – Steven Weinberg: On the Art of Science
1984 – William Arrowsmith: Innovation and Tradition in Euripides
1986 – Zellig Harris: Language and Information
1987 – Peter Brown: Poverty and Power in the Later Roman Empire
1988 – Robert C. Gallo: Old Plagues and New Pandemics: Microbe Hunting Revised
1990 – Annemarie Schimmel: Yusuf’s Fragrant Shirt: Images in the Phenomenology of Islam
1991 – James Cahill: The Painter’s Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China
2001 – Archbishop Demetrios: Saint John Chrysostom: Anthropological Insights for Our Times
2007 – Jonathan Riley Smith: The Crusades, Christianity and Islam
2009 – Irving Weissman: Speculations on Stem Cells and the Mind
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