Bampton Lectures in America
Founded in 1948, the Bampton Lectures in America are a series of biennial lectures given by prominent scholars in the fields of theology, science, art, and medicine.
Modeled on the Bampton Lectures of Oxford University at the bequest of Ada Byron Bampton Tremaine, the lectures are published in book form by the Columbia University Press.
- The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam by Jonathan Riley Smith.
Past Bampton Lectures in America
- 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
- 1966 — 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
- 2011 — Wendy Freedman: A Runaway Universe