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Raymond F. West Memorial Lectures
The Raymond F. West Memorial Lecture Series was established in 1910 by Mr. and Mrs. Frederic West of Seattle in memory of their son, a student at Stanford University. The lectures are to promote the subject of "immortality, human conduct, and human destiny." West Lectures are presented every other year.
2010-2011
Tim O’Brien, Winner of the National Book Award
"Writing and War," January 24, 2011
2008-2009
Caroline Walker Bynum, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
"Weeping Statues and Bleeding Bread: Miracles in the Later Middle Ages," February 23, 2009
"Holy Pieces: Attitudes toward Parts and Wholes in Late Medieval Devotion," February 25, 2009
2006-2007
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Historian, Composer, Musician, Civil Rights Activist
"Pioneering Gospel Music Performers; Song Culture of the Civil Rights Movement," March 5, 2007
2004-2005
Lorraine Daston, Director, Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
"Lives of the Mind," March 2, 2005
2002-2003
Peter Galison, Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Physics, Harvard University
"Thinking through Things," November 18, 2002
1996-1997
Michael Taussig, Professor of Anthropology, Colombia University
"Defacement: Where Faciality and Sacrilege Merge," November 11, 1996
1987-1988
Anthony Giddens, "Living in a Troubled World: The Consequences of Modernity"
1983-1984
Bernard M.W. Knox, "Mythinterpretation"
1978-1979
John R. Pierce, "Technology and Man’s World"
1973-1974
Jurgens Moltmann, "Human Identity in Christian Faith"
1971-1972
Henry Nash Smith, "Higher Laws: Some Patterns of Transcendence in Nineteenth Century American Fiction"
1965-1966
Hans Kung, "Whither the Church?"
J.A.T. Robinson, "Exploration into God"
1962-1963
Abraham J. Heschel, "Who is Man?"
1957-1958
Joseph Wood Krutch, "Average, Normal and Ideal in Human Behavior"
1953-1954
Charleton J.H. Hayes, "Religious Influence on our Historic Civilization"
1944-1945
Ernest A. Hooten, "Determinants of Human Conduct"
1943-1944
Reinhold Niebuhr, "Foundations for a Democratic Civilization"
1940-1941
Rufus Jones, "Implications of Man’s Mind"
1934-1935
James R. Angell, "The Higher Patriotism"
Carl L. Becker, "Progress and Power"
1931-1932
Julian S. Huxley, "Biology and Human Nature"
1929-1930
G.A. Johnston Ross, "Behavior and Destiny: Christian View"
1923-1924
Hugo Black, "The Adventure of Being Man"
Arthur Twining Hadley, "Conflict Between Liberty and Equality"
Early Lectures
Irvin Babbitt, "The Ethical Basis of Democracy"
Henry Osborn Taylor, "Freedom of Human Mind in History"
John Dewey, "Factors in Human Conduct"
Charles Lewis Slattery, "Gift of Immortality, Study of Responsibility"
Hastings Rashdall, "Is Conscience an Emotion?"
Samuel M. Crothers, "Three Lords of Destiny"
Charles Edward Jefferson, "Why We May Believe in Life After Death"