The Sir Douglas Robb Lectures are a lecture series that have existed at the University of Auckland in New Zealand since 1968. The series is named in honor of Sir Douglas Robb, and is noted for producing physicist Richard Feynman's QED lectures.
A partial list of lectures is as follows:[1]
| Lecturer | Year | Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | - | ||
| 1970 | The eastern churches and the secular state | ||
| Wilfred David Borrie | 1972 | Population, environment and society | |
| 1973 | The biology of aging | ||
| 1974 | Exploring our solar system | ||
| 1975 | Political adaptivity | ||
| John Russell Brown | 1976 | Theatre for today | |
| 1978 | The art of suffering | ||
| 1979 | The behaviour of light and electrons[2] | ||
| 1980 | The rise and fall of the modern international system | ||
| 1981 | Human Origins | ||
| 1982 | Historical roots of the Islamic revolution | ||
| 1983 | Man in isolation | ||
| 1984 | The politics of language in African literature | ||
| 1985 | The world of physics | ||
| 1986 | Charles Darwin and the science of history | ||
| 1987 | Controlling processes | ||
| 1988 | Customs in common | ||
| 1989 | The power of China's pasts | ||
| 1990 | Treaties and indigenous peoples | ||
| 1991 | Images in the brain | ||
| 1992 | The anthropology of history in Polynesia | ||
| 1993 | Women and democracy | ||
| 1994 | The unnatural nature of science | ||
| 1996 | The place of song in African American history | ||
| 1997 | Utopistics, or historical choices of the 21st century | ||
| 1998 | What happened to Asia? | ||
| 1999 | Women and art | ||
| 2000 | [cancelled for illness] | ||
| 2001 | Language, mind, and evolution | ||
| 2002 | Mothers, babies and health in later life | ||
| 2003 | The interpretation of genes | ||
| 2004 | Magic and transformation in contemporary literature and culture[3] | ||
| 2005 | Two breakthroughs in physics research | ||
| 2006 | Science, history and human societies | ||
| 2007 | Organisation of the state in multi-ethnic societies | ||
| Sheldon Rothblatt | 2008 | "The uses of the university" revisited | |
| 2009 | Our inner ape | ||
| 2010 | The challenges for global collaboration and rationality[4] | ||
| 2011 | Empire and its futures | ||
| 2012 | The philosophical baby: What children’s minds can teach us about the big questions | ||
| 2013 | Identity, Honour, Politics[5] | ||
| 2014 | The Human Cost of Inequality[6] [7] | ||
| 2016 | Science and uncertainty[8] [9] |