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2004 Camp Lecturer Elaine Pagels

Past Harry Camp Memorial Lecturers

2007 SIMON SCHAFFER, Newton on the Beach, Newton on the Ganges

2005 ANTHONY GRAFTON, What Was History? The Art of History

        in Early Modern Europe

2003 ELAINE PAGELS, Revisioning Christianity:  New Perspectives

        from the Gospel of Thomas

        Politics and Religion:  How and When Do They Begin to

        Separate?

2001 ANTHONY SAMPSON, Nelson Mandela, Reconciliation and

        Shakespeare

1997 LAWRENCE WEISKRANTZ, The Search for Consciousness: 

        Intersections of Philosophy, Neuroscience and Psychology

1995 ROBERT DARNTON, Censorships:  Bourbon France, British India,

        and Communist East Germany

1994 ERIC KANDEL, M.D., Genes, Nerve Cells, and Memory

1992 EDWARD W. SAID, The Historical Study of Literature and the

        Intellectual Vocation

1990 JEAN FRANCO, Fin de siècle Latin America

1987 RICHARD POIRIER, Pragmatism and Poetry

1986 NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS, Fiction in the Archives:  Forms of 

        Popular Narrative in Sixteenth Century France

1983 CLIFFORD GEERTZ, Works and Lives:  The Anthropologist as

        Author

1982 HERBERT A. SIMON, Grappling with the Hard Problems:  The

        Uses of Reason in Human Affairs

1981 E.P. THOMPSON, Journey Across the Frontier and

        Tracking the Cold War to a Source:  The Balkans, 1944

1980 KENNETH J. ARROW, The Possibility of Economic Policy

1977 J.H. HEXTER, A Lesson of History:  The Foundations of Human

        Freedom

1974 ELIE WIESEL, Biblical Heroes:  Our Contemporaries

1972 MARK E. TALISMAN, The Federal Congress:  The Dying Branch

        of Government?

        RENE GIRARD, A Midsummer Night's Dream

        CLIFFORD GEERTZ, Thick Description:  Toward an Interpretive         Theory of Culture

        GEOFFREY HARTMAN, Spectral Symbolism: Psychological and          Mythical Approaches to a Long Poem

1970 BARBARA WARD, A Human Planet?

1967 KINGMAN BREWSTER, JR., The Academic Process

1965 JOHN H. FINLEY, JR., Hellenism and the Modern Mind

1964 FRANK E. MANUEL, Shapes of Philosophical History

1963 ROGER H. SESSIONS, Music

1962 H.L.A. HART, Law, Liberty and Morality

1960 ERWIN D. CANHAM, America's Unfinished Business