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PAST MACKAY LECTURES

  • 1984-5:  Hilary Putnam:  “Faith, Fact, and Fiction”
  • 1985-6:  Diana L. Eck:  “The Manyness of God”
  • 1986-7:  Daniel Dennett:  “Moral Thinking Under Time Pressure”
  • 1987-8:  Eric Meyers:  “Early Judaism and Christianity in Light of Archaeology”
  • 1988-9:  Alasdair MacIntyre:  “The Objectivity of Good”
  • 1989-90:  Jaroslav Pelikan:  “Philosophia as Woman:  The Allegorical Vision of Boethius”
  • 1990-1:  Martha Nussbaum:  “Aristotle on Human Nature and the Foundation of Ethics”
  • 1991-2:  Wendy Doniger:  “When God has Lipstick on His Collar:  Theological Implications of Divine Adultery”
  • 1992-3:  William Bennett:  “Challenges in American Education”
  • 1993-4:  Phyllis Trible:  “A Feminist Reads the Bible”
  • 1994-5:  Thomas Nagel:  “Relativism and Reason”
  • 1995-6:  Elie Wiesel:  “The Eternal Question of Suffering and Evil”
  • 1998-9:  Amartya Sen:  "Environmental Valuation and Social Ethics"
  • 1999-2000: Lawrence E. Sullivan:  “Enchanting Powers: The Sounds of Religious Experience”
  • 2000-1:  Bas C. van Fraassen:  “Scientific Revolution/Conversion as a Philosophical Problem”
  • 2000-1:  Helen Longino:  "Individualism & Folk Psychology in the Scientific Study of Aggression”
  • 2001-2:  Panel: Charlotte Fonrobert, Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein, Mary Hunt, Hyun Kyung Chung:  Panel on "Women, God, Power: Crossing Boundaries."  Fonrobert:  "When Women (do not) Walk in the Ways of their Fathers: Jewish Tradition and Feminist Innovation," Armijo-Hussein:  "Educate a Woman, Educate a Nation," Hunt:  "Catholic Feminism: Hybridity or Contradiction?"  Chung:  "Salimist Manifesto: A Korean Ecofeminist Spirituality."
  • 2002-3:  Edouard Glissant:  “When A Voice is Missing in the World”
  • 2003-4:  Mark Salzman
  • 2004-5:  Elizabeth Lloyd:  “The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution"
  • 2005-6:  Rev. Richard Gilbert:  "Through the Eye of a Needle: Is Economic Justice an Oxymoron?"
  • 2006-7:  Dale Jamieson:  "The Moral and Political Challenges of Climate Change"
  • 2007-8:  Christopher Hitchens: “God is Not Great”
  • 2008-9:  Linda Martin Alcoff:  "Can Whites be a Part of the Rainbow?"
  • 2009-10:  Peter J. Gomes:   “What Dare we Expect”
  • 2010-11:  Eduardo Mendieta:  “To Come to the World: The Ethics of Cohabitation”
  • 2011-12:  Bart Ehrman:  “Misquoting Jesus: Scribes Who Changed the Scriptures and Readers Who May Never Know”
  • 2012-13:  Hal Roth:  “Contemplative Studies and the Liberal Arts”
  • 2012-13:  Speaker Series featuring: Ann Cahill, "Recognition, Desire and Unjust Sex," Shannon Mussett, "The Origins of Patriarchy in The Second Sex" and John Lysaker, "We Are Not Ourselves: and Emersonian Humanities."
  • 2013-14:  Robert Segal:  “Is the Earth a Goddess”
  • 2014-15:  Tom Kasulis,  "From Detachment to Engagement: A Challenge to How We Think, Learn, and Understand"
  • 2015-16:  Robert Geraci:  “Four Techniques of the Apocalypse: The Futurist Blend of Religion, Technology, and the End of Time”
  • 2016-17:  Angela Davis,  "Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Histories and Current Realities"
  • 2017-18:  Michael Muhammad Knight,  “Is Allah a Muslim? Five Percenters, Islam, and Blackness.”
  • 2018-19:  Lisa Guenther,  "No Prisons on Stolen Land: Abolition and Decolonization as Interconnected Struggles"
  • 2020-21: Cailin O'Connor, "The Misinformation Age"
  • 2021-22: Anthony Pinn, “Is It Really ‘Alright’? Kendrick Lamar on Death and Dying in the USA”
  • 2022-23: Dr. Kate Manne, “Demoralizing Fatness”
  • 2023-24: David Morgan, “The Visual Culture of Revelation”