# Palestras Romanas

As Palestras Romanas (The Romanes Lecture) eram palestras, gratuitas para o público em geral, dadas anualmente no Teatro Sheldonia, em Oxford, na Inglaterra.
A série de palestras foi fundada, e nomeada, pela biólogo Gerge Romanes, e tem acontecido desde 1892. Através dos anos, muitas figuras notáveis das Artes às Ciências tem sido convidadas a palestrar, cobrindo qualquer assunto em ciência, arte ou literatura, aprovada pelo Vice-Reitor da Universidade.

## Lista das Palestras Romanas e seus assuntos
### 1890s

* 1892 William Ewart Gladstone — An Academic Sketch (A report of the speech is available in the digital archive of The Nation.)
* 1893 Thomas Henry Huxley — Evolution and Ethics (See also a contemporary review of Huxley's lecture)
* 1894 August Weismann — The Effect of External Influences upon Development
* 1895 Holman Hunt — The Obligations of the Universities towards Art
* 1896 Mandell Creighton — The English National Character
* 1897 John Morley — Machiavelli
* 1898 Archibald Geikie — Types of Scenery and their Influence on Literature
* 1899 Richard Claverhouse Jebb — Humanism in Education

### 1900s

* 1900 James Murray — The Evolution of English Lexicography (Also available at The Oxford English Dictonary site.)
* 1901 Lord Acton — The German school of history
* 1902 James Bryce — The Relations of the Advanced and the Backward Races of Mankind
* 1903 Oliver Lodge — Modern views on matter
* 1904 Courtenay Ilbert — Montesquieu
* 1905 Ray Lankester — Nature and Man
* 1906 William Paton Ker — Sturla the Historian
* 1907 Lord Curzon — Frontiers
* 1908 Henry Scott Holland — The optimism of Butler's 'Analogy'
* 1909 Arthur Balfour — Criticism and Beauty

### 1910s

* 1910 Theodore Roosevelt — Biological Analogies in History
* 1911 J.B. Bury — Romances of Chivalry on Greek Soil
* 1912 Henry Montagu Butler — Lord Chatham as an Orator
* 1913 William Mitchell Ramsay — The Imperial Peace: an ideal in European history
* 1914 J. J. Thomson – The Atomic Theory
* 1915 E. B. Poulton – Science and the Great War
* 1916
* 1917
* 1918 Herbert Henry Asquith — Some Aspects of The Victorian Age
* 1919

### 1920s

* 1920 William Ralph Inge — The Idea of Progress
* 1921 Joseph Bédier — Roland à Roncevaux
* 1922 Arthur Stanley Eddington — The theory of relativity and its influence on scientific thought
* 1923 John Burnet — Ignorance
* 1924 John Masefield — Shakespeare & spiritual life
* 1925 William Henry Bragg — The Crystalline State
* 1926 G.M. Trevelyan — The Two-Party System in English Political History
* 1927 Frederick George Kenyon — Museums and National Life
* 1928 D. M. S. Watson — Palaeontology and the Evolution of Man
* 1929 Sir John William Fortescue — The Vicissitudes of Organized Power

### 1930s

* 1930 Winston Churchill — Parliamentary Government and the Economic Problem
* 1931 John Galsworthy — The Creation of Character in Literature
* 1932 Berkley Moynihan — The Advance of Medicine
* 1933 Henry Hadow — The Place of Music among the Arts
* 1934 William Rothenstein — Form and content in English Painting
* 1935 Gilbert Murray — Then and Now
* 1936 Donald Francis Tovey — Normality and Freedom in Music
* 1937 Harley Granville-Barker — On Poetry in Drama
* 1938 Lord Robert Cecil — Peace and Pacifism
* 1939 Laurence Binyon — Art and freedom

### 1940s

* 1940 Edouard Herriot, lecture not delivered
* 1941 William Hailey — The position of colonies in a British commonwealth of nations
* 1942 Norman H. Baynes — Intellectual liberty and totalitarian claims
* 1943 Julian Huxley — Evolutionary Ethics (50 years after his grandfather gave the lecture)
* 1944 G. M. Young — Mr Gladstone
* 1945 André Siegfried — Characteristics and Limits of our Western Civilization
* 1946 John Anderson — The machinery of government
* 1947 Lord Samuel — Creative Man
* 1948 Lord Brabazon of Tara — Forty years of flight
* 1949 Claud Schuster — Mountaineering

### 1950s

* 1950 John Cockcroft — The development and future of nuclear energy
* 1951 Maurice Hankey — The science and art of government
* 1952 Lewis Bernstein Namier — Monarchy and the party system
* 1953 Viscount Simon — Crown and Commonwealth
* 1954 Kenneth Clark — Moments of Vision
* 1955 Albert Richardson — The significance of the fine arts
* 1956 Thomas Beecham — John Fletcher
* 1957 Ronald Knox — On English translation
* 1958 Edward Bridges — The State and the Arts
* 1959 Lord Denning — From Precedent to Precedent

### 1960s

* 1960 Edgar Douglas Adrian — Factors in mental evolution
* 1961 Vincent Massey — Canadians and Their Commonwealth
* 1962 Cyril Radcliffe — Mountstuart Elphinstone
* 1963 Violet Bonham Carter — The impact of personality in politics (45 years after her father gave the lecture)
* 1964 Harold Hartley — Man and Nature
* 1965 Noel Annan — The Disintegration of an Old Culture
* 1966 Maurice Bowra — A case for humane learning
* 1967 Rab Butler — The Difficult Art of Autobiography
* 1968 Peter Medawar — Science and Literature
* 1969 Lord Holford — A World of Room

### 1970s

* 1970 Isaiah Berlin — Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament (Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 14 February 1971)
* 1971 Raymond Aron — On the Use and Abuse of Futurology
* 1972 Karl Popper — On the Problem of Body and Mind
* 1973 Ernst Gombrich — Art History and the Social Sciences
* 1974 Solly Zuckermann — Advice and Responsibility
* 1975 Iris Murdoch — The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato banished the artists
* 1976 Edward Heath — The Future of a Nation
* 1977 Peter Hall — Form and Freedom in the Theatre
* 1978 George Porter — Science and the Human Purpose
* 1979 Hugh Casson — The arts and the academies

### 1980s

* 1980 Jo Grimond — Is political philosophy based on a mistake?
* 1981 A.J.P. Taylor — War in Our Time
* 1982 Andrew Huxley — Biology, the Physical Sciences and the Mind
* 1983 Owen Chadwick — Religion and Society
* 1984
* 1985 Miriam Louisa Rothschild — Animals and Man
* 1986 Nicholas Henderson — Different Approaches to Foreign Policy
* 1987 Norman St. John-Stevas — The Omnipresence of Walter Bagehot
* 1988 Hugh Trevor-Roper — The Lost Moments of History (A revised version at the NYRB.)
* 1989

### 1990s

* 1990 Saul Bellow — The Distracted Public
* 1991 Gianni Agnelli — Europe: Many Legacies, One Future
* 1992 Robert Blake — Gladstone, Disraeli and Queen Victoria (The Centenary Lecture)
* 1993 Henry Harris — Hippolyte's club foot: the medical roots of realism in modern European literature
* 1994 Lord Slynn of Hadley — Europe and Human Rights
* 1995 Walter Bodmer — The Book of Man
* 1996 Roy Jenkins — The Chancellorship of Oxford: A Contemporary View with a Little History
* 1997 Mary Robinson — Realizing Human Rights:"Take hold of it boldly and duly..."
* 1998 Amartya Kumar Sen — Reason before identity
* 1999 Tony Blair — The Learning Habit

### 2000s

* 2000 William G. Bowen — At a Slight Angle to the Universe: The University in a Digitized, Commercialized Age
* 2001 Neil MacGregor — The Perpetual Present. The Ideal of Art for All
* 2002 Tom Bingham — Personal Freedom and the Dilemma of Democracies
* 2003 Paul Nurse — The great ideas of biology
* 2004 Rowan Williams — Religious lives
* 2005 Shirley M. Tilghman — Strange bedfellows: science, politics, and religion
* 2006
* 2007 Dame Gillian Beer — Darwin and the Consciousness of Others
* 2008 Muhammad Yunus — Poverty Free World: When? How?
* 2009 Gordon Brown — Science and our Economic Future

### 2010s

* 2010
* 2011 (June) Andrew Motion — Bonfire of the Humanities
* 2011 (November) Martin Rees — The Limits of Science

## Veja também

* List of public lecture series
* Robert Boyle Lecture