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Palestras Romanas

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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

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The text of each Romanes Lecture is generally published by Oxford University Press using the "Clarendon Press" imprint, and where appropriate the citation for an individual lecture is listed in the published works of each author's entry in Wikipedia.

  • Romanes lectures, University of Oxford, 1986–2002, Oxford, Bodleian Library: MSS. Eng. c. 7027, Top. Oxon. c. 827
  • Oxford lectures on philosophy, 1910–1923, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1908–23.
  • Oxford lectures on history, 1904–1923, Oxford, The Clarendon Press 1904–23, which includes "Frontiers", by Lord Curzon, the Romanes lecture for 1907, "Biological analogies in history", by Theodore Roosevelt, the Romanes lecture for 1910, "The imperial peace" by Sir W. M. Ramsay, the Romanes lecture for 1913 and "Montesquieu" by Sir Courtenay Ilbert, the Romanes lecture for 1904.
  • J.B. Bury, Romances of chivalry on Greek soil, being the Romanes lecture for 1911, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1911.
  • Sir E. Ray Lankester: Romanes Lecture, Nature and Man, Oxford University Press, 1905


Referências

  1. Never delivered, due to Acton's illness, but many notes are extant, see Herbert Butterfield, Man and His Past (1955), p. 63, and p.234 of A History of the University of Cambridge: 1870-1990 by Christopher Brooke, CUP, ISBN 0-521-34350-X