Joanne Goodman Lectures

 

2012 Lecture - To be determined

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please contact Brenda Hutcheson at blhutche@uwo.ca if you require information in an alternate format, or if any other arrangments can make this event accessible to you.  There is an elevator located in the UCC in the Northwest Passageways.  For a campus accessibility map please visit:  http://www.accessibility.uwo.ca/maps.htm

 

 

Many lectures are available as books, and the list is available here.

 

About the series...

Every autumn a distinguished historian is invited to the University of Western Ontario to deliver three public lectures on consecutive afternoons to students, faculty and members of the London community. The lecture series was established in 1975 by the Honourable Edwin A. Goodman and his family of Toronto to perpetuate the memory of their beloved elder daughter, a second year History student who died in a highway accident in April of that year. Since 1996 the series has been jointly sponsored by the University Students' Council and the lectures are delivered in the University Community Centre.

The theme of the series is the history of the Atlantic Triangle (Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom). The first lectures were given in 1976 by the leading Canadian military historian, Colonel Charles Stacey, on 'Mackenzie King and the Atlantic Triangle'. Occasionally there have been lectures outside the general framework. In 1995, for example, the topic was 'The Birth of the "New" South Africa', tracing the collapse of apartheid and the construction of a new political and social system since 1990, by Rodney Davenport, a South African historian and opponent of apartheid. 

The endowment also supports publication so that these important lectures may be shared by a readership well beyond the immediate audience at the University of Western Ontario. Most of the lectures have been published as books, either in a form similar to lectures or as part of a larger work. The lectures are widely recognized as being the most important history lecture series in Canada. The invitation to deliver them and the publications that result are highly regarded in this country and around the world.

Past (and Future) Goodman Lectures

2013 Joanna Bourke
2012 To be determined
2011 John English, Ice and Water: Can the Arctic Be Governed?
2010 David Stafford, Portraits from the Secret War 1940-1945
2009 Harvey Levenstein, Food, Faith and Hope: The Transformation of Food and Its Consequences in North America
2008 Michael Bliss, From Fatalism to Mastery: (Canada and) The Coming of Modern Medicine
2007 Margaret MacMillan, The Uses and Abuses of History
2006 Laurel T. Ulrich, Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History
2005 Janice MacKinnon, European Social Programmes and American Tax Rates?: Paying for Canadian Social Programmes
2004 Neville Thompson, Canada and the End of the Imperial Dream: Beverley Baxter's Reports from the Capital of Empire, 1936-1960
2003 Admiral William J. Crowe, The U.S. and Iraq
2002 Jacalyn Duffin, Lovers and Livers: Disease Concepts in History
2001 Jane E. Lewis, Should We Worry About Family Changes?
2000 Jack P. Greene, Speaking of Empire: Celebration and Disquiet in Metropolitan Analyses of the Eighteenth Century British Empire
1999 T.C. Smout, The Scots at Home and Abroad 1600-1750
1998 Terry Copp, A Citizen Army: The Canadians in Normandy, 1944
1997 Donald Akenson, If The Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, from slavery onwards
1996 Ged Martin, Past Futures: Locating Ourselves in Time
1995 Rodney Davenport, Birth of the "New" South Africa
1994 Flora MacDonald, An Insider's Look at Canadian Foreign Policy Initiatives Since 1957
1993 Daniel Kevles, Nature and Civilization: Environmentalism in the Frame of Time
1992 Christopher Andrew, The Secret Cold War: Intelligence Communities and the East-West Conflict
1991 P.B. Waite, The Loner: Three Sketches of the Personal Life and Ideas of R.B. Bennett, 1870-1947
1990 Jill Kerr Conway, The Woman Citizen: Transatlantic Variations on a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Theme
1989 Rosalind Mitchison, Coping with Destitution: Poverty and Relief in Western Europe
1988 J.L. Granatstein, How Britain's Weakness Forced Canada into the Arms of the United States
1987 Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, The Female Self in the Age of Bourgeois Individualism
1986 J.R. Lander, The Limitations of the English Monarchy in the Later Middle Ages
1985 Desmond Morton, Winning the Second Battle: Canadian Veterans and the Return to Civilian Life, 1915-1930
1984 William Freehling, Crisis United States Style: A Comparison of the American Revolutionary and Civil Wars
1983 Alistair Horne, The French Army and Politics, 1870-1970
1982 Carl Berger, Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada
1981 Geoffrey Best, Honour among Men and Nations: Transformations of an Idea
1980 Kenneth A. Lockridge, Settlement and Unsettlement in Early America: The Crisis of Political Legitimacy before the Revolution
1979 Charles Ritchie, Diplomacy: The Changing Scene
1978 Robert Rhodes James, Britain in Transition
1977 Robin W. Winks, The Relevance of Canadian History: U.S. and Imperial Perspectives
1976 C.P. Stacey, Mackenzie King and the Atlantic Triangle