| The Nora and Edward Ryerson Lectures
The Nora and Edward Ryerson Lectures were established by the Trustees of the University in December 1972. They are intended to give a member of the faculty the opportunity each year to lecture to an audience from the entire University on a significant aspect of his or her research or study. The President of the University appoints the lecturer on the recommendation of a faculty committee, which solicits individual nominations from each member of the faculty during the Winter Quarter preceding the academic year for which the appointment is made. Previous Ryerson Lecturers 1973–74 John Hope Franklin, “The Historian and Public Policy” 1974–75 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, “Shakespeare, Newton, and Beethoven: Patterns of Creativity” 1975–76 Philip B. Kurland, “The Private I: Some Reflections on Privacy and the Constitution” 1976–77 Robert E. Streeter, “WASPs and Other Endangered Species” 1977–78 Albert Dorfman, M.D., “Answers without Questions and Questions without Answers” 1978–79 Stephen Toulmin, “The Inwardness of Mental Life” 1979–80 Erica Reiner, “Thirty Pieces of Silver” 1980–81 James M. Gustafson, “Say Something Theological!” 1981–82 Saunders Mac Lane, “Proof, Truth, and Confusion” 1982–83 George J. Stigler, “Laissez faire l’état” 1983–84 Karl J. Weintraub, “. . . with a long sense of time . . .” 1984–85 James S. Coleman, “Schools, Families, and Children” 1985–86 John A. Simpson, “To Explore and Discover” 1986–87 Wayne C. Booth, “The Idea of a University as Seen by a Rhetorician” 1987–88 Janet D. Rowley, “Finding Order in Chaos” 1988–89 Gary S. Becker, “Human Capital Revisited” 1989–90 James W. Cronin, “What Does a High-Energy Physicist Really Do?” 1990–91 Stuart M. Tave, “Words, Universities, and Other Odd Mixtures” 1991–92 Marshall Sahlins, “Goodbye to Tristes Tropes: Ethnography in the Context of Modern World History” 1992–93 Philip Gossett, “Knowing the Score: Italian Opera as Work and Play” 1993–94 William Julius Wilson, “Crisis and Challenge: Race and the New Urban Poverty” 1994–95 Wendy Doniger, “Myths and Methods in the Dark” 1995–96 Cass R. Sunstein, “Constitutional Myth-Making: Lessons from the Dred Scott Case” 1996–97 Eugene N. Parker, “Probing Space through Measurements and Meditations on Your Porch” 1997–98 Bernard Roizman, “Herpes Simplex Viruses: Our Lifetime Unwanted Guests and a String of Pearls”
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