The chosen lecturers were as follows • 1896:
George A. Gordon — Immortality and the New Theodicy • 1897:
William James — Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine • 1898:
Benjamin Ide Wheeler — Dionysos and Immortality • 1899:
Josiah Royce — The Conception of Immortality • 1900:
John Fiske — Life Everlasting • 1904:
William Osler — Science and Immortality • 1905:
Samuel McChord Crothers — The Endless Life • 1906:
Charles Fletcher Dole — The Hope of Immortality: Our Reasons for it • 1906B:
Wilhelm Ostwald — Individuality and Immortality • 1908:
William Sturgis Bigelow — Buddhism and Immortality • 1909:
G. Lowes Dickinson — Is Immortality Desirable? • 1911:
George Andrew Reisner — The Egyptian Conception of Immortality • 1914:
George Foot Moore — Metempsychosis • 1918:
Clifford Herschel Moore — Pagan Ideas of Immortality during the Early Roman Empire • 1920:
Charles Reynolds Brown — Living Again • 1921:
William Wallace Fenn — Immortality and Theism • 1922:
Kirsopp Lake — Immortality and the Modern Mind • 1923:
George Edwin Horr — The Christian Faith and Eternal Life • 1924:
Philip Cabot — The Sense of Immortality • 1925:
Edgar S. Brightman — Immortality in Post-Kantian Idealism • 1926:
Gustav Kruger — The Immortality of Man According to the Views of the Men of the Enlightenment • 1927:
Harry Emerson Fosdick — Spiritual Values and Eternal Life • 1928:
Eugene William Lyman — The Meaning of Selfhood and Faith in Immortality • 1929:
W. Douglas Mackenzie — Man's Consciousness of Immortality • 1930:
Robert A. Falconer — The Idea of Immortality and Western Civilization • 1931:
Julius Seelye Bixler — Immortality and the Present Mood • 1932:
William Pepperell Montague — The Chances of Surviving Death • 1933:
Shailer Mathews — Immortality and the Cosmic Process • 1934:
Walter Eugene Clark — Indian Conceptions of Immortality • 1935:
C. H. Dodd — The Communion of Saints • 1936:
William Ernest Hocking — Meanings of Death • 1937:
George Lyman Kittredge — The Old Teutonic Idea of the Future Life • 1938:
Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff — The Mentality of the Hellenistic World and the Afterlife • 1940:
James Bissett Pratt — The Implications of Selfhood • 1941:
Alfred North Whitehead — Immortality • 1942:
Douglas V. Steere — Death's Illumination of Life • 1943:
Rufus M. Jones — The Spell of Immortality • 1944:
Louis Finkelstein — The Jewish Doctrine of Human Immortality • 1945:
Hu Shih — The Concept of Immortality in Chinese Thought • 1946:
John Haynes Holmes — The Affirmation of Immortality • 1947:
Howard Thurman — The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death • 1948:
Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn — Conceptions of Death Among Southwestern Indians • 1949:
Edwin Ewart Aubrey — Immortality and Purpose • 1950:
Charles Harold Dodd — Eternal Life • 1951:
Georges Florovsky — The Resurrection of Life • 1952:
Vilhjalmur Stefansson — The Mackenzie River Coronation Gulf Eskimos: Their Concept of the Spirit World and of Immortality • 1953:
Willard L. Sperry — Approaches to the Idea of Immortality • 1954:
Theodore Otto Wedel — The Community of Faith as the Agent of Salvation • 1955:
Oscar Cullmann — Immortality of the Soul and Resurrection of the Dead: The Witness of the New Testament • 1956:
Harry A. Wolfson — Immortality and Resurrection in the Philosophy of the Church Fathers • 1957:
Hans Hoffman — Immortality of Life • 1958:
Werner Jaeger — The Greek Ideas of Immortality • 1959:
Henry J. Cadbury — Intimations of Immortality in the Thought of Jesus • 1960:
John Knox — The Hope of Glory • 1961:
Hans Jonas — Immortality and the Modern Temper • 1962:
Paul Tillich — Symbols of Eternal Life • 1963:
Jaroslav Pelikan — Immortal Man and Mortal God • 1964:
Amos Niven Wilder — Mortality and Contemporary Literature • 1965:
Eric Voegelin — Immortality: Experience and Symbol • 1966:
Wilfred Cantwell Smith — Eternal Life • 1967:
Jürgen Moltmann — Resurrection as Hope • 1968:
Walter N. Pahnke — The Psychedelic Mystical Experience in the Human Encounter with Death • 1970:
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross — On Death and Dying • 1971:
Liston O. Mills — ? • 1977:
Jane I. Smith — Reflections on Aspects of Immortality in Islam • 1981:
Victor Turner — Images of Anti-Temporality: An Essay in the Anthropology of Experience • 1983:
Wolfhart Pannenberg — Constructive and Critical Functions of Christian Eschatology • 1984:
Martin E. Marty — Hell Disappeared. No One Noticed. A Civic Argument • 1985:
Robert J. Lifton — The Future of Immortality • 1987:
John B. Cobb Jr. — The Resurrection of the Soul • 1988:
Wilfred Cantwell Smith — Transcendence • 1989:
Caroline Walker Bynum — Bodily Miracles and the Resurrection of the Body in the High Middle Ages • 1990:
Stephen J. Gould — (title unavailable, but see for summary) • 1991:
Lawrence Sullivan — Death at Harvard and Death in America • 1993:
Marian Wright Edelman — Leave No Child Behind • 1994:
Jonathan Mann — Health, Society and Human Rights • 1995:
Steven Katz — The Shoah and Historical Memory • 2000:
Carol Zaleski — [https://www.academia.edu/9000861/In_Defense_of_Immortality_Harvard_Ingersoll_Lecture_ In Defense of Immortality • 2001:
Huston Smith — Intimations of Immortality: Three Case Studies • 2002:
Daniel Callahan — The Desire for Eternal Life: Scientific versus Religious Visions • 2005:
Karen Armstrong — Is Immortality Important? Religion is about Inhabiting the Eternal Here and Now • 2006:
James Hal Cone —
Strange Fruit: The Cross and the Lynching Tree • 2008:
Leora Batnitzky — From Resurrection to Immortality: Theological and Political Implications in Modern Jewish Thought • 2009:
François Bovon — The Soul’s Comeback: Immortality and Resurrection in Early Christianity • 2010:
Albert Raboteau — Memory Eternal: The Presence of the Dead in Orthodox Christian Piety • 2011:
Robert R. Desjarlais – Cessation and Continuity: Poiesis in Life and Death among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists. • 2012:
Toni Morrison — Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination • 2014:
Russell Banks — Feeding Moloch: The Sacrifice of Children on the Altar of Capitalism • 2017:
Marilynne Robinson — Old Souls, New World • 2018:
Terry Tempest Williams — The Liturgy of Home • 2019: The lectures were paused due to the COVID pandemic. ==References==