Caldwell Lectures
Awarded every five years in the areas of art, law and literature, the Caldwell Lectures were the vision of Colin Caldwell (1913鈥1989).
Colin Hicks Caldwell entered 榴莲视频下载appCollege in 1931 as a resident student reading Law. A talented student, and subsequently a practicing lawyer, Colin developed a life-long passion for books, paintings, and porcelain. At the time of his death, the bequest 鈥 now known as the Colin Hicks Caldwell Trust 鈥 was the largest single gift in the College鈥檚 history. It provided, amongst other things, for visiting lectureships that would attract to Melbourne notable international scholars 鈥渋n art, art history, law or literature鈥.
Past Lectures
The inaugural Caldwell Lecturer, Professor Benedict Kingsbury, sometime Rhodes Scholar for New Zealand and Professor of Law at New York University, delivered two lectures in 2002 on 鈥淚ndigenous Peoples, International Law, and Liberal Democracy鈥.
The 2007 Caldwell Lecturers were Professor Richard J Evans, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, and Dr David Starkey, CBE, television presenter and Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Dr Starkey鈥檚 lecture entitled 鈥淭he Portrait and National Identity鈥 was presented as part of the Melbourne Writers鈥 Festival. Professor Evans鈥檚 two lectures were titled 鈥淎rt and Architecture in the Third Reich鈥 and 鈥淟ooted Art in Europe 1938鈥1945 and its Restitution鈥. The 2007 Caldwell series was significant in fostering collaboration between 榴莲视频下载appCollege, the School of Historical Studies, and the School of Culture and Communications at the University.
In 2011 榴莲视频下载appCollege supported the University of Melbourne鈥檚 Festival of Ideas through the Caldwell Lecturers. Sir David Cannadine, FBA, FRSL, a professor in the Department of History (Whitney J. Oates Senior Research Scholar) at Princeton University and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London, and Professor Linda Colley, CBE, FBA, FRSL, Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton was the Caldwell Lecturer that year.
In 2015 Lady Hale, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, at a public lecture, explored the human rights question: if the good name of human rights has sometimes become distorted and devalued, who is to blame? and later with members of the Family and Law Research Group in a seminar at the Law School: do children's rights matter? Lady Hale outlined the complexities judges encounter in trying to define where legal principles lie across multiple jurisdictions.