Hoernlé Lectures

Alfred Hoernlé was an internationally recognised philosopher. He was born in Bonn, educated in Saxony and at Oxford, and became a professor of philosophy at the South African college at the age of 28. After teaching in Britain and the United States between 1911 and 1923, he became a professor of philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand. He joined the Institute in 1932, guiding it as president for almost a decade from 1934 to 1943. Alfred Hoernlé is known also for his Phelps-Stokes lectures presented to the University of Cape Town in 1939.

Winifred Hoernlé was a senior lecturer in social anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand. She joined the Institute's executive committee in 1946, and held the position of president three times. In the 1940s, she was a member of a government commission of inquiry into penal and prison reform.

Below is a catalogue of previous Hoernlé lectures:

No	*Year*	*Lecturer*	*Title*
1st	1945	Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr	Christian principles and race problems
2nd	1946	E G Malherbe	Race attitudes and education
3rd	1947	I D MacCrone	Group conflicts and race prejudice
4th	1948	Winifred Hoernlé	Penal reform and race relations
5th	1949	W M Macmillan	Africa beyond the Union
6th	1950	Edgar Brookes	We come of age
7th	1951	H J van Eck	Some aspects of the South African industrial revolution
8th	1952	Herbert Frankel	Some reflections on civilisation in Africa
9th	1953	Radcliffe Brown	Outlook for Africa
10th	1954	Emory Ross	Colour and Christian community
11th	1955	T B Davie	Education and race relations in South Africa
12th	1956	Gordon Allport	Prejudice in modern perspective
13th	1957	B B Keet	The ethics of apartheid
14th	1958	David Thomson	The government of divided communities
15th	1959	Simon Biesheuwel	Race, culture and personality
16th	1960	C W de Kiewiet	Can Africa come of age?
17th	1961	D V Cowen	Liberty, equality, fraternity – today
18th	1964	Denis Hurley	Apartheid: A crisis of the Christian conscience
19th	1966	Gwendolen Carter	Separate development: The challenge of the Transkei
20th	1966	Keith Hancock	Are there South Africans?
21st	1968	Meyer Fortes	The plural society in Africa
22nd	1970	Hobart Houghton	Enlightened self-interest and the liberal spirit
23rd	1971	A S Mathews	Freedom and state security in the South African plural society
24th	1972	Philip Mayer	Urban Africans and the bantustans
25th	1973	Alan Pifer	The higher education of blacks in the United States
26th	1974	Mangosuthu Buthelezi	White and black nationalism, ethnicity and the future of the homelands
27th	1975	Monica Wilson	‘…So truth be in the field…’
28th	1976	M W Murphree	Education, development and change in Africa
29th	1977	G R Bozzoli	Education is the key to change in South Africa
30th	1978	Hugh Ashton	Moral persuasion
31st	1979	Alan Paton	Towards racial justice: Will there be a change of heart?
32nd	1980	Leon Sullivan	The role of multinational corporations in South Africa
33rd	1985	Alan Paton	Federation or desolation?
34th	1986	Charles Simkins	Liberalism and the problem of power
35th	1990	M M Corbett	Guaranteeing fundamental freedoms in a new South Africa
36th	1993	Richard Goldstone	Do judges speak out?
37th	1996	Lionel Abrahams	The democratic chorus and individual choice
38th	2000	Michael O’Dowd	Ideas have consequences
39th	2002	Carl Gershman	Aiding democracy around the world: the challenges after September 11
40th	2004	Jonathan Jansen	When does a university cease to exist?
41st	2006	Otto Count Lambsdorff	The welfare state: poverty alleviation or poverty creation?

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Fast Facts No 9 September 2008

Hoernlé Lectures

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