The Gomes Lecture
This lecture is held in College annually. It is in admiration of the late Reverend Professor Peter Gomes of Harvard University. He was an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel.
The lecture was established in 1997, as a gift to the College. Our benefactors are Kenneth & Cynthia Rossano and Mary Rossano, a graduate of Harvard & Cambridge.
Each lecture is a College occasion of intellectual significance. It strengthens the ties between Emmanuel & Harvard University, and our respective countries. It is also a celebration of those who have gone before.
Gomes Lecturers
- 2022 Ms Caroline Wyatt: In Defence of Journalism
- 2021 Mr James Rebanks: English Pastoral: An Inheritance or Levin's Problem
- 2020 Professor Lawrence Bacow: The Research University in Contentious Times
- 2019 Mr Edmund de Waal: In Touch: Objects, Families, Stories
- 2018 Adam Nicholson, Lord Carnock: Seabirds: Planetary Sentinels
- 2017 Lord Robert Winston: The Dark Side of Genetics
- 2016 Mr Tim Knox: The Stripping of the Country House
- 2015 Professor Linda Colley: A Changing Magna Carta: Present, Past, and Future
- 2014 Lord Berkeley of Knighton
- 2013 Dr Sandy Nairne
- 2012 Lord Rees of Ludlow
- 2010 Professor Alison Richard
- 2009 The Reverend Professor Peter Gomes
- 2008 The Very Reverend Colin Slee
- 2007 Baroness James of Holland Park
- 2006 Sir Eric Anderson
- 2005 Lord May of Oxford
- 2004 Sir Edward George
- 2003 Professor David Ford
- 2002 Mr Neil MacGregor
- 2001 Sir Christopher Lee
- 2000 Professor John Polyani
- 1999 Professor Amartya Sen