The first event to formalise the establishment of the Ditchley Foundation was a lecture given by the Provost, Harry Hodson.  Since that date, a lecture has - with the exceptions of 1977, 1979 and 2001 - been held annually. 

 

Usually delivered by a distinguished individual from public life, the lecture has become the largest regular event at Ditchley and since 1975 has been held in June/July to mark the close of our conference season.

 

It has become a tradition that the nationality of the speaker rotates between Britain, North America, and a third country.  The topic of the lecture is of the speaker's own choosing, and the text is released for publication.

I : Inaugural Lecture: The Anatomy of Anglo-American Relations

Delivered by Mr H V Hodson

 

II : The Dimensions of the Atlantic Alliance

Delivered by General Lauris Norstad

 

III : Friends and Relations

Delivered by Mr Arnold Heeney QC

 

IV : The Roots of British Foreign Policy

Delivered by Lord Caccia

 

V : International Monetary Systems: An American perspective

Delivered by Hon Douglas Dillon

 

VI : The English-Speaking People in a Changing World

Delivered by Sir Robert Menzies

 

VII : An International Weather Forecast

Delivered by Sir Alec Douglas-Home

 

VIII : The Americans and Europe: rhetoric and reality

Delivered by Hon McGeorge Bundy

 

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IX : The Evolving Commonwealth

Delivered by The Rt Hon Malcolm MacDonald

 

X : Environment: A Global Perspective

Delivered by the Hon Russell E Train

 

XI : The Concept of Universal Man

Delivered by Lord Clark of Saltwood

 

XII : Europe and the Americans

Delivered by Dr Joseph Luns

 

XIII : One Earth: the problems and opportunities on a very interdependent planet

Delivered by Father Theodore Hesburgh

 

XIV : Politics and the Environment

Delivered by Lord Ashby

 

XV : America's Imports Revalued: the Tributaries of American Culture

Delivered by Congresswoman Barbara Jordan

 

No Annual Lecture

 

XVI : France, the European Community and the Western Alliance:

Delivered by M. Maurice Schumann

 

No Annual Lecture

 

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XVII : On the Usefulness of Biological Science

Delivered by Dr Lewis Thomas

 

XVIII : The Economic Challenges of the '80s

Delivered by Dr Otmar Emminger

 

XIX : God in Search of Us

Delivered by Cardinal Basil Hume

 

The American Ditchley Foundation Lecture

I: Today's Challenges to Democracy

Delivered by Lord Home of the Hirsel

 

XX : The Atlantic Alliance: Tasks for Tomorrow

Delivered by The Hon Cyrus R Vance

 

XXI : Philosophy and Public Policy

Delivered by Dame Mary Warnock

 

XXII : The ECU and its contribution to the stability of the international monetary system

Delivered by M Valery Giscard D'Estaing

 

XXIII : Japan's Role from the Global Perspective

Delivered by Ambassador Yoshio Okawara

 

XXIV : English Anchor - American Sail: Two Centuries of the American Constitution

Delivered by Professor Benno Schmidt

 

XXV : Paradise after the Fall: in Search of Contemporary Australia

Delivered by Dame Leonie Kramer

 

XXVI : The French Revolution and the Development of Western Democracy

Delivered by Mr François Furet

 

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XXVII : Towards a New Concert of Europe

Delivered by Lord Carrington

 

XXVIII : After the Persian Gulf: American Politics and Policy in the 1990s

Delivered by the Hon Thomas S Foley

 

XXIX : Europe in the ‘90s

Delivered by Dr Kurt Biedenkopf

 

XXX : Cold War, Chill Peace

Delivered by Professor Sir Michael Howard

 

XXXI : The Russia in Europe’s Future: Engagement, not containment

Delivered by HE The Hon Thomas R Pickering

 

XXXII : Inter-governmental co-operation and integration in the European Union

Delivered by Professor Guiliano Amato

 

XXXIII : Has diplomacy a future?

Delivered by The Rt Hon Douglas Hurd CH CBE MP

 

XXXIV : The United Nations, regionalism and the future of international peace and security

Delivered by Ambassador William Richardson

 

XXXV : Intervention

Delivered by HE Kofi Annan

 

XXXVI : Who Needs Art?

Delivered by Sir Richard Eyre

 

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XXXVII : The human consequences of the information revolution

Delivered by Hon James H. Billington

 

No Annual Lecture was held, due to maintenance work on the Mansion.

 

XXXVIII : Refugees in a globalized world

Delivered by HE Ruud Lubbers

 

XXXIX : Judging Today

Delivered by The Rt Hon The Lord Bingham of Cornhill

 

XL : America and Europe: what is the role of soft power?

Delivered by The Honorable Joseph Nye

 

XLI : Britain's role: Has Dean Acheson's question been answered yet?

Delivered by The Rt Hon The Lord Patten of Barnes

 

 

XLIV :  The Next Half-Century:  a Scientist's Hopes and Fears

Delivered by Lord Rees of Ludlow

July 2008

XLV :  Europe's global role - what next steps?
Delivered by Dr Javier Solana
July 2009

XLVI :  Obama, America, and the World:  A Promise at Risk
July 2010

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