Previous lectures

From 2003 to 2013, Leiden University organised a total of ten Niko Tinbergen lectures (as a successor to the Stephen Jay Gould lectures). These lectures were dedicated to the famous Leiden Nobel Prize winner and were delivered by top international experts in the field of evolution and behavioral biology. The main speakers of the Tinbergen Lecture have been:

2003 Tijs Goldschmidt
2004 Richard Dawkins
2005 Jared Diamond
2006 Edward O. Wilson
2007 Frans de Waal
2008 Neil Shubin
2009 Marc Hauser
2010 Sarah Blaffcr Hrdy
2012 Timothy Birkhead
2013 Steven Pinker

An honours course for selected top students was connected to the lectures. Media and organisation partners were NRC Handelsblad, NWO, Boerhaave museum and Naturalis. All lectures were well attended and attracted considerable media attention.