Morrell Centre for Toleration
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The Morrell Memorial Address on Toleration
The W B and J B Morrell Memorial Address on Toleration was founded to honour the founder of the Morrell Trust, John Bowes Morrell, and his son William Bowes who helped realise his father’s vision for a Centre on Toleration.
The Address is designed to encourage a significant contribution to thought on the subject of toleration and is delivered annually by “a person of the highest national or international eminence”, according to the direction of the trustees’ wishes. The first was given by Professor Sir Karl Popper and the high standard of addressees has been maintained ever since by philosophers, politicians, judges, journalists, religious leaders, and activists, amongst many others.
A volume of the Addresses was published in 1999 by Edinburgh University Press under the title The Politics of Toleration. Other books arising out of the programme are D Edwards & S L Mendus (eds.) On Toleration (Oxford University Press 1987), J Horton & S L Mendus (eds.) Aspects of Toleration (Methuen 1985), and S L Mendus (ed.) Justifying Toleration (Cambridge 1988).
The hope of the Trustees is that each address will make a contribution to thought on the subject, and yet be in a language that can be readily appreciated by the educated layman.
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2014 |
Peter Tatchell |
John Wolfenden: Tolerance versus acceptance |
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2013 |
Jeremy Waldron |
Toleration and Calumny |
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2011 |
Nicola Lacey | Toleration and Criminal Justice (PDF  , 200kb) |
| 2010 | Baroness Onora O'Neill | Toleration, Self-Expression and Communication |
| 2008 | Lord Richard Harries | Can Religions Learn to be Tolerant? (PDF  , 49kb) |
| 2007 | Caryl Phillips | Colour Me English |
| 2006 | Oliver Letwin MP | Why Tolerance |
| 2005 | Lord Bikhu Parekh | The Politics of Identity |
| 2005 | Professor Quentin Skinner | Three Concepts of Liberty |
| 2003 | Baroness Susan Greenfield | Will future generations be more or less tolerant of individual weakness? |
| 2001 | Will Kymlicka | Tolerance, Justice and Security: comparing minority rights in the West and Eastern Europe |
| 2000 | Mark Tully | Democracy - Is there a better form of Government? The Indian Experience |
| 1999 | Janet Suzman | The Importance of Being Earnest: Toleration in Practice |
| 1998 | Professor Alasdair MacIntyre | Toleration and the Goods of Conflict |
| 1996 | Rabbi Julia Neuberger | Religious Toleration in the UK: is it Feasible? |
| 1995 | Helena Kennedy Q.C. | The Politics of Intolerance |
| 1994 | Michael Ignatieff | Nationalism and Toleration |
| 1992 | Professor Bernard Williams | Tolerating the Intolerable |
| 1991 | Dr George Carey | Tolerating Religion |
| 1990 | Professor Christopher Hill | Toleration in 17th Century England: theory and practice |
| 1989 | Sir Edward Heath | Toleration and Politics |
| 1988 | Dr Garret Fitzgerald, T.D. | Toleration or Solidarity? |
| 1987 | Baroness Warnock | The Limits of Toleration |
| 1986 | Professor Maurice Cranston | John Locke and the Case for Toleration |
| 1985 | Professor Sir Alfred Ayer | Sources of Intolerance |
| 1984 | Lord Gerry Fitt | Toleration in Northern Ireland |
| 1983 | Lord Scarman | Toleration and the Law |
| 1982 | Professor Ralf Dahrendorf | Pluralism, Democracy and Toleration |
| 1982 | Professor F A Hayek | Individual and Collective Aims |
| 1981 | Professor Sir Karl Popper | Toleration and Intellectual Responsibility |
The 2011 Address delivered by Professor Nicola Lacey
