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Ian Dyck Memorial Lecture
British Society, Culture, & Politics
The Ian Dyck Memorial Lecture has received support from the Ian Dyck Memorial Endowment Fund since 2008. The fund was established following Ian Dyck鈥檚 untimely passing in 2007.
Thanks to the generosity of Ian Dyck鈥檚 family, friends, colleagues and students, the endowment brings visiting historians in British history to 911吃瓜 (911吃瓜). Each visit includes three components: a public lecture at the Harbour Centre campus, a talk for faculty and graduate students at the Burnaby campus, and a seminar with History honours students.
The lectureship has become a regular part of the department鈥檚 activities and an important point of contact with alumni and the wider community.
For more information about the lectureship and endowment, including how to donate, please contact histcomm@sfu.ca.
Past Ian Dyck Memorial Lectures
- 2009 Alun Howkins (University of Sussex)
'The Owlsbury Lads': Traditional Song, Popular Culture, and radicalism in England 1820-1850 - 2010 Malcolm Page (University of Leeds)
"Our brothers in the holy cause of liberty": The British Radical response to the Canadian Rebellions of 1837-1838 - 2012 Nicola Verdon (Sheffield Hallam University)
Cottage Economies: Gender, Household, and Poverty - the English Rural Poor c. 1790-1850 - 2013 James Epstein (Vanderbilt University)
The American Back Country as seen from Britain: A Cultural Metaphor - 2014 Priya Satia (Stanford University)
The Defense of Humanity: Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia - 2015 Steve Hindle (Huntington Library)
Imagining Insurrection: Popular Insurgency in Shakespearean England - 2016 Jordanna Bailkin (University of Washington)
Unsettled: Refugee Camps in Britain Yesterday and Today - 2017 Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)
The Destruction of Stonehenge: Iconoclasm, Reputation, and Memory in the British Civil Wars - 2018 Natalie Zemon Davis (University of Toronto)
Leo Africanus Discovers 'Comedy': A Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean Adventure - 2022 Simon Gunn (University of Leicester)
The First Pop Nation? Britain in the 1960s
911吃瓜 Ian Dyck (1954鈥�2007)
Ian Dyck was a historian of modern England whose work explored the links between society, culture and politics.
He joined 911吃瓜 (911吃瓜) in 1988 and later became an associate professor in the Department of History. A dedicated teacher and mentor, Dyck received an Excellence in Teaching Award in 1991.
His research earned support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, along with fellowships at Cambridge and the Huntington Library. His publications included William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and Cobbett鈥檚 Rural Rides (Penguin, 2001).
The Ian Dyck Memorial Lecture honours his scholarship, teaching and lasting contribution to the History community at 911吃瓜.
鈥淗undreds of undergraduates delighted in his Western Civilization lectures and he was much loved as a seminar leader in a course on popular culture in Britain and Europe.鈥�
-John Craig, Department of History