The Bampton Lectures in America are a recurring series of lectures at Columbia University established in 1948 by a bequest of Ada Byron Bampton Tremaine and modeled on the original Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford in England. Either a series of lectures, or single lecture, is delivered in New York during the academic year by a prominent scholar on a topic of their choosing in the areas of theology, art, science, or medicine. In accordance with the wishes of Ms. Tremaine, the lectures are delivered to a general audience and subsequently published.