Which university hosted Sagan's 1985 Gifford Lectures?

The University of Glasgow hosted Sagan’s 1985 Gifford Lectures.

Carl Sagan delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow in October 1985. The lecture series, given under the theme “The Search for Who We Are,” explored questions traditionally associated with natural theology, including the relationship between scientific knowledge, religion, spirituality, and humanity’s understanding of the cosmos.

The lectures were published posthumously in 2006 as The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God. Ann Druyan edited the book and wrote its introduction. Its title deliberately echoes William James’s influential work The Varieties of Religious Experience, while Sagan’s approach replaces theological certainty with an examination grounded in science and intellectual humility.

The university is sometimes confused with Oxford, Cambridge, or Edinburgh because all are prominent British institutions with long intellectual traditions. Glasgow is the distinctive answer here: the Gifford Lectures were established for Scottish universities, and Sagan’s 1985 series took place specifically at Glasgow.