University Seminars records, 1945-2000

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Series IV: Transcripts

This series contains transcripts of various seminar meetings held in the 1960s and 1970s. Materials are organized alphabetically by seminar title and then arranged chronologically within each seminar. Lecture titles and/or speacker names are noted where available. Materials were transferred to the University Archives from the Oral History Archives in 2023.


American Civilization



Box 397 "Clifford Beers: A Pathology of the American Society" by Norman Dain, 1970 October 15


Box 397 "Forms of the Class Struggle" by Tom Wolfe, 1970 October 19


Box 397 An Era of Causes, Notes, Cases" by Allen Weinstein, 1970 December 17


Box 397 "The Crisis in the American Theatre" by Conrad Mattaei, 1971 January 21


Box 397 "American Studies--History and Prospects" by Norman Holmes Pearson, 1971 February 18


Box 397 "Childhood in XIXth Century America" by Tamara Haraven, 1971 March 18


Box 397 "Academic Freedom at Columbia 1916-1917: The Cattell Case" by Carol Gruber, 1971 April 22


Box 397 "Whitman and the Civil War" by Mr. Daniel Aaron, 1971 May 20


Box 397 "The Pentagon Papers" by Hannah Arendt, 1971 November 15


Box 397 "Reallocation of Resources" by Gar Alperowitz, 1971 December 16


Box 397 "Abraham Lincoln and Racial Equality" by George Frederickson, 1972 January 20


Box 397 "The Negro Image in Pre-1915 Movies" by Dan Lears, 1972 February 17


Box 397 "The New Deal, National Socialism, and the Great Depression" by Professor John Garraty, 1972 March


Box 397 "Lincoln Steffens--A Farewell to Mucracking" by Jefferson Kaplan, 1972 May


Box 397 "The Black Image of the City" by John Belssingame, 1972 October 19


Box 397 "Labor Aristrocracy ad the End of the 19th Century" by David Montgomery, 1972 November 16


Box 397 "Andrew Johnson" by Hans Trefousse, 1972 December 21


Box 397 "Black Urbanization" by Hollis Lynch, 1973 January 25


Box 397 "The Psychology of the Revolution" by Michael Wallace, 1973 February 22


Box 397 "The Woman as Expatriate" by Joan Conway, 1973 April 22


Box 397 "Black Pianists" by Otey Scruggs, 1973 May 17


Box 397 "The Uses and Abuses of Film in History" by Joseph J. Huthmacher, 1973 September 21


Box 397 "The New Left and the Cold War" by Robert Maddox, 1973 October 18


Box 397 "The Professionalization of the Harvard Faculty" by Robert McCaughey, ca. 1973 November


Box 397 "The Social Origins of Witchcraft in Salem" by Stephen Nissenbaum, ca. 1973


Box 397 "American's Armed Vision" by Tom Leonard, ca. 1972-1973


Box 397 Speaker: Robert Kaczorowski, ca. 1972-1973


Box 397 "The Movie as Social Myth, 1930 as an Example" by Robert Skler, ca. 1972-1973


Box 397 "The Reaction to the Film BIRTH OF A NATION" by David Thaxton, ca. 1972-1973


Box 397 Speaker: Mr. I. Schneider, ca. 1972-1973


Box 397 Dan Aaaron on Edmund Wilson, 1970s


Box 397 "Women's History: The State of the Field" by Gerda Lerner, 1970s


Box 397 "Harvard and the Boston Brahmins" by Ronald Story, 1970s


Box 397 "The D.A.B.: Problems of an Editor" by Mr. Jack Garraty, 1974 December 19


Box 397 Archaelogy of the Eastern Mediterranean, Eastern Europe, and the Near East, 1966 December 14

"Afghanistan, Baluchistan, and the Indus Valley" by Mr. George I. Dales


Box 397 Changing Metropolis in America, 1970s


Box 397 Changing Metropolis in America, 1970 December 16


Box 397 Computers and Their Relation to Man and Society


Box 397 Presentation by Professor Anthony G. Oettinger, 1973 December 12


Box 397 1974 January 9



Box 398 Speakers: Allen F. Westin and Joseph Weizenbaum, 1974 February 13


Box 398 Discussion Leader: Dr. D.D. Aufenkamp, 1974 March 13


Box 398 Discussion Leader: Dr. Joseph Weizenbaum, 1974 April 10


Box 398 Development of Pre-Industrial Areas


Box 398 "Chilean Foreign Policy" by Dr. Fernando Alegria, 1972 October 5


Box 398 "Japan's Policy in a Multipolar World" by Professor Douglas H. Mendel, Jr., 1972 December 7


Box 398 "Changing U.S.-Iranian Relations in a Polycentric World" by Dr. Keyvan Tabari, 1973 February 8


Box 398 "Nationalist Ideology and the Social Roles of Arab Women: A Study in Conflict" by Professor Nancy Shilling, 1973 March 8


Box 398 "South Africa in a Changing World" by Dr. Donald McHenry, 1973 April 5


Box 398 "Brazilian Foreign Policy and Sub-Imperalism" by Professor Riordan Roett, 1973 May 17


Box 398 "The Effects of Disarmanent on Economic Growth" by Professor Benoit, 1973 November 1


Box 398 "A Bombay Slum--Development??" by Professor Owen Lynch, 1973 December 6


Box 398 "The Ideology in Chinese Communist Behavioral Control and Transformation: A Phenomenological Approach to the Maoist Model" by Professor Greeblatt, 1974 February 7


Box 398 "An Anthropological Perspective on a Development Program in Morocco" by Professor Malcolm Blincow, 1974 April 4


Box 398 Seminar on Ethics in an Age of Technological Change, 1968 January 10

Report from Iron Mountain by Dr. James Morey


Box 398 Ethics and New Technologies, 1968 April 10, 2 folders

2 copies of same discussion/lecture.


Box 398 Ethics and New Technologies - Dialogue between Dr. Henry Clark and Professor Eugene Galanter, 1968 May (?)


Box 398 Nature of Man


Box 398 undated


Box 398 ca. 1970s



Box 399 Speaker: William B. Richardson, ca. 1970s


Box 399 Speaker: Professor Telford Taylor, ca. 1970s


Box 399 Speaker: Dr. Yang, 1970 October 29


Box 399 Guest Speaker: Mr. Theodosius Dohshansky, 1971 March 19


Box 399 Guest Speaker: Dr. Illich, 1971 April 23


Box 399 Olinger (Morgenthau Talk), 1971 May


Box 399 Margaret Mead, 1971 September 27


Box 399 Speaker: Dr. Joachim Weyl, 1971 October


Box 399 Speaker: Sam Devons, 1971 December 2


Box 399 Speaker: Morton Smith, 1972 January 27


Box 399 Speaker: Mr. Friedrich, 1972 February 24


Box 399 Speaker: Professor Harold Rosenberg, 1972 September 15


Box 399 Organization and Management


Box 399 Speaker: Mr. Harold Herod, 1971 November 8


Box 399 Speaker: Dean Courtney Brown, 1971 December 15


Box 399 Speaker: Mr. William Carmell, 1972 January 10


Box 399 1972 February 14


Box 399 Speaker: Mr. Norman Cousins, 1972 March 13


Box 399 Speaker: Mr. Kingsford, 1972 April 10


Box 399 Speaker: Mr. Arch Patton, 1972 November 14


Box 399 Speaker: Dr. David Hertz, 1972 December 11


Box 399 Speaker: Dr, John Mee, 1973 January 8


Box 399 "The Role of the Board of Directors" by J. Keith Louden, 1973 February 12


Box 399 Speaker: Mr. Victor Brink, 1973 March 12


Box 399 "Work: Old Views and New" by Professor Eli Ginzberg, 1973 April 9


Box 399 Speaker: Mr. Philip Shay, 1973 May 14


Box 399 Speaker: Mr. James Hayes, 1973 June 11


Box 399 Speaker: Dean Louis Volpp, 1973 October 15


Box 399 Speaker: Professor Myron Uretsky, 1973 November 12


Box 399 Speaker: Charles Bowen, 1974 January 14


Box 399 Speaker: John Hutchinson, 1974 February 11



Box 400 Speaker: Philip Babb, 1974 March 11


Box 400 "What's Ahead in Managing? Some Ideas and Current Trends in Managing and Manager Education" by Harold Smiddy, 1974 April 8


Box 400 "The Collision of Management Imperatives" by J.P. Reynolds Budlog, 1974 May 13


Box 400 Speaker: Robert Coulson, 1974 December


Box 400 Speaker: Richard Anton, 1975 January 13


Box 400 "The Future of Management Sciences in a Business School Environment" by Dr. Martin K. Starr, 1975 April 14


Box 400 No Outside Speaker, 1975 May 11


Box 400 ca. 1974-1975


Box 400 Technology and Social Change


Box 400 1964 October 8

Includes an overall introduction to transcripts from 1964-1965.


Box 400 1964 November 12


Box 400 1964 December


Box 400 1965 January 14


Box 400 1965 February 11


Box 400 1965 March 11


Box 400 1965 April 8


Box 400 1965 May 13


Box 400 Speaker: Professor Samuel Devons, 1968 December 12


Box 400 "A Failure of Will" by Max Bond, 1969 January 9


Box 400 "Computers and Their Applications--The First 20 Years" by Mr. H.R.J. Gorsch, 1969 Feburary 13


Box 400 "Factors That Have Inhibited the Computer Revolution" by David B. Hertz, 1969 March 13


Box 400 "Political Factors and Limitations in the Realization of Technological Potential" by Richard L. Garwin, 1969 April 10


Box 400 "The Promise and Fulfillment of Nuclear Power" by Dr. Gerald Tape, 1969 May 8


Box 400 Theory of Literature, 1973 October 15

Speaker: Michael Beaujour


Box 400 Annual Dinner, 1965 April 28


Box 400 Annual Dinner, 1969 April 30


Box 400 26th Anniversary Dinner Meeting, 1970 April 29


Box 400 Annual Dinner, 1972 April 12


Box 400 Annual Dinner, 1977

Held at Faculty House


Box 400 University Seminars Dinner, 1978 April 19

Frank Tannenbaum Lecture delivered by Harrison E. Salisbury. Lecture was titled "American Society after 20 Years of Radical Change"


Box 400 Discussion of Seminar Policies, 1966 October 17

Discussion was presided over by Professor Frank Tannenbaum