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 speaker names are noted where available. Materials were transferred to the University Archives from the Oral History Archives in 2023.


American Civilization



Box 435 "Clifford Beers: A Pathology of the American Society" by Norman Dain, 1970 October 15


Box 435 "Forms of the Class Struggle" by Tom Wolfe, 1970 October 19


Box 435 "An Era of Causes, Notes, Cases" by Allen Weinstein, 1970 December 17


Box 435 "The Crisis in the American Theatre" by Conrad Mattaei, 1971 January 21


Box 435 "American Studies--History and Prospects" by Norman Holmes Pearson, 1971 February 18


Box 435 "Childhood in XIXth Century America" by Tamara Haraven, 1971 March 18


Box 435 "Academic Freedom at Columbia 1916-1917: The Cattell Case" by Carol Gruber, 1971 April 22


Box 435 "Whitman and the Civil War" by Mr. Daniel Aaron, 1971 May 20


Box 435 "The Pentagon Papers" by Hannah Arendt, 1971 November 15


Box 435 "Reallocation of Resources" by Gar Alperowitz, 1971 December 16


Box 435 "Abraham Lincoln and Racial Equality" by George Frederickson, 1972 January 20


Box 435 "The Negro Image in Pre-1915 Movies" by Dan Lears, 1972 February 17


Box 435 "The New Deal, National Socialism, and the Great Depression" by Professor John Garraty, 1972 March


Box 435 "Doubting Thomases and Peeping Toms: The Nature and Uses of Pornography" by Mr. Irv Schneider, 1972 April


Box 435 "Lincoln Steffens--A Farewell to Mucracking" by Jefferson Kaplan, 1972 May


Box 435 "The Black Image of the City" by John Belssingame, 1972 October 19


Box 435 "Labor Aristrocracy ad the End of the 19th Century" by David Montgomery, 1972 November 16


Box 435 "Andrew Johnson" by Hans Trefousse, 1972 December 21


Box 435 "Black Urbanization" by Hollis Lynch, 1973 January 25


Box 435 "The Psychology of the Revolution" by Michael Wallace, 1973 February 22


Box 435 "The Woman as Expatriate" by Joan Conway, 1973 April 22


Box 435 "Black Patriots" by Otey Scruggs, 1973 May 17


Box 435 "The Uses and Abuses of Film in History" by Joseph J. Huthmacher, 1973 September 21


Box 435 "The New Left and the Cold War" by Robert Maddox, 1973 October 18


Box 435 "The Professionalization of the Harvard Faculty" by Robert McCaughey, circa 1973 November


Box 435 "The Social Origins of Witchcraft in Salem" by Stephen Nissenbaum, circa 1973


Box 435 "American's Armed Vision" by Tom Leonard, circa 1972-1973


Box 435 Speaker: Robert Kaczorowski, circa 1972-1973


Box 435 "The Movie as Social Myth, 1930 as an Example" by Robert Skler, circa 1972-1973


Box 435 "The Reaction to the Film BIRTH OF A NATION" by David Thaxton, circa 1972-1973


Box 435 Dan Aaaron on Edmund Wilson, 1970s


Box 435 "Women's History: The State of the Field" by Gerda Lerner, 1970s


Box 435 "Harvard and the Boston Brahmins" by Ronald Story, 1970s


Box 435 "The D.A.B.: Problems of an Editor" by Mr. Jack Garraty, 1970s


Box 435 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


Changing Metropolis in America


Box 435 Speaker: Michael Danielson, 1970s


Box 435 1970 December 16


Box 435 City, 1963 Feburary 20

Speaker: Charles Abrams


Computers and Their Relation to Man and Society


Box 435 Presentation by Professor Anthony G. Oettinger, 1973 Decmber 12



Box 436 1974 January 9


Box 436 Speakers: Allen F. Westin and Joseph Weizenbaum, 1974 February 13


Box 436 Discussion Leader: Dr. D.D. Aufenkamp, 1974 March 13


Box 436 Discussion Leader: Dr. Joseph Weizenbaum, 1974 April 10


Development of Pre-Industrial Areas


Box 436 "Chilean Foreign Policy" by Dr. Fernando Alegria, 1972 October 5


Box 436 "Japan's Policy in a Multipolar World" by Professor Douglas H. Mendel, Jr., 1972 December 7


Box 436 "Changing U.S.-Iranian Relations in a Polycentric World" by Dr. Keyvan Tabari, 1973 February 8


Box 436 "Nationalist Ideology and the Social Roles of Arab Women: A Study in Conflict" by Professor Nancy Schilling, 1973 March 8


Box 436 "South Africa in a Changing World" by Dr. Donald McHenry, 1973 April 5


Box 436 "Brazilian Foreign Policy and Sub-Imperalism" by Professor Riordan Roett, 1973 May 17


Box 436 "The Effects of Disarmanent on Economic Growth" by Professor Benoit, 1973 November 1


Box 436 "A Bombay Slum--Development??" by Professor Owen Lynch, 1973 December 6


Box 436 "The Ideology in Chinese Communist Behavioral Control and Transformation: A Phenomenological Approach to the Maoist Model" by Professor Greeblatt, 1974 February 7


Box 436 "An Anthropological Perspective on a Development Program in Morocco" by Professor Malcolm Blincow, 1974 April 4


Box 436 Seminar on Ethics in an Age of Technological Change, 1968 January 10

Report from Iron Mountain by Dr. James Morey


Ethics and New Technologies


Box 436 1968 April 10


Box 436 Dialogue between Dr. Henry Clark and Professor Eugene Galanter, 1968 May (?)


Box 436 Gravitation and Relativity Seminar


Box 436 Speaker: R. H. Dicke, 1961 November 2


Box 436 "Interstellar Communication" by Dr. Morrison, 1961 December 14


Box 436 Speaker: Professor J. Wheeler, 1961 December 14


Box 436 Speaker: Professor Kae, 1961?


Box 436 Labor


Box 436 Speaker: Leon Davis, President of Local 1199, undated


Box 436 1960 November 16


Box 436 Speaker: Sol Barkin, 1960-1961


Box 436 Speaker: Simons, 1960-1961


Box 436 Speaker: William Gomberg, 1960-1961


Box 436 Speaker: Evertt Kassalow, 1961 February


Box 436 1961 February 8


Box 436 1961 March 9


Box 436 1961 April 12


Box 436 1961 April 24


Box 436 1961 May

File also includes an index to entire 1960-1961 transcripts of Labor Seminars.


Box 436 1961 November 1


Box 436 1961 November 15


Box 436 1961 December 7


Box 436 1962 January


Box 436 1962 February 7


Box 436 1962 February 21


Box 436 1962 March 7


Box 436 1962 March 21


Box 436 1962 April 4



Box 437 1962 May 9


Box 437 1962 September-October


Box 437 1962 November 21


Box 437 1962 December 4


Box 437 1963 January 16


Box 437 Speaker: Seymour Melman, 1963 February 6


Box 437 Speaker: Michael Sovern, 1963 March 6


Box 437 Speaker: Oscar Ornati, 1963 March 27


Box 437 1963 April 17


Box 437 1963 May 1


Box 437 Speaker: Paul Weinstein, 1963 October 16


Box 437 Speaker: Jerome Rosow, 1963 November 6


Box 437 Speaker: David Feiler, 1963 November 20


Box 437 Speaker: A.H. Raskin, 1964 February 5


Box 437 Speaker: Daniel Moynahan, 1964 March 11


Box 437 Speaker: Jesse Simons, 1964 April 8


Box 437 Speaker: Eli Ginzberg, 1964 May 6


Box 437 "Industrialization of the South" by Mr. Philip Hammer, 1965 November 3


Box 437 "Manpower in the South" by Eli Ginzberg, 1965 December 15


Box 437 "Industrialization of the South" by Professor James G. Maddox, 1966 February 9


Box 437 "Collective Bargaining and the Board of Education of the City of New York" by Mr. Albert Shanker, 1966 February 23


Box 437 Speaker: Miss Ida Klaus, 1966 March 23


Box 437 1966 April 20


Box 437 1966 May 11


Box 437 Speaker: Professor Neil Chamberlain, 1966 October 19


Box 437 Speaker: Dr. A.E.P. Duffy, 1966 November 16


Box 437 Speaker: Mr. Louis Buckley, 1966 Decmber 7


Box 437 Speaker: Mr. Frank Cassel, 1967 January 18


Box 437 Speaker: Mr. Bernard Dunau, 1967 February 15


Box 437 Speaker: Mr. Frank Cummings, 1967 March 15


Box 437 Speaker: Mr. Theodore Kheel, Presiding: Mr. John O'Donnell, 1967 April 19


Box 437 Speaker: Mr. Leon Keyserling, 1967 May 17


Box 437 Speaker: Prof. Merton Bernstein, 1967 November 27


Box 437 "Discrimination in Employment" by Mr. Robert Carter, General Counsel, NAACP, 1967 December 13


Box 437 Speaker: Mr. Thomas Christensen, 1968 January 17


Box 437 "Public Employee Labor Disputes -- Needed: Binding Arbitration as a Substitute for Strikes" by Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.), 1968 February 21


Box 437 "Symposium on the Taylor Law" by Jerome Lefkowitz, Ray Cothran and John Rice, 1968 March 20


Box 437 Speaker: Robert Morgenthau, 1968 May 15


Box 437 1968 October 16


Box 437 1969 Feburary 26


Box 437 1969 April 16


Box 437 "The Charleston, S.C. Hospital Dispute: Organizing Workers in a Right-to-Work State" by Eugene G. Eisner, 1969 November 19


Box 437 "Collective Bargaining in Nonprofit Institutions" by Herman A. Gray, 1969 December 17


Box 437 "New Dimensions in Collective Bargaining" by Prof. Matthew Kelly, 1970 January 7



Box 438 "The Missing Black Manager in Corporate America" by Donald Miller, 1970 February 26


Box 438 1970 March 25


Box 438 "Neutrals in Dispute Settlement: Supply and Demand" by James C. Hill, 1970 April 15


Box 438 "The Role of the Mediator" by Vincent D. McDonnell, 1970 May 13


Box 438 Speaker: Mr. Jerome Lefkowitz, 1970 September


Box 438 Speaker: Joseph Crowley, 1970 October 21


Box 438 Open Discussion Night, 1970 November 18


Box 438 Speaker: Mr. George Nicolau, 1970 December 22


Box 438 Speaker: Dr. Robert Helsby, 1971 February 17


Box 438 Speaker: Harold Neuman, 1971 April 21


Box 438 Speaker: Mr. Eric Schmertz, 1971 May 19


Box 438 1971 October 26


Box 438 Speaker: Mr. Bruno Stein, 1971 November 16


Box 438 Speaker: Mr. Jay Kramer, circa 1972


Box 438 Speaker: The Honorable Arvid Anderson, circa 1972


Box 438 Round Table Discussion, 1972 February 15


Box 438 Speaker: Mr. Harry Van Arsdale, 1972 April 18


The Nature of Man


Box 438 Discussion, Question and Answer Period Following a Seminar Meeting on the General Subject of "The Nature of Man", undated


Box 438 undated


Box 438 1970s


Box 438 Speaker: William B. Richardson, 1970s


Box 438 Speaker: Telford Taylor, 1970s


Box 438 Speaker: Dr. Yang, 1970 October 20


Box 438 Guest Speaker: Mr. Theodosius Dohshansky, 1971 March 19


Box 438 Guest Speaker: Dr. Illich, 1971 April 23


Box 438 Olinger (Morgenthau Talk), 1971 May


Box 438 Speakr: Margaret Mead, 1971 September 27


Box 438 Speaker: Dr. Joachim Weyl, 1971 October


Box 438 Speaker: Sam Devons, 1971 December 12


Box 438 Speaker: Morton Smith, 1972 January 27


Box 438 Speaker: Mr. Friedrich, 1972 February 24


Box 438 Speaker: Professor Harold Rosenberg, 1972 September 15


Organization and Management


Box 438 Speaker: Mr. Harold Herod, 1971 November 8


Box 438 Speaker: Dean Courtney Brown, 1971 December 15


Box 438 Speaker: Mr. William Carmell, 1972 January 10


Box 438 Spekaer: Brother Stephen, Executive Vice President of Manhattan College, 1972 February 14


Box 438 Speaker: Mr. Norman Cousins, 1972 March 13


Box 438 Speaker: Mr. Kingsford, 1972 April 10



Box 439 Speaker: Mr. Arch Patton, 1972 November 14


Box 439 Speaker: Dr. David Hertz, 1972 December 11


Box 439 Speaker: Dr. John Mee, 1973 January 8


Box 439 "The Role of the Board of Directors" by J. Keith Louden, 1973 February 12


Box 439 Speaker: Mr. Victor Brink, 1973 March 12


Box 439 "Work: Old Views and New" by Professor Eli Ginzberg, 1973 April 9


Box 439 Speaker: Mr. Philip Shay, 1973 May 14


Box 439 Speaker: Mr. James Hayes, 1973 June 11


Box 439 Speaker: Dean Louis Volpp, 1973 October 15


Box 439 Speaker: Professor Myron Uretsky, 1973 November 12


Box 439 Speaker: Charles Bowen, 1974 January 14


Box 439 Speaker: John Hutchinson, 1974 February 11


Box 439 Speaker: Philip Babb, 1974 March 11


Box 439 "What's Ahead in Managing? Some Ideas and Current Trends in Managing and Manager Education" by Harold Smiddy, 1974 April 8


Box 439 "The Collision of Management Imperatives" by J.P. Reynolds Budlog, 1974 May 13


Box 439 Speaker: Robert Coulson, 1974 December


Box 439 Speaker: Richard Anton, 1975 January 13


Box 439 "The Future of Management Sciences in a Business School Environment" by Dr. Martin K. Starr, 1975 April 14


Box 439 No Outside Speaker, 1975 May 11


Box 439 circa 1974-1975


Technology and Social Change


Box 439 1963 March 14


Box 439 1963 Apri 11


Box 439 1963 May 9


Box 439 Speaker: Isidor Rabi, 1963 October 10


Box 439 Speaker: Harvey Brooks, 1964 January 9


Box 439 Speaker: Dean Ralph Halford, 1964 April 9


Box 439 Speaker: Dr. Frederick Hoffman, 1964 May 14


Box 439 1964

from a binder containing transcripts from 1963-64


Box 439 1964

from a binder containing transcripts from 1963-64


Box 439 Speaker: Jerome Werner, 1964 October 8

file contains overall introduction to transcripts from 1964-65.



Box 440 Speaker: Dr. William Henry Sebell, 1964 November 12


Box 440 Speaker: Mr. Land, 1964 December


Box 440 Speaker: Dr. Weinberg, 1964


Box 440 Speaker: Dr. Robert L. Hersey, 1965 January 14


Box 440 Speaker: Dr. Emanuel R. Piore, 1965 February 11


Box 440 Speaker: Senator Joseph Clark of PA, 1965 March 11


Box 440 Speaker: Dr. Donald N. Michael, 1965 April 8


Box 440 1965 May 13


Box 440 Speaker: Mr. Mengelberg, 1965 November 11


Box 440 Panel Discussion, 1966 January 11


Box 440 Speaker: Kassalow, 1966 January 14

Conference sponsored by TIME


Box 440 Speaker: Eiseley, 1966 January 15

Conference sponsored by TIME


Box 440 Speaker: Eli Ginzberg, 1966 January 1

Conference sponsored by TIME


Box 440 Speaker: Dr. White, 1966


Box 440 1966 May 12


Box 440 Speaker: Professor Isaiah Berlin, 1966 January 13

Conference sponsored by TIME


Box 440 Opening of Conference, 1966 January 13

Conference sponsored by TIME


Box 440 Speaker: I.I. Rabi, 1966 January 13

Conference sponsored by TIME


Box 440 Discussion, 1966 January 13

Conference sponsored by TIME


Box 440 Speaker: Professor Gyorgy Kepes, 1966


Box 440 Speaker: Mr. Edward Wenk, Jr., 1966 January 6


Box 440 Speaker: Professor J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1966 February 10


Box 440 Speaker: Dr. Mario Salvadori, 1966 March 17


Box 440 TIME Conference, 1966 September 19-21

Speakers: Warner, Braownoski, Rabi


Box 440 TIME Conference, 1966 September 19-21

Reel 4


Box 440 Speaker: Mr. Karl Deutsch, 1966 October 13


Box 440 Speaker: Professor Jose Delgado, 1966 November 10


Box 440 Speaker: Mr. Warren McCulloch, 1966 December 8


Box 440 Speaker: Dr. Robert Livingston, 1967 January 12


Box 440 Speaker: Mr. Goldstein, 1967 February 9


Box 440 Speaker: Mr. Pike, 1967 March


Box 440 Speaker: Mr. Robert Tehobald, 1967 April 13


Box 440 Speaker: Mr. Norman Kurland, 1967 May 11


Box 440 Speaker: Professor Conrad Arensberg, 1967 October 12


Box 440 Speaker: Dr. Margaret Mead, 1967 November 9


Box 440 Speaker: Dr. White, 1967 December 14


Box 440 Speaker: Mr. H.L. Nieburg, 1968 February 8


Box 440 Speaker: Eli Ginzberg, 1968 March 14


Box 440 Speaker: Professor Evertt Hagen, 1968 April 11


Box 440 Speaker: Professor Albert O. Hirschman, 1968 May 9


Box 440 "The Implementation of Science in Underdeveloped Countries" by Professor Samuel Devons, 1968 December 12


Box 440 "A Failure of Will" by Max Bond, 1969 January 9



Box 441 "Computers and Their Applications--The First 20 Years" by Mr. H.R.J. Gorsch, 1969 February 13


Box 441 "Factors That Have Inhibited the Computer Revolution" by David B. Hertz, 1969 March 13


Box 441 "Political Factors and Limitations in the Realization of Technological Potential" by Richard L. Garwin, 1969 April 10


Box 441 "The Promise and Fulfillment of Nuclear Power", 1969 May 8


Box 441 Theory of Literature, 1973 October 15

Speaker: Michael Beaujour


Box 441 Annual Dinner, 1962 April 26


Box 441 Annual Dinner, 1963 Spring


Box 441 Annual Dinner, 1965 April 28


Box 441 Annual Dinner, 1966


Box 441 Annual Dinner, 1969 April 30


Box 441 25th Anniversary Dinner Meeting, 1970 April 29


Box 441 Annual Dinner, 1972 April 12


Box 441 Annual Dinner, 1977

Held at Faculty House


Box 441 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 441 Discussion of Seminar Policies, 1966 October 17

Discussion was presided over by Professor Frank Tannenbaum


Box 441 Grayson Kirk Speech at 20th Anniversary, University Seminars, 1964 April 27


Box 441 Seminar Luncheon with Chariman, 1963 October 31

Speaker: Frank Tannenbaum