
Guide to the Records of the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities RG.21.1
New York University Archives
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Description is in English.
Updated by Kelly Haydon to state audiovisual materials have been digitized and are accessible to patrons. Updated by Christine Gennetti to describe AV materials in Series VI: Lecture Series Recordings Edited by Anna Björnsson McCormick to update a file name. , October 2019 , February 2020 , September 2020
Descriptive Summary
Creator: | Cantor, Norman F. |
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Title: | Records of the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities |
Dates [inclusive]: | 1964-1984 |
Abstract: | In 1965 the New York State Board of Regents awarded New York State University the funds to create an Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities as part of a state-wide attempt to improve higher learning. Several chairs, five of which were designated by the State Legislature as the Albert Schweitzer Chair and five as the Albert Einstein Chair in Science, were intended to attract the world's most renowned scholars to New York State's higher educational community. The inventory to the Records of the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities chronicles the records of this position from 1965-1984. The recipients of the additional chairs were City University of New York, Cornell University, the University of Rochester, State University of New York at Stony Brook and Fordham University; however, information about chairs at other institutions are not recorded in this collection. |
Quantity: | 7 Linear Feet (12 boxes, 25 tapes) |
Location: | This collection is stored offsite. Please contact the repository for access. |
Language: | Materials are in English. |
Call Phrase: | RG.21.1 |
History of the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities
The Albert Schweitzer Chair covers the disciplines of comparative literature and the history of ideas. Professors who have held this position have traditionally emphasized through their scholarship and teaching an emphasis on the relevance of the humanities to present-day concerns and the nature and quality of interracial awareness.
At New York University a faculty committee was formed to select the first Albert Schweitzer Professor. The committee chose Conor Cruise O'Brien, who was announced as the inaugural Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities on June 2, 1965. Professor O'Brien held the chair from 1965 to 1969. Following O'Brien's term, Ralph Ellison held the chair from 1971 to 1979. Professor Aileen Ward held the position from 1979-1990.
Conor Cruise O'Brien was formerly the United Nations Representative in Kantanga, Africa, and also served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana. His published works include Power and Consciousness, (co-editor); United Nations : Sacred Drama; "Introduction to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France"; and numerous articles in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and The Listener. While he occupied the Albert Schweitzer Chair, he organized and participated in the annual Schweitzer Public Lecture Series, taught both graduate and undergraduate courses annually, and lectured throughout the country.
The funding for the Albert Schweitzer Chair also allowed for visiting scholars and writers to be brought to New York University. Professor O'Brien built a strong interdisciplinary program in the humanities that offered four or five courses per semester on topics such as "Art and Politics," "The Black Writer in America," "Contemporary Writing in Africa," and "Revolution and Literature."
While Professor O'Brien was at New York University he was responsible for bringing numerous scholars to lecture, read, or teach. A list of participants in the program during O'Brien's term follows the box and folder listings. In 1969 O'Brien left the Schweitzer Chair to take an elected seat in the Irish Parliament.
Successive chair holders brought their own special talents and interests to the Schweitzer Program. Ralph Ellison, chair holder from 1971-1979, is primarily a writer of fiction and criticism. His special interest is modern American writing, including literature, poetry, linguistics and politics. Besides his National Book Award-winning novel, The Invisible Man, he has written essays, short stories, articles, book reviews, syndicated columns and novels. While he was at New York University, under the auspices of the Schweitzer Chair, he developed an educational program for both the University community and the public, which included public lectures, symposia, discussions, seminars, graduate and undergraduate interdisciplinary courses and lectures by distinguished visitors. His first course at New York University, entitled "The American Vernacular as Symbolic Action," focused on the role played by the American vernacular language and style in shaping American culture and society. In the early 1970s the Chair sponsored a series of lectures for a national audience on "Law and Morality," which was widely televised. Professor Ellison brought many poets to New York University for readings and conferences, and in 1977 he organized a panel discussion with eminent Yugoslavian scholars. Professor Ellison served as a consultant to students in creative writing, doctoral students, and served on oral examination committees. He taught courses in the English Department as well as undergraduate and graduate interdisciplinary courses and was actively involved in University and community-related activities.
Some of the other courses offered by the Schweitzer Program during Ellison's term were "American Fiction and American Democracy" (taught by Anatole Broyard, and "Writers who Reshaped the American Experience After World War II" (taught by Professor Ellison). For a synopsis of Professor Ellison's activities see his summary, titled "Schweitzer Program in the Humanities," April 23, 1973 (Box 3, Folder 1).
Professor Aileen Ward was the chair holder of the Albert Schweitzer Program from 1979 to 1990. A widely published and distinguished scholar, she authored several books and many articles. Areas of interest included English romantic literature and poetic theory; literature and mythology; literature and psychology; and literary biography. In the early 1980s the Schweitzer Program combined resources with the Poetics Institute (M.L. Rosenthal, founder) to provide special events open to the public. A list of those who have participated in events organized by Professor Ward in the early 1980s is included as an appendix following the box and folder listings.
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists primarily of records generated during the term of Professor Conor Cruise O'Brien, 1965 to 1969. The collection also contains a few of the annual reports written by Professors Ellison and Ward. These are located in the file "Report on the Schweitzer Chair" (Box 3, folder 1).
The records include correspondence, manuscripts, news clippings, student papers (both doctoral and undergraduate), and copies of some public lectures and tape recordings. Papers presented by fellow scholars were removed from the Series I: Program Files and organized as Series III: Public Lectures.
Arrangement
The records are organized into six series. I. Program Files; II. Conor Cruise O'Brien's Manuscripts; III. Public Lectures; IV. Student Papers; V. Julian Mayfield Manuscripts; and VI. Lecture Series. The lectures and paper series contain several subseries.
Arrangement
- Program Files
- Conor Cruise O'Brien's Manuscripts
- Public Lectures
- Student Papers
- Julian Mayfield Manuscripts
- Lecture Series
Access Points
Subject Names
- Wilkins, Thomas Hart
- Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965
- Quasha, George
- Ward, Aileen
- Thompson, Edward
- Burton, John W. (John Wear), 1915-
- Ellison, Ralph
- Erdman, David V.
- Cantor, Norman
- Chomsky, Noam
- Hiss, Alger
- Gordon, Max
- Hampshire, Stuart
- Marcuse, Herbert, 1898-1979
- Mayfield, Julian, 1928-
- Kelly, Charles P.
- Kolko, Gabriel
- Heald, Henry T. (Henry Townley), 1904-1975
- O'Brien, Conor Cruise, 1917-2008
- Mirsky, Jonathan
- Neuberg, Paul
Document Type
- Videocassettes.
- Annual reports.
- Records (documents)
- Manuscripts
Subject Organizations
- New York University -- Curricula -- History
- New York University. Graduate School of Arts and Science
- New York University -- Faculty -- History
- New York University -- Graduate students -- Periodicals
- New York University -- Administration -- History
- New York University -- History -- Lectures
Subject Topics
- New York State Regents Einstein and Schweitzer Chairs.
- Education -- Humanities
- American literature -- African American Authors -- Study and Teaching
- Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities.
Administrative Information
Provenance
The records of the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities were transferred to the University Archives on June 23, 1980, by Norman Cantor, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and & Science.
Access Restrictions
Institutional records of New York University are closed for a period of 20 years from the date of their creation (the date on which each document was written). Board of Trustees records are similarly closed for 35 years from the date of creation. The opening date for files spanning several years will be 20 years from the most recent date. Access will be given to material already 20 years old contained within a collection that is not yet open when such material can be isolated from the rest of the collection.
Materials related to personnel, faculty grievances, job searches and all files with information that falls under the University's Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) policy are permanently restricted.
This collection is in off-site storage.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information,
contact
New York University Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); [unit title of collection]; collection number;
box number; folder number; New York University Libraries.
Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures
Access to audiovisual materials in this collection is available through digitized access copies. Researchers may view an item's original container, but the media themselves are not available for playback because of preservation concerns. Materials that have already been digitized are noted in the collection's finding aid and can be requested in our reading room. To request an access copy, or if you are unsure if an item has been digitized, please contact special.collections@nyu.edu.
Physical Access
Please note that this collection is stored offsite, and you must contact the repository to schedule access.
Additional Information
List of participants in events sponsored by Aileen Ward:
- David Kaelstone
- Galway Kinnell
- Louise Gluck
- W.S. Merwin
- William Meredith
- Richard Howard
- Richard P. McCormack
- Robert E. Elliot
- Wing-tsit Chan
- Elizabeth Badinter
- Harry Levin
- Faun Brody
- Quentin Bell
- Diana Josselson
- Richard Dyer-Bennet
- Christopher Richs
- Vincent Buckley
- David Malouf
- Les Murray
- Shirley Hazzard
- Dennis Donoghue
- Derek Walcott
- Paul Zweig
- Kofi Awooner
- Shatis Haviaris
- Louis Simpson
- Gregory Orr
- Mark Strand
- Shirley Williams
- George Kelly
- Saul Touster
- Frederich Karl
- Nicholas Wahl
- Morton Cohen
- Richard Sennett
- Dustin Griffin
- Frederick Morgan
- Elizabeth Spires
- Barbara Howes
- Yehuda Amichai
- David Ignatow
- Philip Schultz
- Walter J. Ong
- Denis Johnson
- Ruth Stone
- Alice Fulton
- Lawrence Joseph
- Gary Soto
- Joseph Brodsky
- Adrienne Rich
- Marvin Bell
- Hillis Miller
- Alfred Kazin
- J. Nicanor Parra
- Richard Rorty
- Michael Scammell
- Joan Peyser
- Steven Stowe
- George Perle
- Estelle Leontief
- Eileen Simpson
- John Mayher
- Gordon Praddl
- Anthony Low
- M.L. Rosenthal
- Daniel Javitch
- Lucien Stryk
- Charles Wright
List of Participants in Conor Cruise O'Brien's Lecture Program (an asterisk indicates that the person is represented in this collection either by a scholarly paper or a tape of their lecture):
- I.F. Stone
- Grattan Freyer
- Thompson Bradley
- Jonathan Mirsky
- William Garret
- Leonard Boudin
- Gidon Gottlieb
- Julian Mayfield*
- Noam Chomsky*
- Peter Nettl
- Eric Gently
- David Erdman*
- Edward Thompson*
- Stuart Hampshire*
- L. Zanderer*
- Paul Neuberg*
- George Steiner
- David Caute
- John Arden
- George Quasha*
- Thomas Hart Wilkins*
- Max Gordon*
- Gabriel Kolko*
- Alger Hiss*
- Charles P. Kelly*
Processing Information
Audio recordings were digitized by the the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department in October 2019. Additional description of the recordings produced by Christine Gennetti in November 2019.
One file was originally titled "Titled Reels: Conor Cruise O'Brien." It does not include any recordings of O'Brien, however, and has been renamed as "Unidentified Lectures and Other Recordings."
Container List
Series I: Program Files
Scope and ContentsIncludes Professor O'Brien's files, 1965-1975, and material from later chair holders. This series contains a wide range of materials that pertain both to events and courses under the auspices of the Schweitzer Chair. Series I is particularly broad in scope due partly to the various functions of the Chair and partly to the depth of Professor O'Brien's interests. He shaped courses and lecture series to reflect his broad interests in politics, society, literature, and the humanities. Professor O'Brien's original organization remains with only a few alterations. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
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Box: 1 | Folder : 1 | Visiting Professors I
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225709 0 |
1965-1966 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 2 | Visiting Professors II
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225709 0 |
1966-1967 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 3 | Visiting Professors III
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225709 0 |
1967-1968 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 4 | Visiting Professors IV
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225709 0 |
1968-1969 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 5 | Speaking Invitations Accepted I
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225709 0 |
1965-1966 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 6 | Speaking InvitationsAccepted II
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225709 0 |
1966 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 1 | Speaking Invitations Accepted III
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225710 8 |
1966 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 2 | Speaking Invitations Accepted IV
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225710 8 |
1967 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 3 | Speaking Invitations Accepted V
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225710 8 |
1968 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 4 | Speaking Invitations Not Accepted
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225710 8 |
1966-1968 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 5 | Undergraduate Exam Papers
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225710 8 |
1966-1967 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 6 | The Condition of Jewish Belief
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225710 8 |
1967 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 7 | Mayfield Correspondence
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225710 8 |
1969 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 1 | Reports on the Schweitzer Program
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225711 6 |
1969-1984 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 2 | United Nations Seminar
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225711 6 |
1968-1969 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 3 | Schweitzer Confidential Matters
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225711 6 |
1967-1971 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 4 | One Fifth Ave.
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225711 6 |
1966-1968 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 5 | Graduate Asst. and Temp. Office Help
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225711 6 |
1967-1968 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 6 | Schweitzer Program--Ph.D Students
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225711 6 |
1966-1969 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 7 | Conor Cruise O'Brien: Requests for references, jobs, interviews, etc.
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225711 6 |
1965-1967 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 8 | Ralph Ellison
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225711 6 |
1970-1973 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 9 | Bradley Thompson, "Disenchantment or Default" (see Series III., "Power and Consciousness")
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225711 6 |
1968 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 10 | Schweitzer Program - student affairs
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225711 6 |
1967-1970 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 1 | Notes for Undergraduate Students
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225712 4 |
1965-1967 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 2 | Jonathan Mirsky
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225712 4 |
1965-1966 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 3 | Schweitzer Program Courses I
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225712 4 |
1965-1966 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 4 | Schweitzer Program CoursesII
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225712 4 |
1968-1975 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 5 | Schweitzer Program Courses: evening discussions I
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225712 4 |
1966-1967 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 6 | Schweitzer Program Courses: evening discussions II
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225712 4 |
1967 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 7 | Schweitzer Program: Public Lectures I
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225712 4 |
1966-1968 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 8 | Schweitzer Program: Public Lectures II
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225712 4 |
1968-1972 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 9 | Martin Luther King Institute
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225712 4 |
1969 | |
Box: 5 | Folder : 1 | Committee on "Workshop" (Black experience)
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
1967-1968 | |
Box: 5 | Folder : 2 | Conor Cruise O'Brien's Invitations to accept visiting Professorships
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
1965-1966 , 1969 | |
Box: 5 | Folder : 3 | Special Invitations (Clubs)
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
1965-1967 | |
Box: 5 | Folder : 4 | Miscellaneous
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
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Box: 5 | Folder : 5 | "Fan" Letters
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
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Box: 5 | Folder : 6 | Miscellaneous
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
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Box: 5 | Folder : 7 | Schweitzer Program Reading Lists
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
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Box: 5 | Folder : 8 | "Literature and Society" Lecture Notes
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
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Box: 5 | Folder : 9 | Paul Neuberg's Public Lecture (see Public Lectures, box 8)
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
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Box: 5 | Folder : 10 | Donald Lowe, "Dream of Chinese Communism"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
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Box: 5 | Folder : 11 | Manuscripts of a book on political alignments by six authors: Kenneth Kaunda, J.W.
Burton, R. Sidhanta, M. Caldwell, Margaret Legum, Lucy Mair, L. Mates
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
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Box: 5 | Folder : 12 | Contemporary African Writing
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
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Box: 5 | Folder : 13 | Correspondence with Wilfred Flemming of the University of Leicester
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
1966 | |
Box: 5 | Folder : 14 | Correspondence/Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
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Box: 5 | Folder : 15 | Student Evaluations
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
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Box: 5 | Folder : 16 | Cornell's Humanities Program
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225713 2 |
1966 | |
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Series II: Conor Cruise O'Brien's Manuscripts
Scope and ContentsBoxes 6 and 7 contain only those manuscripts written by Conor Cruise O'Brien. These consist of two plays, two books, plus various articles and reviews. This series includes only a small portion of O'Brien's work to date. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 6 | Folder : 1-2 | "Murderous Angels" (a political play)
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225714 0 |
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Box: 6 | Folder : 3 | United Nations as Sacred Drama: Typescript
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225714 0 |
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Box: 6 | Folder : 4 | United Nations as Sacred Drama: Mimeograph copy
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225714 0 |
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Box: 6 | Folder : 5-7 | United Nations as Sacred Drama: Handwritten copy
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225714 0 |
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Box: 6 | Folder : 8 | United Nations as Sacred Drama: Typescript and typed carbon sections of the manuscript
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225714 0 |
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Box: 6 | Folder : 9 | United Nations as Sacred Drama: Notebook of handwritten notes
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225714 0 |
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Box: 7 | Folder : 1 | "Solome and the Wild Man" or "The Quiet Man of Galalean"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225715 7 |
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Box: 7 | Folder : 2 | Albert Camus and "The Embers of Easter 1916-1966"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225715 7 |
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Box: 7 | Folder : 3 | "Politics in West Africa;" "Christmas Books--The Last of the Highest?;" "Autonomy
and Academic Freedom in Britain and Africa;" "Address to the UN;" "Nknumah--The Man
I knew;" "A Negatiator on Negotiation"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225715 7 |
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Box: 7 | Folder : 4 | "On Yeats;" "Black Revolutionary;" "Churchill and Macmillan;" "Universities: British,
Indian, African;" "A Study in the Ecology of Higher Education;" "Struggles for Africa;"
"Partisan Review Questionnaire"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225715 7 |
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Box: 7 | Folder : 5 | "Politics and Drama as Politics;" "The Writer and the Power Structure;" "Albert Schweitzer
and Contemporary Africa;" "The Function and Many Roles of the Critic"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225715 7 |
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Box: 7 | Folder : 6 | "The Church of the People;" "Communists and Anti-Communists;" "A People Condemned;"
"Beware of Melancholy;" "Burke Annotation;" "Morality of Scholarship;" "Satirical
Pastoral;" "Anaylsis as Symptoms;" "Princeton Colloquim;" "Marx and History"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225715 7 |
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Box: 7 | Folder : 7 | "The Calculus of Pain, of Peace, and Prestige;" "The Intellectuals and McCarthy;"
"A Combined Operation: The End of Ideology Debate;" "Accessories to the Fact: The
Warren Commission, Authorities and the Report;" "King Herod Explains;" "Epilogue:
Illusions and Realities of Non-Alignment"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225715 7 |
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Box: 7 | Folder : 8 | "Art is Man's Nature: Burke, Yeats and Conservative Imagination;" "The United Nations
and World Social Revolution;" "Edmund Burke;" "Tribe Nation State;" "Ireland at the
United Nations"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225715 7 |
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Box: 7 | Folder : 9 | "Intellectuals, Public Opinion and International Relations"
General Notebar code: 3 1142 04225715 7 |
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Box: 7 | Folder : 10 | "Politics and Yeats;" "Burke and Marx;" "Soldiers and Politics;" "At Home in Hell;"
"Where Orange is White;" "Politics and Morality of Scholarship"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225715 7 |
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Box: 7 | Folder : 11 | "Order, Justice and Revolution;" "Racial Conflict--Peaceful Resolution;" "After Manila;"
"Modern Language Association--Address;" "The United States, The United Nations and
Vietnam;" "Address to English Speaking Union in Support of Senator McCarthy for President;"
"The UN as a Political Institution;" "The UN in Real Life;" "African Unity;" "The
Future of African Democracy;" "African Perspectives"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225715 7 |
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Series III: Public Lectures
Scope and ContentsThis series contains copies of relatively few of the lectures given under the auspices of the Schweitzer program since 1965. These lectures include the Power and Consciousness Seminar; The Prince 1969; United Nations Seminar; and Miscellaneous (this does not reflect the complete set of lectures within each series). Most of the United Nations Seminar lectures were tape recorded (on 8-track reel to reel) and are housed in the University Archives Audiovisual Collection. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 8 | Folder : 1 | Power and Consciousness Seminar (1968): Power and Consciousness--introduction, Conor
Cruise O'Brien
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225716 5 |
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Box: 8 | Folder : 2 | Power and Consciousness Seminar (1968): (Untitled)
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225716 5 |
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Box: 8 | Folder : 3 | Power and Consciousness Seminar (1968): "Power and the Intellectual," Peter Nettl
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225716 5 |
1967 December 6 | |
Box: 8 | Folder : 4 | Power and Consciousness Seminar (1968): "Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship," Noam
Chomsky
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225716 5 |
1968 March 13 | |
Box: 8 | Folder : 5 | Power and Consciousness Seminar (1968): (Copy--folder 4)
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225716 5 |
1968 March 13 | |
Box: 8 | Folder : 6 | Power and Consciousness Seminar (1968): "Politics and the Morality of Scholarship,"
Conor Cruise O'Brien
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225716 5 |
1968 March 13 | |
Box: 8 | Folder : 7 | Power and Consciousness Seminar (1968): "Government and University in America," Gabriel
Kolko
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225716 5 |
1968 February 14 | |
Box: 8 | Folder : 8 | Power and Consciousness Seminar (1968): "Disenchantment or Default," Edward Thompson
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225716 5 |
1968 March 20 | |
Box: 8 | Folder : 9 | Power and Consciousness Seminar (1968): (copy--folder 8)
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225716 5 |
1968 March 20 | |
Box: 8 | Folder : 10 | Power and Consciousness Seminar (1968): "Coleridge as Editorial Writer," David Erdman
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225716 5 |
1968 March 6 | |
Box: 8 | Folder : 11 | Power and Consciousness Seminar (1968): "Imagination and Politics," Conor Cruise O'Brien
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225716 5 |
1968 March 6 | |
Box: 8 | Folder : 12 | Power and Consciousness Seminar (1968): (Copy--folder 7)
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225716 5 |
1968 March 6 | |
Box: 8 | Folder : 13 | Power and Consciousness Seminar (1968): "Politics as Drama as Politics," Conor Cruise
O'Brien
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225716 5 |
1968 February 28 | |
Box: 8 | Folder : 14 | Power and Consciousness Seminar (1968): "Self-Consciousness and Society," Stuart Hampshire
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225716 5 |
1968 April 3 | |
Box: 8 | Folder : 15 | Power and Consciousness Seminar (1968): (Untitled)
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225716 5 |
1968 April 3 | |
Box: 9 | Folder : 1-2 | Prince (1969): "Nicolo and the Prince in the White House"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225717 3 |
1969 | |
Box: 9 | Folder : 3 | Prince (1969): "What Exhortation," Conor Cruise O'Brien
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225717 3 |
1969 | |
Box: 9 | Folder : 4 | United Nations Seminar: "Vietnam, The United States and The United Nations," Max Gordon
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225717 3 |
1968 | |
Box: 9 | Folder : 5 | United Nations Seminar: "The United States and the United Nations," Gabriel Kolko
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225717 3 |
1968 | |
Box: 9 | Folder : 6 | United Nations Seminar: "United Nations and United States," Alger Hiss
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225717 3 |
1968 | |
Box: 9 | Folder : 7 | United Nations Seminar: "United States' Position on the Veto in the United Nations,"
Charles P. Kelly
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225717 3 |
1968 | |
Box: 9 | Folder : 8 | Miscellaneous: "D.H. Lawrence: Dionysian Cosmology,"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225717 3 |
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Box: 9 | Folder : 9 | Miscellaneous: "The Agrarians," Thomas Hart Wilkins
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225717 3 |
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Box: 9 | Folder : 9 | Miscellaneous: "The Politics of Apocalypse," George Quasha
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225717 3 |
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Box: 9 | Folder : 10 | Miscellaneous: "On T.E. Hulme, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound," L. Zanderer
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225717 3 |
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Box: 9 | Folder : 11 | Miscellaneous: "The Exultation of the Irrational"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225717 3 |
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Box: 9 | Folder : 11 | Miscellaneous: "Nietzsche in a World View"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225717 3 |
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Box: 9 | Folder : 11 | Miscellaneous: "Paris Commune"
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225717 3 |
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Box: 9 | Folder : 12 | Miscellaneous: "Dezso Szabo and Agrarian Fascism," Paul Neuberg
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225717 3 |
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Series IV: Student Papers
Scope and ContentsStudent papers have been divided into two parts: doctoral proposals and undergraduate papers. Few of the proposals are dated but they all fall within the period of the late 1960s to early 1970s. Undergraduate papers are arranged only by the professor for whom they were written. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 10 | Folder : 1 | Undergraduate Papers (By Professor's Class): Molotsi
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225718 1 |
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Box: 10 | Folder : 2-3 | Undergraduate Papers (By Professor's Class): Broyard
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225718 1 |
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Box: 10 | Folder : 4-10 | Undergraduate Papers (By Professor's Class): O'Brien
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225718 1 |
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Box: 11 | Folder : 1-10 | Undergraduate Papers (By Professor's Class): Ralph Ellison
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225719 9 |
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Box: 12 | Folder : 1-3 | Undergraduate Papers (By Professor's Class): Ralph Ellison
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225720 7 |
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Series V: Julian Mayfield Manuscripts
Scope and ContentsThe collectionof Mayfield manuscripts includes an early draft of his play "417" and his book The Meek Shall Not Inherit the Earth (Box 12). Mayfield's essay "Nicolo and the Prince in the White House" is located within the Public Lecture Series, and his correspondence while teaching at NYU may be found in the Program Files (Box 2, folder 7). |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 12 | Folder : 4 | "417" (Drama)
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225720 7 |
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Box: 12 | Folder : 5-8 | "The Meek Shall Not Inherit the Earth" (memoir)
General notebar code: 3 1142 04225720 7 |
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Series VI: Lecture Series Recordings
Scope and ContentsFor more information see Series I: Program Files and Series III: Public Lectures. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 13 | Reel : cuid4985A, cuid4985B (Sound tape reels (1/4 inch) [31142042257215]) | Machiavelli and "The Prince"
Scope and ContentsLecturer: Grattan Freyer, academic, journalist, and potter.
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsTotal duration: 111 min. |
1969 March 5 | |
Box: Digitized Access Files | File : RG21.1_cuid4985A, RG21.1_cuid4985B (Digital_access_copy) | |||
Box: 13 | Reel : cuid4986A, cuid4986B (Sound tape reels (1/4 inch) [31142042257215]) | "Peace in the Middle East"
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsTotal duration: 71 min.
Scope and ContentsLecturer: Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah, Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN (1968-1975). This lecture was sponsored by the NYU Institute of Hebrew Studies and GSO of the School of Education. |
1969 March 6 | |
Box: Digitized Access Files | File : RG21.1_cuid4986A, RG21.1_cuid4986B (Digital_access_copy) | |||
Box: 13 | Reel : cuid4987A, cuid4987B (Sound tape reels (1/4 inch) [31142042257215]) | "Communist Power in Theory and Practice"
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsTotal duration: 111 min.
Scope and ContentsLecturers: Thompson Bradley, Professor of Russian Language and Literature from Swarthmore College; Jonathan Mirsky, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature from Dartmouth. |
1969 March 12 | |
Box: Digitized Access Files | File : RG21.1_cuid4987A, RG21.1_cuid4987B (Digital_access_copy) | |||
Box: 13 | Reel : cuid4988A, cuid4988B (Sound tape reels (1/4 inch) [31142042257215]) | "White Power, Black Power--The Final Solutions"
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsTotal duration: 86 min.
Scope and ContentsLecturer: Julian Mayfield, visiting lecturer in Schweitzer program. American actor, director, writer, lecturer, and civil rights activist. |
1969 March 19 | |
Box: Digitized Access Files | File : RG21.1_cuid4988A, RG21.1_cuid4988B (Digital_access_copy) | |||
Box: 13 | Reel : cuid4989A, cuid4989B (Sound tape reels (1/4 inch) [31142042257215]) | "Power and Ideas"
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsTotal duration: 74 min.
Scope and ContentsLecturer: NYU Philosophy Professor William Barrett. |
1969 March 26 | |
Box: Digitized Access Files | File : RG21.1_cuid4989A, RG21.1_cuid4989B (Digital_access_copy) | |||
Box: 13 | Reel : cuid4990A, cuid4990B (Sound tape reels (1/4 inch) [31142042257215]) | "What Exhortation?--An Analysis of "The Prince" Chapter 26"
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsTotal duration: 101 min.
Scope and ContentsLecturer: NYU Professor and First Albert Schweitzer Chair Conor Cruise O'Brien. |
1969 April 23 | |
Box: Digitized Access Files | File : RG21.1_cuid4990A, RG21.1_cuid4990B (Digital_access_copy) | |||
Box: 13 | Reel : cuid4991 (Sound tape reels (1/4 inch) [31142042257215]) | Titled Reels: Gabriel Kolko (1 reel)
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsDuration: 91 min. |
1968 February 13 | |
Box: Digitized Access Files | File : RG21.1_cuid4991 (Digital_access_copy) | |||
Box: 13 | Reel : cuid4992 (Sound tape reels (1/4 inch) [31142042257215]) | Unidentified Lectures and Other Recordings
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsDuration: 99 min. |
1968 April 10 | |
Box: Digitized Access Files | File : RG21.1_cuid4992 (Digital_access_copy) | |||
Box: 13 | Reel : cuid4993A, cuid4993B, cuid4993C (Sound tape reels (1/4 inch) [31142042257215]) | Titled Reels: Herbert Marcuse at NYU (3 reels)
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsDuration: 84 min. |
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Box: Digitized Access Files | File : RG21.1_cuid4993A, RG21.1_cuid4993B, RG21.1_cuid4993C (Digital_access_copy) | |||
Box: 13 | Reel : cuid4994A, cuid4994B (Sound tape reels (1/4 inch) [31142042257215]) | Titled Reels: U.S. and UN Seminar, Alger Hiss, 2 lectures (2 reels)
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsDuration: 227 min. |
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Box: Digitized Access Files | File : RG21.1_cuid4994A, RG21.1_cuid4994B (Digital_access_copy) | |||
Box: 13 | Reel : cuid4995 (Sound tape reels (1/4 inch) [31142042257215]) | [Untitled experimental audio collage]
Scope and ContentsThe physical container is labeled "Language and symbolic action, D. Sherak for Ralph Ellison (1 reel)," but the recording contains an assortment of audio recordings from various sources, including a man reciting a Robert Frost poem and a discussion of Richard Strauss' "Also sprach Zarathustra."
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsTotal duration: 116 min.; Preservation note: "This is an experimental work recorded on four tracks, a combination of monaural and stereophonic recording methods. In total, four access files were created at the point of digitization. The digital access file ending in 000001 is a dual-mono configuration, believed to be the intended listening experience for tracks 1 and 3. The mono recordings for track 1 and 3 can also be listened to as separate tracks in the files ending in 000002 and 000003. Lastly, there is a stereophonic recording on tracks 2 and 4 that is available as 000003." |
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Box: Digitized Access Files | File : RG21.1_cuid4995 (Digital_access_copy) | |||
Box: 13 | Reel : cuid4996 (Sound tape reels (1/4 inch) [31142042257215]) | [Lectures from an NYU science symposium], Reel 1
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsDuration: 61 min.
Scope and ContentsLecture Topic 1: Sentinel ABM Missile Defense System; speaker is Professor Lustig. Lecture Topic 2: Opportunities for scientists in the late 1960s; speaker is Dr. David Z. Robinson, research physicist and NYU Vice President for Academic Affairs. |
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Box: Digitized Access Files | File : RG21.1_cuid4996 (Digital_access_copy) | |||
Box: 13 | Reel : cuid4997 (Sound tape reels (1/4 inch) [31142042257215]) | [Lectures from an NYU science symposium], Reel 2
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsDuration: 63 min.
Scope and ContentsLecture Topic 3: Social and political pressures facing U.S. scientists in the late 1960; speaker is Nicholas Unger. Followed by a panel Q&A (not complete recording). |
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Box: Digitized Access Files | File : RG21.1_cuid4997 (Digital_access_copy) | |||
Box: 13 | Reel : cuid4998B (Sound tape reels (1/4 inch) [31142042257215]) | [Untitled radio program about the Emancipation Proclamation], Reel 2 of 3
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsDuration: 28 min.; Preservation note: Only Tape B has content. The other two tapes are blank and were not digitized.
Scope and ContentsThis reel traces the origins of slavery in the U.S. and contains period music. Topics include: the Civil War, African Americans' participation in the Union Army, the rise of white nationalism. |
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Box: Digitized Access Files | File : RG21.1_cuid4998B (Digital_access_copy) | |||
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Series VII: Materials from Dean Hester, 1964-1970, 1983
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 14 | Folder : 1 | Schweitzer Chair proposal |
1964 | |
Box: 14 | Folder : 2 | New York State Regents and NYU agreement |
1965 | |
Box: 14 | Folder : 3 | Calls for nominations |
1964-1968, 1983 | |
Box: 14 | Folder : 4 | Materials regarding Conor Cruise O'Brien |
1965-1966 | |
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