Series VI: Lecture Series Recordings
Language of Materials
Scope and Contents
For more information see Series I: Program Files and Series III: Public Lectures.
Machiavelli and "The Prince", 1969 March 5
Scope and Contents
Lecturer: Grattan Freyer, academic, journalist, and potter.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Total duration: 111 min.
"Peace in the Middle East", 1969 March 6
Scope and Contents
Lecturer: 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.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Total duration: 71 min.
"Communist Power in Theory and Practice", 1969 March 12
Scope and Contents
Lecturers: Thompson Bradley, Professor of Russian Language and Literature from Swarthmore College; Jonathan Mirsky, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature from Dartmouth.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Total duration: 111 min.
"White Power, Black Power--The Final Solutions", 1969 March 19
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Lecturer: Julian Mayfield, visiting lecturer in Schweitzer program. American actor, director, writer, lecturer, and civil rights activist.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Total duration: 86 min.
"Power and Ideas", 1969 March 26
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Lecturer: NYU Philosophy Professor William Barrett.
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Total duration: 74 min.
"What Exhortation?--An Analysis of "The Prince" Chapter 26", 1969 April 23
Scope and Contents
Lecturer: NYU Professor and First Albert Schweitzer Chair Conor Cruise O'Brien.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Total duration: 101 min.
Titled Reels: Gabriel Kolko (1 reel), 1968 February 13
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Duration: 91 min.
Unidentified Lectures and Other Recordings, 1968 April 10
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Duration: 99 min.
Titled Reels: Herbert Marcuse at NYU (3 reels), undated, inclusive
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Duration: 84 min.
Titled Reels: U.S. and UN Seminar, Alger Hiss, 2 lectures (2 reels), undated, inclusive
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Duration: 227 min.
[Untitled experimental audio collage], undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
The 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 Requirements
Total 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."
[Lectures from an NYU science symposium], Reel 1, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Lecture 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.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Duration: 61 min.
[Lectures from an NYU science symposium], Reel 2, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Lecture 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).
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Duration: 63 min.
[Untitled radio program about the Emancipation Proclamation], Reel 2 of 3, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
This 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.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Duration: 28 min.; Preservation note: Only Tape B has content. The other two tapes are blank and were not digitized.