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Collection Overview
| Size | 6.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1700 items) |
| Abstract | For many years, an organization of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students and faculty organized, planned, and supervised the biennial Carolina Symposium on Public Affairs, a week-long program of speeches, panel discussions, seminars, and other activities focusing on a topic of current political, social, economic, or cultural interest. Under the leadership of University President Frank Porter Graham and Dean of Students Francis F. Bradshaw, the Symposium originated in 1927 as the Institute of Human Relations. The records of the Carolina Symposium and its predecessor, the Institute of Human Relations, include correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial records, publicity materials, photos, printed programs, speech transcripts, scrapbooks, and audiotapes of session proceedings. Especially well-documented is the 1958 Symposium on the American cultural tradition, with John Sparkman, Malcolm Cowley, Victor Reuther, Jonathan Daniels, Harry Golden, Sidney Hook, Benjamin Fine, Harry Ashmore, and other speakers. Also represented are the 1962 Symposium on "The Concept of Revolution," with James B. Reston and other speakers; the 1964 Symposium on "Arms and the Man," with William Fulbright, Hans Morgenthau, David Brinkley, Irving Howe, Marya Mannes, John Knowles, George McGovern, Adam Yarmolinsky, George Ball, and others; the 1966 Symposium on American myth, with John Kenneth Galbraith, Nelson Algren, Morris Udall, Al Capp, Tom Wolfe, C. Vann Woodward, and Ralph Ellison; the 1972 Symposium on the "Mind of the South"; the 1984 Symposium on "Population Resources and Environment"; and the 1986 Symposium on "Science, Technology, Society, and the Individual." |
| Creator | Carolina Symposium on Public Affairs (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives. |
| Language | English |
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Historical Information
For many years, an organization of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students and faculty organized, planned, and supervised the biennial Carolina Symposium on Public Affairs, a week-long program of speeches, panel discussions, seminars, and other activities focusing on a topic of current political, social, economic, or cultural interest. Under the leadership of University President Frank Porter Graham and Dean of Students Francis F. Bradshaw, the Symposium originated in 1927 as the Institute of Human Relations.
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Records of the Carolina Symposium and its predecessor, the Institute of Human Relations, include correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial records, publicity materials, photos, printed programs, speech transcripts, scrapbooks, and audio recordings of session proceedings. Especially well-documented is the 1958 Symposium on the American cultural tradition, with John Sparkman, Malcolm Cowley, Victor Reuther, Jonathan Daniels, Harry Golden, Sidney Hook, Benjamin Fine, Harry Ashmore, and other speakers. Also represented are the 1962 Symposium on "The Concept of Revolution," with James B. Reston and other speakers; the 1964 Symposium on "Arms and the Man," with William Fulbright, Hans Morgenthau, David Brinkley, Irving Howe, Marya Mannes, John Knowles, George McGovern, Adam Yarmolinsky, George Ball, and others; the 1966 Symposium on American myth, with John Kenneth Galbraith, Nelson Algren, Morris Udall, Al Capp, Tom Wolfe, C. Vann Woodward, and Ralph Ellison; the 1972 Symposium on the "Mind of the South"; the 1984 Symposium on "Population Resources and Environment"; and the 1986 Symposium on "Science, Technology, Society, and the Individual."
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Series 1. Correspondence and Other Loose Materials, 1927-1980.
Arrangement: Chronological.
This series consists of correspondence, reports, and other materials related to the planning and activities of the Institute of Human Relations and Carolina Symposium on Public Affairs sessions. Program brochures, photos, and speech transcripts or typescripts are filed under the date of the session--usually March of the symposium year.
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Series 2. Scrapbooks, 1931-1964.
Arrangement: Chronological.
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Series 3. Audio Recordings, 1958-1986.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Recordings of various symposium sessions on 1/4" open reel audio and audiocassette. The series also includes transcriptions of the 1966 symposium recordings (box 3).
Please note there are no recordings for the following Thursday, 20 March 1958 sessions:
10:00 a.m.: Sidney Hook, Chairman, Department of Philosophy, New York University, "Basic Values in a Time of Decision"; 8:00 p.m.: Dr. Benjamin Fine, Dean of the Graduate School, Yeshiva University (Weil Lecturer on American Citizenship) "Major Problems Facing American Education"; 8:00 p.m.: Dr. Benjamin Fine, Dean of the Graduate School, Yeshiva University (Weil Lecturer on American Citizenship) "The Responsibilities of Citizens for Education"
Processed by: University Archives Staff
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Anne Wells, November 2018
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