Carolina Symposium on Public Affairs of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1927-1986

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Summary

Creator:
Carolina Symposium on Public Affairs (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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."

Extent:
1700 items (6.0 linear feet)
Language:
Materials in English
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Background

Biographical / historical:

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.

Scope and content:

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."

Acquisition information:

Received from the Carolina Symposium on Public Affairs, 1956-1996. Records of the 1966 Symposium were transferred from the North Carolina Collection in July 1966.

Processing information:

Processed by: University Archives Staff

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Anne Wells, November 2018

Sensitive materials statement:

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Use of audio materials may require production of listening copies.

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No usage restrictions.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the Carolina Symposium on Public Affairs of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, #40146, University Archives, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu