Lectures and Conferences III

Topics included: [Multiple Lecturers] [Endowed Lectures] [Conferences] [Visitors] [Dean's Program]

Multiple Lecturers in Chronological Order

• Edmund Ezra Day, Frank L. McVey, Virginia C. Gildersleeve - 1946
• Lecture Series on the Near East - 1951
• Lecture Series on "Academic Freedom" - 1953
• Renaissance Colloquium Held - 1956
• Centenary of Sigmund Freud Commemorated by Lecture Series - 1956/57
• Vassar Faculty Scholars' Lecture Series Held - 1957
• "The Partnership of Man and Nature" Conference Held - 1957
• Conference on "The Changing South" Held - 1957
• "Human Longing and Fulfillment" Lecture Series Given - 1957/58
• "The Nuclear Age: Its Effects on Aspects of Our Culture" Lecture Series Begins - 1958
• Baroque Symposium Brings Many Lecturers - 1959
• Science and Society Lecture Series Held - 1960

Endowed Lectures

• Philaletheis-Sponsored
• Lecture Fund Provided by Vassar's Will
• Ellen S. Richards Memorial Fund
• Adalaide Crapsey 1091 Memorial Lectures Presented by Alumnae
• Phi Beta Kappa Lecture - 1926
• Helen Kenyon Lecture Fund Established
• Anne O'Hare McCormick Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture 1941
• Winifred Clara Cullis Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture 1942
• Vera Micheles Dean Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture 1942
• Margaret Webster Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture 1944
• Helen Gahagan Douglas Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture 1945
• Eleanor Roosevelt Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture 1946
• Marjorie Nicolson Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture 1947
• I.A. Richards Gives Folger Fund Lecture 1947
• Stephen Spender Gives Folger Fund Lecture 1947
• Forum Held in Place of Ninth Helen Kenyon Lecture
• Dorothy Wrinch Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture 1951
• Paul Henry Lang Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture 1952
• Mildred McAfee Horton 1920 Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture 1953
• Barbara Ward Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture 1957
• Dame Ninette de Valois Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture 1957
• J. Robert Oppenheimer Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture 1958
• Richard C. Soloman Gives the Helen Gates Putnam Conservation Lecture
• H. D. F. Kitto Gives the 1962 Helen Kenyon Lecture
• Dr. Kenneth B. Clark Gives the Helen Gates Putnam Lecture
• Christine Mitchell Hanslock Gives the Scholar's Lecture
• Walter Allen Gives the Phi Beta Kappa Lecture
• Paul Tillich Gives the 1964 Helen Kenyon Lecture
• Betty Churgin Gives the Vassar Scholars' Lecture
• Aline Saarinen '35 Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture
• J. H. Hexter Gives C. Mildred Thompson Lecture
• Roger Sessions Gives Dickenson-Kayden Fund Lecture- 1966
• Merce Cunningham Gives Matthew Vassar Lecture- 1967
• Robert Van Nice Gives Class of 1928 Visiting Scholars' Lecture- 1967
• Sir Isaiah Berlin Gives C. Mildred Thompson Lecture- 1967
• Jacob Bronowski Gives Sigma Xi Resa Lecture- 1967
• Ad Reinhardt Gives 1928 Visiting Scholars' Lecture- 1967
• Carl Swisher Gives Sharpe Memorial Lecture- 1967
• Eugenie Anderson Gives Barbara Bailey Brown Lecture - 1967
• Richard Ellmann Gives Class of 1928 Visiting Scholars' Lecture -1967
• George R. Collins Gives Vassar Visiting Scholars in Art Lecture- 1967
• Kenneth Clark Gives Gertude Folks Zimand Lecture- 1967
• Harrison E. Salisbury Gives Barbara Bailey Brown Lecture- 1967
• William M. Fairbank Gives Sigma Xi Resa Lecture- 1967
• Jacqueline Grennan Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture- 1967
• Kathleen Weil Harris Posner Gives 1928 Visiting Scholar's Lecture - 1968
• B. F. Skinner Gives Helen Gates Putnam Lecture - 1968
• Dickinson-Kayden Program for 1967-68: "Perspectives on Japan" - 1968
• Harry A. Borthwick Gives Helen Gates Putnum Conservation Lecture - 1968
• Lynton Caldwell Gives Gussie and Israel Matz Lecture - 1968
• Christopher Lasch gives C. Mildred Thompson Lecture - 1968
• Eve Borsook '49 Gives 1928 Fund Lecture - 1968
• Rene Dubo Gives Gussie and Israel Matz Fund lecture - 1968
• Donald M. Frame Gives Phi Beta Kappa Lecture - 1968
• Melbourne R. Carriker Gives Helen Gates Putnam Conservation Lecture - 1968
• Peter Gay Gives C. Mildred Thompson Lecture - 1968
• Padraic Colum Gives 1928 Fund Lecture - 1968
• Wassily Leontief Gives Martin H. Crego Lecture - 1968
• Theodore Sorenson Gives Barbara Bailey Brown Lecture - 1968
• Sheldon Nodelman Gives 1928 Fund Lecture - 1968
• Charles Rembar Gives Sharpe Memorial Lecture - 1968
• Bruninlde Swasmondo Ridgeway gives1928 Lecture Fund Lecture - 1968
• Cyril M. Harris Gives Dickinson-Kayden Lecture - 1968
• Frank McCormick Gives Helen Putnam Gates Conservation Lecture - 1969
• Frank Kermode gives 1928 Fund Scholars' Lecture - 1969
• E. G. Weaver Gives Dickinson-Kenyon Lecture - 1969
• Edwin O. Reischauer Gives Helen Kayden Lecture - 1969
• Robert Wilce Gives Helen Gates Putnam Lecture - 1969
• Leona Baumgartner Gives Savel and Gertrude Folks Zimand Lecture - 1969
• Ada Louise Haxtable Gives Helen Kenyon Lecture - 1969
• C. L. Barber Gives Class of 1928 Fund Lecture - 1969
• Chester Pierce Gives Savel and Gertrude Folks Zimand Lecture - 1969
• Ellen Johnson Gives Class of 1928 Fund Lecture - 1969
• Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Gives Barbara Bailey Brown Lecture - 1970
• Carle E. Schorske Gives C. Mildred Thompson Lecture - 1970

Conferences & Symposiums

In Chronological Order

• Teaching English in Secondary Schools
• Intercollegiate Student Conference
• Permanent Conference of Four Colleges
• Institute for a Christian Basis of World Relations Held at Vassar
• Archaeological Institute Held
• Euthenics Institute First Held
• Symposium on "Vassar and the Changing World" Held
• Model Assembly of the League of Nations Held
• Seven Women's Colleges Drive for Financial Support
• Federal Theater Holds Workshop
• Conference on Housing
• Peace Conference Held
• American Student Union Convention Held
• World Youth Congress Held at Vassar
• Student Scientific Conference Held
• Conference on National Defense
• "Higher Education and the Defense of Democracy" Conference Held
• Eastern Colleges Science Conference Held
• Intercollegiate Arts Conference Held at Vassar
• Conference on Psychology and Philosophy Held
• Conference on Theater Held
• Open Meetings of American Physical Society Held
• Political Conference on Soviet Union Held
• Science Conference Held
• Renaissance Colloquium Held
• Conference of Undergraduate Russian Clubs Held
• Conference on "The Changing South" Held
• Conference on "Changing Patterns in the Caribbean" Held
• "The Partnership of Man and Nature" Conference Held - 1957
• "The Nuclear Age: Its Effects on Aspects of Our Culture" Lecture Series Held
• New York State Science Conference Held
• Vassar Summer Institute Holds Last Session
• Baroque Symposium Held
• "Traveling Seminars" Program Established
• Intramural Symposium Sponsored by Department of History
• Science and Society Lecture Series Held
• International Conference: Women Consider World Problems
• The 17th Annual Institute of Community Leadership
• Eighteenth Century Symposium
• "Conference on the City"
• The Contemporary Arts Conference
• Academic Convention
• "Freedom How?" Conference
• Teach-In: "Vietnam: An Analysis of the Issues"
• Conference on Journalism and Protest - 1966
• "Psychology of Student Protest" - 1966
• "Historians Look at Latin America Today" - 1967
• "Interdepartmental Conference on Fifty Years of the Bolshevik Revolution" - 1967
• "New Directions in the Liberal Arts" - 1967
• Dickinson-Kayden Program for 1967-68: "Perspectives on Japan" - 1968
• "Causality" -1968
• Fine Arts Festival - 1968
• Symposium on "Tomorrow's Electronic Classroom"
• Martin H. Crego Conference, "Revolution and the Technological Society" - 1969
• "The Week America Died" - 1970
• "Does Economics Provide and Meaningful Answers to Today's Problems?" - 1970

Visitors

In Alphabetic Order

• Refugee Scholars Fund
• Louisa May Alcott, Peter Cooper
• Pakistan Ambassador Syed Amjad Ali
• Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands Visits
• Peter Cooper, founder of Cooper Union
• I. Dall
• Admiral Dewey
• Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil
• Dr. Eliot, President of Harvard
• Julia Ward Howe, Guest at Chapel Dedication
• Governor Charles Evans Hughes
• Associate Justice Charles Evans Hughes
• Alfred Noyes
• Lyel Playfair, Mrs. Bright, Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
• Katharine Anne Porter Visits School
• Princess Juliana and Eleanor Roosevelt Visit
• Frank R. Stockton
• Mr. and Mrs Sidney Webb
• Dr. William Carlos Williams Visits and Holds Discussion

The Dean's Program (1966-70)

In Alphabetic Order

• "Animal Behavior and Human Nature" - 1967
• "Black Movement in America and the Role of White People" - 1967
• "The City"-1969
• "Death of God" - 1966
• "Drug Use" - 1968
• "India" - 1968
• "New Left Reappraisal of the Cold War: American Foreign Policy 1945-65" - 1968
• "The New Morality" - 1968
• "Problems of Urban Poverty -- Strategy for Slums" - 1967
• "What's Happening in the Arts" - 1967

Last updated February 6, 1999, by Jeremy R. Linden, '00.