File 3 - "No - Universities etc. C1"

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JCPP/Bronowski/Bronowski/3/8/2/3

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"No - Universities etc. C1"

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  • 13 September 1962-20 August 1974 (Creation)

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Comprises letters from Universities and Colleges based in California asking Bronowski to lecture, speak at and participate in events, visit campuses and join an advisory committee, with replies declining.

Correspondents are: Caltech Environmental Action Council, California Institute of Technology inviting Bronowski to give a talk as part of Environmental Awareness Week (1970); Professor Henry McGee (Visiting Professor at California Institute of Technology) inviting Bronowski to lecture at the national meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Atlanta, 1970); the Caltech YMCA inviting Bronowski to participate in a series of talks with students and the faculty at the California Institute of Technology arranged by the YMCA (1966); California State College at Fullerton inviting Bronowski to lecture at the College (1967); California State College at Long Beach inviting Bronowski to be the speaker for their commencement programme (1969), to speak at the Southern California Council of Teachers of English (1967), to visit the campus and lecture or take part in a forum (1966-67), and to attend a dinner for honors students; California State College at Los Angeles inviting Bronowski to address a conference for principals and administrators of schools for handicapped children (1965), and to take part in a symposium on 'Urban Values in a Revolutionary World' by responding to a major address by Frank Mankiewicz (press secretary to senator Robert Kennedy) (1967); California State College at San Bernardino inviting Bronowski to spend a day at their campus visiting classes and lecturing (1974); University of California at San Diego (UCSD) on Bronowski planning to give the opening address for Fourth College (Sep 1974) with information on the new College and the University, and asking Bronowski to give a lecture as part of a course on metaphysics (1974); University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Western Center for Program development, inviting Bronowski to join an Advisory Committee (1974) with an article on 'Forging Link with the Humanities between the University and the Small Town'; UCLA department of Social Sciences, inviting Bronowski to give a lecture as part of a series on 'America and Its Discontents' (1973); University of California at Berkeley inviting Bronowski to speak at an annual genetics colloquia to be held at the Department of Genetics (1968), to participate in a proposed seminar with Louis Kahn and Jonas Salk (1965), and to take part in a lecture series on 'Science, Civil Liberties and the Growth of Law' (1962); University of California at Davis inviting Bronowski give a lecture as part of a series on 'Man in Nature' (1967); University of California Hastings College of the Law (San Francisco) inviting Bronowski to take part in a colloquium on 'Law as an Effective Instrument for Social Change' (1971); University of California at Irvine inviting Bronowski to lecture on behalf of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (1967), and to repeat his lectures on 'The Identity of Man' or give another lecture at Irvine (1966); UCLA School of Medicine inviting Bronowski give the guest address at their Hippocratic Oath ceremony (1968); UCLA Department of Social Sciences inviting Bronowski to talk to a public policy seminar on 'Dilemmas of United States Foreign Policy' (1964), to give lectures on 'Science and Public Policy', 'Man as Creator' or 'A Moral for Today' (1963), and to participate in study programmes at Lake Arrowhead Conference Center (1963 & 1964) with leaflets about Liberal Arts programmes for the public at the Center and a series of lectures on 'Human Values and the Scientific Revolution' by C P Snow, Aldous Huxley, Harold C Urey and Pamela Hansford Johnson (Lady Snow); University of California at Riverside asking Bronowski to give a talk on William Blake (1971); University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) asking Bronowski to participate in a Science and Religion workshop (1966), and give a lecture on 'Science and Human Values' (1965); UCSD inviting Bronowski to a symposium on 'Brain, Genetics and Behaviour' sponsored by the National Genetics Foundation (1971), and inviting him to speak at Revelle College (1971); and University of California San Francisco Medical Center inviting Bronowski to lecture for the Graduate Division as part of a series on 'Perspectives in Biology' (1970), and to give a Phi Beta Kappa lecture at the centre (1968).

Also includes correspondence with UCSB on Bronowski planning to be Regents' Lecturer/Professor at Santa Barbara for a month in 1966-67, and a promotional leaflet on the College of Creative Studies at UCSB.

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      'Forging Link with the Humanities between the University and the Small Town' by Rosalind Loring and Elinor Lenz was published in The NUEA Spectator, Sep 1973.

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      This file was originally in a ring binder.

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      Part of box 27

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