Worlds of Knowledge: Great Conversations lecture recordings
Abstract
Worlds of Knowledge: Great Conversations was a special lecture series held at The New School in two consecutive Fall semesters in 1990 and 1991. The collection consists of audio recordings of public conversations between political scientist and New School professor Ralph Buultjens and a series of seven writers, scholars and public figures, held during the Fall 1990 semester.
Dates
- 1990 September 26 - November 7
Creator
- Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992 (Speaker, Person)
- Buultjens, Ralph (Moderator, Person)
- Curie, Eve, 1904-2007 (Speaker, Person)
- Leontief, Wassily, 1906-1999 (Speaker, Person)
- Massie, Robert K., 1929-2019 (Speaker, Person)
- New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) (Host institution, Organization)
- Nizer, Louis, 1902-1994 (Speaker, Person)
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007 (Speaker, Person)
- Yalow, Rosalyn S. (Rosalyn Sussman), 1921-2011 (Speaker, Person)
Extent
7 1/4 inch Audio Cassette
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of seven audio recordings of public conversations conducted by political scientist and New School professor Ralph Buultjens for his non-credit course, Worlds of Knowledge: Great Conversations, listed in The New School course catalog under "Special Events." There is no known video of the events.
All conversations from the series advertised in the Fall 1990 New School course catalog are present in the collection. No lectures advertised in the Fall 1991 course catalog are present in The New School Archives.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for appointment.
Conditions Governing Use
To publish material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the New School Archives and Special Collections. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Historical note
“Worlds of Knowledge: Great Conversations” was a special lecture series held at The New School in two consecutive Fall semesters in 1990 and 1991. The events consisted of conversations between political scientist and New School professor Ralph Buultjens and a series of writers, scholars and public figures. According to course catalog descriptions, these figures included Russologist and historian Robert Massie, lawyer Louis Nizer, medical physicist Rosalyn Yalow, economist Wassily Leontief, historian and United States presidential advisor Arthur Schlesinger, science fiction author Isaac Asimov, writer and daughter of scientists Marie and Pierre Curie Eve Curie, environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., journalist Harrison Salisbury, feminist and United States congressional representative Bella Abzug, historian Paul Kennedy, diplomat accused of being a Soviet spy Alger Hiss and his son, the writer Tony Hiss, and film industry lobbyist Jack Valenti.
Buultjens himself taught courses on current events, international affairs and Asian history at The New School between 1972 and 2004, principally in the Adult Division (later simply called “The New School”), which were notable for their popularity.
Sources:
Gerard O. Hemmerle (2013). Audio interview with Sondra Farganis. Independent Study Oral History Project on New School History. New School Archives and Special Collections. https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/NS070102_Farganis_2013040
The New School (1990). New School Bulletin 1990 Fall Vol. 48 No. 2 [course catalog]. New School Course Catalog Collection. New School Archives and Special Collections. https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/NS050101_ns1990fa
The New School (1991). New School Bulletin 1991 Fall Vol. 49 No. 2 [course catalog]. New School Course Catalog Collection. New School Archives and Special Collections. https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/NS050101_ns1991fa
Arrangement
Arranged in chronological order.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The staff of The New School Archives and Special Collections assembled this collection from a larger set of legacy recordings transferred from The New School's Raymond Fogelman Library following the establishment of The New School Archives, circa 2012.
Processing Information
New School Archives staff based all description in this finding aid on course catalog text and audiocassette container inscriptions. Staff did not listen to the tapes to verify content.
- Audiocassettes (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Politics and culture -- United States (Subject) (Places) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sound recordings (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Guide to the Worlds of Knowledge: Great Conversations lecture recordings
- Status
- In Process
- Author
- Jack Wells, Jason Adamo and Jenny Swadosh
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin