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Lecture Records, 1938-[ongoing]
3.0
linear feet.
Catalog Number:
3.33
Series List:
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Agency History /
Biographical Note:
The regular instruction of Bowdoin College is supplemented each year by ten
or twelve major lectures, as well as lesser talks, panel discussions, and
other presentations sponsored by the various departments of study and
undergraduate organizations. Lectureship funds are administered by the
Lectures and Concerts Committee and relevant departments.
Scope and Content:
Material relating to lectures held at Bowdoin College including lecture
texts, announcements and posters. The bulk of the collection is comprised of
announcements and flyers advertising inaugural lectures for College chairs
and professorships, the Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Fund (lectureship) and
the Harry Spindel Memorial Lectureship; as well as posters for these and
other campus lectures. In addition there are lecture texts
of inaugural lectures, including: The Harrison King McCann
Professorship of the English Language Inaugural Lecture, November 20, 1996 by
Franklin G. Burroughs Jr.; and The William D. Shipman Research Professorship
of Economics Inaugural Lecture, February 22, 1995, by A. Myrick Freeman
III. Audio and video recordings of selected College lectures are preserved
in the College Archives Audio-Visual Collection. Materials relating to the
John Brown Russwurm Distinguished Lecture Series and the Albert C. Boothby
Lecture Series are available in the records of the Africana Studies Program.
Cite as:
Lectureship Records, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections &
Archives, Bowdoin College Library
Access Restrictions:
Some copying restrictions. Consult individual record series.
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