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Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers
Between 1958 and 1979, Portland State University hosted over two hundred speeches, interviews, panel discussions, and readings by scholars, activists, politicians, authors, artists, and community members. Many of these events featured prominent public figures who were invited to campus by academic departments, university administration, or interested students. Portland State was a campaign stop for Presidential and Congressional candidates in the late sixties and early seventies, a focus of urban development in Portland, and fertile ground for conversations on politics, social justice, science and technology, the arts, and the future. The recordings in this collection reveal an era of vital dialogue and debate supported by the university and its community.
The original recordings of these events were captured on reel-to-reel tapes by Portland State audio-visual technicians. For a time, the tapes were available as a library resource, but after reel-to-reel technology was superseded the collection fell out of use and was not included when the library catalog went online. The tapes spent years in storage until their rediscovery by PSU’s University Archivist. With the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, new digital transfers of the original reel-to-reel audio recordings are now available to the public in the Oregon Public Speakers Collection.
Listen to a selection of excerpts from the collection on the Portland State YouTube channel:
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Submissions from 1979
1979
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"Energy Resources"
, Harrison Scott Brown
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"Food and Population"
, Harrison Scott Brown
PDF
"Carnival in Romans (Lecture 2)"
, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
PDF
"The Techniques of Total History (Lecture 1)"
, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
PDF
"Lessons From the Landscape: Non-American City Building"
, Christopher L. Salter
PDF
"The Urban Enigma: America's Urban Alternatives"
, Christopher L. Salter
PDF
"SIDS: Current Areas of Interest: Apnea, Monitors, and the High-Risk Infant"
, Alfred Steinschneider
PDF
"Myth of the River Kwai"
, Ian P. Watt
Submissions from 1978
1978
PDF
"Environmental Simulation and Long-Term Planning"
, Michael A. Arbib
PDF
"Participation and Alienation in Large Democracies"
, Michael A. Arbib
PDF
"Space Settlements"
, John Billingham
PDF
"Ecosystems"
, William E. Cooper
PDF
"Toxic Chemicals in the Environment"
, William E. Cooper
PDF
"Role of Religion and Community Values (Session 2)"
, L. Fischer Hines, Whitney Bates, Charles Jordan, Steve Snyder, and Bill Little
PDF
"Role of Religion and Community Values (Session 1)"
, John Jackson, Dee Anne Westbrook, Byron Haines, Edsel Goldson, and Bernard Devers
PDF
"Is Human Understanding Finite?"
, Peter Brian Medawar
PDF
"The Story of Tumor Immunity"
, Peter Brian Medawar
PDF
"Needed Social Innovations (Lecture 2)"
, John Rader Platt
PDF
"Rates of Change (Lecture 1)"
, John Rader Platt
PDF
"The New Kingdom: The Wealth of Empire (Egypt of the Pharaohs)"
, Cynthia May Sheikholeslami
PDF
"The Old Kingdom: The Age of the Pyramids"
, Cynthia May Sheikholeslami
Submissions from 1977
1977
PDF
"How To Change the Media"
, Bill Hilliard, Clarence McKee, and Marcus Garvey Wilcher
PDF
"Address to Faculty and Students"
, Timothy Francis Leary
PDF
"Minority Employment in Mass Media"
, Portland State University, Marky Azul, Tana Lane, Alan K. Ota, and Chuck Strutter
PDF
"Women in Science Career Workshop: Panel Discussion"
, Portland State University, Nona Glazer, Tony Oliver, Dell Rhodes, Lolita Carter, and Frances Storrs
PDF
"Minority and the Media Workshop"
, Portland State University, Wendy Gordon, John Gosselin, and Marilyn James
PDF
"Effects of TV on Black Children"
, Portland State University, Patrick Grant, and Linda Torrence
Submissions from 1976
1976
PDF
"Educating Today's Children: Focus on Early Childhood; Appropriate Curriculum for Early Childhood"
, David Elkind
PDF
Panel Discussion on Early Childhood Education
, David Elkind, Alta Hunter, Helen Hartness, and Dennis Millholm
PDF
"The Call for a New International Economic Order, Part 2"
, Jeffrey Garten
PDF
"The Call for a New International Economic Order, Part 1"
, Joaquin González and Ruth Hinerfield
PDF
"Biological Determinism as a Social Weapon"
, Richard C. Lewontin
PDF
"Nuclear Power: Its Role in Our Future"
, Betsy MacInness, Dave Ferg, Rudi Nussbaum, Tom Davis, and Sandra Kiefer
PDF
"The Concept of the "Right of Revolution" in the United States in Historical Perspective from the Puritans to the Present"
, Thomas Pressly
Submissions from 1975
1975
PDF
"Large Systems"
, Richard Ernest Bellman
PDF
"Dedication: Frederic Littman sculpture 'Farewell to Orpheus'"
, Joseph C. Blumel
PDF
"Land Use Planning: Alternatives For the Future"
, Ernest Bonner, John Gustafson, Lawrence Rice, and Nohad A. Toulan
PDF
"Mental Health Seminar"
, Dick Bose, Nancy Adams, and Babe Wilson
PDF
"A Philosophy for Complexity"
, Charles West Churchman
PDF
"The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life"
, Donald L. DeVincenzi
PDF
"The ORE Plan: a practical application of the systems approach to solid waste management in Oregon"
, Richard Duncan
PDF
"Relations of Institutions to Minorities in Urban Areas"
, Samuel E. Kelly
PDF
"Education for Managing Complexity"
, Harold A. Linstone
PDF
"Memorial Gathering for Branford P. Millar"
, Portland State University
PDF
"Dedication of Branford Price Millar Library"
, Portland State University, Joseph C. Blumel, Andrew Millar, Theresa Millar, Gordon Hearn, Miles Romney, and Frank Rodgers
PDF
"Black Studies Center Public Dialogue, Part 1"
, Portland State University, Maynard Jackson, William M. Harris, Charles Jordan, Clara Peoples, and Rosemary Allen
PDF
"Black Studies Center Public Dialogue, Part 2"
, Portland State University, Toni Morrison, Primus St. John, John Callahan, Susan Callahan, and Lloyd Baker
PDF
"Memorial for Sam Wilderman"
, Easton Rothwell, David Weinstein, Tom McCall, and Doug McKean
PDF
"The Curious Behavior of Complex Systems: Lessons from Biology"
, Heinz von Foerster
PDF
"Soviet Intellectual Dissent in the 1970s"
, Fruim Yurevich
Submissions from 1974
1974
PDF
"World Affairs Forum"
, Forest Amsden, Rebecca Bell, David Burrington, George Montgomery, and Carl Stern
PDF
"German Writers in Exile"
, Franz Langhammer
PDF
"Interpretation of the French Resistance"
, Michael F. Reardon
PDF
"Public Evil and Private Responsibility"
, George Saslow
PDF
"Poetry Reading"
, Gary Snyder
PDF
"Getting Our Language Back"
, William Edgar Stafford
PDF
"American Government and Foreign Affairs"
, Gregory Baker Wolfe
PDF
Commentary on the Film "The Sorrow and the Pity"
, David Wrench
Submissions from 1973
1973
PDF
"Nkrumism: The Correct Ideology for the African Revolution"
, Stokely Carmichael
PDF
"America: Possibilities for Transformation"
, Robert Jay Lifton and Portland State University
"Urban Containment: Policy for Willamette Valley in 1980"
, Grant Miller
PDF
"Land Use Planning versus Urban Chaos"
, Harvey S. Perloff
"The conduct of international affairs: 2000 A. D."
, Portland State University and Elisabeth Mann Borgese
"America and the future (panel)"
, Portland State University, Andries Deinum, David Horowitz, Bill Hamilton, and Zoe Annette Arrington
PDF
"University and the Community: Playing for High Stakes"
, Emmanuel Rose
PDF
"America 1984: Which Prejudices, Passions, and Poverties?"
, Carl Rowan and Portland State University
Submissions from 1972
1972
"Jean Luc Godard discusses his approach to motion picture directing and answers questions from the audience"
, Jean Luc Godard
PDF
"The Writer's Craft"
, Jessica Mitford
PDF
"Limiting the Power of the President"
, Wayne Lyman Morse
PDF
"PSU Environmental Education Center: Remarks and answers to questions from the audience"
, Elliot L. Richardson
Submissions from 1971
1971
PDF
"The Self and the U"
, Ramon Alcerro, William R. Anderson, and Gregory B. Wolfe
PDF
"Current Issues in Teaching English as a Second Language"
, Russell N. Campbell
PDF
"Acadia for Moderns: The Fulfilling Environment" (Is America Possible? Lecture 3)
, René Dubos and Portland State University
"Discussion: Is America Possible?" Lecture 4
, René Dubos, Harvey Wheeler, Tom Wicker, and Portland State University
PDF
"The Development of Social Behavior in Primates"
, Robert A. Hinde
PDF
"The Chinese Domestic Scene"
, William Hinton
PDF
"Transcendental Meditation: a Vision of Possibilities"
, Walter Koch
PDF
"The Politics in 1972"
, Eugene J. McCarthy
PDF
"Opening Remarks and Responses to Questions from the Audience"
, Edmund S. Muskie
PDF
"China in Crisis: the Chinese People and the Communist Political System"
, Robert A. Scalapino
"The People's Republic of China from a Trotskyist and Maoist point of view"
, Marv Treiger
PDF
"Romantic Love"
, Elaine Hatfield Walster
"Perspectives on the Post-Industrial World" (Is America Possible? Lecture 2)
, Harvey Wheeler and Portland State University
PDF
"Is America Possible?" Lecture 1
, Tom Wicker and Portland State University
Submissions from 1970
1970
"Who benefits from university recruiting?"
, Judd Blakely, Richard Morse, Dave Sidoor, Ralph Sterns, Ivan Suttles, and Ray Wolf
PDF
"Hopes and Hazards of the 70s For American Secondary Education"
, Robert Blanchard
PDF
"Speech on Racial Equality in the United States"
, Julian Bond
PDF
"A Perspective on Black Culture Awareness"
, Johnetta Cole
PDF
"Women's Liberation Movement"
, Marlene Dixon
PDF
"North Vietnam and the War"
, Madeline Duckles
PDF
"Address to Faculty and Students on the Black American"
, Nathan Hare
PDF
"The University in American Power"
, Louis Kampf
PDF
"Address to Faculty and Students Discussing Current Political and Social Issues"
, George Stanley McGovern, Robert Straub, and Kay Corbett
"Mechanisms and image"
, Marvin Lee Minsky
PDF
"Two Addresses to the Faculty and Students on the Organizing of College Students in Order to Bring About Change"
, Ralph Nader
PDF
"A Teach-In Opposing the Vietnam War"
, Portland State University
PDF
"Priorities in Teaching Pronunciation"
, Clifford Holmes Prator
PDF
"This is Me: Some Significant Learnings"
, Carl Ransom Rogers
PDF
"Remarks on the Motion Picture
No Blade of Grass
, Cornel Wilde
"Answers to students' questions on military recruiting on campus and other matters affecting Portland State University"
, Gregory Baker Wolfe
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