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MON648: Oscar Mendelsohn Lecture recordings and transcripts

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Series identifierMON648Series titleOscar Mendelsohn Lecture recordings and transcriptsSeries descriptionIn 1970 Oscar Mendelsohn gave $8,000 for the establishment of a fund to enable Monash University to provide free public lectures. The aim of the lectures was to promote the study of humanism, materialism, positivism and other effects of the application of the scientific attitude to human affairs and thought. The lecturer was chosen by the Oscar Mendelsohn Lectures Committee. This series consists of transcripts of lectures 1971-73, 1984 and 1986; audio recordings of lectures 1982, 1984, 1986 and 1988; and a video recording of the Silver Jubilee Lecture given in 1986.Date range1971 - 1988Series typeUniversity SeriesLinear metreage0.06Format, size, conditionfiles; 7" audio reels; audio and video cassettesKeywordsClaytonPublic Affairs

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Monash Jubilee Oscar Mendelsohn Lecture - Monash: Retrospect and Prospect - J. A. L. Matheson

Oscar Mendelsohn Lectures c.1971-73

Eighth Oscar Mendelsohn Lecture - Professor P. L. Waller, 1 March 1984

Third Oscar Mendelsohn Lecture - Professor Rutherford Robertson, 5 Sept.1973

Second Oscar Mendelsohn Lecture - Professor J. A. Passmore, 6 Sept.1972

Inaugural Oscar Mendelsohn Lecture - Sir Macfarlane Burnet, 6 Oct.1971

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Audio recording of Eighth Oscar Mendelsohn lecture [Prof L Waller 'Borne for Another']

Audio recording of Seventh Oscar Mendelsohn lecture [Don Dunstan 'The Social Necessity of Rebellion', Alexander Theatre, 25 Feb. 1982]

Don Dunstan - Alexander Theatre 25 February 1982 [7th Oscar Mendelsohn Lecture]

Recording of Oscar Mendelsohn Lecture, 24 March 1988

Audio recording of Silver Jubilee Oscar Mendelsohn Lecture given by Sir Louis Matheson, 22 May 1986

Series

MON38: Oscar Mendelsohn Lectures Committee Agenda, minutes and papers 1971-1980, 2005

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Video recording of Silver Jubilee Oscar Mendelsohn Lecture given by Sir Louis Matheson, 22 May 1986

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