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BETHEL COLLEGE PEACE LECTURES * Funded By BETHEL COLLEGE PEACE LECTURES * Funded by Schowalter Foundation ** Co-sponsored by the Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution ***Co-sponsored by the Menno Simons Lecture Series ****Funded in part by the Mennonite Central Committee Co-sponsorship by the Western District Peace and Social Concerns Committee began with the 1977/1978 academic year and ended with the 1987/1988 academic year. Beginning with the 1987/1988 academic year, the Peace Lecture Series became a program of the Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution. In 1992 the Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution merged with the Bethel College Peace Lecture Series. In each entry the first lecture listed is an evening lecture and was often preceded by a meal. Where two lectures are listed the second is usually a convocation address delivered the following morning. These were often also considered “peace lectures.” A few events consisted of series of three or four lectures on consecutive days. 1972/1973 John M. Swomley, Jr., An Ethical Critique of American Foreign Policy, March 4, 1973. [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #106, side A, track one] Is Violent Revolution Justified? March 5, 1973. [Tape recording: St. Paul School of Theology Methodist, Kansas City, Mo., author. Tom T. Stonier, Man: Noble Savage or Brute? March 18, 1973. [CD: MLA CD 806E #106C; tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #106, side B, track one] Irenology: The New Academic Venture in Peace Studies, March 19, 1973. [CD: MLA CD 806E #106D; tape recording: MLA Archives 809E 106, side B, track one]] Manhattan College, NY George Lakey, Nonviolent Social Change, April 15, 1973. [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #20A] Alternative Life Styles for a New Society, April 16, 1973. [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #20A] Organizer, Movement for a New Society, Philadelphia, Penn. Alvin Green & Edward Johnson, Conflict Resolution, May 6, 1973. [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #20B] Interventions into Communities in Conflict, May 7, 1973. [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809 #20B] Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kan. 1973/1974 *Philip Berrigan, [Lecture] February 17, 1974 [Tape recordings: MLA Archives 809E #19A Left track; MLA Cass 172.1B #55; MLA CD 809E #19 v. 1/v. 2] The CDs are the most complete version; both the reel-to-reel and cassette recordings are incomplete. Jesuit priest, nonviolent activist. *Hanna Newcombe, Peace Research: What Has Been Done? April 7, 1974. Design for a Better World, April 8, 1974. [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #19A Right track; MLA CD 809E #19A] Canadian Peace Research Institute, Author and editor. *Dorothy Day, [Lecture] April 28, 1974 [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #19B; MLA CD 809E #19B] Principles and Purposes of the Catholic Worker, April 29, 1974 [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #19A Right track — first portion of convocation lecture only; MLA CD 809E #19B1] Co-founder, Catholic W orkers Movement, Social activist. 1974/1975 *Elise Boulding, Women and World Order,March 16, 1975 [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #17A] New Careers in Peacemaking, March 17, 1975 [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #17B] University of Colorado. Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development. *David V. J. Bell, Problems of Resistance in the Modern State, April 13, 1975 [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #17A] Justice: Theoretical and Practical Implications, April 14, 1975 [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #17B; MLA CD 809E #17B] York University, Ontario, Canada. Author and instructor in peace education. *Arthur Westing, Healing the Wounds of War: Reconstruction in Indochina, April 17, 1975 [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #18A] Ecocide in Indochina: The Environmental Impact of Modern Warfare, April 28, 1975 [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #18A] W indham College, Putney, Vt. Ecological and forestry consultant. 1975/1976 Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, The Future of World Peace, November 23, 1975 [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #16A] On Nationalism, November 24, 1975 [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #16A] Harvard University. Gene Sharp, The American Revolution: Won by 1775? January 19, 1976 [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #15A; MLA Cass 809E #15A] Defense Without the Military, January 19, 1976 [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #15A; MLA Cass 809E #15A1] The Future of Nonviolent Civilian Defence, January 20, 1976 [Tape recording: MLA Archives 809E #15B; MLA Cass 809E #15B] Harvard University. John P. Adams, [Lecture] February 20, 1976 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #13A] The Role of the Church in Social Justice Issues, February 21, 1976. [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #13-14] Board of Church and Society, United Methodist Church. 1976/1977 2 Denis P. Barritt, The Pacifist Movement in Northern Ireland,March 13, 1977; Living in a Divided Society: What Does It Mean? March 14, 1977 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #1A] Chair, Fellowship of Reconciliation in Ireland. Quaker author. Susan Carpenter, Creating the Future: The Role of Peace Education in the Elementary and Secondary Schools, April 1, 1977; Current Approaches to Peace Education, April 1, 1977 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #2] Peace Education for the Elementary and Secondary Schools, April 2, 1977 The first lecture was a slide show and probably not recorded [MLA has a cassette which may have been the sound track but no slides found yet], the third program was a workshop with smaller group activies--also probably not recorded. Rocky Mountain Center on Environment, Denver, Col. Educational Futurist. 1977/1978 Bernard E. Lafayette, Peace: New Challenges for the Future, September 22, 1977 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #21-22] Peace: New Challenges for the Future, September 23, 1977 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #22] W ashington University, St. Louis, Mo. Chair, Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development. Baptist minister, civil rights activist, world traveler. ***John W. DeGruchy, The Eruption of Violence and the Demands of Peace in South Africa,October 24, 1977 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809 #54] I don’t think this tape is for the peace lecture. MLA Cass 809A #56-58 are supposed to be six Menno Simons lectures. [They include only three lectures and are lacking the one designated as the Peace Lecture.] 809 #53/54 sound more like class presentations with questions from a couple of others interrupting the speaker. University of Cape Town, South Africa. Congregational minister, theologian. Sidney Lens, The Nuclear Menace,November 17, 1977 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #3] Revolution, Development and War, November 18, 1977 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #4A] Peace and labor activist, author. Lloyd J. Dumas, Economic Conversion of Military Facilities to Civilian Activity — The Need and the Nature of the Problem, and How to Solve It. April 6, 1978. [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #5A] Increased Armaments and Decreased National Security, April 7, 1978 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #5B] Note: These replaced the lecture by LaDonna Harris that was scheduled for March 9, 1978 and cancelled. Economist, teacher, and author. Donovan E. Smucker, Mennonite Pilgrimage for Peace, April 20, 1978 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #6A] [Lecture], April 21, 1978 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #6B] Conrad Grebel College, W aterloo, Ontario. Teacher and author. 1978/1979 3 ***Marlin E. Miller, The Messianic Community, October 30, 1978. [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809A #59-60] This is for all four Menno Simons lectures, which one is the peace lecture? The order of the four lectures was rearranged. The Messianic Community was given as the Monday morning convocation. The lecture given Monday evening when the Peace Lecture was scheduled should have been on Liberation Theology. Tape 59A appears to have the lecture given first (on grace) which appears to continue with questions and answers to 59B. Midway through that side of the tape the second lecture The Messianic Community begins. Tape 60A is the final lecture on Mennonite and Contemporary Theology which continues onto 60B (which is blank after the adjournment of this lecture. I haven’t yet located Liberation Theology. President and Professor of Theology, Goshen Biblical Seminary. Daniel Ellsberg, Nuclear Weapons and Human Survival, November 6, 1978. [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #7] [Lecture], November 7, 1978. Look for tape or documentation. Anti-war activist. Richard Barnet, Roots of the New Arms Race, December 1, 1978. Look for tape or documentation. Institute of Policy Studies, W ashington, D.C. President, W orld Peacemakers. Thomas L. Saaty, Recent Advances in Conflict Resolution, January 9, 1979. [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #8] The Use of Analytical Hierarchies Process in Conflict Resolution, January 11, 1979 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #9A] University of Pennsylvania, author. Burns H. Weston, Human Rights and World Order, March 1, 1979 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #11A] Toward Global Consciousness and Planetary Citizenship, March 2, 1979 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #10A] University of Iowa. Specialist in international law, author. Mairead Corrigan, Future of Peace in Ireland, March 29, 1979 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #12A] [Lecture] March 30, 1979 [Tape Recording: MLA Cass 809E #12B. Irish peace activist and 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner 1979/1980 Richard McSorley. Nuclear War and the Gospel, November 16, 1979. Kill for Peace, November 16, 1979. Look for tapes. Georgetown University. Kenneth E. Boulding. Stable Peace, March 6, 1980. Look for tape. Peace and the Moral Economy, March 7, 1980 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #23A] University of Colorado, Poet. Danilo Dolci. Development Work in Western Sicily, March 9, 1980. Look for tape. Nonviolence in Violent Sicily, March 10, 1980 [Tape Recording: MLA Cass 809E #23B] 4 Pete Seeger An Evening with Pete Seeger, April 10, 1980 [Tape recording: MLA Cass 809E #31-32] Morning with Pete Seeger, April 11, 1980 [Tape Recording: MLA Cass 809D #25A] Folk singer and songwriter, Hudson River Sloop Restoration. 1980/1981 Delton Franz, The Politics of Hostility and the Politics of Healing, November 4, 1980 Look for tape or documentation.
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