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 This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-10-23. Description is written in: English, Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries University of Washington Lecture Series collection University of Washington. Graduate School University of Washington. Libraries. Media Center UA00346 10.87 cubic feet 10 boxes containing: 167 audio reels; 437 audio cassettes; 9 video cassettes; and 116 cds approximately 1970s-2013 English .

The University of Washington Graduate School has been able to provide for a Public Lecture series thanks to endowed funds.

The University of Washington Walker-Ames Fund was established in 1936 by a bequest from the estates of Maud Walker-Ames and Edwin Gardner Ames. Since 1936, the fund has been used to bring many outside scholars to the University of Washington campus. These scholars present public lectures about their respective fields of expertise and also work with groups of graduate students during their stay.

John Danz, veteran motion picture theatre owner and philanthropist of the Pacific Northwest, and his wife, Jessie, made a gift to the University of Washington in 1961. This gift was used to establish the John Danz Fund. This fund, an enduring benefit to the University and the state, brings to the University of Washington campus and Seattle community lecturers of national and international reputation. Specifically, the gift is intended to enable the University of Washington to bring 'distinguished scholars who have concerned themselves with the impact of science and philosophy on man's perception of a rational universe.'

The Department of History History Lecture Series began in 1975 with newly retired professor of history Giovanni Costigan. Costigan, a very well-known part of the UW community, began the series as a way to bring history to the wider community and to spark dialogue around important topics.

Source: https://grad.uw.edu/public-lecture-series/about-the-lecture-series/

Transferred by OUGL Media Center, 1997; UW Libraries Media Center, March 2025; Halleran, Rebecca, 2006

No user access copy is available for reels, cassettes, or CDs. Users may be able to obtain a reproduction of the media for a fee. Contact Special Collections for more information.

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Recordings of Walker-Ames, Jessie and John Danz Fund, and other lectures made possibly by the UW Graduate School. Also includes lectures from the History Department's History Lecture Series, otherwise known as the Costigan lectures. May also includes Solomon Katz lecture series.

Arranged in 3 accessions:

Accession No. 97-077, University of Washington, Jessie and John Danz Lectureship Committee recordings, 1962-1992 Accession No. 25-008, University of Washington Lecture Series recordings Accession No. 25-009, University of Washington Graduate School Lecture Series recordings

University of Washington Graduate School records, UW Resource No. 30045

Accession No. 4338-003: Giovanni Costigan Lectures

University of Washington. Libraries. Media Center University Archives/Faculty Papers Media and Communication Sound Recordings Colleges and Universities Accession No. 97-077, University of Washington, Jessie and John Danz Lectureship Committee recordings, 1962-1992 3.09 cubic feet 3 boxes containing 130 sound cassettes; 37 sound tape reels; 6 videocassettes (vhs); 3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)

Scope and Contents: Audiocassettes, audio recordings on videocassettes, reel-to-reel audiotapes, and videotapes of lectures in the Jessie and John Danz Lecture Series; 1962-1992. Lectures are on a wide variety of subjects, and most of the Danz lecturers are quite prominent in their fields. Included with the tapes are catalog cards containing limited bibliographic information on some of the items, a few lecture announcements, and transparencies for two 1981 lectures.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from the OUGL Media Center, July 1997

Access Restrictions: No user access copy is available for cassettes or reels. Users may be able to obtain a reproduction of the media for a fee. Contact Special Collections for more information.

 Series 1, Audio Cassettes Pauling, Linus - Nutrition and health 1982 97-077 Box 1 MC-001-003 Short, Roger V. - Wild animals I have known: reproduction in a natural setting 1987 97-077 Box 1 MC-004-006 Dyson, Freeman - On being the right size. 1988 97-077 Box 1 MC-017-019 Schwartz, Benjamin I. - Reflections on the concept of a tradition 1988 97-077 Box 1 MC-027-029 Drell, Sidney P. 1983 97-077 Box 1 MC-036-038

The imperative of arms control, A scientist's dilemma, Challenge to survival

 Wasserburg, Gerald J. - Isotopic adventures and cosmic connections 1989 97-077 Box 1 MC-044-046 Alexander, Richard D. - Darwinism and human affairs: natural selection and patterns of human sociality 1977 97-077 Box 1 MC-051-052 Alexander, Richard D. - Darwinism and human affairs: evolution, law, and justice 1977 97-077 Box 1 MC-053-054 Alexander, Richard D. - Darwinism and human affairs: the challenge of Darwinism 1977 97-077 Box 1 MC-055-056 Keller, Joseph B. - Applied mathematics 1980 97-077 Box 1 MC-059-061 Medawar, Sir Peter 1984 97-077 Box 1 MC-078-080

Creativity in science, The question of prolonging life, The limits of science

 Lorenz, Edward N. - The essence of chaos 1990 97-077 Box 1 MC-100-102 Johnson, Graham - Cross cultural linkages and migration 1990 97-077 Box 1 MC-103-104 Hood, Leroy E. - Molecular biology: impact on science and society 1991 97-077 Box 1 MC-107-109 Gilbert, Sandra - Feminism, modernism, and the history of the future 1992 97-077 Box 1 MC-112-114 Bickerton, Derek - Language and human behavior 1992 97-077 Box 1 MC-115-117 Boas, George - The challenge of the sciences 1965 97-077 Box 1 MC-122-124 Sagan, C. - The search for extraterrestrial life 1976 97-077 Box 1 MC-126-130 Bethe, Hans A. - The energy problem I: the crisis is real 1976 97-077 Box 1 MC-131 Bethe, Hans A. - The energy problem II: the necessity of nuclear power 1976 97-077 Box 1 MC-132 Bethe, Hans A. - Energy production in stars: from the sun to neutron stars 1976 97-077 Box 1 MC-133-134 Rees, Martin - Particles and universes 1984 97-077 Box 1 MC-154-156 Guerlac, Henry - Modalities of scientific change: a historian's view. 1977 97-077 Box 1 MC-157-159 Schapiro, Leonard B. - Recurrent themes in Russian political thought 1977 97-077 Box 1 MC-160-162 Gittings, Robert - The art and science of biography 1977 97-077 Box 1 MC-187-189 Dubos, Rene - Adaptive transformations of biological and technological systems 1978 97-077 Box 1 MC-195-197 Mechanisms of natural selection: the Danz symposium, 1978 1978 97-077 Box 1 MC-209-215 Cobb, W. Montague - Federation of the world: A challenge for applied anthropology 1978 97-077 Box 1 MC-218-219 Hardin, Garrett - At the edge of ethics 1979 97-077 Box 1 MC-222-224 Wolf, Stuart G., Jr. - Social environment and disease: the struggle to document a truism 1979 97-077 Box 1 MC-225-227 Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. 1979 97-077 Box 1 MC-238-241

General factors relating technology, politics, and arms control, Specific issues in the science and politics of arms control, The new particle spectroscopy.

 Borlaug, Norman - Mankind's renewable resource needs for the next half century 1979 97-077 Box 1 MC-250-253 Aschoff, Jurgen - Circadian systems: biological clocks that measure time of day 1980 97-077 Box 1 MC-267-269 Weisskopf, Victor F. - Science in three modes 1980 97-077 Box 1 MC-272-274 Thorne, Kip S. Curved spacetime 1981 97-077 Box 1 MC-275-277 Gay, Peter - Psychoanalytic perspectives on history 1980 97-077 Box 1 MC-281-286 Smith, John Maynard 1980 97-077 Box 1 MC-291-293

Evolution – gradual or sudden?, The evolution of sex, Science and myth

 Syme, Sir Ronald - Roman historians 1979 97-077 Box 1 MC-301-303 Jacob, Francois. The possible and the actual 1981 97-077 Box 1 MC-305-307 Brenner, Sydney - The analysis of biological complexity 1985 97-077 Box 1 MC-308-310 Lee, Tsung-Dao 1986 97-077 Box 1 MC-311-313

Symmetry in physics and nature, Particle physics – past, present, and future, Time as a dynamical variable

 Edmondson, W.T. - Environmental problem-solving and ecological research 1987 97-077 Box 1 MC-314-316 Series 2, VHS Video Cassette Audio Recordings Huxley, Julian Sorell - Population explosion problems 1962 97-077 Box 1 IATC-129-130 Feynman, Richard Philips - Uncertainty of science. 1963 97-077 Box 1 IATC-165 Hoyle, Fred - Extrapolations into the future 1964 97-077 Box 1 IATC-050 Hoyle, Fred - Aims and motives of the scientist 1964 97-077 Box 1 IATC-259-260 Series 3, Reel-to-Reel Audio Tapes Needham, Joseph - Explorations in Chinese science 1977 97-077 Box 2 M-131-136 Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett - Archaeology 97-077 Box 2 M-147 Fuller, R. Buckminster - Humans in universe 1972 97-077 Box 2 M-148-149 McHarg, Ian L. - Man and environment 1971 97-077 Box 2 M-159 Vlastos, Gregory - Plato's universe 1972 97-077 Box 2 M-171 Newell, Allen - Man on his artificial nature 1972 97-077 Box 2 M-172-173 Mazrui, Ali A. - World culture and the black experience 1973 97-077 Box 2 M-242 obin, James - Controversy and ideology in contemporary economic theory. 1974 97-077 Box 2 M-360 Dawson, John M. - Prospects for controlled thermonuclear energy: can we control the sun? 1974 97-077 Box 2 M-622 Abelson, Philip H. - Energy for tomorrow 1974 97-077 Box 2 M-624 Costigan, Giovanni - Humanism and history 1975 97-077 Box 2 M-701 Smith, Cyril Stanley - Art, technology, and change 1975 97-077 Box 2 M-744 Labov, William - Language change and human understanding 1975 97-077 Box 2 M-747 Spilhaus, Athelstan Frederick - The universe—down to earth 1973 97-077 Box 2 M-1036-1037 Berlin, Isaiah - The assault on the French enlightenment 1971 97-077 Box 2 M-1038-1040 Katz, Milton 1974 97-077 Box 2 M-1041-1043

Technology and its discontents, Finite resources of a finite earth, The nature of environmental problems

 Eiseley, Loren C. - Man: the last magician 1969 97-077 Box 2 M-1044-1046 Lederberg, Joshua - "But give me a place to stand on .…" 1971 97-077 Box 2 M-1075-1077 Chandrasekhar, Sripati - World population problems: an Indian view 1971 97-077 Box 2 M-1078-1080 Series 4, U-matic Video Cassette Edmondson, Walles - Environmental problem-solving and ecological research 1987 97-077 Box 3 TV-007-009 Accession No. 25-008, University of Washington Lecture Series recordings and records 7.87 cubic feet 7 boxes containing: 130 audio reels; 307 audio cassettes; and 109 cds approximately 1970s-2013

Scope and Content: Recordings of Walker-Ames, Jessie and John Danz Fund, and other lectures made possibly by the UW Graduate School. Also includes lectures from the History Department's History Lecture Series, otherwise known as the Costigan lectures. May also includes Solomon Katz lecture series. Records include release forms and promotional materials for UW lectures.

Access Restrictions: No user access copy is available for reels, cassettes, or CDs. Users may be able to obtain a reproduction of the media for a fee. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Use Restrictions: Restrictions may exist on copying, quotation, or publication. Contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from UW Libraries Media Center, March 2025

 Audio Reels 25-008 Box 1 Audio Reels 25-008 Box 2 Audio Reels 25-008 Box 3 Audio Reels and CDs 25-008 Box 4 Audio Cassettes 25-008 Box 5 Audio Cassettes and CDs 25-008 Box 6 Records: Release forms and promotional materials 25-008 Box 7 Accession No. 25-009 University of Washington Graduate School Lecture Series recordings 0.21 cubic feet 1 box containing 7 cds 2006

Scope and Content: CD recordings of Walker Ames lectures and Danz lectures.

Access Restrictions: No user access copy is available for CDs. Users may be able to obtain a reproduction of the media for a fee. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Use Restrictions: Restrictions may exist on copying, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.

Acquisition Information: Halleran, Rebecca, 2006

 University of Washington Graduate School Lecture recordings 25-009 Box 1