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University Week – “Quo Vadis?: The Search for Identity, Liberation, and Justice”

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0020

Scope and Contents

This collection includes programs, schedules of events, biographies of speakers, announcements, flyers, posters, and audio recordings of the events.

Dates

  • 1973

Creator

Access

The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the University of Illinois- Springfield (UIS)

Copyrights

Copyrights to this collection are held by UIS.

History

Much like the other University Weeks, the spring of 1973 was no different. The theme for the week would be Quo Vadis: (which translates to “Where are you going” in Latin”) The Search for Identity, Liberation, and Justice. It spanned two weeks from January 28th through February 9th, 1973.

Speakers and participants included Orrin Klapp, Norman Denzin, Rabbi Jon Konheim, Rev. Richard Ahlgrim, Rev. James Fry, Msgr, Irvin Will, Conald Foust, Ralph Smith, Florenz Criley, Karl Flipper, Cheter Ruiz, Madeline Golde, Family of Women Band, Edward Green, John Miller, Richard Quinney, and a poetry reading entitled "Brainchild". Topics and areas of discussion included identity, identity in religion, identity in children and justice.

Extent

.5 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Provenance

Acquired by piecemeal in 1973 through Hugh Barlow and Phil Kendall.

Property Rights

UIS owns the property rights to this collection.

Processing Information

This collection was reprocessed in November 2023. The original order was kept as close as possible.

Title
Finding Aid to the University Week – “Quo Vadis?: The Search for Identity, Liberation, and Justice”
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the UIS Archives/Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
One University Plaza, MS BRK 140
Springfield IL 62703-5407 US
217-206-6520