Brown University Special Events Department files (OF-1ZSE-1)

Brown University Special Events Department files is arranged in seven series:

Series I, Inaugurations and openings (1973-1998) includes documents from the Howard Swearer, Vartan Gregorian, and E. Gordon Gee inaugurations; these papers include budgets, planning documents, festivities, invitations. Also included are files for the Institute for International Studies speakers, such as J. William Fulbright, Linda Wertheimer, and Cyrus Vance. The series also contains material on the opening of the Swearer Center for Public Service, the Pizzitola Athletic Center and several other campus centers.

Series II, Commencements (1994-1996) includes documents concerning event planning and rentals, student orations and guest lectures, ceremonies and programs, transportation and housing.

Series III, President's Lecture Series (circa 1992-2001) includes files for lecturers such as Norman Mailer, William Burroughs, Joan Didion, Wilma Mankiller, Oliver Sacks, and Ken Burns.

Series IV Ogden Lectures (circa 1987-1997) includes files for lecturers such as Richard Holbrooke, Nelson Mandela, Mary Robinson, Brian Mulroney, plus correspondence and planning documents.

Series V, Bill Slack Correspondences (1991-1997) includes the correspondence of Brown's Director of Special Events.

Series VI, Summer College (1986-1997).

Series VII, Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference (1988-2006) includes transcripts of such conferences as Sport--Is It Only a Game? (2000); The Dignity of Children (2001); and A Time of Great Consequence: America and the World (2003).