Borah Symposium 1960-69
March 27 - April 7
Committee Chair: Robert E. Hosack, Political Science
“Europe and the New Nations” (Caldwell & Pocatello)
- Norman Pounds
“East European Revolution” (Lewiston, Boise, et al)
October 23 - November 3, 1961
Committee Chair: Robert E. Hosack, Political Science
“Democratic Counter-Offensive in the Americas”
“Latin America — Change or Revolution?” (Lewiston, Boise, et al)
- Francisco Garcia-Amador
“Old Problems — New Programs in Latin America” (Coeur d'Alene, Jerome)
October 29 - November 2, 1962
Committee Chair: Robert E. Hosack, Political Science
- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, “Korea — the Biggest Little War”
- “The Search for Peace — Prospects and Pitfalls” (Moscow, Boise, et al)
- “American Survival — Illusions and Realities” (Moscow, Lewiston)
- “Cuba, the Point of Main Trial”
April 26
Committee Chair: Robert E. Hosack, Political Science
“Soviet Policy — Myth & Reality”
- Kempton B. Jenkins
“How History is Taught in Germany Today” (Supplemental lecture on March 25)
- Emil Kroher
October 22, 1963, and March 26, 1964
Committee Chair: Robert E. Hosack, Political Science
Moscow & Boise, October 1963
“Borah — the Man”
- Marian C. McKenna
March 26, 1964
“Borah — His Political Impact”
- Claudius O. Johnson
“Borah — The Diplomat”
- J. Chalmers Vinson
“The Role of Borah in American Foreign Policy”
- Senator Frank Church
Discussions and Commentaries with McKenna, Johnson, & Vinson:
- “Senator Borah's Personality”
- “Borah the Politician”
- “Borah & Diplomacy”
April 2 and 22
Committee Chair: Robert E. Hosack, Political Science
April 2
“The Role of the Non-Communist Left”
- John J. Johnson
April 22
“Assignment Peking”
- Dr. Purnedu Kumar Banerjee
July 30, October 21 and October 31
Committee Chair: Robert E. Hosack, Political Science
July 30
“Canada Challenges”
- Donald Grant
October 21
“The United Nations: After 20 Years”
- Frank Church
October 31
“Basis for Peace in the World Economic Community”
- Robert Theobald
April 5-6
Committee Chair: William E. Folz, Agricultural Economics
“The United States Food Aid Program: Objectives and Accomplishments”
- Dorothy H. Jacobson
“The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development”
- Willard W. Cochrane
“Population Growth and Food Crises: Dimensions and Queries”
- Irene B. Taeuber
“America's Capacity to Supply Food for Expanding World Populations”
- M. L. Upchurch
“Purpose and Prospects for the Food for Freedom Program”
- Don Paarlberg
February 15-17
Committee Chair: Richard A. Porter, Chemistry
“Historical Background of the Vietnam Conflict”
- Frank Williston
“A Reporter Returns to Vietnam”
- David Halberstam
“The Vietnam Conflict in Southeast Asian Perspective”
- Guy Pauker
“International and Domestic Dissent Against the Vietnam War”
- Robert Scheer
“Alternative Vietnam Outcomes — a Long-Range Perspective”
- Anthony Wiener
“The Case for Withdrawal”
- David Dellinger
“Vietnam and the Rebellion of Exploited Peoples — At Home and Abroad”
- James Farmer
“Vietnam and American National Security”
- Senator John Tower
“NATO, the Western Hemisphere and the Vietnam War”
- Albert Gore
March 13-15
Committee Chair: Richard A. Porter, Chemistry
“War and International strategy”
- Stefan Possony
“Human Aggression”
- Roderick Gorney
“Erosion of Military Power”
- Gen. Thomas Lane
“Domestic Violence”
- Thomas Hayden, founder of Students for a Democratic Society
“New Left Activities”
- Philip Luce
“The Nature of Political Activism and its Relationship to Violence”
- Nat Hentoff, Chronicler of dissent in America
“Nuclear War and International Relations”
- Thomas Brody
“Domestic Activism from a Conservative Point of View”
- Anthony Bouscaren
Other Participants:
- Dr. Nathan Hare, Professor of Black Studies, San Francisco State College
- William Rusher, Publisher of the “National Review”