Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
University of British Columbia. University Lectures Committee
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Description area
Dates of existence
[ca. 1949]-
History
Based on the first committee minutes found in the records, the University Lectures Committee was operating for some time before 1949 and went through several names changes, including the Committee on University Lectures and the Presidents Permanent Committee on Lectures before they were finally renamed the Presidents Advisory Committee on Lectures in 1985. The committee's goal was to bring outstanding academics or individuals representing a cross-section of the arts, humanities, business and government to talk to the university community. Over the years, the committee administered several lecture series, including the General Lectures (renamed the President's Lectures), Leon and Thea Koerner Lectures, Hewitt-Bostock Lectures, J. V. Clyne, Canadian Club Lectures, Sedgewick Lectures, Kapoor Singh Lectures and H.R. MacMillan Lectures. On some occasions, the committee co-sponsored the Koerner Lectures series with the Centre for Continuing Education and the Vancouver Institute. Although they shared administrative services with Green College, the committee did not administer or oversee the Cecil H. and Ida Green Lectures series.