Cornell Latin American Year records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 47-4-1006

Scope and content

Includes programs; schedules of events; planning reports and memoranda; information on participants; press releases and articles in Spanish and English; draft and printed publicity material; final report, June 30, 1966; minutes of the CLAY Steering Committee; lists of guests and participants; correspondence and other material concerning "The Emergent Decade," an exhibition of contemporary Latin American art at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City prepared under the auspices of CLAY, including an unfavorable NEW YORK TIMES review; conference itineraries; transcripts of conference discussions; cost estimates; tape recordings of conferences; and other records of the Cornell Latin American Year.

Scope and content

Also 30-7" reel to reel tapes: 19 of session: "U. S. University Involvement in Latin American Institutional Develpment"; 11 tapes of interviews with Jose Figueres, Galo Plaza Lasso, Luis Alberto Sanchez, German Arciniegas, Kalman Silvert, Juscelino Kubitschek, and Richard Schaull.

Dates

1965-1966.

Creator

Cornell Latin American Year (Organization)

Biographical / Historical

Cornell University initiated the Latin American Year (CLAY), 1965-1966, to help develop American awareness of Latin America's strong points and of its problems. Scholars and others from Latin America and the U.S. participated in conferences, lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and other activities, resulting in several publications.