RECENT EVENTS SPONSORED OR CO-SPONSORED BY THE UH DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, TENNECO LECTURE SERIES, AND PATH
(1986-1991)

March 1986: Tenneco Distinguished Lecture Series
Robert A. Caro, author, New York
"Houston: A Chance for Greatness"

March 1987: Tenneco Distinguished Lecture Series
David McCullough, author, Massachusetts
"Public Works and Social Responsibility"

October 1987: Houston Center for the Humanities Conference (co-sponsor)
"Houston in Search of Vision"

February 1988: Tenneco Distinguished Lecture Series
Alfred E. Kahn, Cornell University
"The Perils of Affluence: Inflation, the Twin Deficits, and Protectionism"

February 1988: Luncheon Lecture, Tenneco, Inc.
Alfred E. Kahn, Cornell University
"Economic Deregulation"

August 1988: Tenneco Lectures in Ethics and the Professions
James T. Patterson, Brown University
"Cancerphobia in American History"

August 1988: Social Work Luncheon Lecture
James T. Patterson, "America's Struggle Against Poverty"

March 1989: Tenneco Distinguished Lecture Series
Henry G. Cisneros, Mayor of San Antonio
"Mexico and Texas: A Common Border, A Shared Future"

November 1989: Tenneco Lectures in Ethics and the Professions
"Toxics and the Future Generations: Business Interests/Consumer Rights" A Symposium

March 1990: Tenneco Distinguished Lecture Series
Norma Cousins, author, California
"New Dimensions in Healing"

March 1990: Women's Studies Lecture (co-sponsor)
Deborah White, Rutgers University
"Race, Class, and Gender: The Impossible Juggling Act"

March 1990: Women's Studies Lecture (co-sponsor)
Martha D. Yow, Baylor Medical School
"Women in Medicine: 50 Years of Problems and Progress"

October-November 1990: Scholar in Residence
Stanley J. Reiser, University of Texas Health Science Center
"Introducing a Technologic Presence in Medicine"

November 1990: Noontime History Series, Texas Medical Center (co-sponsor)
Joesph T. Glatthaar, University of Houston
"The Costliness of Discrimination: Medical Care for Black Troops in the Civil War"

Martin V. Melosi, University of Houston
"Public Health and Water Supply in American Cities, 1801-1920"

James H. Jones, University of Houston
"From Insects to Sex: Alfred C. Kinsey's Methodological and Philosophical Approach to Science"

Robert C. Palmer, University of Houston
"The Medieval Origins of Legal Liability for Medical Malpractice"

Hannah S. Decker, University of Houston
"The Treatment of Hysteria Before Psychoanalysis"

November 1990: Tenneco Lectures in Ethics and the Professions
Naomi Rogers, University of Alabama
"Vegetables on Parade: Child Health Education in the 1920's

March 1991: Tenneco Distinguished Lecture Series
Madeleine M. Kunin, Dartmouth University
"Developing a New Environmental Ethic"

April 1991: Humanities and the Professions Speakers Series (co-sponsor)
Ellen B. Koch, University of Texas Health Science Center
"The Process of Innovation in Medical Technology: American Research on Ultrasound, 1947-1962"

October 1991: Department of History and Honors Program Lecture (co-sponsor)
David Brion Davis, Yale University
"Exodus, Black Colonization, and Promised Lands"

November 1991: Tenneco Lectures in Ethics and the Professions
Frank Petruzielo, Houston Independent School District
"Creating Twenty-first Century Schools: Blueprint for Excellence in Houston Schools"

November 1991: Honors Program Lecture (co-sponsor)
Josef Konvitz, Michigan State University
"The Metropolis Since 1500"

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