Honorary Degrees Ceremony Invitation [1909 Conference]

Authors

Clark University

Document Type

Ephemera

Publication Date

1909

Keywords

conferences, Clark University, honorary degrees

Description

Invitation to the Honorary Degrees ceremony of Clark University's Twentieth Anniversary Conference, which took place on September 10, 1909. There were twenty-nine recipients, mostly made up of conference speakers including Sigmund Freud, Franz Boaz (who also taught at Clark from 1888-1892), Carl Jung, Ernest Rutherford, Albert A. Michelson (who taught at Clark 1889-1892), Vito Volterra, Percival Lowell, and E.H Moore.

The full conference took place September 6th through September 19th and featured lectures, discussions, and demonstrations from prominent scientists and scholars across the physical, biological, and social sciences. Additionally, a five-day Conference on Child Welfare took place two months earlier, from July 6th through the 10th, featuring representatives from twenty-seven types of child welfare organizations.

The conference is most notable for the participation of Sigmund Freud who, along with Carl Jung, would take their first and only trip to America to attend. The five lectures Freud gave, collectively titled “The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis” and subsequently known in print as “Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis”, mark the formal introduction of his theories to the United States.

A jpg copy is available as a supplemental download.

Recommended Citation

Clark University, "Honorary Degrees Ceremony Invitation [1909 Conference]" (1909). Conference Materials. 4.
https://commons.clarku.edu/conferencematerials1909/4