Conference Materials
Document Type
Ephemera
Publication Date
1909
Keywords
Clark University, 1909 Conference, invitations, conferences
Description
Invitation for Clark Anniversary's Twentieth Anniversary Conference which took place September 6th through September 19th. The conference featured lectures, discussions, and demonstrations from prominent scientists and scholars across the physical, biological, and social sciences. Many of the invited speakers received honorary degrees, including 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. 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, "Twentieth Anniversary Invitation [1909 Conference]" (1909). Conference Materials. 5.
https://commons.clarku.edu/conferencematerials1909/5
Twentieth Anniversary Invitation jpg
