Series 2 - Lectures, talks and seminars

0.25 m of textual records

Files in this series contain correspondence, invitations, talk outlines and notes, manuscripts or typescripts of lectures. They document Etkin’s varied engagements as a speaker. Included are formal invited seminars, addresses at professional meetings and conferences as well as popular lectures to non-professional groups on various aspects of his research in aviation. There are records documenting his series of lectures at Stanford University in 1973 as well as honorary lectureships such as The Rupert Turnbull Lecture awarded by the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (1969) and the Wrights Brother’s Lectures awarded by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1980).

Also included are talks that relate to the history of aeronautical engineering or discuss themes around engineering education. Of particular interest to researchers studying the history of Institute of Aerospace Studies is the G.N. Patterson Lecture in 1989 entitled “The Story of UTIAS” that gives a good recollection of the IAS from Etkin’s perspective.

Finally, Etkin enjoyed giving what he called “popular lectures” that mainly relate, in laymen’s terms, to research being undertaken in the field of aeronautical engineering.

Arrangement is alphabetical, usually by the name of the association or event.

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