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Collection Overview

Title: Paul C. Schroeder Papers, 1962-2023

ID: 26/20/207

Primary Creator: Schroeder, Paul C.

Extent: 7.0 cubic feet

Arrangement: By subject.

Date Acquired: 12/04/2016. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: Alumni, Biological Computer Laboratory, Centennial, University, Cybernetics, Illinois Politics, Student Activism, Teacher Education, Vietnam War

Languages: English, Spanish;Castilian

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Papers of Paul C. Schroeder (B.A. Political Science '68) including correspondence, publications, event handouts, flyers, notes, a punch card, and a button concerning the University committees, University Centennial, Vietnam War, General Motors Protest, cybernetics and the Biological Computer Laboratory, Horsley Committee, political and social dissent, feminism, pedagogy, campus events, free speech, and events at the Red Herring. Correspondents include Heinz von Foerster, Steve Sloan, Gaylor Nelson, Robert Rogers, Michael Rossman, Pat Mardeus, and Schroeder's parents.

Subject/Index Terms

Alumni
Biological Computer Laboratory
Centennial, University
Cybernetics
Illinois Politics
Student Activism
Teacher Education
Vietnam War

Administrative Information

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: Accruals on 7/7/2017, 6/2/2022, 4/3/2023, and 4/7/2025.

Related Materials: See also the biographical file for Paul C. Schroeder in record series 26/4/1 (Alumni and Faculty Biographical File).

Other Note: 13 pages

PDF Box/Folder List

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/2620207.pdf

PDF finding aid for Paul C. Schroeder Papers (26/20/207)

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Student Activism and Life],
[Series 2: Vietnam War Draft],
[Series 3: Rogers Project and Urbana-Champaign Community Activism],
[Series 4: Cybernetics],
[Series 5: Publications],
[Series 6: Correspondence],
[Series 7: Illinois Constitutional Convention - Consulting Work],
[Series 8: Juvenile Justice],
[Series 9: Family Life],
[Series 10: Dreams],
[Series 11: Restricted],
[Series 12: Oversize Materials],
[All]

Series 4: Cybernetics

Sub-Series 1: Notes

Box 5

Folder 16: Meeting with Heinz and Mai von Foerster about Constitutional Convention, and various personal notes, 1970
Folder 17: “Biology of Cognition,” BCL Report 9.0 and notes, 1970
Folder 18: Three Paradigms Among Planners: Hierarchists, Individualists and Mutualists, Taught by Magoroh Maruyama, ca. 1973: Part 1 of 2
Folder 19: Three Paradigms Among Planners: Hierarchists, Individualists and Mutualists, Taught by Magoroh Maruyama, ca. 1973: Part 2 of 2
Folder 20: Cybernetics of Cybernetics, 1974
Folder 21: Basilisk Uroboros, 1985
Folder 22: Basilisk, 1985-1987
Folder 23: “Cybernetics” Project, 1985

Box 6

Folder 1: Nürnberger Trichter, 1986-1987: Notes on the history of the Nuremberg Funnel
Folder 2: “Cybernetic Art", 1987
Folder 3: Cybernetics: Words and Images, 1987-1988
Folder 4: Cascade Systems Society, Portland State, 1996-1997
Folder 5: Dance of the Disturbances “Travel log-Traveler Information”, 1993
Folder 6: Cybernetics and HVF (Heinz von Foerster) Notes and Reading List
Folder 7: Heinz von Foerster, “Von Pythagoras zu Josef Matthias Hauer” with draft English translation, 2007
Folder 8: Situationism

Sub-Series 2: American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) Conferences

Box 6

Folder 9: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) Declaration by Von Glasersfeld and Mission Proposal by Krippendorf, 1992, 2009: ASC 1970 DC Part 1 of 3
Folder 10: List of ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) Meetings from “Old” ASC Website, 2022: ASC 1970 DC Part 2 of 3
Folder 11: BCL Seminar and Cybernetics Conference Notes: ASC 1970 DC Part 3 of 3
Folder 12: Cybernetics Technique in Brain Research and the Educational Process, ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 1971 Conference, 1971
Folder 13: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 1984 Glossary on Cybernetics of Systems Theory, 1984
Folder 14: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 1987 Conference, Urbana, 1987
Folder 15: St. Gallen ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) Conference Member List, 1987
Folder 16: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 1988 Conference, Victoria BC, 1988
Folder 17: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) Fall 1988 Conference, Santa Cruz, 1988
Folder 18: American Society for Cybernetics, 1989 Meeting, Virginia Beach, 1989
Folder 19: American Society for Cybernetics, 1989 Conference, Amsterdam, 1989
Folder 20: Conference Notes and Schedules, 1993: ASC Fall 93 11/3-7/93 Part 1 of 3
Folder 21: Travel Documents, 1993: ASC Fall 93 11/3-7/93 Part 2 of 3

Box 7

Folder 1: Conference Notes, Handouts, and Readings, 1993: ASC Fall 93 11/3-7/93 Part 3 of 3
Folder 2: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 95 Chicago, 1995
Folder 3: 1996 Urbino Cancelled, 1996
Folder 4: ASC’97 (American Society for Cybernetics) 3/8-12/97, 1997: ASC 1997 Part 1 of 4
Folder 5: ASC’97 (American Society for Cybernetics) Presentation: 3/10/97 Participant Observatories, 1997: ASC 1997 Part 2 of 4
Folder 6: Continuing the Conversation: Dialogues in Cybernetics, Volume 1, 1997: ASC 1997 Part 3 of 4
Folder 7: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 97 Champaign, 1997: ASC 1997 Part 4 of 4
Folder 8: ASC’98 (American Society for Cybernetics), 1996, 1998, 2005: Notes for Talk Part 1 of 2
Folder 9: Reading Phaedrus, ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) ’98, ca. 1998: Notes for Talk Part 2 of 2
Folder 10: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 1998 Santa Cruz, 1998
Folder 11: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) Correspondence, Membership Forms, and March Syntegration Meeting Materials, 1999
Folder 12: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 1999 Conference Falls Church/DC + Syntegration, 1999-2002
Folder 13: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 2001 Vancouver, 2001
Folder 14: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 2002 Santa Cruz, 2002: Part 1 of 2
Folder 15: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 2002 Santa Cruz, 2002: Part 2 of 2

Box 8

Folder 1: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) DC, 2005
Folder 2: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) Conference, “Our Cybernetics”, 2008
Folder 3: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 2009 Annual Meeting, Olympia, Washington, 2009
Folder 4: Trojan Horses: A Rattle Bag from the Cybernetics: Art Design, Mathematics – Meta-Disciplinary Conversation Compiled and Edited by Ranulph Glanville, 2013-14
Folder 5: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 2012 ASILOMAR “An Ecology of Ideas”, 2012
Folder 6: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 2014 Conference Part 1 of 2, 2014
Folder 7: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 2014 Conference Part 2 of 2, DuArchive Talk, 2014
Folder 8: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) June 2016 Olympia/Evergreen St, 2016
Folder 9: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 2017 Conference, Salem, 2017
Folder 10: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 2014 Conference Part 1 of 2, 2014
Folder 11: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 2014 Conference Part 2 of 2, DuArchive Talk, 2014
Folder 12: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) June 2016 Olympia/Evergreen St., 2016
Folder 13: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 2017 Conference, Salem, 2017
Folder 14: ASC (American Society for Cybernetics) 2018 Conference, Chicago, 2018

Box 8

Folder 15: Gorden Research Conference, Brewster Academy
Folder 16: Review of Gordon Conference in Preparation for “Reference Desk as Learning Environment”, March 14, 1988: Oxnard Part 1 of 4
Folder 17: Gordon Research Conference Photo ID List, January 1988: Oxnard Part 2 of 4
Folder 18: Gordon Research Conference on Cybernetics, 1987-1988: Oxnard Part 3 of 4

Box 9

Folder 1: Bob Harbort Gordon Conference Biography Through Books, 1987-1988: Oxnard Part 4 of 4
Folder 2: International Congress Cybernetics of Systems, New York City, 1990
Folder 3: Einstein meets Magritte, Brussels, 1995
Folder 4: American Society for Cybernetics Emails, 1996
Folder 5: Heinz von Foerster Congress, 2001
Folder 6: Heinz von Foerster Congress, 2007-08
Folder 7: 3rd Heinz von Foerster Conference, Vienna, 2007