Screening and Talk: Preserving Sunrise Semester

Join NYU Libraries for this in-person event showcasing Sunrise Semester, a TV show co-produced by NYU and CBS from 1957-1982, from which viewers could learn from NYU professors and even earn a college degree from home.

With nearly one hundred courses including "The Meaning of Death", "The City in American Literature", "Fourteen Hundred Years of Islam", "Twentieth-Century Literature: Its Past and Perfect", "Magic, Faith, and Healing", "Drama in Education", and "Radio, Television, and the New Technology", the surviving recordings of the program are a feast for the mind, and represent incredible snapshots of 20th century thought and higher education.

Michael Grant (Assistant Director for Media Preservation) and Janet Bunde (University Archivist) will introduce the history of the course and the project underway to preserve it for the future. The event will conclude with a screening of an episode of Sunrise Semester unseen for more than four decades.

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