News Release Date: January 6, 2011
Research Triangle Park, N.C. This spring the National Humanities Center will host and sponsor a schedule of public lectures, exhibitions, and events with appeal for a wide audience. Featured events include public lectures from Center Fellows on the purpose of college, law and slavery in Haiti, and the reception of Franz Schubert's music among his contemporaries.
The Center will also host two symposia organized by former NHC Fellows. "The Black Atlantic and the Biographical Turn" (February 24-26) will explore slavery and the slave trade through the narratives of individuals. Featuring an international group of scholarly participants, the symposium will open with a talk from award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips. The second symposium, "The Virtual Nineteenth Century" (March 4-5), will examine ways in which twenty-first century media were foreshadowed in nineteenth-century communications, art, and technology.
The spring calendar also includes a continuation of the successful lecture series "Perspectives on History" held at the North Carolina Museum of History and co-sponsored with the North Carolina Museum of History Associates. Also, with UNC-TV, the Center will present a preview screening of the award-winning documentary "Freedom Riders" followed by a discussion of segregation and transportation with Fellow Mia Bay of Rutgers University.
On exhibit throughout the spring will be "Patterns" an exhibition of quilts by Cary artist Karen Comstock.
To learn more about specific events or to reserve space, please follow the links below.
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| PUBLIC LECTURES at the National Humanities Center | |||||||||
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| "PERSPECTIVES ON HISTORY" LECTURES* | |||||||||
| at the North Carolina Museum of History 5 East Edenton Street, Raleigh, NC | |||||||||
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| SYMPOSIA* | |||||||||
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| PREVIEW SCREENING & DISCUSSION | |||||||||
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| Tuesday, March 22, 5:00 p.m. "Freedom Riders" | with Mia Bay, Rutgers University co-sponsored with UNC-TV |
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| January 3-June 30 "Patterns" | Quilts by Karen Comstock, Cary, NC |
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For more information, please contact Martha Johnson by phone (919) 549-0661, ext. 110 or e-mail mjohnson@nationalhumanitiescenter.org. | |||||||||