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Araujo explores ‘Slavery as History and Memory’ in 2023 Reckford Lecture
In her talk, Araujo described the perceived differences of history and memory, the way they intersect, and the implications for historians. “History and memory are, at the end of the day, two different modes of discourse that engage the past in different ways,” said Araujo.
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Araujo explores ‘Slavery as History and Memory’ in 2023 Reckford Lecture
In her talk, Araujo described the perceived differences of history and memory, the way they intersect, and the implications for historians. “History and memory are, at the end of the day, two different modes of discourse that engage the past in different ways,” said Araujo.
IAH launches new Summer International Collaborative Research Grant
A new IAH grant gives associate professors an opportunity to conduct research abroad and develop international partnerships.
A ‘Conversation’ with Alan Shapiro (FFP ’99, ’09)
All morning as we talk inside the room around the table, our bodies are aswarm with light and shade, our voices like a web hung in the air between us, stitching and unstitching in the telling and the hearing, the … Continued
Announcing the 2023 Schwab Academic Excellence Award winners
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is pleased to announce the 21 recipients of the 2023 Schwab Academic Excellence Awards. The award recognizes one faculty member from each College of Arts and Sciences department in the arts, humanities, and qualitative social sciences.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
LECTURES AT THE INSTITUTE
Reckford Lecture
The Institute hosts the annual Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies, established in 1990 by UNC Classics Professor Kenneth J. Reckford to honor his wife, Mary Stevens Reckford (February 25, 1934 – November 12, 1987). The lecture is designed to appeal to the public, rather than specialists. Speakers are asked to provide “pleasure, instruction, an interdisciplinary approach and a sense of shared humanity.” Because Mary Reckford’s birthday is Feb. 25, the Institute hosts the lecture within the month of February.
Learn more about Reckford LectureWeil Lecture
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities has hosted UNC’s Weil Lecture on American Citizenship since 2000. Brothers Henry and Solomon Weil established the lecture in 1915 to widen discussion of the concept in the United States. Presidents Taft and Carter, Eleanor Roosevelt, Senators J. William Fulbright and Nancy Kassebaum and Professor Lester Thurow are among the many distinguished Weil lecturers. Other recent speakers have been members of Congress, diplomats, political commentators and renowned scholars.
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