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Araujo explores ‘Slavery as History and Memory’ in 2023 Reckford Lecture


Ana Lucia Araujo at the lectern in the University Room to a full room. A projection slide shows movie posters including Lincoln, 12 Years a Slave, and more.

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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Ana Lucia Araujo at the lectern in the University Room to a full room. A projection slide shows movie posters including Lincoln, 12 Years a Slave, and more.

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.

A world globe through a window.

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.

Alan Shapiro smiling in a library

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

The Hyde Hall courtyard, with a view to the fountain, in spring.

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.

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Weil 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.

Learn more about Weil Lecture