It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities’ visionary founder, Ruel Willoughby Tyson, Jr. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill lost an esteemed scholar, colleague, mentor, and friend on the evening of Thursday, May 30, 2019. Tyson was born in the Winterville Township in Pitt County, N.C., on Dec. 2, 1930. Growing up near the banks of the Tar River, he attended public schools in Greenville before graduating from Washington and Lee University with highest honors in philosophy in 1953. His scholarship led him to Yale University; the Victoria University of Manchester in Manchester, England; the University of Chicago; and … Continued
It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities’ visionary founder, Ruel Willoughby Tyson, Jr. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill lost an esteemed scholar, colleague, mentor, and friend … Continued
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is pleased to announce its 2019-2020 cohort of Faculty Fellows. The Faculty Fellowship Program provides on-campus leaves for faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences to work on interdisciplinary scholarly projects. Fellows also gather … Continued
Professor Andrew J. Perrin has been named the next director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, effective July 1. He will succeed Mark Katz, who completes his IAH term at the end of the spring 2019 semester. Perrin … Continued
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities has announced the winners of this year’s Schwab Academic Excellence Awards. The $3,000 prize recognizes one faculty member in each College of Arts and Sciences department across the arts, humanities and qualitative sciences. Department … Continued
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.
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.
IAH Director Mark Katz and lecturer Dr. Stefani Engelstein answer audience questions during the 25th Annual Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019.
IAH Director of Development Angela O'Neill greets guests at the 25th Annual Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019.
Dr. Stefani Engelstein delivers the 25th Annual Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture in the University Room on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019.
Reckford family members watch Dr. Stefani Engelstein deliver the 25th Annual Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019.
Terry Rhodes, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, joins Professor Eric Downing and Associate Professor Richard Langston at the 25th Annual Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019.
Guests attend the 25th Annual Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019.
Associate Professor of History Emily Burrill participates in the Q&A with Dr. Stefani Engelstein at the 25th Annual Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019.
IAH Associate Director Jennifer Ho attends the 25th Annual Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019.
Professor Emerita Joy Kasson (Faculty Fellow '92, '94, '98) attends the 25th Annual Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019.
Professor and Chair of the Department of Duke University's Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Dr. Stefani Engelstein delivers the 25th Annual Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019.
Joe Reckford, son of Mary Stevens Reckford, meets lecturer Dr. Stefani Engelstein during the 25th Annual Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019.
Director of Carolina Public Humanities Dr.Lloyd Kramer gets honored for the George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow on November 2, 2018.
Director of Carolina Public Humanities Dr.Lloyd Kramer gets honored for the George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow on November 2, 2018.
IAH Faculty join in the University Room in celebration of Dr.Lloyd Kramer's George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow on November 2, 2018.
Professor of African, African-American, and Diaspora Studies Kia Caldwell speaks with John and Maggie Stanton at the Salon in Atlanta, Georgia on October 3, 2018.
Alan Neely, a member of the IAH advisory board speaks with other faculty at the Salon in Atlanta, Georgia on October 3, 2018.
IAH Director Mark Katz speaks with Professor of African, African-American, and Diaspora Studies Kia Caldwell at the Salon in Atlanta, Georgia on October 3, 2018.
IAH Director Mark Katz speaks with Hip-hop ambassador, social entrepreneur and activist Toni Blackman in the University Room for a conversation about using music to break down barriers for the Women in Hip-Hop series event on October 24, 2018.
Students speak with Hip-hop ambassador, social entrepreneur and activist Toni Blackman at the Women in Hip-Hop series event on October 24, 2018.
Hip-hop ambassador, social entrepreneur and activist Toni Blackman sits down with IAH Director Mark Katz in the University Room for a conversation about using music to break down barriers for the Women in Hip-Hop series event on October 24, 2018.
UNC Gospel Choir performs at the 2017 Weil Lecture on American Citizenship at Hill Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017.
UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities Director Mark Katz welcomes the audience to the Weil Lecture on American Citizenship and introduces Theodore Shaw, director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights at Hill Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017.
Theodore Shaw, director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights, introduces Rev. Dr. William Barber II as the Weil Lecture on American Citizenship at Hill Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017.
Cultural Artist and Movement Musicologist Yara Allen leads the audience in song before Rev. Dr. William Barber II delivers the Weil Lecture on American Citizenship at Hill Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017.
Rev. Dr. William Barber II delivers the Weil Lecture on American Citizenship at Hill Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017.
Author Charles Frazier and music producer T Bone Burnett discussed their work experiences at the Cold Mountain Collaboration event at Moeser Auditorium at Hill Hall on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. IAH Director and Music Professor Mark Katz moderates.
Author Charles Frazier talks to audience members after the Cold Mountain Collaboration event at Moeser Auditorium at Hill Hall on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017.
T Bone Burnett talks to audience members after the Cold Mountain Collaboration event at Moeser Auditorium at Hill Hall on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017.
Theodore Shaw, director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights, introduces Rev. Dr. William Barber II as the 2017 Weil Lecture on American Citizenship at Hill Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017.
