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IN THE NEWS

 NEH and Center Supporters Combine to Provide Funds for Fellowship Program


New Education Partnership Offers University Credits to CA Teachers - New program with CSU, Chico adds benefits for online seminar participants.


 NHC Announces Fellows for 2010-11 - Thirty-six scholars selected from institutions in the United States and six other nations.


 Scholars Meet to Discuss "The State and Stakes of Literary Study" - Conference held March 19-20 at the Center.


 Philip L. Quinn Fellowship Established - Philosophy fellowship honors memory of distinguished scholar.


 NHC and PBS's American Experience Partner to Help Teachers - Seminars will show teachers how to use programs and primary source materials together.
FROM THE DIRECTOR

"Two Points about Two Cultures" -
Afterword, Creating Consilience: Toward a Second Wave, eds. Edward Slingerland and Mark Collard (Oxford University Press, 2010).

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COMING EVENTS



PUBLIC LECTURES

Fri., September 10 - talk
begins at 7:30 p.m.
"A Conversation with Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate in Literature," Wole Soyinka, Loyola Marymount University

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 Thurs., October 7 - 5:00 p.m.
"Science, Truth, and Knowledge in 19th-Century British Exploration," Dane Kennedy, George Washington University


 Thurs., November 18 - 5:00 p.m.
"An Introduction to 300 Years of Anthropometric History," John Komlos, University of Munich, Germany


 Thurs., December 9 - 5:00 p.m.
"Mediterranean Trade and the Arts: A Cross-Cultural Reading," Maria Georgopoulou, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece

ON EXHIBIT

September 1 — December 17
"Aesthetic Perception of Arts and Crafts," Violet and Rose Jane Designs, North Carolina
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