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IN THE NEWS

ASC Initiative Influence Spreads - Dialogue on "The Human and The Humanities" expands to other institutions and into classrooms.


Center Mourns Trustee Emeritus Claude E. McKinney - Research Triangle leader died November 11, 2008.


Final ASC Conference to Open with Lecture from Oliver Sacks - Noted neurologist and author to speak Thursday, Nov. 13 at the Friday Center as part of three-day event.


Bailout Includes Charitable Giving Provisions - Package extends IRA Rollover that may benefit NHC donors.


FROM THE DIRECTOR

"The Humanities in America" -
Keynote address to the symposium on "The Humanities in a New Era: Surviving or Setting the Agenda?," April 23, 2008, University of Copenhagen.


NOTEWORTHY

Recent Books by Fellows - Recent books published by Fellows of the Center.


Noted - News from our Fellows, Trustees, and Staff.


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COMING EVENTS


SPECIAL EVENT

Wed., January 21, 7:30 p.m.
"Banjo at the Crossroads," Don Vappie with Cece Conway, Appalachian State University, and Laurent Dubois, Duke University



PUBLIC LECTURES

Thurs., January 29, 5:00 p.m.
"Yeats and the Ends of Violence," Michael G. Wood, Princeton University

Thurs., February 26, 5:00 p.m.
"Trials, Movies, and Paranoid Attention," Carol Clover, University of California, Berkeley

Thurs., March 26, 5:00 p.m.
"How the Pictures Got Their Names," Nicolas Bock, University of Lausanne and Ruth Yeazell, Yale University

Thurs., April 23, 5:00 p.m.
"Order and Danger in East Africa and Beyond," Parker M. Shipton, Boston University



"PERSPECTIVES ON HISTORY"*
Lectures at the North Carolina Museum of History, 5 East Edenton Street, Raleigh, NC

Thurs., February 19, 7:00 p.m.
"Appraised, Bartered, and Sold: The Value of Human Chattels," Daina Berry, Michigan State University

Thurs., March 12, 7:00 p.m.
"Shattering White Solidarity: A History of the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union," Elizabeth Payne, University of Mississippi

Thurs., April 2, 7:00 p.m.
"The Banjo: A Cultural History," Laurent Dubois, Duke University



ON EXHIBIT

December 1 - February 28
Quilts by Heather Williams, Chapel Hill, NC



* To reserve space for "Perspectives on History" lectures, please call 919-807-7847
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