One of the world's foremost researchers on the subject of genocide, Ben Kiernan, is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History and Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University. Kiernan's work includes over 100 scholarly articles and several books on Southeast Asia and genocide, including The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979 (2nd ed., 2002) and How Pol Pot Came to Power: A History of Communism in Kampuchea, 1930-1975 (1985). His writing has been translated into 10 languages and widely reviewed internationally, and in 2002 he won the Critical Asian Studies Prize. While at the National Humanities Center, he is writing a global history of genocide since 1492.

Jan E. Goldstein, the 2006-07 Archie K. Davis Fellow at the Center, is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History at the University of Chicago where her research and teaching focuses on modern European intellectual and cultural history; and the history of the human sciences, especially psychiatry and psychoanalysis. She is the author of Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century (2nd ed., 2001), Foucault and the Writing of History (1994), and most recently, The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850 (2005). Since 1996 she has served as an editor of the Journal of Modern History. While at the Center, she is working on a study (and English translation) of a manuscript case history of "hysteria complicated by ecstasy" in a Savoyard peasant girl, Nanette Leroux, during the 1820s.

Founded in early 1993, by James Ketch and Gregg Gelb, The North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra has established a name for itself as one of the great jazz repertory orchestras now playing. Mr. Ketch, Music Director of the orchestra, is a Professor of Music and the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The eighteen piece orchestra features the finest professional jazz musicians in North Carolina.

The NCJRO performs classic jazz and big band music by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Stan Kenton, Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Harry James, Jimmie Lunceford, Thad Jones, Bill Holman, Maynard Ferguson, Tom Harrell, and Glenn Miller—music that is rarely performed professionally today outside of major metropolitan areas.

Ted Buehrer is associate professor of music at Kenyon College and the 2006-07 William J. Bouwsma Fellow at the National Humanities Center. Buehrer's current research examines the music of jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Mary Lou Williams. As a composer, he has been published by the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Press, and in 2002 was commissioned to write a fanfare that premiered at the Ohio Private College Instrumental Conductors Association (OPCICA) annual conference. Additionally, he has collaborated with Kenyon Assistant Professor of Drama Jonathan Tazewell, composing and recording the score for Tazewell's short film The Green Door.

Inspired by trips taken with her husband Fred Paxton, a medieval historian and a 2006-07 Fellow at the Center, the images in this show speak to a departure from the ordinary and an encounter with the extra-ordinary. Created during and immediately following her travels in southern France, Italy, Cairo and Princeton, N.J., Malizia's works evoke details from everyday living in these places. Capturing the distinct colors and features that made them memorable, Malizia assembles these signifiers in ways that convey the emotional and cultural landscapes as well as the natural settings that make them memorable.

Sylvia Malizia has studied and taught visual arts for over twenty years and has exhibited her own work in solo and group shows in Connecticut and Rhode Island. This is her first show in North Carolina.

These events, free and open to the public at the National Humanities Center, are
supported by the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Educational and Cultural Outreach Endowment Fund.

For more information, please contact Martha Johnson
by phone (919) 549-0661 x156 or email mjohnson@nhc.rtp.nc.us.

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