Fall 2014 Archives
Adventures in Ideas (click on the title for a description)
Understanding the Cold War & Its Aftermath
In collaboration with Burning Coal Theatre Company
September 6, 2014
Italy during World War II
Featuring Gerhard Weinberg
September 13, 2014
Elections, Politics, & Power Struggles from Ancient Rome to Modern North Carolina
September 20, 2014
From Talking to Talkin’ Tar Heel
In collaboration with the NC Museum of History
September 27, 2014
Small Treasures: Dutch & Flemish Art in the 16th & 17th Centuries
In collaboration with the NC Museum of Art
October 18, 2014
Comparative Empires in the Pre-Modern World
October 25, 2014
Sex, Science, & the Supernatural: Getting to the Bottom of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
In collaboration with PlayMakers Repertory Company
November 7-8, 2014
The Great War
An encore seminar
November 14-15, 2014
SOLD OUT*
Sports in American Society
November 22, 2014
Resurrections: Reviving Extinct Languages, Cultures, and Species
December 6, 2014
Spotlight on Scholars (for details, click the title)
Why Are Indians Still Here? American Indian Nationhood in the 21st Century
Valerie Lambert, Associate Professor of Anthropology
September 16, 2014
Searching for Planets Around Other Stars: A North Pole Adventure
Nicholas M. Law, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
September 23, 2014
Democracy in Senegal
Michael Lambert, Associate Professor of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director, UNC African Studies Center
September 30, 2014
Archeology in Egypt
Jennifer Gates-Foster, Assistant Professor of Classics
October 7, 2014
Humanities in Action (for details, click the title)
Capitalism with a Human Face
John Komlos, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Munich; Visiting Professor of Economics, Duke University
October 8, 2014
Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Stanley W. Black, Lurcy Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus
October 15, 2014
Justice Corrupted: How the Drug War Wastes Money and Ruins Lives
Arthur Benavie, Professor Emeritus of Economics
October 22, 2014
Debt and Taxes
Michael K. Salemi, Professor Emeritus of Economics
October 29, 2014
Environmental Markets
Andrew Yates, Assistant Professor of Economics
November 5, 2014