Spring 2014 Archives

Adventures in Ideas (click the title for description)

How Jesus Turned into God
Featuring Bart D. Ehrman
February 7-8, 2014
SOLD OUT*

Comparative Empires in the Pre-Modern World
February 15, 2014

Privacy and Politics in the Age of Big Data
February 22, 2014

The Great War
The Richard A. Soloway Seminar
February 28-March 1, 2014
SOLD OUT*

Haiti’s History of Hope and Hardship
March 28, 2014

Global Health, Local Culture: Caring for Communities in Context
April 5, 2014

Diaries, Dreams, and Desires: Anne Frank and Jewish Private Life
The Uhlman Family Seminar
April 12, 2014

Reflecting on Japanese Internment during World War II
Featuring a PlayMakers Production of Hold These Truths
April 25-26, 2014

Soviet Union during World War II
Featuring Gerhard L. Weinberg
May 3, 2014

Spotlight on Scholars (click the title for description)

Hiding Slavery in Plain Sight: George Moses Horton and the Unsung Founders
Tim McMillan
February 18, 2014
TIME: 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

An Oscars Preview
Dana Coen and Scott Myers
February 25, 2014
TIME: 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

Big Decisions and Transformative Experiences
L.A. Paul
March 4, 2014
TIME: 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

“Goodbye to all that:” British Writers Remember World War I
Marcus Bull
March 18, 2014
TIME: 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

Humanities in Action (click the title for description)

Evangelical Christianity and the Jewish State: Preparing for the Messianic Times
Yaakov Ariel, Professor of Religious Studies
March 19, 2014
TIME: 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

Inside the Mind of the Christian Right: A Deep History of the Culture Wars
Molly Worthen, Assistant Professor of History
March 26, 2014
TIME: 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

Muslim Women in the Media
Juliane Hammer, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Kenan Rifai Scholar of Islamic Studies
April 9, 2014
TIME: 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

Televangelism and the Rebirth of the American Prosperity Gospel
Kate Bowler, Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity in the United States, Duke University Divinity School
April 16, 2014
TIME: 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

Why Atheism?
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Duke University
April 23, 2014
TIME: 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.