Most narratives of Western history have long argued that Europeans and Americans achieved unprecedented human progress by creating the key institutions and values of modernity: global trading systems, democratic national states, advanced science and technology, religious tolerance, and the legal … Read more
**Please note: This event will be held outside of Chapel Hill at the Archie K. Davis Conference Center. See below for more information** Southern American culture has sometimes been portrayed as exceptionally coherent and enduring, but like all other societies, … Read more
A Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Gerhard L. Weinberg 2017 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of America’s entry in the greatest world conflict up that that point, World War I. Join distinguished scholar Gerhard Weinberg, whose Adventures in Ideas seminars on World … Read more
In collaboration with the North Carolina Museum of Art **Please note: This event will be held outside of Chapel Hill at the NC Museum of Art. See below for more information** This seminar will provide historical and cultural context for … Read more
This year’s annual Uhlman Seminar will focus on Jewish culture as revealed through entertainment: music, film, folklore, humor, and the storytelling components present in all of these arts. Ruth von Bernuth will open the seminar by establishing a foundation of … Read more
A Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Gerhard L. Weinberg Civilian casualties have always been a feature of war, but nothing in history compared to the devastation inflicted upon noncombatants during the two World Wars of the twentieth century. With the introduction … Read more
Continuing our exploration of the significance and meaning of the First World War, this seminar focuses specifically on the war’s enormous cultural influence. We’ll move beyond the war’s military and diplomatic dimensions to examine how writers, artists, filmmakers, and colonized … Read more
2016 was a year of incredible change in the United States and around the world. This seminar will explore how new political realities are influencing elections, domestic and foreign policy, and trade, and how governments and people are responding to … Read more
In collaboration with the North Carolina Botanical Garden The Tar Heel State features a wide range of natural features and ecological zones, from the coastal waterways of the Atlantic in the East to the mountains in the West. Join us … Read more
*SOLD OUT* To be added to the waitlist, please send an email to human@unc.edu with your name, number of seats requested, and contact information. The size of the waitlist will also determine if this program is repeated. A Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Bart … Read more
