Adventures in Ideas Weekend Seminars

In collaboration with the Center for European Studies In the decades since World War II, states in Europe have created a cohesive government in the EU that transcends old boundaries and links disparate peoples together in one of the world’s … Read more

A Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Mark Evan Bonds In collaboration with the UNC Department of Music The year 2020 marked the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. Perhaps more than any other composer, we hear Beethoven in his music, … Read more

A Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Lloyd S. Kramer This seminar will examine the revolutionary upheavals that spread across the Atlantic world in the late eighteenth century, creating independent nations and advocating new conceptions of human rights that continue to influence … Read more

It has become increasingly clear to many in America and throughout the world that the political norms of the 20th century no longer accurately describe conditions on the ground. Severe polarization, public distrust of institutions, racial unrest and reckoning, and … Read more

People all over the world and through the ages have imbued physical spaces with spiritual significance. This seminar will take us back in time to explore a variety of sacred sites, their meanings, and how people used or engaged with … Read more

In collaboration and with support from the UNC-Duke Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program First created at Oxford University in the 1920s, the field of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) cultivates unique interdisciplinary perspectives on ideas that shape our socioeconomic and … Read more

A Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Gerhard L. Weinberg   TOPICS Scandinavia Burma New Guinea ........ Gerhard L. Weinberg is the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of History Emeritus. He is an internationally known expert on all aspects of World War … Read more

A Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Michelle King, Associate Professor of History. The twenty-first century may be China’s century. With the world’s largest population and the second largest, most rapidly growing economy of the major nations, China is positioned to play … Read more

A Special Juneteenth Seminar The long campaigns to protect and abolish the slave system in the American South were the main cause of the American Civil War, so the Emancipation Proclamation and the abolition of slavery became the most important … Read more