CANCELLED – The Many Voices of the Piano
Chapel Hill Campus Please Contact Carolina Public Humanities for exact locationUnfortunately, this program has been cancelled due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts. We hope to reschedule at a future date.
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American Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Pacific: A Cultural Exploration
a DIALOGUES seminar Many Americans are familiar with our nation’s history of colonial settlement “from sea to shining sea,” but we often forget that expansion didn’t end at the West Coast. This seminar will look at 19th-century art and literature … Read more
France’s World War II: Division, Defeat, and Denial
a HALF-DAY DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR seminar featuring Max Owre Why did France, with the largest and most well-equipped army in Western Europe in 1939, fall to Nazi Germany in little over a month in the spring of 1940? To answer this, we will … Read more
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Architecture, Culture, and the Construction of National Identity in Modern France
A Dialogues Seminar Political and cultural leaders seek to represent their nation’s distinctive historical identity by constructing monuments, museums, public buildings, and impressive capital cities; but the links between art, architecture, and national identity have been especially significant in modern … Read more
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Digging Down and Going Up! *POSTPONED*
DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. ALL REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS SHOULD'VE RECEIVED AN EMAIL WITH INFORMATION ABOUT REFUNDS AND CREDIT. A Dialogues Seminar Join us for this eclectic examination of advances in transportation in the 19th and 20th … Read more
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Pirates and Piracy in Two Worlds
A Dialogues Seminar Ships Ahoy! We’ll seek to understand why theft and violence became regular features of life on the high seas of the Early Modern era. From state-sanctioned raiders to independent rogues, pirates were threats on every major … Read more
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Labor, Race, and the Search for Freedom in North Carolina
List of Resources Shared in Zoom Chat A special Juneteenth Dialogues Seminar The history of work and laboring people in North Carolina has been entangled with ideas and social systems that placed Black workers in the most vulnerable and … Read more
Digging Down and Going Up! The NYC Subway and the Airplane in the Transportation Revolution
A DIALOGUES SEMINAR Rescheduled from the summer, join us for this eclectic examination of advances in transportation in the 19th and 20th centuries. This seminar features a review of New York City’s solution for movement of people across the rapidly expanding urban landscape—local … Read more
Art, Music, and the Aesthetics of Power in Early Modern Europe
Blue Hill Event Center at Extraordinary Ventures 200 South Elliot Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United Statesan EVENING DIALOGUES seminar Take an evening trip to Europe as we investigate the sights and sounds of courtly life in the Early Moden era. From the portraiture of the powerful in the Renaissance, to the study and performance … Read more
Transformations and Decline in the Late Roman Empire
a DIALOGUES seminar Historians often argue that all empires go through cycles of expansion, stagnation, and decline, but how do these cycles evolve in specific times and places? This is the broad question that we’ll examine in this dialogue seminar … Read more