Weekend Seminars

Spend time with scholars, luminaries in their fields, as they share research and insights into topics that resonate across history and spark new understandings of the present.  

Carolina Public Humanities is offering two seminar series this fall:

DIALOGUES series

These half-day seminars feature two scholars who present around a chosen theme, followed by a lively facilitated conversation about resonant cultural and historical questions proposed by the day’s theme.

DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR series

These all-day seminars feature three consecutive talks by an eminent scholar. Remarkable feats of teaching, these seminars provide in-depth explorations of a specific topic. Participants leave feeling full-to-the-brim with new knowledge and acumen. An optional lunch is available.

For a more detailed schedule and description of each seminar, simply click on the titles below.

• Digging Down and Going Up! The NYC Subway and the Airplane in the Transportation Revolution | Saturday, September 9th (9:00am-12:30pm)

• Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt: Erstwhile Enemies, Irksome Allies | Saturday, September 23rd (9:30am-3:00pm)

• Art, Music, and the Aesthetics of Power in Early Modern Europe | Friday, September 29th (5pm-8:45pm)

• Transformations and Decline in the Late Roman Empire | Saturday, October 28th (9:00am-12:30pm)

• What is Opera? | Saturday, November 18th (9:30am-3:00pm)

• Modern Civic Life and Public Health Across the Americas | Saturday, December 2nd (9:00am-12:30pm)

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