Carolina Alumni Review - January/February 1995

WEEKENDE SSEMINARS pring 1995 Sponsored by the Program in the Humanities and Human Values of the College of Arts and Sciences and by the General Alumni Association. Lectures and discussions led by the best of the UNC faculty. Teacher recertification credit available. Tuition is $70 or $75. Optional suppers or lunches with each seminar. Discount for GAA members. For the dates and times of these seminars, call (919) 962-1544 or write to Humanities Program, C8# 3425, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3425. PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY: THE STATE OF THE WORLD, 1995 JAN. 28"Russia"--Joel Schwartz, Political Science "Latin America"-Louis Perez, History "China"-Sidney Rittenberg, History "Democracy as an International Project"-Craig Calhoun, Sociology and History This special seminar, sponsored jointly with the North Carolina Council for International Understanding and the University Center for International Studies, will include an optiorud teacher workshop on Friday , Jan. 27, 1995, conducted by Professor Schwartz. For more information , call (919) 962-5374. THE NORMAN CONQUEST AND THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY (AN ENCORE) FEB. 3-4"1066: The Fateful Year"-Richard W. Pfaff, History "The Bayeux Tapestry: History and Art"-Jaroslav Folda, Art "Who Conquered Whom? Beyond the Battle of Hastings"- Professor Pfaff TELLING WOMEN'S LIVES: WOMEN AND BIOGRAPHY FEB. 10-11"The Problems and Promise of Biography"-Linda Wagner-Martin, English and Comparative Literature "Two Southern Novelists: Zora Neale Hurston and Eudora Welty"- Lucinda H. MacKethan, English, NCSU ''Two Women Poets: Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich"-Pamela Cooper, English "Home Is Somewhere Else: Writing an Autobiography"-Lilian Furst, Comparative Literature THE HOLOCAUST FEB. 25"The Holocaust in Historical Context"--Gerhard Weinberg, History "The Rescuers: A Personal Account"-Simone Lipman, Social Worker "The Literature of the Holocaust"-Madeline Levine, Slavic Literature "Religious Interpretations of the Holocaust"-William Peck, ReligiOUS Studies GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY MARCH 3-4"Thomas More: A Man for All Seasons?"-Peter Kaufman, Religious Studies "Galileo and the War Between Religion and Science"-John Headley, History "The Puritans: Heretics and Witches"--Philip Gura, English "Bryan and Darrow, God and Evolution"-Warren A. Nord, Program in the Humanities THREE POETS IN PERFORMANCE AND DISCUSSION MARCH 3 I-ApRIL 1 An Evening of Poetry in Performance: "William Butler Yeats"-Weldon Thornton, English "Robert Frost"-George Lensing, English "Elizabeth Bishop"-Beverly Long, Communication Studies C .S. LEWIS APRIL 7-8 film: Shadowlands "C.S. Lewis: The Man and His Work"-J. Stanley Mattson, C.S. Lewis Foundation "Lewis on God and Suffering"-William Lycan, Philosophy "Grace and Redemption in Lewis's Theology and Fiction"--Gayle Felton, Duke Divinity School THE SEARCH FOR NIRVANA: UNDERSTANDING BUDDHISM APRIL 21-22 film: Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha "The Vision of Buddhism"-Roger Corless, Religion, Duke University "Buddhism in the Chinese Setting"-James H. Sanford, Religious Studies "Buddhism in Japan"-Richard Jaffe, Philosophy and Religion, NCSU SHAKESPEARE'S MACBETH APRIL 28-29"An Introduction to Macbeth"-Alan Dessen, English "'I Dare Do All That May Become a Man': Men and Women in Macbeth"-Megan Matchinske, English Performance of Macbeth by the PlayMakers Repertory Company "'What Man Dare, I Dare': The Banquet Scene from Macbeth"- Professor Dessen "Macbeth as Theatre"-Members of the cast, Professors Dessen and Matchinske
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o Prospects for Democracy (Jan. 28; $70). Please reserve ___ lunches @$13 (optional). o The Norman Conquest (Feb. 3-4; $75). Please reserve ___ dinners @$16 (optional). o Telling Women's Lives (Feb. 10-11; $75). Please reserve ___ suppers @$13.50 (optional). o The Holocaust (Feb. 25; $70). Please reserve ___ lunches @$13 (optional). o Great Trials of History (March 3-4; $75). Please reserve ___ dinners@$16 (optional). o Three Poets (March 31-Aprill; $75). Please reserve ___ lunches@$13 (optional). o C.S. Lewis (April 7-8; $75). Please reserve ___ dinners @$16 (optional). o Understanding Buddhism (April 21-22; $75). Please reserve ___ dinners@$16 (optional). o Shakespeare's Macbeth (April 28-29; $65).
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