Hyde Hall at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities
10 to 3:30 (Lunch provided with registration)
Chancellor Thorp has stressed that the call to innovation and entrepreneurship must include “the whole university,” not just “a handful of scientist-inventors.” Yet to many in the humanities the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship sound foreign, even antipathetic to the practice of humanist scholarship as they understand it.
Today’s forum offers an invitation to explore some of the ways in which the practice of the humanities on the Carolina campus already exemplifies innovation, engagement, and entrepreneurship. Building on the tradition of public service that has defined this university, professors and students in the arts and humanities are working across disciplinary and institutional lines to embrace collaborative approaches to central questions of who we are, what we value, and how we relate to each other.
Crucially, the humanities support engaged scholarship through the cultivation of empathy and curiosity. In an increasingly interconnected world, an engaged humanities practice offers students the intellectual tools they need to approach unfamiliar cultures with an openness that fosters understanding. The promotion of civic dialogue and inquiry—whether among Latin American immigrants or with senior citizens in our own back yard—can lay the foundation for work that sustains and improves the lives of others.
To register please go to: http://bit.ly/fN8K06
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South, Program in Folklore in the American Studies Department, and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.