The Libraries play host on Tuesday, November 30 once again to the University’s own Ciompi Quartet, in a lunchtime concert in the Perkins Rare Book Room. The concert is part of a Duke Performances series, and the Ciompi is focusing this year on the canonical works of Mozart. The Rare [...]
Humanities in Higher Education
The call for more substantial support for the Humanities in Higher Education is being heard and the good news was reported in an article in the Boston Globe on November 8th. In it, Cornell, Harvard and Dartmouth are slated to be pledging support for literature and the arts and [...]
Continue Reading →On Oct. 21, 2010, during the second annual meeting of the Russian-American Working Group on Library Cooperation, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington was presented with digitally preserved copies of 10 American silent movies—considered lost for decades— from the Russian Federation, represented by Vladimir I. Kozhin, Head, Management and Administration of the President of the [...]
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In 2007 the Association of American Geographers (AAG), the Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the University of Virginia (UVA) co-sponsored a symposium to explore how geography informs the humanities and vice versa. Participants included geographers who routinely engage the humanities in their research, humanities scholars who incorporate geography in their [...]
Continue Reading →Dr. Raymond Tallis will deliver a talk, “The Suicide of the Humanities,” at the National Humanities Center on Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 at 5pm. Dr. Tallis is a philosopher, poet, novelist, and cultural critic whom the Economist’s Intelligent Life Magazine recently listed as one of the top living polymaths in the world. Dr. Tallis’s [...]
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