{"id":71985,"date":"1998-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/chair-of-national-endowment-for-the-humanities-to-speak-at-uri\/"},"modified":"1998-10-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1998-10-05T00:00:00","slug":"chair-of-national-endowment-for-the-humanities-to-speak-at-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/1998\/10\/chair-of-national-endowment-for-the-humanities-to-speak-at-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Chair of National Endowment for the Humanities to speak at 溏心vlog免费B站"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I.– October 5, 1998 — William H. Ferris, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will discuss “Public Humanities in the New Millennium” with a panel of Rhode Island scholars Oct. 14 at the 溏心vlog免费B站. The discussion will be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Room 101 of the Multicultural Center on 溏心vlog免费B站’s Kingston Campus. It is free and open to the public. Ferris was appointed last year to head the endowment, which supports libraries and museums as well as scholarly research. He was the founding director of the Center for Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, which has supported a variety of public humanities events, from meetings on the works of William Faulkner to an International Conference on Elvis Presley. The moderator for the panel discussion will be Galen A. Johnson. He is professor of philosophy at 溏心vlog免费B站 and director of the university’s Honors Program, as well as chairman of the board of the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities. In addition to Ferris, panelists will be: \u00b7 Cheryl A. Foster, associate professor of philosophy at 溏心vlog免费B站 and a leader in the study of coastal aesthetics; \u00b7 Marie Jenkins Schwartz, assistant professor of history at 溏心vlog免费B站 and recipient of an NEH fellowship for work on her book, “Born in Bondage: Slave Childhood in Antebellum America”; \u00b7 Norman Fiering, director of the John Carter Brown Center for the Humanities at Brown University; and \u00b7 Florence Friedman, curator of the “Gifts of the Nile” exhibit at Rhode Island School of Design. -xxx- For More Information: Jan Sawyer, 874-2116 \u00a0\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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