The Power of Emotions in Personal and Public Life

SPRING 2017 HUMANITIES

The Maynard Adams Symposium on the Humanities The Power of Emotions in Personal and Public Life APRIL 21-22, 2017 TOPICS & SPEAKERS e are pleased to announce a Transforming Anger into Justice: Gandhi, King, Mandela Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service new annual Symposium in hon- W Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago or of the distinguished UNC philoso- pher Maynard Adams (1919-2003). Panel One: Dialogic Responses to Professor Nussbaum’s Views This first “Adams Symposium” will fea- on Anger and Justice ture a keynote address by Martha C. Russ Shafer-Landau, Professor of Philosophy and Director of Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distin- the Parr Center for Ethics guished Service Professor of Law and Eric L. Muller, Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor of Law Ethics at the University of Chicago and in Jurisprudence and Ethics Adams the recipient of the 2016 Kyoto Prize in Kiran Bhardwaj, Maynard Adams Fellow for the Public Arts and Philosophy—which is often Humanities, Royster Fellow, and PhD Candidate in Philosophy called the “Nobel Prize” of philosophy. Panel Two: Dialogic Responses to Professor Nussbaum’s Views The 2017 Adams Symposium on Anger and Justice focuses on the power of anger and re- sentment in our private lives and pub- Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy lic conflicts. Why do people respond Emily Burrill, Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender to injustices and betrayals with intense Studies and History and Director of African Studies Center desires for “payback” or for the “status Jeff Sebo, Research Assistant Professor of Philosophy and reduction” of wrongdoers? Do such Associate Director of the Parr Center for Ethics Nussbaum responses help or impede the develop- Panel Three: Open Discussion with Professor Nussbaum, the ment of better personal relationships and social justice? Panelists and our Audience How can anger be transformed into constructive transitions that serve future well-being rather than endless TIME cycles of retribution and payback? How do emotions af- The Symposium begins with Professor Nussbaum’s lecture and a public reception on Friday, April 21, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. The fect our definitions of truth and justice? panel sessions will take place on Saturday, April 22, 9:00 a.m. These questions shape Professor Nussbaum’s influ- to 12:30 p.m. The Adams Symposium is free, but seats are lim- ential analysis of human emotions; and they provide a ited and registration is required on-line (humanities.unc.edu) framework for her lecture and for panel discussions in or by phone (919-962-1544). which UNC colleagues will respond to Professor Nuss- The Program in the Humanities thanks the Taylor Charitable Trust, baum’s ideas. Join the conversation as we examine the the College of Arts and Sciences, the Philosophy Department, The power of emotions and the creative transformation of Center for Global Initiatives, and the Parr Center for Ethics for anger in our private lives and public cultures. generously supporting the Maynard Adams Symposium. With thanks to our sponsor C a ro l i n a M e a d o w s - a Continuing Care r e t i r e M e n t C o MM u n i t y is committed to supporting the humanities. 1-800-458-6756 www.carolinameadows.org

Adventures in Ideas W E E K E N D S E M I N A R S What’s New in the Middle Ages? FEBRUARY 11, 2017 TOPICS & SPEAKERS he Medieval period of European Old Poetry in New Words: How to Translate T history has been mischaracter- Chaucer ized as an age of little innovation, and Taylor Cowdery, Assistant Professor of scholars who study the period are English and Comparative Literature often portrayed as antiquarians por- Transforming Medieval: Digital Technologies ing over old texts without recourse to and the Middle Ages new research methods, tools, and per- Caroline Bruzelius, Anne Murnick Cogan spectives. This seminar will put these Professor of Art and Art History, Duke notions to rest by showing how novel University approaches to scholarship of the Medieval Era are yielding new insights on the era and on our world today. Join our Mind, Body, and Soul in Medieval Christian Spirituality speakers as they discuss how cutting-edge technologies, Jessica A. Boon, Associate Professor of Religious Studies cognitive science, new approaches to translations, and a The Medievalist as Public Historian willingness to find the “relevance” of the historically-distant Brett E. Whalen, Associate Professor of History Middle Ages to our world today are informing their research. This interdisciplinary seminar will not only change TIME our perspectives on the age, but will give us insights into 9:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, February 11, 2017. The option- how scholars find the “new” in the seemingly familiar “old.” al lunch is $15.00. Rethinking Modernity: Europe and the World from the Renaissance to the Crisis of the 21st Century FEBRUARY 17-18, about Europe’s declining global influence in the twentieth century. Do the transitions in Europe’s global power sug- 2017 gest similar or different trajectories for modern America? ost narratives We’ll draw upon European and global events to address this M of Western his- much-debated historical question. tory have long argued that Europeans and TOPICS & SPEAKERS Americans achieved European Expansion in an Age of Cultural Anxieties, 1450-1650 unprecedented human John Jeffries Martin, Professor and Chair of History, Duke progress by creating the University key institutions and val- Science, Enlightenment and the New Belief in Progress, 1650-1800 ues of modernity: global Professor Martin trading systems, demo- Factories, Nation-States, and Empires, 1800-1914 cratic national states, Lloyd Kramer, Professor of History and Faculty Director, Pro- advanced science and technology, religious tolerance, and gram in the Humanities the legal equality of citizens. These themes shaped the Crises, Conflicts, and the Search for Global Order, 1914-2000 meaning of “modernization” after 1945, yet recent events Professor Kramer suggest that modern people are unhappy and that modern institutions are now mired in a transitional crisis. Pro- Postmodern Reflections on the Crisis of Modernity A panel discussion with our speakers fessors John Jeffries Martin and Lloyd Kramer will offer historical analysis of how European people and cultures TIME interacted with the wider world, created the identities and 4:30 p.m. Friday, February 17 through 1:00 p.m. Saturday, Feb- systems of modernity, and then responded to anxieties ruary 18, 2017. The optional dinner Friday evening is $20.00. 2 Southern Culture and Memory FEBRUARY 25, 2017 outhern American culture S has sometimes been portrayed as exceptionally coher- ent and enduring, but like all other societies, the South is constantly changing. We will TOPICS & SPEAKERS look at the ways in which Southern American identities and memories have been evolving and the ways that Memory, Southern Identity, and the Civil War W. Fitzhugh Brundage, William B. Umstead Distinguished the heritages of the South are translated and transmit- Professor and Chair of History ted through the arts, including music and literature, Song of the South: Assimilation and Secession in Today’s Country through entertainment, including sports, and through historical memory. Fitz Brundage will analyze why and Bluegrass Music Southern white communities no longer view the Civil Jocelyn Neal, Professor of Music st War as a foundation for Southern identity. Next, Joc- What is 21 Century Southern Literature? elyn Neal will look at how Southern culture interfaces Susan Irons, Senior Lecturer, English and Comparative Literature th with mainstream American popular culture through All Deliberate Speed: College Football in the 20 Century South bluegrass and country music, after which we’ll be treat- Matthew Andrews, Lecturer in History ed to a lunch-time performance from Carolina’s Blue- Evolution of the South grass Band. Susan Irons will explore the question of 21st A panel discussion with our speakers century Southern literature and Matt Andrews will look TIME at the influence of college football in Southern culture, 9:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, February 25, 2017, at the with special attention to the impact of racial desegrega- Archie Davis Conference Center in Research Triangle Park. The tion. optional lunch is $15.00. America’s World War I: From Isolation to Engagement and Back Again A Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Gerhard L. Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2017 postwar peace settlements, and America’s reversion to its iso- 017 marks the one- lationist stance in the interwar 2 hundredth anniversary period. Participants will come of America’s entry into the away with a good understanding greatest world conflict up of how America got involved in to that point, World War I. the First World War, and how Join distinguished scholar American political resistance to Gerhard Weinberg, whose further foreign entanglements Adventures in Ideas semi- ensured there would be another. nars on World War II have Gerhard L. Weinberg long been among our most TOPICS is the William Rand Ke- popular, as he steps back The US Enters the War nan, Jr., Professor of His- one generation to cover The US Fights the War tory Emeritus. He is the the conflict that was once world’s leading scholar The US Helps Make the Peace of World War II, author known as “The Great War,” The US Stops the Earth and Gets Off of the award-winning and discusses the importance and legacy of the United global history of the con- States’ first intervention in European affairs. Dr. Weinberg TIME flict,A World at Arms, will review the transition from American isolationism to 9:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, and Hitler’s Foreign military engagement, the conduct of the American military March 4, 2017. The optional lunch Policy 1933-1939: The in the war, President Woodrow Wilson’s role in forging the is $15.00. Road to World War II. 3 The American West, Landscapes, and Ansel Adams In collaboration with the North Carolina Museum of Art APRIL 8, 2017 ets to view and discuss the exhibition with the seminar speakers at the end his seminar will provide historical of the day. T and cultural context for the North Carolina Museum of Art exhibition, TOPICS & SPEAKERS “Ansel Adams: Masterworks,” which The American West in the Popular features The Museum Set, a collec- Imagination tion of photographs spanning five Joy S. Kasson, Professor of American decades and chosen by Adams himself Studies, and English and Comparative as the best work of his career. Joy Kas- Literature, Emerita son will give an overview of how the The End of American Landscape Painting? West shaped American culture with a Maggie Cao, David G. Frey Assistant focus on the visual arts. Maggie Cao Professor of Art History will explore the history of American landscape painting and its demise in Ansel Adams: Masterworks the late 19th century. Chief Curator Linda Dougherty, Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art, North Linda Dougherty will then introduce Carolina Museum of Art us to the Adams collection to explore his key role in the development of photography as an art TIME form during the 20th century and his enduring impact 10:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Saturday, April 8, 2017 to be followed and influence on contemporary photography. Participants by a visit to the Ansel Adams: Masterworks exhibition. Lunch will have the opportunity to purchase reduced-price tick- is included. Jewish Song, Comedy, and Storytelling in the Old and New Worlds The Uhlman Family Seminar MAY 6, 2017 makers who have brought distinctly Jewish identities and experiences to the silver screen. his year’s annual Uhl- T man Seminar will focus TOPICS & SPEAKERS on Jewish culture as re- Fools, Shlemiels, Shlimazels, and other Entertainers in Jewish vealed through entertain- Story Tellings ment: music, film, folklore, Ruth von Bernuth, Associate Professor of German and Director, humor, and the storytell- Carolina Center for Jewish Studies ing components present Finding and Reviving Lost Yiddish Cabaret Songs of Inter-war in all of these arts. Ruth Warsaw von Bernuth will open the Jane Peppler, Yiddish music specialist, artist, author and musi- seminar by establishing a cian foundation of Jewish folk- Jewish Humor: From Sholem Alechim to Seinfeld and Sarah lore and storytelling, and Silverman Jane Peppler will tell us Jarrod Tanny, Associate Professor and Block Distinguished about her experience resurrecting the wry, satirical, cos- Scholar in Jewish History, UNC - Wilmington mopolitan songs of Warsaw’s cabaret scene that were lost after the Holocaust. Next we’ll enjoy a special lunchtime From a Hollywood of Jews to a Jewish Hollywood Rachel Jones Schaevitz, Postdoctoral Scholar for the Public performance of North Carolina-based klezmer band, The Humanities Klezbyterians, featuring Jane Peppler. Jarrod Tanny will trace the origins of contemporary Jewish humor from the Jewish Entertainment Yiddish speaking shtetls of eastern Europe up through A panel discussion with our speakers American popular culture today. Finally Rachel Schaevitz TIME will trace the evolution of Jewish influence in Hollywood, 9:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 6, 2017. The optional from its founding by Jewish immigrants, to today’s film- lunch is $15.00. 4 D I A L O G U E S S E M I N A R S

Dialogues Seminars offer a condensed schedule for those who may not have time for an Adventures in Ideas seminar. Our Climate Change: Then & Now topics this spring contrast the historical past with the present. In collaboration with the North Carolina Botanical Garden MARCH 11, 2017 Japan: Then & Now hanges in the global climate may be the most pressing In collaboration with the Carolina Asia Center C issue of our time, but other climate changes have also affected people in past eras. Historian of Science Michael JANUARY 28, 2017 McVaugh will describe North American responses to the istorians Morgan Pitelka and David Ambaras con- climate crisis of 1816, when people in Europe and North H sider Japan’s complex relations with China, Korea, America lived through “The Year Without a Summer” af- and others in the Asia-Pacific in the sixteenth century ter the massive eruption of an Asian volcano. Then we’ll and twentieth centuries. In particular, they will dis- turn to conservation biologist Alan Weakley for scientific cuss wars and trade and the changing social relations perspectives on the ways in which recent climate changes that shaped these conflicts. are affecting flora and fauna in the southeastern United States. TOPICS & SPEAKERS TOPICS & SPEAKERS Inside Out: Japan’s Premodern Foreign Relations and Status Scientists, Food, and the Global Climate Crisis of 1816 System Michael McVaugh, William Smith Wells Professor of History Morgan Pitelka, Professor of Asian Studies Emeritus Outside In: The Global and the Regional in the Making of Modern Climate Change and its Current Effects in the Southeastern United Japanese Society States David Ambaras, Associate Professor of History, North Carolina Alan Weakley, Adjunct Associate Professor of Biology and State University Director, UNC Herbarium, North Carolina Botanical Garden Japan: Then & Now Human Beings and Climate Change in Past, Present, and Future Times A panel discussion with our speakers A panel discussion with our speakers TIME TIME 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 2017. 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, March 11, 2017. Egypt: Then & Now In collaboration with the African Studies Center and Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations MARCH 18, 2017 rchaeologist Jennifer Gates-Foster will discuss how TOPICS & SPEAKERS life in Egypt changed during the era of Greek and A Being Egyptian under Macedonian and Roman Rule Roman rule (4th century BC-7th century AD). She will Jennifer Gates-Foster, Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology discuss changes in the administration and organization of the country and its cities, including Alexandria, as Being Egyptian Today well as the transformations in religious practices, domes- Doria El-Kerdany, Lecturer in Arabic tic settings and burial customs. Next, author and Arabic Past, Present, or Future of Egypt scholar, Doria El-Kerdany, will speak about her home- A panel discussion with our speakers towns of Cairo and Mansoura and offer insight into the daily lives of Egyptians today including issues of educa- TIME tion, entertainment, politics and religion. 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, March 18, 2017.

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5 Dialogues Seminars continue on next page Continued from previous page D I A L O G U E S S E M I N A R S The tuition is $65 or register for all 4 Dialogues Seminars for $200.00. Russia: Then & Now In collaboration with UNC’s Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies APRIL 29, 2017 politics, and economics inadver- istorian Donald J. Raleigh will tently caused the USSR to dissolve. consider the background to H TOPICS & SPEAKERS and course of Russia’s February Revolution of 1917, which ended Russia, 1917: The Freest Country in the 300 years of Romanov rule, and the World October Revolution, which brought Donald J. Raleigh, Jay Richard Judson the Bolsheviks to power and gave Distinguished Professor of History rise to the world’s first socialist Russia 2017: Revolutionary Legacies state. Next, Dr. Aaron Hale-Dorrell Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Lecturer in His- will examine contemporary Russia tory in light of past revolutions. Shaped The Legacies of the Russian Revolution by the revolutionary changes wrought by the Revolu- A panel discussion with our speakers tions of 1917, today’s Russia also reflects the influence of transformations during the Soviet period and the era of TIME Mikhail Gorbachev, whose wrenching reforms to society, 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, April 29, 2017.

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The Emergence and Enduring Influence of the Western “Isms” A special two-part series with Lloyd S. Kramer, Professor of History and Faculty Director, Program in the Humanities

FEBRUARY 9 and 23, 2017 Part 1: Thursday, February 9, 2017 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Friday Center ontemporary societies are deeply C divided by political and cultural Conservatism and Nationalism polarizations in which opposing ide- ologies or influential “isms” shape our Capitalism and Early Socialism emotionally-charged public conflicts and define our personal identities. When and Concluding Discussion: Do Ideas or Economic how did these “isms” develop in Western Conditions have the Greatest Influence on Societies, and why do they continue to Public Conflicts? shape our political cultures and identities in today’s world? Lloyd Kramer pro- vides an “encore series” on key modern “isms,” which he Part 2: Thursday, February 23, 2017 first examined at Humanities seminars in the contentious 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Friday Center election year of 2012—but to which he now returns in the Liberalism and Feminism rapidly changing political and cultural contexts of 2017. Focusing on the history of “isms” and ideas that reappear Darwinism and Social Darwinism constantly in current national debates, Professor Kramer will analyze how these ideas emerged and why they con- Concluding Discussion: Do the Nineteenth-Century “Isms” still tinue to elicit public passions and anxieties. Define or Limit Our National Politics and Public Life?

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March 1, 2017 incompatible immigrants. In re- The History and Contexts of Today’s sponse, numerous Rohingya are Migrants to Europe seeking and often being rejected What is the difference between asylum in neighboring South- “immigrants” and “refugees,” east Asian states. This talk will both subsets of “migrants?” trace the history of the Rohingya This talk will explore these people in Myanmar, and provide differences which have im- context for an often overlooked portant ethical and practical contemporary ethnic conflict and implications for contemporary refugee situation. Europe as it contends with an Peter A. Coclanis, Albert Ray unprecedented flow of immi- Newsome Distinguished Professor of grants. It will explore national History and Director, Global Research and supranational public policy Institute implications when these terms April 5, 2017 are blurred inadvertently or deliberately, and provide a The Political Geography of Immigrant Rights in the United States clearer understanding of the contexts of Europe’s migra- This talk will focus on how immigrant rights in the United tion crisis. States are dependent on place. Although federal immigra- Niklaus Steiner, Director, Center for Global Initiatives tion law, including deportation policies, applies uniformly March 8, 2017 to all fifty states and their political subdivisions regardless The Integration of Muslims in Europe: How Important is of local culture or political leanings, reality diverges from Religion? this fundamental legal principle. Depending upon place of The integration of Muslims is challenging European residency, federal legal protections for immigrants may be countries, with some skeptics proposing that Islamic arbitrarily enforced. values and practices are incompatible with secular norms Deborah M. Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law in contemporary Europe. This talk will question those assumptions by exploring the extent to which difficulties April 12, 2017 in Muslim integration reflect common challenges among Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South immigrant communities of any type, and explore the How has Latino immigration transformed the rural South? ramifications of thinking about the Muslim community In what ways has the presence of these newcomers com- in either religious or immigration terms. plicated efforts to organize for workplace justice? Based on six years of engagement with a poultry workers’ center Rahsaan D. Maxwell, Associate Professor of Political Science in Mississippi, this talk discusses how black, white, and March 29, 2017 new Latino southerners have lived and understood these Buddhist-Muslim Conflicts in Burma/Myanmar transformations in the chicken plants and surrounding Myanmar, the former Burma, is the site of ethnic vio- communities, and calls for organizing strategies that bring lence targeting the Muslim Rohingya people, who are diverse working communities together. regarded by some in the Buddhist majority as culturally Angela Stuesse, Assistant Professor of Anthropology 10 Great Books R E A D I N G G R O U P S

oin UNC faculty discussion leaders at Flyleaf Books Tuesdays, February 7 and 14, 2017 J for a robust discussion of classic texts. This semes- Beloved by Toni Morrison ter, we are hosting one to three sessions per book. Every Danielle Christmas, Assistant Professor of English and Com- participant will receive a copy of the book before the parative Literature first session. Each reading group will meet on successive Tuesdays, February 21 and 28, 2017 Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Flyleaf Books. Due to On Liberty by John Stuart Mill the nature of the reading Jeff Spinner-Halev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science groups, refunds cannot be offered. Seats are lim- Tuesdays, March 7, 14, and 21, 2017 ited to 20 participants, The Odyssey by Homer so sign up early to re- Al Duncan, Assistant Professor of Classics serve your spot! Tuesdays, March 28 and April 4, 2017 Tuesday, January 31, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky 2017 Lloyd Kramer, Faculty Director, Program in the Humanities and Selected Poems by Elizabeth Professor of History Bishop Tuesdays, April 18 and 25, 2017 George Lensing, Mann One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Family Distinguished Profes- Juan Carlos González Espitia, Associate Professor, Romance sor of English Emeritus Studies

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