Events

Humanities Council welcomes the new semester with “Warm Up with the Humanities”
Feb 2, 2016

BOONE - This spring the Humanities Council will feature the works of new faculty during "Warm Up with the Humanities." The event will take place February 26, 2016, from 1pm to 4pm in Belk Library room 421. Hot chocolate will be served during the event.

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“Plant Parenthood” class offered Jan. 30
Jan 21, 2016

BOONE—The Department of Biology at Appalachian State University will offer a free class Jan. 30 on vegetative propagation of tropical plants. The class is part of the "High Country Gardening" series taught by greenhouse manager Jerry Meyer.

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Three-minute thesis competition held Jan. 21 at Appalachian
Jan 9, 2016

BOONE—Seventeen graduate students at Appalachian State University will have three minutes to explain their research or scholarly/creative projects as part of the 3MT Three Minute Thesis competition to be held Jan. 21 at Appalachian State University.

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Author and radio host Michael Eric Dyson to deliver MLK Commemoration Speech Jan. 21
Jan 4, 2016

BOONE—This event has been canceled and will be rescheduled at a later date. Michael Eric Dyson, an American academic, author and radio host, will deliver the 32nd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Speech Jan. 21 at 7 p.m.

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Humanities Council continues 2015-2016 lecture series with “Intersectionality: Moving from Tolerance to Solidarity,” a conversation with Ange-Marie Hancock
Nov 10, 2015

Boone - Last month the Humanities Council at Appalachian State University hosted their annual symposium.

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Appalachian students team up with local community to preserve historic African-American school
Oct 22, 2015

BOONE - In the early 1900s Booker T. Washington approached philanthropist and founder of Sears and Roebuck, Julius Rosenwald, to discuss the state of education for African Americans in the south.

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Black Mountain College historians to speak Oct. 27 at Appalachian
Oct 21, 2015

BOONE—The history of the innovative Black Mountain College is the focus of the Oct.

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Appalachian student/faculty delegation presents at conference in Romania
Oct 13, 2015

BOONE—A delegation from the Center for Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University traveled to Brasov, Romania, recently to present research at the Appalachians/Carpathians: Researching, Documenting, and Preserving Highland Traditions conference.

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UCF sociologists lecture on racial attitudes in the U.S. and motherhood in the media
Oct 13, 2015

BOONE—Two sociologists from the University of Central Florida will present lectures Oct.

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Historian Alon Confino lectures Oct. 21 at Appalachian
Oct 8, 2015

BOONE—Professor Alon Confino of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and the University of Virginia will present the talk “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide” Oct. 21 at Appalachian State University. His program will begin at 7 p.m.

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