Beyond the Rhetoric of Crisis: Strategies for Future Success in the Humanities

Join us on Thursday, January 28 at 3:00 p.m. at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art for a panel presentation by Syracuse University Humanities Center founding Director Gregg Lambert and Humanities Research & Grants Consultant Corri Zoli.

Lambert and Zoli will look at how to create concrete strategies that address the key issues involved in current challenges while addressing how and why the historical humanities and the traditional disciplines have changed. They will also discuss how to address the real concerns for the humanities today, including plausible and sustainable solutions.

For more information, read the press release here (PDF) or call 334.844.4946.

Discover Auburn Continues with Dr. Wylin Wilson

Dr. Wylin D. Wilson will present a talk entitled "Christian Identity and Economic Justice in the Rural South" on Thurs. Jan. 21 at 3:00 pm in the Special Collections and Archives Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library as part of the Discover Auburn series.

Dr. Wilson is a Scholar-in-Residence at Dunstans Episcopal Church at Auburn University.  Her lecture will focus on the gap in theological and ethical discourse regarding serious consideration of marginalized populations such as rural southern, persistently impoverished African-Americans in the Black Belt.

Discover Auburn is a year-long series that features programs on research, history, and other topics of interest by Auburn faculty, staff, and graduates.  The series will continue on Feb. 18 with a talk by Dr. James Brown entitled "Growing Vegetables Organically."

A reception will follow the program. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, Auburn University Libraries, and the Access & Community Initiatives, Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs. For more information on the program and the series, contact the Center at 334.844.4946 or visit www.auburn.edu/cah.

Symposium Video Now Online

Sessions from the Creek War and War of 1812 in the South Symposium are now available free of charge at iTunesU. The symposium, co-sponsored by the CMD Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, with funding from the National Park Service, was held in May 2009 at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art.

Click here to access the sessions in the iTunesU Store.