CHEW Events

Commonwealth Humanities Endowment Week (CHEW) Events:

2018

"Appalachian Foodways: Sum of Many Parts, Ronni Lundy,”

Author of Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes, the James Beard Foundation 2017 Book of the Year, April 5.

2017

Co-Sponsor, Extreme Appalachia, Conference of the Appalachian Studies Association, March 9-12.

2015

"Behind the Mask: World War I, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution,”

Prof. David Lubin, April 22.

2014

"In Search of a Modern Hercules: The Strongman and the Material Culture of the Gym in Global Perspective,”

Dr. Simon Bronner, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, Feb. 26.

2012

"The Future of Food,”

Dr. Warren Belasco, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, March 21.

2011

"How America Invented the Humanities,”

Dr. Geoffrey Harpham, Director, National Humanities Center, March 15.

2008 ­

"The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization,”

Dr. Richard Bullet, Columbia University, March 10.

“‘Contested Histories’—Custer Still Stands: Contested Histories of the Little Bighorn,”

Dr. Michael A. Elliott, Emory University, March 11.

“The First Crusade and the Origins of Europe,”

Dr. Jay Rubenstein, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October 9.

2007

"Across the Ocean: Arab Media Perspectives on the Iraq War,”

Muna K. Shikaki, February 22.

“United States Policy in the Middle East during the Cold War and Since,”

Dr. Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University, April 27.

2006

"Writing the Wrongs: Art as Healing,”

Eddie Kerr, Northern Ireland, March 23.

“We Shall Overcome, The Sound of Activism,”

Guy and Candy Carawan, March 28.

2004

"Who Listens to Fairy Tales Today? Myths and True Life of Fairy Tales in Ukrainian Folk Communities of the Mountains and Plains,”

Lecture by Inna Golovakha Hicks, M.T. Rylksy Institute of Art, Folklore Studies and Ethnology, Ukraine.

2003

"‘East Meets West’: Chinese Pop Music in a Global Context,”

Dr. Hon-lun Yang, Hong Kong, October 20.

2002

"The Bard of Erin,”

A performance by Eddie Kerr, Northern Ireland, and a storytelling workshop on October 21 and Oct. 22.

2001

"Jack and Other Folk: Re-imaging Appalachian Identity,”

Octavia Sexton and Virgin Islands/Caribbean Folk-Story Performance: Re-imaging Caribbean Identity by Dr. Lois Hassell-Habtes, October.

2000

"Hollywood’s Indians: The Pain of Stereotypes,”

Dr. Peter Rollins, Oklahoma State University, October.

1999

Eight events for Commonwealth Humanities Endowment Week, October, 1999

including Mozart Goes to the Movies, a lecture/recital by Cornelia Szabo-Knotik and the Audubon Quartet, Oct. 27, Recital salon, as well as The Killing Zone: Movie Violence and American Culture, lecture by Stephen Prince, November 4, Colonial Hall.