The Atlantic World Research Network
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UNCG Joins the Folger Institute!
Fall 2011 inaugurates UNCG's membership in the prestigious Folger Institute of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. The Folger is one of the world's great research libraries, founded in 1932 on its renowned collection of rare books and manuscripts related to Shakespeare's life and work, including 82 copies of the original 1623 First Folio and 229 quarto editions of his plays. Located on Capitol Hill, the Folger provides access not only to its own marvelous collection, but proximity to the unparalleled resources of the Library of Congress, literally next door.
Consortium membership benefits for affiliated UNCG faculty and graduate students include preferred application status for all Folger Institute programs; waiver of all registration fees for these programs; and eligibility for travel and housing grants-in-aid to attend these programs. Please see the accompanying links for further details and application instructions.
Click to see information about our Folger Launch event, "Intellectual Capitol" in pictures and news articles.
In more ways than one, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro stands on the verge of the Atlantic World. Poised in the Piedmont, we look out towards an Atlantic Rim that has shaped our past, enriches our present, and is likely to define our future. Our history and identity have been made largely by the crossing of Atlantic waters, often freely, though sometimes in chains. As the peoples and civilizations of Europe, Africa, and the Americas have encountered, collided, and combined, we have created one of the world’s first truly global cultures—and one that remains hotly contested.
Now, building on the success of UNCG's six Atlantic World Conferences in seven years and its many ongoing Atlantic World initiatives, and supported by Provost David Perrin and Dean of the College Tim Johnston, the Atlantic World Research Network provides leadership in circumatlantic studies not only at UNCG and around our region, but around the Atlantic Rim and beyond. Celebrating UNCG's new membership in The Folger Institute on Capitol Hill, this interdisciplinary network embraces and fosters Atlantic World research, teaching, and creative work across campus - in the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Social Sciences, and across the Academic Units: in the Schools of Business, Education, Health and Human Performance, Human Environmental Sciences, Music and Nursing, and in the Library and the Lloyd International Honors College. From sponsored speakers, lunchtime colloquia, and curricular development to graduate student research awards, publications, grant-writing, readings and exhibitions, and international conferences both here and abroad, this new Network brings the Atlantic World home to UNCG, and UNCG around the world.