COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES

History in "Art for Lunch"

Led by UNCG faculty, Art for Lunch is a series of gallery talks that closely explores works of art within the context of history, politics, sociology and science. Talks will be in the Weatherspoon Art Museum from noon to 12:30 p.m.

Feb. 8 • Dr. Benjamin Filene, Associate Professor, Director of Public History, talks about Nan Goldin’s 1996 photograph, Bruce’s Mirror, Portland, ME, in the exhibition “To What Purpose? Photography as Art and Document.”

March 21 • Dr. Lisa Tolbert, Associate Professor, History, talks about images of Yosemite Valley by Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge in the exhibition “To What Purpose? Photography as Art and Document.”

April 4 • Dr. Omar Ali, Associate Professor, African American Studies, discusses an “Explanation by Description: History as Art/Art as History” in conjunction with Richard Mosse’s exhibition of photographs from the eastern Congo.

“A History with No Hands: Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States and the Development of Popular Historical Consciousness"
Sam Wineburg
Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and History
Stanford University

February 17, 2012
2:00 p.m. SOEB 120

Over the last fifteen years, Sam Wineburg’s work has spanned a wide terrain, from how adolescents and professional historians interpret primary sources to issues of teacher assessment and teacher community in the workplace. His book, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts (2001), won the 2002 Frederic W. Ness Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities for the book “that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education.” Professor Wineburg is also the Executive Producer of the new Department of Education National Clearinghouse for History Education, a collaboration between George Mason University, Stanford University, and the American Historical Association.