Calendar Highlights

Holocaust historian visits for Mosse lectures in April
Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will visit April 1-3 to deliver the George L. Mosse lectures.

Browning is the leading American historian of the Holocaust. He has published six books on the Holocaust, of which the most recent is “Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers” (2000).

The lectures will be at 4:30 p.m. each day at Howard Auditorium, Fluno Center for Executive Education.

Browning will speak about “Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Post-War Testimony.” The Monday, April 1 lecture addresses “Perpetrator Testimony: Another Look at Adolf Eichmann.” Tuesday, April 2 is “Survivor Testimony from Starachowice: Writing the History of a Factory Slave Labor Camp.” And Wednesday, April 3 is “Survivor Testimony from Starachowice: The Final Days.”

Expert on race and identity to speak
Renowned scholar of ethics and ethnicity Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of Afro-American studies and philosophy at Harvard, will give the free public talk “Race, Gender and Individuality” at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 4, in Great Hall, Memorial Union.

Raised in Ghana and educated at Cambridge in England, Appiah began his academic career as a philosopher specializing in semantics and logic. He has published widely in African and African-American literary and cultural studies. He is the author of the award-winning book, “In My Father’s House,” which deals with the role of African and African-American intellectuals in shaping contemporary African cultural life. The lecture is sponsored by Center for the Humanities. Information: 263-3409.

Humanities gallery features student art about sciences
“Somatic: The Perception Of Science Through Art” will be exhibited March 16-21 in the seventh-floor art gallery of Mosse Humanities. The artists for this show were chosen for their interest in the visual elements of science. Through various forms of media, each artist forms a unique “perception of science.”

The exhibiting artists, all MFA candidates, are Jonas Angelet, Dusty Herbig, Mary Knilans Ledger, Amanda Knowles, Janet Marcavage, Justin Strom, Lenore Thomas and Peter Zylstra.