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Eric Foner to deliver 2021 Frank Porter Graham Lecture in partnership with UNC Center for Civil Rights
Honors Carolina announces that Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, will deliver the 2021 Frank Porter Graham Lecture via Zoom on Thursday, February 18, 2021, at 12:15 p.m.
This year’s Frank Porter Graham Lecture is hosted in partnership with the UNC Center for Civil Rights’ online symposium titled “Equal Protection’s Grand Promise and Betrayals: Reconstruction, Plessy to Bakke and Beyond: Is There a Way Forward?, February 18-19.
Professor Foner is one of the country’s preeminent historians of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. He has authored more than twenty books, including the magisterial text, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 (1988), and most recently, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. In 2011, he won the Pulitzer Prize for The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.
The annual Frank Porter Graham Lecture honors the late U.S. Senator and president of the University of North Carolina, who was a champion of freedom, democracy, and the disadvantaged. The Lecture series was established by a gift from Taylor McMillan ’60.
To register, please click below. A Zoom link for the two-day symposium will be emailed to you. Attendees can use the link to view the Frank Porter Graham Lecture live on Thursday, February 18, at 12:15 p.m. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session.
Structures of Inequality: Moving Forward
In the fall, Honors Carolina kicked off an ongoing examination of Systems of Inequality with a series of programs on structural racism. This semester, we will turn our attention to related questions of bias and discrimination. Topics will range from equity in the media to the rural-urban divide, college access, and mental health.
We invite all members of the UNC community to join us for six topical discussions with faculty and professional experts, each paired with an hour of action. Register online at https://bit.ly/structuresofinequality. Keep an eye out as more lectures are added this semester!
This series is sponsored by Honors Carolina and the Phi Beta Kappa Society and is open to everyone. We look forward to welcoming you to the conversation and learning from your participation.
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