Humanities Council records, 1961-1979.

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Humanities Council records, 1961-1979.

The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, clippings, and printed programs relating to planning, resource allocation, curriculum, and state of the humanities at Duke University from 1961 to 1979. Major subjects include graduate studies in anthropology, the Department of Music, the Museum of Art, medieval and renaissance studies, the American Comparative Literature Association, the Cooperative Program in the Humanities between Duke and the University of North Carolina, and the National Humanities Center.

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Duke University. Department of Music

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The Department of Aesthetics, Art & Music was established at Duke University in 1942. In 1960, the Department of Music was recognized as an independent department and Dr. Allen H. Bone was appointed the first Chair. The department moved into the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building when it was completed in the 1970's. From the description of Dept. of Music Records, 1922-ongoing (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 758675346 In 1942, Duke University created the Depar...

Duke University. Dept. of Cultural Anthropology.

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The Duke University Dept. of Anthropology was formed in the 1972/1973 academic year, after the joint Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, which had existed from 1941 to 1972, split into two separate departments. In July 1988, the disciplines in the Dept. of Anthropology divided into the Dept. of Cultural Anthropology and the Dept. of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy. The Dept. of Cultural Anthropology focuses on the study of cultures around the world. From the description of Dept....

Duke University. Dept. of Cultural Anthropology.

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The Duke University Dept. of Anthropology was formed in the 1972/1973 academic year, after the joint Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, which had existed from 1941 to 1972, split into two separate departments. In July 1988, the disciplines in the Dept. of Anthropology divided into the Dept. of Cultural Anthropology and the Dept. of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy. The Dept. of Cultural Anthropology focuses on the study of cultures around the world. From the description of Dept....

National Humanities Center (U.S.)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Duke University. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies was established at Duke University around 1968 after a committee on Medieval and Renaissance Studies formed around 1966 to examine the possibilities of combining courses from a variety of disciplines. The committee analyzed faculty resources at Duke University and critiqued programs at other institutions. The committee then made recommendations to establish a Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, create a journal, provide underg...

Duke University

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Cooperative Program in the Humanities.

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The Cooperative Program in the Humanities was conceived in 1962-1963 by several members of the faculties and administrative staffs of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, who wanted to combine the resources of the two schools to support teaching and research in the humanities in the upper South. In particular, they wanted to provide professors in the humanities the opportunity to spend an academic year in scholarly activity at Durham or Chapel Hill. I...

Duke University. Dept. of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy.

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Duke University. Humanities Council.

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The Humanities Council of Duke University was created in 1961 to give attention to various matters affecting the humanities departments as a whole, including the advancement of research, interdepartmental and inter-institutional programs, and the support for various humanistic activities. From the description of Humanities Council records, 1961-1979. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 53906084 The Humanities Council of Duke University was originally constituted i...

American comparative literature association

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Duke University Museum of Art

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The Duke University Museum of Art opened to the public in 1969, in a renovated science building on the University's East Campus. In 1998, Duke alumnus Raymond D. Nasher donated funds to support construction of a new art museum at Duke University, the Nasher Museum of Art, set to open in 2005. From the description of Duke University Museum of Art records, 1962-1992. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 60705423 The Duke University Museum of Art opened t...