Geoffrey Harpham, president and director of the National Humanities Center, will give a free, public talk at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 4 p.m.
Harpham's talk, "Returning to Philology: The Past and Future of Humanistic Scholarship," will be held in the Center for British and Irish Studies room on the fifth floor of Norlin Library. The talk is presented by CU-Boulder's Center for Humanities and the Arts with endowed funds from Woody and Leslie Eaton.
The following day, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Harpham will lead a discussion for faculty and graduate students on grant opportunities at the National Humanities Center, and on current developments in creating links between the humanities and arts and the natural sciences.
"Geoffrey Harpham is director of the largest humanities center in the country, so this represents a significant opportunity for our community to learn about current trends in the humanities," said Michael Zimmerman, director of CU-Boulder's Center for Humanities and the Arts.
Harpham has been director and president of the National Humanities Center, located in Research Triangle Park, N.C., since January 2003. Prior to directing the National Humanities Center he was a professor of English at Tulane University in New Orleans from 1986 to 2003. The author of eight books, he has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.
For more information about the lecture contact Paula Anderson at (303) 492-1423. For more information about CU-Boulder's Center for Humanities and the Arts visit .