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A monthly serving of illuminating programs for all Granite Staters
C E L E B R A T I N G 5 0 Y E A R S I N Y O U R C O M M U N I T Y
July is National Anti-Boredom Month (but we've got a cure)
Join us for our next Humanities at Home! Friday, August 16,5:00 pm on Zoom
As recent European elections show, the far right is making enormous gains in Europe’s largest and most powerful democracies. This includes Germany, which was presumed to be immune from far-right politics, having learned the hard lessons of the Nazi era. This talk will explore how recent expansions of German citizenship laws and ideas of culture have also smuggled in new forms of racism and anxiety about the “wrong kind” of immigrants. We will examine how media and popular culture, including national sports, provide central stages for deciding who belongs in the nation.
About the presenter: Kate Zambon is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of New Hampshire. Her research in global media studies focuses on the politics of nationalism, race, migration, and cultural difference in Germany and Europe through the analysis of international sporting events, news, and entertainment media. Her book, Interrogating Integration: Sport, Celebrity, and Scandal in the Making of New Germany, is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press.
Please join us to celebrate 50 years in your community!
Tickets are now on sale for our most spectacular event of the year:
A statewide celebration of authors, conversation, and community will come to historic downtown Concord this fall in a two-day festival with live presentations, panel discussions, and book signings by more than 40 nationally known authors. Supported in part by a New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grant, the NH Book Festival will be held on Friday, October 4 - Saturday, October 5. The festival features a children’s book author event on Friday morning and an evening keynote by children’s author Kate DiCamillo. Saturday's events include multiple panel presentations and discussions with authors, a contemporaneous street festival with books galore, and a book-to-screen event. For details and the schedule, please visit www.nhbookfestival.org!
Upcoming deadlines for Community Project Grants:
Mini Community Project Grant applications (up to $2K)are accepted on a rolling basis. Learn more here.
MajorGrant Deadlines: July 15, 2024: Major Community Project Grant final applications are due.For more information and to access the application materials, click here.
Next round deadlines:
Draft proposals are due September 15, 2024. Final applications are due October 15, 2024.
In the humanities, we stress the importance of multiple points of view. Only by considering different ideas do we assess our values and challenge our beliefs.
As we celebrate our 50th year, please make a gift to help New Hampshire Humanities continue to gather Granite Staters together – no matter what – to ask vital questions about the complex world we live in, think critically about the challenging issues facing our society, and share the stories that make us human. Please click the blue button to make a secure online gift today, and thank you!
Inside The Mind of a Genius:
Leonardo da Vinci
A film premiere and conversation with Ken Burns
September 12, 7:30 pm Koonz Theatre, Saint Anselm College, Manchester
New Hampshire Humanities will join Saint Anselm College, NHPBS, and the Gregory J. Grappone Humanities Institute to welcome Ken Burns for a premiere of the upcoming new documentary about Leonardo da Vinci and a conversation with the filmmaker. Telling the story of the unparalleled Renaissance artist, inventor, and humanist, this new film has been described as a departure in approach and style from any of Burns' previous films. Tickets & information here!
Is it hot in here?
First published in 1956, Peyton Place by Grace Metalious uncovers the passions, lies, and cruelties that simmer beneath the surface of a postcard-perfect town. At the center of the novel are three women, each with a secret to hide: Constance MacKenzie, the original desperate housewife; her daughter Allison, whose dreams are stifled by small-town small-mindedness; and Selena Cross, her friend from the wrong side of the tracks. As part of New Hampshire Humanities' Perspectives book groups, we're reading Peyton Place and invite you to join us for an enthralling discussion of this provocative and controversial New England classic.
Tuesday, Aug. 13, 7:00 pm, Salem Historical Society DETAILS
Friday, Aug. 16, 3:00 pm, Bedford Public Library DETAILS
Tuesday, Aug. 20, 7:00 pm, Center Meeting House of Newbury DETAILS
Presented by Lebanon Opera House in partnership with New Hampshire Humanities Saturday, September 21, 7:30 PM, 51 North Park Street, Lebanon
Sarah Vowell is the New York Times bestselling author of seven nonfiction books on American history and culture. By examining the connections between our past and present, she offers personal, often humorous accounts of American history as well as current events and politics. One of those books, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, explores the ideas and the battles of the American Revolution and the role of the Marquis de Lafayette, a charismatic teenage volunteer in George Washington’s army, whose celebrated “farewell” unity tour included travels through many Upper Valley towns. In Somewhat United, Vowell lingers over the year 1824 – when Lafayette witnessed firsthand one of the most contentious presidential elections in our history. At the September 21 event, Vowell will use that text to shine a light on a nation that’s equally divided 200 years hence. Vowell’s presentation will be followed by an audience Q&A and a book signing.
About Sarah Vowell: As a journalist, she’s been a contributor at The New York Times, This American Life, Time, McSweeney’s, The Village Voice, and GQ. Vowell is also a voice actor – including her role as teen superhero Violet Parr in Pixar’s Academy Award-winning The Incredibles, and its sequel, Incredibles 2.
STAFF PICK!
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States By Sarah Vowell
Recommended by Sarah Chaffee, Director of Development
When I heard that Sarah Vowell is coming to the Lebanon Opera House this September (see above) to discuss her 2015 publication, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, I decided to revisit this book by one of my favorite authors.
Lafayette is a historical figure who is easilyoverlooked: a French aristocrat barely out of his teens, looking for military bonafides by participating in an ill-conceivedand seriously underfunded revolution. Ms. Vowell casts her gimlet-eye on all players in what turned out to be a squeaker of a contest.This is her strength as a historian is to remind the reader that the conclusions were not foregone.
However,it is her delightful humorthat keeps you moving through the American Revolution, rooting for our rag-tag team. Her character descriptionswill remind you of an older sibling delivering a snarky remark to get you in trouble with your parents.Ms. Vowell’s story comes full circle to Lafayette's Tour, almost 50 years later, to a deeply divided country recovering from a Presidential election displacing the candidate with the greatest popular and electoral votes.It is here that her admiration and patriotism shine through for a country that is made up of a bunch of cranky individualists who make a sport of not getting along.
P.S. This summer, we've combined our Engage quarterly newsletter with our FY2023 Annual Impact Report (you can still read about upcoming events in your community!)
PARTNER NEWS
Divided Loyalties: Navigating Politics and Fashion During the Revolutionary Era
Counting House Museum, 2 Liberty Street, South Berwick, ME
Join us for an engaging evening with Dr. Kimberly Alexander, Director of Museum Studies and Senior Lecturer of History at the University of New Hampshire, as she explores the intricate connections between politics and fashion. Don't miss this fascinating blend of history and style! This lecture is in person, free of charge, and open to the public. Details
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