Dear Friends:

As always, it’s a pleasure to send you greetings from all of us in the UNC Humanities Program.  I’d also like to extend a cordial invitation for you to join us for one (or two, or more) of our Adventures in Ideas for summer 2008.

The topics of upcoming seminars include the Bible and human suffering (an encore Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Professor Bart D. Erhman), political satire, the life and work of Michelangelo as emblems of individuality and creativity during the Renaissance, religious tolerance, literature and film, and (in another Distinguished Scholar Seminar, this one featuring the eminent historian Gerhard Weinberg) international justice from the Nuremberg trials to the present day.  We hope, of course, that you’ll find these topics not only appealing but irresistible.  We also hope that you’ll bring a friend or two with you to one or more of our summer seminars.

As many of you know, I will retire from my work with the Humanities Program at the end of June.  So I’d like to express my thanks to you, our faithful participants, to the University’s excellent faculty, and to a lively group of colleagues for making the past eleven years so enjoyable.  Please join me in welcoming Dr. Eve M. Duffy to her new position as director of the Humanities Program.  Eve has ably served as our associate director since the summer of 2007.  If you haven’t yet had a chance to meet her I hope that you’ll do so soon at one of our seminars.

Thank you for your abiding interest in our work.  My colleagues and I look forward to seeing you soon!

Yours sincerely,

Wayne J. Pond, Director