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American culture and Israel topic of Oct. 14 lecture at UNC

An expert on American culture and perceptions of the Middle East will deliver a free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday (Oct. 14) at UNC.

Dr. Melanie McAlister, associate professor of American Studies at George Washington University, wrote "Epic Encounters: Culture, Media and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000" (University of California Press, 2001). Her talk, "Left Behind: Americans Imagine Israel," will draw connections between U.S. relations with Israel and novels that depict the end of the world.

Sponsors of the talk, to be in the auditorium of the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building on Pittsboro Street, are the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, the Carolina Seminar for Comparative Islamic Studies and the University Center for International Studies.

For more information, contact Dr. Sarah Shields, associate professor of history, at 843-7773.

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Dr. Howard E. Aldrich, Kenan professor of sociology and adjunct professor of management in the Kenan-Flagler Business School, was honored Oct. 3 for his research on entrepreneurship at a conference at the University of Maryland at College Park.

The conference was sponsored jointly by the Journal of Business Venturing and Maryland's R.H. Smith School of Business.

The Journal of Business Venturing, based at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, will publish a special issue, based on papers presented at the conference. The theme of the conference was evolutionary studies of entrepreneurship, which is Aldrich's specialty.

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Contact: L.J. Toler, (919) 962-8589, laura_toler@unc.edu