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The Dresher Center for the Humanities promotes interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the humanities among faculty, students and visiting scholars. Originally founded in 1996, a recent gift from the Dresher Foundation enables the Center to expand its research mission in order to bring national attention to UMBC’s impressive achievements in the humanities. Through its emphasis on research and continued commitment to the Humanities Forum and the Humanities Scholars Program, the Dresher Center is working toward becoming the foremost humanities research center in the region.

The Dreshers

The Dresher Center for the Humanities is named in honor of Virginia Dresher and her late husband Jim, whose shared interest in creating a better society is demonstrated through their commitment to education and enrichment.

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HUMANITIES FORUM LECTURE SERIES

FALL 2009

Featuring: A Series of Five Lectures and Panels Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of C.P. Snow’s “Two Cultures” Lecture

Fifty years ago, on May 7, 1959, the scientist-

novelist C.P. Snow (1905-1972) delivered his

famous Rede Lecture at Cambridge University.

Published as The Two Cultures and the Scientific

Revolution Snow identified a deep and dangerous

divide between the sciences and the humanities.

As a research chemist and physicist who became

deeply involved in the mobilization of scientific

personnel first during the Second World War and

then throughout the 1950s Cold War, C.P. Snow

could speak with some authority about science

and its applications. As a novelist with more than

a dozen titles and the author of numerous essays

and reviews, Snow was equally at home in the

humanities. This series of lectures is intended to

stimulate further discussion about the

relationships between the sciences and the

humanities.

Sponsored by UMBC’s Dresher Center for the

Humanities, the Human Context of Science and

Technology Program and the Social Sciences

Forum

Click Here for Details about the Humanities Forum

FALL 2009 Series

To watch recent Humanities Forum lectures,

go to

http://www.umbc.edu/studio/videos/list.php

and click on Soc. Sci/Humanities Forum

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