May 06, 2010, 6:30 p.m. (reception at 5:30)—The Humanities Challenge: Building the Future
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia
Twelfth Annual Fredric Miller Memorial Lecture by Robert C. Vaughan, founding director and CEO of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Vaughan currently serves as chair of the Lincoln Bicentennial Committee for Virginia and as chair of the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was the founding director of the South Atlantic Humanities Center and has served recently as President of the National Humanities Alliance. He is a former chairman of the National Federation of State Humanities Councils. Under his direction, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities is launching an electronic encyclopedia of Virginia as a means of capturing the state’s rich cultural resources.
A member of the faculty of the University of Virginia’s Darden School, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs, Vaughan is the author, among other publications, of The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and A New Perspective: Southern Women’s Cultural History.