Hutchins Conversation: Jon Parrish Peede & William R. Ferris at the University of North Carolina's Center for the Study of the American South 

As former and present chairs of the National Endowment for the Humanities, William Ferris and Jon Parrish Peede will discuss the importance of the humanities and how it relates to leadership and the South.

This conversation is free and open to the public. The event will be held in Hyde Hall at the Institute for Arts and Humanities. For parking suggestions, please visit this page.

Jon Parrish Peede is Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. His previous positions include publisher of the Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR) at the University of Virginia, literature grants director at the National Endowment for the Arts, counselor to NEA Chairman Dana Gioia, director of the NEA Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience program, director of the NEA Big Read program, director of communications at Millsaps College, and editor at Mercer University Press with a focus on the humanities.

William R. Ferris is Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History Emeritus and Senior Associate Director Emeritus of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His previous positions include Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies and American Studies at Yale University, and Assistant Professor of English at Jackson State University.

Special thanks to our co-sponsors: Carolina Public Humanities, the Institute for Arts and Humanities, Humanities for the Public Good, and the North Carolina Humanities Council.