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Wednesday, October 8
Hours: 7:30AM - 1AM
–ZSR Library, Room 204Join us to learn the basics of AI and generative AI, and how it may be used here at Wake Forest and beyond. In this workshop, we will explore how generative AI works, its potential applications, what to know before using it, and then we’ll explore a few tools. We hope you’ll join us!
–ZSR Library, Special Collections & Archives Research Room (Room 625)Tobacco has played a significant role in shaping North Carolina’s cultural, economic, and social identity, even before the state’s official establishment. Early depictions of Native American communities along the coast at the end of the 16th century show cultivation and use of the plant.
During the 19th century, tobacco became a cornerstone of the plantation economy, generating immense wealth for select families. In the 20th century, the rise of mass production and commercialization, along with an expanding labor force dedicated to its cultivation and processing, further embedded tobacco in North Carolina’s way of life. Marketing campaigns and iconic imagery tied to tobacco are deeply woven into the state’s historical narrative.
This exhibit showcases images, artifacts, and records from Special Collections & Archives, spanning from the sixteenth century to the modern era. It also features contributions from North Carolina artists and photographers, including Daisha Bunn and Erin Kye and their families, as well as works by photographer Dan Routh.
–ZSR Library, Library Auditorium (Room 404)Readers everywhere know George Orwell as a scourge of totalitarianism, a reputation stemming from his most famous books: Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). These texts criticize tyrannical systems from the ground up—from the perspective of the ordinary everyday. Yet Orwell thought about power with his stomach to the ground throughout the 1930s and 1940s: in his social-realist novels and in his various works of reportage and reminiscence. Bullies loom large in these texts: the everyday enemies who make others feel small by trying to make themselves seem big. In this talk, Nathan Waddell will take another look at Orwell’s bullies in order to show how Orwell detected the authoritarian impulse everywhere: in the grand rooms and buildings of power, yes, but also in canteens, corridors, breakfast rooms, and relaxation spots.
Dr. Nathan Waddell is a Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature in the Department of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He began his career at Birmingham (2008-2012), before working for five years in the School of English at the University of Nottingham. He returned to Birmingham in 2017.
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Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this talk do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.