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Civility Tour Itinerary

Itinerary of National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jim Leach’s Civility Tour

2009
11/06/2009 Omaha Nebraska Federation of State Humanities Councils, “With Malice Towards None” speech
11/20/2009 Washington DC National Press Club, “Bridging Cultures” speech
12/01/2009 Concord New Hampshire New Hampshire Humanities Council, address
12/02/2009 Portland Maine Maine Humanities Council, informal remarks
  Hollowell Maine Heads of art/culture groups, civility remarks
2010
01/12/2010 Sarasota Florida Association of Art Museum Directors, speech
01/12/2009 Tallahassee Florida The Village Square, civility address
01/13/2010 Columbia South Carolina University of South Carolina, Columbia, civility address
01/14/2010 Charlotte North Carolina Levine Museum of the New South, civility address
02/02/2010 Detroit Michigan Wayne State University, Center for Study of Citizenship, “The Tensions Between Speaking and Listening: Democracy versus Oligarchy” speech
02/03/2010 Madison Wisconsin University of Wisconsin, Madison, round table discussion
02/04/2010 Olympia Washington Reception and talk, state capital building
02/12/2010 Portland Oregon Oregon Humanities Council, address
02/16/2010 Iowa City Iowa University of Iowa, address
02/20/2010 Princeton New Jersey Princeton University, “Civility in a Fractured Society” address
02/22/2010 Ashland Ohio Ashland University, John Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, address
03/04/2010 New York New York John Brademas Center, “Civility in a Fractured Society” speech
03/12/2010 Washington D.C. Aspen Institute, remarks and round table discussion
03/24/2010 Phoenix Arizona Arizona Humanities Council, remarks and round table discussion
03/26/2010 Tucson Arizona University of Arizona, lecture
04/06/2010 Santa Clara California Santa Clara University, Regan Lecture
04/07/2010 Los Angeles California University of California, Los Angeles, lecture
04/08/2010 Davis California University of California, Davis, Chancellor’s Colloquium Lecture
04/10/2010 New Brunswick New Jersey Rutgers University, Conference on Cultural Heritage Now, “Civility in a Fractured Society” keynote speech
04/13/2010 Philadelphia Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania, David & Lyn Silfen University Forum, panel discussion
04/14/2010 Worcester Massachusetts American Antiquarian Society, “Uncivil Discourse: A Conversation with Jim Leach and Jill Lepore” panel discussion
04/15/2010 Boston Massachusetts Massachusetts Legislature Cultural Caucus, discussion
04/29/2010 Washington DC Cosmos Club, speech
05/01/2010 Miami Florida Miami-Dade County College, “With Civility for Each, and Respect for All: Making America a Hate-Free Nation” commencement address
05/07/2010 Philadelphia Pennsylvania American Council of Learned Societies, annual meeting
05/10/2010 Savannah Georgia Savannah College of Art & Design, “Jurisprudence and the Humanities” speech
05/11/2010 Atlanta Georgia Georgia Humanities Council, annual lecture
05/12/2010 New Orleans Louisiana Louisiana Humanities Council, civility address
05/14/2010 LaGrange Georgia LaGrange College, “Let Your Gentleness Be Known” commencement address
05/27/2010 Salt Lake City Utah Annual Human Ties Award, address
05/28/2010 Westminster College, “Let Your Speech Be Always With Grace” commencement address
06/06/2010 Boise Idaho Idaho Humanities Council, luncheon remarks
Idaho Humanities Council, dinner remarks
06/10/2010 Portland Oregon Oregon Business Association Legislative Program, address
  Oregon Humanities Council, reception remarks
06/11/2010 Boise Idaho Idaho Humanities Council/Cecil D. Andrus Center for Public Policy, address
06/13/2010 College Park Maryland University of Maryland, History Day address
06/14/2010 Providence Rhode Island Rhode Island School of Design, talk
  Providence Art Club, remarks
  Brown University, address
06/15/201 Providence Rhode Island Rhode Island Humanities Council, address
06/18/2010 Des Moines Iowa Community Foundation/Interfaith Alliance/Drake University, address
  Iowa Legal Aid Foundation, Justice After Hours address
07/26/2010 Buffalo New York New York Humanities Council, civility address
07/29/2010 Birmingham Alabama Alabama Foundation for the Humanities/Samford University, civility address
08/04/2010 Denver Colorado Denver Forum, civility address
08/05/2010 Greeley Colorado Colorado Humanities Council/High Plains Chautauqua, address
09/13/2010 Lawrence Kansas Kansas University/Hall Center for the Humanities, address
09/14/2010 Dole Institute of Politics, address
09/17/2010 Billings Montana Montana State University, “Civility in a Fractured Society” speech
  Montana State University, luncheon remarks
  Western Heritage Center/Humanities Montana, speech
09/18/2010 Cody Wyoming Buffalo Bill Historical Center, speech
Northwest Community College, “A Conversation with NEH Chairman James A. Leach” discussion
09/20/2010 Raleigh North Carolina Duke University/Nasher Art Museum/National Humanities Center, address
09/21/2010 Bloomington Indiana Indiana University, civility address
09/22/2010 Indianapolis Indiana Indianapolis Museum of Art, panel discussion on civility
  Conseco Fieldhouse, NCAA and Indianapolis Colts, “Civility and Sports” talk and panel discussion
09/24/2010 Davenport Iowa St. Ambrose University, speech
09/29/2010 Vermillion South Dakota University of South Dakota, Neuharth Media Center, forum
09/29/2010 Sioux Falls South Dakota Black Hills State University, forum
10/01/2010 St. Paul Minnesota Metropolitan State University, speech
10/02/2010 Bismarck North Dakota Eric Sevareid Symposium, speech
10/08/2010 Nashville Tennessee Southern Festival of Books, speech/panel discussion
Vanderbilt University, speech
10/20/2010 Montclair New Jersey Montclair Art Museum, speech
10/23/2010 Wausau Wisconsin University of Wisconsin, Center for Civic Engagement, panel discussion
10/27/2010 Oklahoma City Oklahoma Oklahoma City University, panel discussion
Oklahoma City University, speech
10/28/2010 Austin Texas University of Texas, speech
10/29/2010 Humanities Texas, speech
11/04/2010 Houston Texas Rice University, Humanities Research Center, speech
11/05/2010 Albuquerque New Mexico Federation of State Humanities Councils annual meeting, speech
11/09/2010 Dover Delaware Delaware State University, speech
11/12/2010 Chicago Illinois Fortnightly Club, civility address
11/13/2010 Chicago Humanities Festival, remarks and panel discussion with the President of Northwestern University
11/11/2011 Iowa City Iowa University of Iowa, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, speech/panel discussion
02/02/2011 Montpelier Vermont Vermont House of Representatives, civility address
Vermont Humanities Council, state senate chambers, civility address
02/09/2011 New York New York College Art Association annual conference, “A Looming Crisis in the Humanities” speech
02/11/2011 Tempe Arizona Arizona State University, “Project Humanities: Humanities at the Crossroads” speech/panel discussion
02/25/2011 Grantham Pennsylvania Messiah College, 2011 Humanities Symposium on Friendship and Civility, speech
03/10/2011 Columbia Missouri Columbia College, Schiffman Lecture on Ethics in Society
03/11/2011 St. Louis Missouri University of Missouri, St. Louis, remarks and panel discussion
  Kansas City Missouri Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Annual Atkins Lecture Series, civility address
03/16/2011 Charlottesville Virginia 17th Festival of the Book, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, civility address
03/26/2011 Philadelphia Pennsylvania “Civility and Democracy” event at National Constitution Center, remarks
03/30/2011 Reno Nevada “Conversation about Politics, Sportsmanship and Civility”, Nevada Humanities Council, address/panel discussion
04/07/2011 Lexington Kentucky “Words Do Matter”, Kentucky Humanities Council, Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion, lecture
4/18/2011 Middletown Connecticut Civility, with Nina Simon, Connecticut Historical Society, talk
4/21/2011 Huntington West Virginia Huntington Museum of Art, lunch remarks
  Charleston   “Civility in a Fractured Society,” Culture Center, address
4/22/2011 West Virginia Humanities, informal remarks with community leaders
4/28/2011 Little Rock Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, lecture
4/30/2011 Anchorage Alaska Alaska Pacific University, commencement address
5/13/2011 Honolulu Hawaii University of Hawaii, roundtable discussion with faculty
  University of Hawaii, reception remarks
5/14/2011   University of Hawaii, centennial commencement address
  Hawaii Music and Book Festival, Hawaii Council for the Humanities, civility address