97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck chats with government officials, UNC scholars, business and nonprofit leaders, area musicians, and others in our community as they share their thoughts, their experience, and their expertise on the central issues of today. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s conversations – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” at 7:30 a.m. on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.
Every month, Aaron welcomes UNC’s Carolina Public Humanities to the studio for a regular feature called “Oh, the Humanities!” spotlighting humanities work and upcoming events on campus. Click here to listen back to all of those discussions.
Saturday, November 9, Carolina Public Humanities is hosting a seminar on entrepreneurship at the Kenan Conference Center. It’s called “The Past, Present, and Future of the American Entrepreneur,” with UNC faculty members looking back on the history of entrepreneurship to date – and looking ahead at how the field is likely to develop in the coming years and decades.
The seminar runs from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Click here to register and get more information.
This month, Aaron welcomes the two professors who will be speaking at that event: historian Benjamin Waterhouse and economist Bernard Bell, executive director of the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship. Waterhouse will discuss “How Working for Yourself Became the New American Dream,” while Bell will look forward at “What Entrepreneurs Will Need to Thrive in the 21st Century.”
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