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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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