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GMC s Paula Payne to attend Summer Institute at Chapel Hill

(Milledgeville, GA) June 20, 2003 – Dr. Paula Payne, PhD, Chairperson, GMC junior college humanities department, has been offered a grant to attend the Summer Institute, “A Literature of Their Own? Women Writing: Venice, London, Paris 1550-1700.” Sponsored by The Society for Values in Higher Education, and funded by The National Endowment for the Humanities, the institute provides college and university faculty and independent scholars with an opportunity to enrich and revitalize their understanding of significant humanities ideas, texts, and topics, with a focus on women writers in early modern Venice, London, and Paris. Dr. Payne will join an elite 25-30 others from across the nation, and will be the only woman from Georgia to attend the institute, which will be held from July 6 through August 2, 2003 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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