Charles Everett Pace : Chautauqua Performer / Scholar

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about Charles

Charles Everett Pace has undergraduate and graduate degrees from The University of Texas at Austin (B.A., biology) and Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana (M.A., American studies: history and anthropology). As well as being a Program Advisor at the Texas Union, University of Texas at Austin, Charles has taught at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Purdue University, and most recently at Centre College in Kentucky. His research area is the anthropology of performance, experience and visual communications. He has performed and conducted workshops in hundreds of cities across the United States, as well as, in London, England. Pace has also conducted performance-based public diplomacy work for the United States Information Agency (USIA) in dozens of cities in nine countries across east, west and southern Africa.

This summer Charles Everett Pace will begin his 15th year as one of the scholars with The Great Plains Chautauqua Society, Inc. The Great Plains Chautauqua, a five states touring scholar-in-resident project, is the nation's premier public humanities program principally funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He will also be returning this summer in The Great Basin Chautauqua in Reno, NE, as well as, appearing the Greeley Chatauqua in Greeley, Co.

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Personalities:

Frederick Douglass

Malcolm X

Langston Hughes

W.E.B. Du Bois, and

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Definition : A performance where first person historical characterizations are presented in three parts. 1. First the performance of the life & ideas of the character, followed by 2. questions to the performer while in character, then one "breaks character" and 3. answers questions as her or himself.

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