Dr. Darius Bost, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah, will be giving a talk entitled "Writing from the Shadows: Assotto Saint's Sacred Aesthetics."
Dr. Danielle Skeehan, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College, will be giving a talk entitled "The Material Culture of Whiteness: Paper, Poetry, and Samuel Richardson's Pamela in Revolutionary North America."
Hey Everyone! Do you love books and have strong feelings about their adaptations? Whatever the case is, S.O.U.L., or the Student Organization of Undergraduate Literature (fancy name, but not a fancy club!) would like to invite you to our upcoming … Read more
Representing Migrations Humanities Lab Works-In-Progress Showcase Featuring presentations from Bass Connections Teams Linguistic Landscapes and Representing the Middle Passage, as well as from the 2019-2020 Lab Fellows. Including projects from UNC-CH graduate candidate Grant Glass. Duke University Friday, January 31, 2020, 9:30am - 4pm … Read more
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/for-ourselves-and-our-posterity-the-u-s-constitution-then-and-now/ National Humanities Center Fellows from the fields of African American studies, economics, history, law, literature, and philosophy will discuss how their work helps us better understand the creation and living legacy of the U.S. Constitution as we endeavor to … Read more
Talk title: Naturalizing the Novel Monday, February 4th, 4:00pm-5:30pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 223 Description: Between 1685 and 1710 over 60,000 refugees from France and Germany sought settlement in England and its colonies. This wave of migration produced some of the first … Read more
About the Talk: If you were to visit the doctor, would you be considered a difficult patient? How do you know? What makes a patient “difficult”? In her presentation Yolonda Wilson will discuss the meaning of that label and how that label shapes interactions between patients and providers. She will argue that some patients are more susceptible to being labeled as difficult than others and consider possible alternative ways to frame encounters between patients and providers.
This film program will feature four short films that address the topic of prejudice by focusing on individual experiences of racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination. Three of these films (Felicia, Behind Every Good Man, and Siu Mei Wong: Who Shall … Read more
This film program will feature four short films that address the topic of prejudice by focusing on individual experiences of racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination. Three of these films (Felicia, Behind Every Good Man, and Siu Mei Wong: Who Shall … Read more
A discussion highlighting the results of a multi-faceted study designed to better understand students’ experiences with free speech and constructive dialogue at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Do you love books and have strong feelings about fan-fiction and shipping? Whatever the case is, S.O.U.L., or the Student Organization of Undergraduate Literature (fancy name, but not a fancy club!) would like to invite you to our upcoming meeting … Read more
Hear from an editor and digital marketing coordinator at UNC Press about Careers in Publishing and how to get a job in this field!
Photo Credits: Nikky Finney: Forrest Clonts; Courtney Banghart: UNC Athletics Staff Photographer; Liz Roberts: UNC Athletics Staff Photographer; Alan Shapiro: Sarah Boyd Poetry and Sports: Poetry in Motion—Motion in Poetry Panel sponsored by 2020 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence Program … Read more
Dear Friends, We hope you will come and break bread with us at our spring 2020 Latina/o Studies Program Café y Charla open house. At the café y charla, guests will have … Read more
Nikky Finney 2020 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence Reading Tuesday, February 25 7:30 p.m. Genome Sciences Building Photo of Nikky Finney by Forrest Clonts
"Blacker than a hundred midnights": Public History and Memory and the Souls of Blackfolk in the South
Dr. Nathan Hensley of Georgetown University will present a lecture entitled "In the Ruins of Bourgeois Life: Hopkins, Turner, Eliot," to be followed by a question-and-answer session.
Dr. Nathan Hensley will lead an informal seminar discussion on his published piece "Catastrophe and Knowledge: Thinking through the archives of ‘industrial time’ – from Jane Eyre to the IPCC report," as published in The Ecologist.
Kiese Laymon does not dissemble. By turns raw, real, fantastical, and funny, his memoirs and fiction articulate the slow death of living amidst state violence and the poetic transcendence of managing to keep on keeping on nonetheless. Personal but public, … Read more
