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Scottish Gaels in North Carolina Exhibit Tour

Wilson Library

Anne Fertig, PhD student in English and Comparative Literature, will introduce her Wilson Library exhibit on Scottish Gaels in North Carolina.

Author Reading: Slavery and Class in the American South

Chapel Hill Public Library 100 Library Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Anyone interested in American slavery, African American history and culture, and the slave narratives on which African American literature is founded will find this topic intriguing. Andrews's book SLAVERY AND CLASS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH: A GENERATION OF SLAVE NARRATIVE TESTIMONY scours … Read more

Talk: “In Reality a Slave: Privacy & Personhood in Gilded Age Atlanta.”

Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 223

Jeannine Marie DeLombard is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she maintains an Affiliation with the History Department. She specializes in African American and pre-1900 American literature, with a particular interest in … Read more

Alan Shapiro and Jonathan Farmer in conversation

Flyleaf Books 752 M.L.K. Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

In celebration of their latest collections, we invite you to a conversation between poets Alan Shapiro and Jonathan Farmer.   We often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation—not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we … Read more

Douglass Hunt Lecture – Slaying the Gerrymander Talk with David Daley

Stone Center

Speaker David Daley will discuss how Republicans reinvented and weaponized the gerrymander during the 2010 election, then took advantage of big data and sophisticated mapping technology to draw themselves nearly unbeatable district lines for congress and state legislatures nationwide. Using … Read more

College Clash Slam Competition

Come witness the poetry event of the year! Watch as UNC Wordsmiths, Appstate Lyric Spoken Word, Aggie Love Poetry Society, and UNC Cupsi Team face off in this epic slam face-off. Who will bring home the bragging rights and the title of College Clash Champion?

$5

Spring Faculty Colloquium

Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 223

For the Spring colloquium, three faculty members in DOECL—Jessica Wolfe, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and John McGowan—will discuss current scholarship, as well as conversations and provocations, in their respective areas, or fields. As the newly appointed articles editor of Renaissance Quarterly, the … Read more