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Frank B. Hanes Panel: Poetry and Sports

Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 223

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

UNC Latina/o Studies Program Café y Charla Open House

Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw 223

                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

Seminar Discussion with Nathan Hensley – “Catastrophe and Knowledge”

Donavan Lounge, 233 Greenlaw

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.

Ethics of Now with Kiese Laymon

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

Dr. Rebeca Hey-Colón: “‘You’re Not Infected with Something, Are You?:’ Affliction and Exposure in Gloria Anzaldúa’s ‘Puddles’”

Murphey Hall 104 UNC Chapel Hill Campus, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

LSPGradSymposiumRootsandWhiteFinal   Through an analysis of the ways in which the story engages with notions of illness, transmission, and knowledge, Professor Hey-Colón discusses how “Puddles” and its characters become an embodiment of the costs and gains associated with the process … Read more