Graduate students are invited to join us on February 23 at 10 AM in Greenlaw Hall's room 225 for a seminar led by Dr. Jean-Thomas Tremblay! Dr. Tremblay is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at York University. They research … Read more
Holly Crocker will give a talk.
Professor Leah Whittington (Harvard) will deliver a lecture entitled "Creativity and Historical Practice in Early Modern Classical Scholarship." Reception to follow!
Join the Not a Novel podcast team as we dive into the past, or at least the desire to do so – Nostalgia. We’ll be discussing recent remakes, returning aesthetics, and the weird and often comical ways we relate to … Read more
Dr. Surekha Davies will deliver a lecture entitled "Sea monsters and the Mapping of Nature: Re-thinking Scientific Images."
This workshop is part of the Critical Game Studies Initiative's Plug and Play Series that aims to equip instructors with short assignments that can be easily incorporated into their classes. Following Dr. Katherine Buse’s presentation two weeks ago, “Playing with … Read more
This talk examines how 18th and 19th century maritime navigation gave rise to modern schemes of digital visualization. Hallmarks of this visuality included an emphasis on points, vectors, and ratios, which dominated “the scopic regime of computation” of the 20th … Read more
Data Matters™ is a recurring series of short courses aimed at students and professionals in business, research, and government. The short course series is sponsored by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, the National Consortium … Read more
On Friday, March 17th at 1PM, poet Amira Hanafi will lead a session on her project, The CreaTures Glossary, "a set of tools for giving meaning to a lexicon of terms related to creative practice and transformational change." An interactive … Read more
In this talk, astrophysicist Chris Clemens (UNC Chapel Hill) will describe the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar by England and the formation of the Royal Astronomical Society by William Herschel in 1820.
