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The Boundaries of Literature Symposium: Talk: “Uncomputable”

Toy Lounge, Dey Hall 200 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Boundaries of Literature Symposium Keynote Speaker, Dr. Alex Galloway from NYU, will present his talk, "Uncomputable."   According to digital philosophers, the world is a computer and everything inside it is computable. But what about things that fall outside the … Read more

Not a Novel: Serialization

DLC Lab Greenlaw 321

This month in “Not a Novel,” we’re talking about SERIALIZATION! Come join the Not a Novel podcast crew in the Digital Literacy and Communications (DLC) Lab as we talk about how serialization effects narrative! Old novels released chapter by chapter … Read more

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