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.
The event will feature three lightning talks by professors and researchers in UNC-Chapel Hill’s academic community, centered around how data science is used to enhance research methodology and techniques in projects involving bibliographic data, literary texts, and virtual makerspaces. The … Read more
The Critical Speaker Series and A19, UNC's first 19th-century studies organization, are thrilled to welcome Ronjaunee Chatterjee of Queen's University for a public lecture and graduate student seminar. Dr. Chatterjee is a scholar of the nineteenth century with expertise in … Read more
The Critical Speaker Series and A19, UNC's first 19th-century studies organization, are thrilled to welcome Ronjaunee Chatterjee of Queen's University for a public lecture and graduate student seminar. Dr. Chatterjee is a scholar of the nineteenth century with expertise in … Read more
