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Lillian Furst Forum Lecture Series — Dr. Amy Weil

Greenlaw 225

Join us on Tuesday 4/2 at 5:30pm for the first lecture in this semester's Lillian Furst Forum Lecture Series! The Furst Forum honors UNC faculty and students with an invitation to present interdisciplinary research. The lecture series aims to encourage … Read more

Angelique Bassard Graduate Lecture: “Perilous Passages: Nineteenth Century Respectability Culture and ‘Soft Surveillance’ in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)”

Greenlaw 225

The final Graduate Lecture Series event of the semester! “From the predatory gaze of her enslaver to the “loophole of retreat,” the themes of surveillance and sousveillance play an important role in Harriet Jacobs’s narrative, Incidents in the Life of … Read more

Furst Forum Lecture with Dr. María DeGuzmán

Greenlaw 225

Please join us for the second Furst Forum event of the semester! Our department's very own Dr. María DeGuzmán will be giving a presentation at 5:30pm on April 16th, in Greenlaw 225. Dr. DeGuzmán's presentation is entitled "Accidental Photos, or … Read more

Americanist Speaker Series: Stephanie Li

The UNC-Duke Americanist Speaker Series presents Stephanie Li, Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Her talk will concern the topic of her latest book, Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America, which "explores representations of … Read more

English 408 Showcase

The Pitch 462 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

"Richard" (the band) will be performing original songs from Florence Dore's English 408 class this term at the Pitch (downstairs) 8pm-10pm. Richard has written a range of pop tunes, from camp country and Ed Sheeran-esque ballads to pop melodies that would … Read more

Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (August)

HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524

Our August 2024 LMCC meeting (and our first of the new semester) will take place on Wed. Aug. 28 at 5:30pm in the HHIVE Lab, also known as Gaskin Library or Greenlaw Hall, Room 524.