Week of Events
“All the New Information in My Blood”: Immunity, Melancholy, Virility
“All the New Information in My Blood”: Immunity, Melancholy, Virility
Please join us for a talk by Travis Alexander, PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature.
Talk: “In Reality a Slave: Privacy & Personhood in Gilded Age Atlanta.”
Talk: “In Reality a Slave: Privacy & Personhood in Gilded Age Atlanta.”
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
Alan Shapiro and Jonathan Farmer in conversation
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
Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium – Frances Dolan
Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium – Frances Dolan
Frances Dolan (University of California-Davis) “Weaving Hedge/rows”
Douglass Hunt Lecture – Slaying the Gerrymander Talk with David Daley
Douglass Hunt Lecture – Slaying the Gerrymander Talk with David Daley
Speaker David Daley will discuss how Republicans reinvented and weaponized the gerrymander during the 2010 election, then took advantage of big data and sophisticated mapping technology to draw themselves nearly unbeatable district lines for congress and state legislatures nationwide. Using … Read more
College Clash Slam Competition
College Clash Slam Competition
Come witness the poetry event of the year! Watch as UNC Wordsmiths, Appstate Lyric Spoken Word, Aggie Love Poetry Society, and UNC Cupsi Team face off in this epic slam face-off. Who will bring home the bragging rights and the title of College Clash Champion?