**This Great Books class will be held virtually over Zoom** featuring Marc Cohen, Teaching Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography —Nine Continents presents a fascinating portrait of China … Read more
A Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Lloyd S. Kramer This seminar will examine the revolutionary upheavals that spread across the Atlantic world in the late eighteenth century, creating independent nations and advocating new conceptions of human rights that continue to influence … Read more
**This Great Books class will be held virtually over Zoom** featuring Marc Cohen, Teaching Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography —Nine Continents presents a fascinating portrait of China … Read more
featuring Gabriel Trop, Associate Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures One of the most important works of German literature that greatly influenced the rise of the Romantic movement —Based on Goethe’s unrequited love for Charlotte Buff, it … Read more
featuring Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa, Kenan Eminent Professor of Public Policy This hybrid lecture series will travel around the world to explore topics of current interest. Lectures will be held 4:30–6:00 pm on Wednesdays. Your registration fee of $20 ($15 … Read more
A FREE virtual program as part of Carolina K-12’s William Friday Virtual Education Initiative “I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.” Prodigy. Pianist. Songwriter. Singer. Activist. Nina Simone. Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina on … Read more
It has become increasingly clear to many in America and throughout the world that the political norms of the 20th century no longer accurately describe conditions on the ground. Severe polarization, public distrust of institutions, racial unrest and reckoning, and … Read more
featuring Gabriel Trop, Associate Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures One of the most important works of German literature that greatly influenced the rise of the Romantic movement —Based on Goethe’s unrequited love for Charlotte Buff, it … Read more
People all over the world and through the ages have imbued physical spaces with spiritual significance. This seminar will take us back in time to explore a variety of sacred sites, their meanings, and how people used or engaged with … Read more
Join us at the Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library for an afternoon with jazz musician Rahsaan Jelani Barber and his quartet for a vibrant celebration of Kinston’s musical history. This free, public program is sponsored by the Kinston-Lenoir County Friends of … Read more
Sunday, February 27 | 4pm | The Chelsea Theater Few seats remain for the Feb. 27 showing at 4 pm of Who We Are. If you are unable to purchase a ticket, see below for a link to participate in … Read more
featuring William H. Race, George L. Paddison Professor of Classics Emeritus Euripides' earliest surviving classic is a profound meditation on human mortality —Alcestis is a rarity, a tragedy reversed. With typical Euripidean irony, a superman triumphs where a god … Read more
In collaboration and with support from the UNC-Duke Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program First created at Oxford University in the 1920s, the field of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) cultivates unique interdisciplinary perspectives on ideas that shape our socioeconomic and … Read more
