SOLD OUT: EMAIL HUMAN@UNC.EDU WITH YOUR NAME & PHONE NUMBER TO BE ADDED TO THE WAITLIST A Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Bart D. Ehrman According to the most recent Pew Research Poll, 72 percent of all Americans believe in a … Read more
In the face of populist pressures, many nations around the world are turning to authoritarian leaders whose attachment to the liberal values of democracy, transparency, and human rights is questionable at best or outright denied. What inspires people to prefer … Read more
Due to COVID-19, this event has been postponed until Fall 2020. We sent an email to all registered participants with information about refunds, credits, or saving seats for the postponed event. Email us at human@unc.edu if you have any questions. … Read more
A Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Gerhard L. Weinberg In collaboration with the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies World War II was the most destructive conflict in world history, and the war in the Soviet Union was its … Read more
A Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Bart D. Ehrman The book of Revelation is perhaps the most mysterious, the most misunderstood, the most violent, and the most anomalous book in the Christian Bible. Join our distinguished scholar Dr. Bart Ehrman as … Read more
*THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2022. WE WILL CONTACT EVERYONE WHO REGISTERED REGARDING TRANSFER CREDITS & REFUNDS. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE* Democracy is under threat worldwide as illiberal forces call elections into question, threaten the civil liberties … Read more
In collaboration with the Center for European Studies In the decades since World War II, states in Europe have created a cohesive government in the EU that transcends old boundaries and links disparate peoples together in one of the world’s … Read more
A Distinguished Scholar Seminar featuring Mark Evan Bonds In collaboration with the UNC Department of Music The year 2020 marked the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. Perhaps more than any other composer, we hear Beethoven in his music, … 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
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
