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Representing the Sacred: World Religions and Artistic Expression

Chapel Hill Campus Please Contact Carolina Public Humanities for exact location

Religious imagery and iconography is as old as worship itself. This seminar will take an interdisciplinary and transcultural look at the roles art and architecture have played in religious practice over time and across the world. Jennifer Gates-Foster will explain … Read more

Event Series Advanced French Lunch

Advanced French Lunch

Weathervane Restaurant 201 S Estes Dr, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Featuring Jessica Tanner, Assistant Professor of French Interested in polishing or refreshing your foreign language speaking skills in a warm and welcoming environment? Join UNC faculty discussion leaders at Weathervane restaurant in Chapel Hill for a lunch where participants are … Read more

Counterterrorism in the Age of Trump

Flyleaf Books

David H. Schanzer, Associate Professor of the Practice, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University and Director, Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security Presidential administrations may change, but many of the national security concerns facing the United States and … Read more

Remembering Kristallnacht with Dr. Gerhard Weinberg

Sandhills Community College 3395 Airport Rd,, Pinehurst, NC, United States

This Special Event in Collaboration with Sandhills Community College is sponsored by The Vivian and Ralph Jacobson Sandhills Community College Fund for Holocaust and World War II Studies   This seminar will feature UNC Professor Emeritus Gerhard Weinberg as he … Read more

Smell: Foreign Fragrances, Plebeian Stinks: Perfuming Practices in Premodern India

Top of the Hill Back Bar 100 East Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

featuring Emma Jane Flatt, Assistant Professor of History  Carolina Public Humanities and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH) are teaming up to bring you Humanities Happy Hour. Starting this fall, Happy Hours will feature the scholars who have been … Read more

Women in Fiction and Film

Archie K. Davis Conference Center 12 Davis Dr, Durham , NC, United States

This seminar will investigate the shifting roles that female characters have played in theatre, literature and film over the millennia. Al Duncan will discuss Aristophanes’ “sex-strike play,” Lysistrata, which was both of, and ahead of, its time, and highlight the … Read more

Event Series Italian Language Lunch

Italian Language Lunch

Weathervane Restaurant 201 S Estes Dr, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Featuring Amy Chambless, Teaching Associate Professor of Italian Interested in polishing or refreshing your foreign language speaking skills in a warm and welcoming environment? Join UNC faculty discussion leaders at Weathervane restaurant in Chapel Hill for a lunch where participants … Read more