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Europe Today: The Old World in a New Era

Chapel Hill Campus Please Contact Carolina Public Humanities for exact location

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

Caribbean Connections: Latin & Caribbean Jazz

Medlin Hall Student Commons, Guilford Technical Community College 601 E Main St, Jamestown, NC

Join UNC’s Stephen Anderson and Juan Manuel Alamo for a demonstration of the instruments, rhythms, and styles of Latin and Caribbean jazz music, a discussion of how this musical history developed, and a reflection on how these musical forms continue … Read more

The Hare with Amber Eyes: Art and Lit at the Ackland

Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

In collaboration with the Ackland Art Museum Join us in reading artist and author Edmund de Waal’s captivating family memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes, which traces the story of his family through a collection of hand-carved Japanese netsuke as the objects traveled … Read more

Beethoven @ 250

Chapel Hill Campus Please Contact Carolina Public Humanities for exact location

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