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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

China

Flyleaf Books

featuring Donald Santacaterina, Doctoral Candidate in Chinese History   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 for GAA) … Read more

The Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1775-1800

Chapel Hill Campus Please Contact Carolina Public Humanities for exact location

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

Mexico

Flyleaf Books

featuring Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo, Associate Professor of Political Science   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 for GAA) … Read more