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Biodiversity and the Written Word

NC Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

A Biodiversity Garden Party event developed in partnership with the Carolina Biodiversity Collaborative ABOUT THIS SERIES Curated in Triangle wild spaces, these informal gatherings will celebrate the state’s natural wonders, educate us about changes and threats to biodiversity, and inspire … Read more

We Shall Overcome: The Music of Protest

Graduate Chapel Hill 311 W Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Featuring UNC historian Don Reid, Singer-Songwriter Dawn Landes, and Vocalist/Educator, Mary D. Williams We live in an era of divisiveness and heightened emotion, but this is not the first time that citizens have faced such tumult, change, and uncertainty. In … Read more

Total Eclipse: An Astronomer’s Call to Worship

Chapel Hill Public Library 100 Library Dr, Chapel Hill, United States

featuring Dr. Sheila Kannappan, UNC Department of Physics and Astronomy The next total solar eclipse to cross the United States will happen on April 8, 2024. In preparation for this rare, awe-inspiring event, Dr. Kannappan invites us to explore the … Read more

MINOR DETAIL by Adania Shibli

Flyleaf Books

featuring Nadia Yaqub, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Finalist for the National Book Award. Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. "Though Minor Detail initially promises to be a kind of counterhistory or whodunit—a rescue of the victim’s … Read more

THE LOST BOY by Thomas Wolfe

Flyleaf Books

featuring James W. Clark, Jr., Professor of English, Emeritus, NC State University "Thomas Wolfe's The Lost Boy is a captivating and poignant retelling of an episode from Wolfe's childhood. The story of Wolfe's brother Grover and his trip to the … Read more

Palestine as Anti-narrative: Adania Shibli in Conversation with Diya Abdo, Meta DuEwa Jones, and Mark Rifkin

Hamilton Hall 102 Emerson Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join novelist Adania Shibli in conversation with scholars of Arab, African American, and Indigenous American literature.   FEATURING Diya Abdo, Lincoln Financial Professor of English and Creative Writing, Guilford College Meta DuEwa Jones, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature … Read more

Art in Moments of Transition

The Rizzo Center 150 Dubose Home Ln, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

In his instructions to a troupe of actors, Shakespeare’s Hamlet describes the “purpose of playing” is “to hold, as ‘twere, the mirror up to nature.” In other words, the performers should reflect an authentic version of the world around them. … Read more

DEMOCRACY WITHOUT SHORTCUTS (excerpts) by Cristina Lafont

Flyleaf Books

featuring Lloyd Kramer, Professor of History and Director of Carolina Public Humanities. This Great Books Reading Group will read the Introduction and first few chapters of Dr. Lafont's latest work on democracy. Dr. Lafont will give the keynote address at … Read more