DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. ALL REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS SHOULD'VE RECEIVED AN EMAIL WITH INFORMATION ABOUT REFUNDS AND CREDIT. A Dialogues Seminar Join us for this eclectic examination of advances in transportation in the 19th and 20th … Read more
featuring Graham Culbertson, Teaching Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize —"If proof were necessary to convince us of Miss Wharton’s literary ability, it would be undoubtedly furnished by 'The Descent … Read more
A Dialogues Seminar Ships Ahoy! We’ll seek to understand why theft and violence became regular features of life on the high seas of the Early Modern era. From state-sanctioned raiders to independent rogues, pirates were threats on every major … Read more
featuring Pamela Lothspeich, Associate Professor of South Asian Studies The first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature —Tagore's vivid historical setting, realistically portrayed characters, and philosophical insights form a compelling drama of the clash between old and … Read more
List of Resources Shared in Zoom Chat A special Juneteenth Dialogues Seminar The history of work and laboring people in North Carolina has been entangled with ideas and social systems that placed Black workers in the most vulnerable and … Read more
featuring Pamela Lothspeich, Associate Professor of South Asian Studies The first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature —Tagore's vivid historical setting, realistically portrayed characters, and philosophical insights form a compelling drama of the clash between old and … Read more
featuring Katherine Turk, Associate Professor of History and Adjunct Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. Join Professor Turk in a signing and lively discussion of her new book, The Women of Now: How Feminists Built an Organization that Transformed … Read more
featuring Harry Cushman, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature As the author of The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer is, next to Shakespeare, perhaps the most famous English poet, and has been called "The Father of English Poetry." — Westminster … Read more
In this engaging and interactive presentation, scholar and playwright Dr. Sonny Kelly will use the tools of storytelling, lecture, poetry, and dramatic interpretation to grapple with the difficulties we have faced throughout American history. Drawing a thread of continuity from … Read more
We're partnering with Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, and a set of statewide partners on a year-long project to document climate change. At this exhibition opening, view 25 photographs … Read more
