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
featuring Carolyn Allmendinger (Director of Education and Interpretation, Ackland Art Museum) and Max Owre (Carolina Public Humanities Executive Director and Teaching Assistant Professor of History) This tour of the Ackland Art Museum's exhibition, Reform to Restoration, will highlight select … Read more
A DIALOGUES SEMINAR Rescheduled from the summer, join us for this eclectic examination of advances in transportation in the 19th and 20th centuries. This seminar features a review of New York City’s solution for movement of people across the rapidly expanding urban landscape—local … 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
A Humanities on the Road program in Fayetteville, NC 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 … Read more
featuring James Moeser, UNC-CH Chancellor Emeritus Learn about the deeper contexts behind issues too often reduced to sound bites. DETAILS Guests may attend Humanities in Action lectures IN PERSON or VIRTUALLY. Cost: $20; $15 with a Carolina Alumni … 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
featuring Jason Miller, Professor of English, NC State University Poet Langston Hughes debuted his most famous anti-lynching poem in Chapel Hill during his 1931 visit to Orange County. His appearance was so controversial that police were stationed outside the … Read more
featuring Francesca B. Tripodi, Assistant Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science Learn about the deeper contexts behind issues too often reduced to sound bites. DETAILS Guests may attend Humanities in Action lectures IN PERSON or VIRTUALLY. … Read more
