Week of Events
Advanced French Lunch
Advanced French Lunch
Featuring Jessica Tanner, Assistant Professor of French Interested in polishing or refreshing your foreign language speaking skills in a warm and welcoming environment? Join UNC faculty discussion leaders at Weathervane restaurant in Chapel Hill for a lunch where participants are … Read more
Counterterrorism in the Age of Trump
Counterterrorism in the Age of Trump
David H. Schanzer, Associate Professor of the Practice, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University and Director, Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security Presidential administrations may change, but many of the national security concerns facing the United States and … Read more
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
featuring Gabriel Trop, Associate Professor of German "Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends … Read more
Remembering Kristallnacht with Dr. Gerhard Weinberg
Remembering Kristallnacht with Dr. Gerhard Weinberg
This Special Event in Collaboration with Sandhills Community College is sponsored by The Vivian and Ralph Jacobson Sandhills Community College Fund for Holocaust and World War II Studies This seminar will feature UNC Professor Emeritus Gerhard Weinberg as he … Read more
Smell: Foreign Fragrances, Plebeian Stinks: Perfuming Practices in Premodern India
Smell: Foreign Fragrances, Plebeian Stinks: Perfuming Practices in Premodern India
featuring Emma Jane Flatt, Assistant Professor of History Carolina Public Humanities and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH) are teaming up to bring you Humanities Happy Hour. Starting this fall, Happy Hours will feature the scholars who have been … Read more
Women in Fiction and Film
Women in Fiction and Film
This seminar will investigate the shifting roles that female characters have played in theatre, literature and film over the millennia. Al Duncan will discuss Aristophanes’ “sex-strike play,” Lysistrata, which was both of, and ahead of, its time, and highlight the … Read more