Week of Events
Monday French Language Lunch
Monday French Language Lunch
Interested in polishing or refreshing your foreign language speaking skills in a warm and welcoming environment? Join faculty discussion leaders at Weathervane restaurant in Chapel Hill for a lunch where partici- pants are encouraged to speak only in a foreign … Read more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
featuring Hilary Lithgow, Teaching Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Meeting Dates: Tuesdays, June 4 and 11 "Considered by many the greatest bildungsroman in the English language"—Encyclopedia Britannica "James Joyce’s supremely innovative fictional autobiography is also, in the apt phrase … Read more
Measured Tones: The Science of Musical Sound
Measured Tones: The Science of Musical Sound
Laurie E. McNeil, Bernard Gray Distinguished Professor of Physics What makes a guitar sound like a guitar, and a flute like a flute? Join physicist and mezzo-soprano Laurie McNeil as she demonstrates key mathematical and acoustic concepts behind tone, timbre, … Read more
New Media, the Newspaper Crisis, and the Future of Democracy
New Media, the Newspaper Crisis, and the Future of Democracy
Local newspapers have long been essential contributors to public debates, investigations of government institutions, economic information, community identities, and demo- cratic political life.The rise of new social media and the rapid decline of newspapers, however, is now transforming the ways … Read more