Week of Events
Let’s Build Longer Tables, Not Higher Walls: Food, Cultural Connections, and Community Empowerment
Let’s Build Longer Tables, Not Higher Walls: Food, Cultural Connections, and Community Empowerment
Food has the power to bridge cultures, empower communities, and ultimately change the world. In this presentation, Dr. Cristina Carrasco will explore the power for food to bring us together, especially during moments of crisis. Highlighting international examples of activist chefs who … Read more
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade by Assia Djebar
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade by Assia Djebar
featuring Maximilian Owre, Carolina Public Humanities Winner of the 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature —Djebar's exceptional descriptive powers bring to life the experiences of girls and women caught up in the dual struggle for independence—both their own and … Read more
Law, Policy, and Politics in the Post-Roe Era
Law, Policy, and Politics in the Post-Roe Era
featuring Mary-Rose Papandrea, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law This fall promises to be a contentious election season, and our Humanities in Action hybrid lecture series offers six programs focused on topics of critical importance to our country and … Read more
Guns and American Society: Then and Now
Guns and American Society: Then and Now
a DIALOGUES seminar There are more privately owned guns than people in the United States, and “gun culture” is more pervasive in American society than in any other modern, industrial nation. How did a distinctive view of guns influence the … Read more