Fall 2020 Virtual Events
Fall 2020 Virtual Schedule
Click the series pages or event pages below for complete pricing and event information. Dates and times are subject to slight changes this semester, so please keep checking our website (humanities.unc.edu) for updates.
- How WWII Spread Across the Globe in 1941: Africa, Russia, and the United States | September 12 (9:30 am–3:30 pm)
- The Power and Allure of Dictators | September 21-25 (5:30–7:00 pm)
- Polarization and Presidential Elections that Divided America | October 5-8 (5:30–7:00 pm)
- Cities of Music: Vienna and Nashville | October 24 (10:00 am–1:30 pm)
- Heaven and Hell: Ancient Ideas about the Afterlife (encore) | November 5-6 (5:00–8:30 pm)
Humanities in Action online talks
- Black Political Power in the US | August 19 (3:30– 5:00 pm)
- The Ethics of Pandemics | September 1 (3:00–4:30 pm)
- The Public University and American Democracy | September 16 (3:30–5:00 pm)
- Historical (In)justice and Memory Today: Genocide, Colonialism, and the Contested Past | September 30 (3:00–4:30 pm)
- Erasures: Black History, Black Newspapers, and Digitization | October 14 (3:30–5:00 pm)
- **SOLD OUT** The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton | Tuesdays, September 1 & 8 (10 am–12:00 pm)
- **SOLD OUT** Silent Spring by Rachel Carson | Tuesday, September 15 (10 am–12:00 pm)
- **SOLD OUT** Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman | Tuesdays, September 22 & 29 (10 am–12:00 pm)
- **SOLD OUT** Being There by Jerzy Kosinski | Wednesday, October 7 (10 am–12:00 pm)
- **SOLD OUT** The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood | Wednesdays, October 28 & November 4 (10 am–12:00 pm)
- **SOLD OUT** Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz | Wednesdays, November 11 & 18 (10 am–12:00 pm)
- **SOLD OUT** Njal’s Saga by Anonymous | Tuesdays, December 1 & 8 (10 am–12:00 pm)
Humanities Salon Conversations
- History and Memory | August 27 (5:00– 6:30 pm)
- Is Human Empathy Good, Bad, or Condescending? | October 1 (5:00– 6:30 pm)
- Consider This . . . 2020 Elections | October 20 (6:30– 8:00 pm)
- Remembering the Black Death: Lessons from the Medieval Plague for the Modern Pandemic | October 21 (3:30– 5:00 pm)
- 2020 John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities Ceremony | October 29 (4:00– 5:00 pm)
- The Uhlman Family Distinguished Scholar Lecture: ORDINARY MEN Revisited: The Evolution of Holocaust Perpetrator Studies | November 12 (5:00– 6:30 pm)
- Lafayette’s Farewell Tour of the U.S. (1824-1825) and North Carolina | December 17 (5:00– 6:30 pm)
Brown Bag Foreign Language Lunches
French Lunch
- Monday, August 31 w/ Hannelore Jarusch **SOLD OUT**
- Monday, October 5 w/ Hannelore Jarusch **SOLD OUT**
- Monday, November 2 w/ Jessica Tanner **SOLD OUT**
- Monday, December 7 w/ Jessica Tanner **SOLD OUT**
German Lunch
- Friday, September 18 w/ Gabriel Trop
- Thursday, October 15 w/ Christina Weiler
- Thursday, November 12 w/ Christina Weiler
Italian Lunch