Fall 2021 Schedule
Fall 2021 In-Person and Virtual Schedule
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**Please note that due to UNC regulations, masks will be required for all in-person events regardless of vaccination status. In-person and hybrid events may switch to virtual-only based upon recommendations from local, state, and national public health officials. If an in-person or hybrid event is designated “virtual-only,” the CPH staff will contact registrants and provide them with information on how to attend virtually or with options for receiving credits or refunds. If you have any questions, please email human@unc.edu or call 919.962.1544. We appreciate your flexibility during these trying times.**
Adventures in Ideas seminars
- The German Invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II | Saturday, September 25 (9:30 am–3:00 pm) – IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL
- The Book of Revelation | Saturday, October 9 (9:30 am–4:30 pm) – IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL
- The New Politics of the 21st Century |*POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2022*
- Europe Today: The Old World in a New Era | Saturday, November 13 (9:15 am–3:45 pm) – IN-PERSON
- Beethoven @ 250 | Saturday, December 4 (9:30 am–4:30 pm) – IN-PERSON
Dialogues seminars
- Alexander and Catherine: “Greats” and Their Empires | Saturday, October 30 (9 am–12:30 pm) – IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL
Humanities in Action Lecture Series
- Doomed From the Start: Two Decades of Failed American Policy in Afghanistan | Wednesday, September 22 (3:30–5 pm) – IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL
- Our Misperceptions of Misinformation and Public Understanding of Science | Wednesday, September 29 (3:30–5 pm) – IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL
- Seeking Truth in an Age of Distortion: Navigating America’s “Epistemological Crisis” | Wednesday, October 6 (3:30–5 pm) – IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL
- Social Media and Democracy | Wednesday, October 13 (3:30–5 pm) – IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL
- Critical Race Theory and the Law | Wednesday, October 20 (3:30–5 pm) – IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL
- Teaching “Hard History” in K-12 Education: From Politization to Reconciliation | Wednesday, October 27 (3:30–5 pm) – IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville | Wednesdays, September 8, 15 and 22 (10 am–12 pm) – IN-PERSON
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk | Wednesday, September 29 (10 am–12 pm) – VIRTUAL
- Beowulf by Anonymous | Tuesdays, October 5 and 12 (10 am–12 pm) – IN-PERSON
- Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo | Tuesdays, October 26 and November 2 (10 am–12 pm) – VIRTUAL
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal | Tuesdays, November 9 and 16 (10 am–12 pm) – IN-PERSON
- Ajax and Philoctetes by Sophocles | Tuesdays, November 30 and December 7 (10 am–12 pm) – IN-PERSON
Lunch with Friends & Strangers
- Katherine Turk and Mary Jean Collins | Friday, September 10 (12–1 pm) – VIRTUAL
- David Garcia and Arsenio Rodriguez | Friday, September 17 (12–1 pm) – VIRTUAL
- Matthew Andrews and Babe Ruth | Friday, September 24 (12–1 pm) – VIRTUAL
- Charlene Regester and Hazel Scott | Friday, October 1 (12–1 pm) – VIRTUAL
- Cemil Aydin and Kemal Atatürk | Friday, October 8 (12–1 pm) – VIRTUAL
- Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Nikky Finney | Friday, October 15 (12–1 pm) – VIRTUAL
- Robert Buxton and William Grant Still and Florence Price | Friday, October 29 (12–1 pm) – VIRTUAL
- Feast & Famine: A Brief Cultural History of French Food | Friday, September 10 (5 pm – 7 pm) – IN-PERSON
- A Material Meditation on Home: The Sukkah as Jewish Vernacular Architecture | Thursday, September 23 (4 pm – 5:30 pm) – VIRTUAL
- Understanding China in the 21st Century: A Historical Perspective | Thursday, October 21 (11 am –12:30 pm) – IN-PERSON
- Beyond Hybridity: Being Egyptian Under Macedonian and Roman Rule | Monday, October 25 (5:30 pm – 7 pm) – IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL
- Skills of the “Unskilled”: Work and Mobility among Mexican Migrants | Tuesday, October 26 (9 am–10:30 am) – VIRTUAL
- Caribbean Connections: Latin & Caribbean Jazz | Wednesday, November 17 (1 pm–2:30 pm) – IN-PERSON
- Prague: Belonging in the Modern City | Tuesday, August 31 (5:30–7 pm) – IN-PERSON
- To Drink from the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation’s Oldest Public University | Thursday, September 2 (5:30–7 pm) – IN-PERSON
- SOLD OUT – Visions of Venice in Art and Literature at the Ackland | Thursday, September 9 (3:30–5 pm) – VIRTUAL
- The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama | Thursday, October 14 (6–7 pm) – IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL
- Bland Simpson presents NORTH CAROLINA: LAND OF WATER, LAND OF SKY, with Ann Simpson | Tuesday, October 26 (6:00-7:00pm) – IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL
- Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition & The North Orange NAACP Community Read: Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King | Friday, November 5 (6:00pm-7:00pm) – IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL
- The Hare with Amber Eyes: Art & Lit at the Ackland | Friday, November 19 (3:30–5 pm) – VIRTUAL