Lunch With Friends & Strangers

Click in with Carolina Public Humanities’ Max Owre for Virtual Lunch With Friends and Strangers: Conversations With Faculty. Don’t miss this series of one-on-one talks with Tar Heels as they discuss leading figures in history — some likely strangers, some more familiar to you — and discover new things about impressive people. Here are our guests for Fall 2020:

• September 25 –  Lloyd Kramer on Marquis de Lafayette
• October 9 – Kathy Williams on Ida B Wells
• October 23 – Don Raleigh on Leonid Brezhnev
• October 30 – Matt Andrews on Billie Jean King
• November 6 – Beverly Taylor on Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• November 13 – Karin Pfennig on Joseph Leidy

Each lunch starts at 12:00 noon and runs approximately 30 minutes. Conversations will be accessed via a Zoom webinar (not a Zoom meeting).

The lunches will be recorded and available via the Carolina Public Humanities YouTube page.

Details for accessing the webinar will be sent by the morning of the lunch. Use the links above to register.

Summer 2020 Guests

• June 1 – Marcus Bull, professor of medieval and early modern studies, discusses Pierre de Bourdeille “Brantome” – The most interesting man in the world.
• June 3 – Emily Burrill, Director, African Studies Center, Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies and History, discusses Aoua Keita – The Revolutionary Midwife of the Sahel.
• June 5 – Lisa Lindsay, professor and history department chair, discusses James Churchill Vaughn –Finding Real African Roots
• June 8 – Tatiana String, associate professor of art and history, discusses Anne of Cleves – Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced.
• June 10 – Ashley Anderson, assistant professor of political science, discusses Habib Achour – An Old Lion for Labor.
• June 12 – Matt Andrews, teaching associate professor and history department adviser discusses Michael Jordan ’86 – A Basketball God Reconsidered.

  Co-sponsored by the UNC General Alumni Association