Summer 2021 Virtual Events
Summer 2021 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.
Adventures in Ideas seminars
- Plato’s Republic and the Meaning of Justice | Saturday, June 5 (9:30 am–2:30 pm)
- Conceptions of Time from the Big Bang to Daylight Saving | Saturday, June 26 (9:15 am–3:30 pm)
Dialogues seminars
- Art, Monuments, and Power in Native American Cultures Before 1500 | Saturday, June 12 (9 am–12:30 pm)
- Ella Baker, Barack Obama, and the Long Struggle for Equal Rights | Saturday, June 19 (9 am–12:30 pm)
- Caribbean Connections | Thursday, June 3 (7– 8:30 pm)
- The World and Music of Chopin | Thursday, June 10 (7– 8:30 pm)
- Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston | Tuesdays, May 18 & 25 (10 am–12 pm)
- SOLD OUT – English Romantic Poetry: Blake and Wordsworth | Tuesdays, June 1 & 8 (10 am–12 pm)
- SOLD OUT – Persuasion by Jane Austen | Tuesdays, June 15 & 22 (10 am–12 pm)
Lunch with Friends & Strangers
- David Pfennig and Mary Anning | Friday, June 11 (12–1 pm)
- Annegret Fauser and Aaron Copland | Friday, June 18 (12–1 pm)
- Daniel Cobb and D’Arcy McNickle | Friday, June 25 (12–1 pm)
- A Celebration of Community: Black Poetry and Power | Saturday, May 22 (10 am–1 pm)
- History, Politics, and Public Life: A Conversation with William Leuchtenburg, William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus | Wednesday, June 2 (4:30–6 pm)