May 2018
How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Religion & Islamophobia in America
Featuring Samah Choudhury and Hina Muneeruddin This talk will go through some manifestations of Islamophobia today and discuss how they help us understand the intersection of race, religion, and gender in America. These scholars will discuss contemporary cultural and political images concerning Islam and Muslims and look at the "culture of difference" experienced by Muslim Americans today. What kind of trauma does this culture of difference inflict? What happens when they speak and we don’t listen?
Find out more »April 2019
(Re)collecting Scottish Gaelic Memories from North Carolina in the Southern Folklife Collection
Dr. Tiber F.M. Falzett is the inaugural Scottish Heritage USA Visiting Lecturer in Scottish Gaelic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has conducted over a decade of fieldwork among Scottish Gaelic speakers in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia and the Outer Hebrides of Scotland exploring the links between the Scottish Gaelic language, its music and its verbal art. A fluent Scottish Gaelic speaker as well as a singer and bagpiper, Tiber especially values the power of language…
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