Now you don’t just have to muddle through February. There are plenty of cultural and intellectual goodies on the College calendar, including the 35th Annual Carolina Jazz Festival. For more events, visit http://events.unc.edu/cal/main/showMain.rdo
Feb. 1: Non-fiction author Stephanie Elizondo Griest (Around the Block and Mexican Enough), will read from her work. 3:30 pm, Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room. https://college.unc.edu/2012/01/27/gries/
Feb. 1: The J Word: Finding Work in a Trouble Economy, a discussion with Chancellor Holden Thorp, Buck Goldstein and Julia Grumbles from the Minor in Entrepreneurship. 7 pm, Frank Porter Graham Student Union, Great Hall. http://www.unceminor.org
Feb. 2: Margit Kern of the Free University of Berlin will discuss Translation Processes in the Art of the Early Modern Age — Stone Crosses in New Spain, 6 pm, 104 Howell Hall. cbrachma@email.unc.edu
Feb. 2: Richard Luby, solo violin music of Bach, Part II. $10-$15 general admission. 919.962.1039. 7:30 pm, Historic Playmakers Theater . http://music.unc.edu
Feb. 3-4: Border Crossings, Migrations and Interventions, joint conference, South East Regional Seminar in African Studies and South East Africanist Network, sponsored by African Studies Center. Registration required. http://global.unc.edu
Feb. 3-14: Solo Takes on 3: Story, Identity and Desire, a festival of new one-person performance works presented by the department of communication studies. Swain Hall, Studio Six. https://college.unc.edu/2012/01/20/solotakeson3/
Feb. 7: Does Free Speech Trump Free Elections? Bob Hall, executive director of Democracy North Carolina, will discuss the impact of the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling and special interest money. 12:30 pm, Hyde Hall, University Room. Register online. http://parrcenter.unc.edu
Feb. 7: Performance artists Mendi and Keith Obadike. 6 pm, Hanes Art Center auditorium. http://art.unc.edu
Feb. 9: Mississippi Masala film screening and discussion, 7 pm, Varsity Theatre. Free with UNC One Card, $4 general public. http://www.ackland.org
Feb. 10-11: The Historical Jesus Revisited, a seminar with UNC religious studies scholar Bart Ehrman. $110-$125, register in advance. http://humanities.unc.edu
Feb. 11: The Red Clay Ramblers will be honored at PlayMakers Ball at the. Carolina Inn. Tickets: (919) 452-8417, lfield@email.unc.edu. https://college.unc.edu/2012/01/20/ramblersball
Feb. 14: Soviet Baby Boomers, a discussion with UNC historian Don Raleigh. $8-$20, register in advance. 3:30 pm http://humanities.unc.edu
Feb. 14-March 6: E.A.R. to the Ground, exhibit by UNC Art alum and mixed media artist Becca Albee, lecture and opening reception Feb. 14 at 6 pm, Hanes Art Center auditorium. eoslavic@gmail.com
Feb. 16: Maria Hayward, University of Southampton,UK, discusses Virtue and Vice: Clothing and Kingship at the Courts of Charles I and Charles II, for the Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History. 5:30 pm, Hanes Art Center auditorium. http://art.unc.edu
Feb. 16: Columbia University historian Mark Mazower will discuss The European Union and the Crisis of Global Governance, for the Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies, 7:30 pm, Hanes Art Center auditorium. http://iah.unc.edu
Feb. 16: UNC Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 pm, Hill Hall auditorium. http://music.unc.edu
Feb. 16: Hutchins Lecture with Texas State University archaeologist Kent Reilly, on The Art and Iconography of the Ancient American South, 4:30 pm, Graham Memorial Hall, 039. http://www.uncsouth.org/
Feb. 17: Minorities, Institutions and Human Rights: World War I to Libya, a forum with Columbia University historian Mark Mazower and historians from UNC and Duke, 2 pm, Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room. http://iah.unc.edu
Feb. 22: The Meaning of Political Protest, a discussion of the history of protest and what lessons might be applied to the modern Tea Party and Occupy movements, with UNC distinguished philosophy professor Bernard Boxill. 12 noon. Register online. http://parrcenter.unc.edu
Feb. 23-25: Thirty-Fifth Annual Carolina Jazz Festival, featuring bassist Christian McBride and Inside Straight, artist-in-residence saxophonist Steve Wilson, UNC Jazz Band , UNC Jazz Combo, Charanga Carolina, Essentially Ellington Regional High School Jazz Festival. Tickets at Memorial Box Office, 919.843.3333. http://music.unc.edu/jazzfest
Feb. 26: Sarah Thomsen Vierra, recent UNC Ph.D. in modern European history, will discuss The Place and Purpose of Turkish Mosques in West Germany. 5 pm. Register with smilder@unc.edu http://www.unc.edu/ncgs
Feb. 28: Leading science philosopher Philip Kitcher, Columbia University, will discuss Dissent: The Role of Scientists and Dissenters in Public Debate, for the Polanyi Lecture in the History and Philosophy of Natural Science. He’ll talk about new approaches to public discourse on climate change, bioethics and other controversial issues. 5:30 pm, Murray Hall 202G, in the science complex off of Polk Place. https://college.unc.edu/2012/01/30/kitcher/
Feb. 28: Science philosopher Philip Kitcher (see above) will discuss Dissent for Lunch and Learn with the Parr Center for Ethics. 12 noon. Register online. http://parrcenter.unc.edu
Feb. 28: Shared Tables: Triangle Symposium on Global and Local Food Studies. Part I at UNC. Workshops from 8:30 am to 4 pm, Hyde Hall; keynote by sustainable food writer/farmer Tom Philpott of Grist and Mother Jones, at 7 pm at FedEx Global Education Center. Free, registration required. http://sharedtablessymp.wordpress.com/
Feb. 29: Shared Tables, Part II at Duke University. Workshops 8 am to 5 pm at Bryan Center, keynote by Will Allen, McArthur “Genius” Fellow and urban farmer-founder of Growing Power, at 7 pm, Reynolds Theater. Free, registration required. http://sharedtablessymp.wordpress.com/
Ongoing
Through Feb. 7: UNC’s First-Year MFA Exhibit, Built Forged Faked, explores unraveling narratives of identity, race, gender, geography, ritual and constructed spaces. Alcott Gallery, Hanes Art Center. http://www.art.unc.edu
Through March 4: PlayMakers presents Shakespeare’s The Making of King: Henry IV and Henry V in rotating repertory. http://www.playmakersrep.org
Through April 14: Carolina Global Photography Exhibition, Fed Ex Global Education Center. http://global.unc.edu
