Happy New Year. Get warmed up for the spring term by checking out the many events on the College of Arts and Sciences January calendar. Highlights and links below.
Jan. 9 – 13: PlayMakers’ PRC2 presents And God Created Great Whales. $15-$36.
https://college.unc.edu/2012/12/18/playmakersgreatwhales/
Jan. 10: A folklore colloquium with Grammy Award winners Lance and April Ledbetter, Mississippi Blues Trail creator Scott Barretta, and bluesman Jake Fussell. 5 pm, Love House and Hutchins Forum, 410 E. Franklin St. http://www.uncsouth.org/
Jan. 12: All-Carolina Men’s Invitational Choral Festival concert, with UNC Men’s Glee Club and male high school chorus students from around the state. $5. 5:30 pm. Hill Hall. http://music.unc.edu/events
Jan. 15: IAH Fellows Recognition Party, a celebration of new publications, performances and compositions by Institute for the Arts and Humanities Fellows. 4 pm, Hyde Hall University Room. http://iah.unc.edu/events/calendar
Jan. 16: Eco-hydrologist Jeffrey McDonnell presents the Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture in conjunction with the UNC Water in Our World Initiative. 5:30 pm, FedEx Global Education Center, Mandela Auditorium. http://watertheme.unc.edu/
Jan. 17: UNC Music faculty Richard Luby and Clara Yang join guest artist Fred Raimi to present works by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. 7:30 pm, Hill Hall. http://music.unc.edu/events
NOTE: LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS. Jan. 17 – Feb. 7: Alcott Gallery MFA Alumni Art Exhibition featuring the work of Sharon Lee Hart and Ashley Oates. Hart will discuss her work Jan. 17 at 6 pm in Hanes Art Center Auditorium. http://art.unc.edu/News_Events/Events/CCM3_039198
Jan. 20: Kristen Dolan, UNC history doctoral student, will discuss Internment Camps and the Politics of Denazification in American Occupied Germany, 1944-1950. 5 pm, Hyde Hall. http://www.unc.edu/ncgs
Jan. 22: Historian William Leuchtenburg will discuss US Presidents and Foreign Policy from Harry Truman to Barack Obama. 4 pm, Hamilton Hall 369. k.larres@unc.edu
Jan. 22: UNC faculty are invited to join representatives from UNC Press and Duke University Press in a conversation on academic press publishing. 4 pm, Hyde Hall University Room. http://iah.unc.edu/events/calendar
Jan. 22: Hanes Visiting Artist Lecturer Lauren Cornell will discuss developments in contemporary art and emerging technology. 6 pm, Hanes Art Center. http://art.unc.edu
Jan. 24-25: A two-day series on Gender, War and Violence: Remembering the 1990s War on the Balkans. Includes a screening and discussion of the Angelina Jolie film In the Land of Blood and Honey, Jan. 24, 5 pm at the FedEx Global Education Center; and a public discussion on Masculinity, Sexual Violence and Ethnicity in the Balkan Wars and Beyond, Jan. 25, 4 pm at Hyde Hall. http://gwc.web.unc.edu/
Jan. 26 – March 3: PlayMakers presents two dramas exploring race and the meaning of home: A Raisin in the Sun and Clybourne Park, in rotating repertory. Tickets and schedule for plays and related talks, film screenings and more: https://college.unc.edu/2013/01/02/raisinclybourne/
Jan. 28: UNC archaeologist Jodi Magness will discuss and share images of exciting discoveries from recent excavations in the ancient village and synagogue of Huqoq. 7:30 pm, Friday Center. http://www.unc.edu/ccjs/events.html
Jan. 31 – Feb. 2: W.E.B. DuBois and the Problem(s) of the 21st Century, a symposium presented by distinguished faculty, alumni, students and honored guests of the Department of African and Afro-American Studies. Hyde Hall University Room. Details and registration online: http://duboisconference.web.unc.edu
