We’re excited about the new academic year, new chancellor and provost, and new colleagues and students. We invite you to kick-start the Fall by exploring some of the special events on our September calendar:
Sept. 3: Intervention in Syria? Problems, Prospects and Contexts, a roundtable discussion with scholars from history, law, communication studies, public policy, security studies, psychological operations and military logistics. 5 pm, FedEx Global Education Center, Mandela Auditorium. tamari@unc.edu
Sept. 4-8: PlayMakers presents the world premiere of Surviving Twin, starring Grammy-winning singer-songwriter-storyteller Loudon Wainwright III, in memory of his father, the Life magazine writer Loudon Wainwright, Jr. Directed by Joe Haj. $15-$40. http://www.playmakersrep.org/
Sept. 5: Eminent southern historian William Ferris will talk about his new book, The Storied South, drawn from interviews with writers and artists from Eudora Welty and Pete Seeger to Alice Walker, Bobby Rush and C. Vann Woodward. 5:30 pm, Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room. Photo exhibit at Center for the Study of the American South, 410 E Franklin St., opens Sept. 3 at 5:30 pm. liza_terll@unc.edu
Sept. 5-Oct. 3: Vollis Simpson whirligigs and metal works on exhibit at Hanes Art Center, Allcott Gallery. Reception Sept. 5, 6-8 pm. Gallery is open M-F, 8 am to 5 pm. valent@email.unc.edu
Sept. 6: Global Protests in Context, a panel of scholars will discuss protests around the world from Brazil to Cairo to Raleigh. 5:30 pm, FedEx Global Education Center, Mandela Auditorium. regina_higgins@unc.edu
Sept. 6: Harvard University music historian Kate van Orden presents the Pruett Lecture as part of the Carolina Symposia in Music and Culture. 4:15 pm, Person Hall. http://music.unc.edu/
Sept. 6-7: Jabberbox Puppet Theater, Creative Writing Professor Marianne Gingher and Deborah Seabrooke present Unleashed! A wacky semi-adult puppet comedy adapted from a story by Creative Writing Director Daniel Wallace. 8 pm, $10-$12, The Arts Center, 300 E. Main, Carrboro. http://jabberboxpuppettheater.com/
Sept. 9: What Is the Social Ecology of Rape? A discussion with Rebecca Macy (Social Work), Beth Posner (Law) and John Sweet (History). 4 pm, Hyde Hall. Sexuality Studies. http://sexualitystudies.unc.edu/
Sept. 12: University of Michigan Professor Robert Kennedy discusses “The NanoLiter Lab” for the Oscar K. Rice Lecture in Chemistry. Noon. Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library.
Sept. 12: Military historian Richard Kohn discusses “Six Myths about Civil-Military Relations in the United States.” 4 pm, Hamilton Hall 569. klaus.larres@gmail.com
Sept. 12-13: How Jesus Became God, an Adventures in Ideas Humanities seminar featuring distinguished UNC religious studies scholar Bart Ehrman. $125, http://humanities.unc.edu
Sept. 12: Reception for ongoing exhibition of The Awakening: Parallel Worlds, mixed media composite work of American Indian artist Alyssa Hinton. Reception at 5:30 pm, exhibit runs through Dec. 6. FedEx Global Education Center. http://global.unc.edu
Sept. 12: Cambridge University historian Ulinka Rublack discusses the costume books of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz. 5:30 pm, Hanes Art Center Auditorium. cbrachma@email.unc.edu
Sept. 12: UNC Faculty Jazz Trio, late-night jam featuring American standards and original compositions from the Stephen Anderson Trio. 9:30 pm, Kenan Music Building. http://music.unc.edu
Sept. 15: J. Franklin Williamson, doctoral candidate in history, will discuss Myth, Memory and War Experience: German Public Mourning After Defeat, 1918 and 1945, part of the N.C. German Studies Seminar Series. 5 pm, Hyde Hall. http://www.unc.edu/ncgs
Sept. 17: Russian historian Donald Raleigh will lead a Lunch and Learn discussion, 12:30 pm, FedEx Global Education Center, Room 3009. Register for boxed lunch by calling 919.962.0901. http://cseees.unc.edu/
Sept. 17: Ambassador Frank Wisner on “the United States and the Crisis in the Middle East.” 5:30 pm, FedEx Global Education Center, Mandela Auditorium. klaus_larres@gmail.com
Sept. 17: Creative Writing Director and author Daniel Wallace reads from his newest novel, The Kings and Queens of Roam. 5:30 pm, Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room. liza_terll@unc.edu
Sept. 17: Carolina Wind Quintet. 8 pm, Gerrard Hall. Music. http://music.unc.edu
Sept. 18 – Oct. 6: PlayMakers Repertory Company presents The Mountaintop. A mysterious woman leads Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to confront his innermost thoughts and fears on the eve of his assassination. Tickets: 919.962.7529. http://www.playmakersrep.org
Sept. 20: Historian Erika Kuhlman, Co-Director of Women’s Studies at Idaho State University, discusses Transnational Cultures of Mourning: War Widows and Fallen Soldiers in World War I. Part of the Duke-UNC Gender, War and Culture Series. 4 pm, Hyde Hall, Incubator Room. http://gwc.web.unc.edu
Sept. 20-21: Flying Erase Head, sound performances around experimental instruments, videos and constrained composition techniques. 8 pm, Gerrard Hall. http://processseries.unc.edu
Sept. 24: Anton Kannemeyer delivers the Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture. 6 p.m. Hanes Art Center Room 121. Free.
Sept. 26: Remembering the Wilmington Ten: African American Politics, Judicial Misconduct and the 1970s, with Kenneth Janken, Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies. 4:30 pm, Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room. http://south.unc.edu/
Sept. 26: Economist and UNC alumnus Peter Blair Henry, dean of NYU Stern School of Business, will discuss Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth. 5:30 pm, FedEx Global Education Center, Mandela Auditorium. http://global.unc.edu
Sept. 28: UNC violinist Jennifer Curtis with colleagues Brent Wissick, cello, and Clara Yang, piano, and guest artist Michelle Farah, oboe. $10-$15, at the door. 8 pm, Hill Hall Auditorium. http://music.unc.edu
Sept. 30: Is Rape Political? A discussion with UNC-G historian Lisa Levenstein and UNC-CH American Studies scholar Michelle Robinson and Southern Oral Historian Rachel Seidman. 4 pm, Hyde Hall. http://sexualitystudies.unc.edu/
Sept. 30: UNC Economics Professor Emeritus Michael Salemi presents “Debt and Taxes,” a discussion on economics designed for non-economists. 6 pm, Chapman Hall 211. Joseph_diconcilio@unc.edu
