A six-day long conference-festival called “Telling Our Stories of Home” will bring together faculty, activists, and performers to workshop, present and engage with feminist discourses of home.
Dynamic plays from three important women playwrights, plus a landmark Arthur Miller drama, a romantic Shakespearean romp and a beloved musical masterpiece, will highlight the 2016-2017 main-stage season from PlayMakers Repertory Company. The new season is the first selected by Vivienne Benesch, PlayMakers’ new producing artistic director.
PlayMakers announces 2016-2017 season Read More »
The UNC Process Series is excited to kick off its 2016 season with two exciting new works. Admission to both is free with a suggested five-dollar donation. Seats can be reserved on the Process Series website. Mary Domingo, a new play by Anne García Romero, follows the story Mary Peabody Mann, widow of 19th century
Process Series presents Mary Domingo, Lowest Form of Poetry Read More »
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (MURAP), a national program that aims to diversify the pool of students pursuing doctoral degrees in the humanities, social sciences and fine arts. MURAP works with students
The host of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” contributing editor at The Atlantic and Washington Post columnist will speak on the value of a liberal arts education.
News analyst Fareed Zakaria to speak March 8 Read More »
Miguel Rocha Vivas, who received a Ph.D. in 2015 from the department of romance studies, has received Cuba’s prestigious international literature award, Premio Literario Casa de las Américas 2016.
Ph.D. alumnus awarded prestigious Cuba literary prize Read More »
Many events are free at the 39th annual event — which features concerts, workshops, open rehearsals, master classes, the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Festival and more.
The Count Basie Orchestra to headline 2016 Carolina Jazz Festival Feb. 17-20 Read More »
Play about historic African genocide confronts contemporary racism; first pre-show event starts Feb. 8.
‘We Are Proud to Present …’ starts Feb. 24 at PlayMakers Read More »
The African Studies Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill celebrates its tenth anniversary in the 2015-2016 academic year.
Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the African Studies Center Read More »
The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies gathers scholars, journalists, students and the public to explore antisemitism’s past and present.
Scholarly conference April 10-12 at UNC-Chapel Hill to explore antisemitism Read More »
