Fine Arts & Humanities

Peter Sherwood, Laszlo Birinyi Sr. Distinguished Professor of Hungarian Language and Culture, was recognized by the International Association for Hungarian Studies (IAHS) with the János Lotz medal for promoting Hungarian studies abroad. The IAHS was established in 1977 for Hungarian scholars, both within and outside the country. Its duties include publishing an English-language journal, Hungarian […]

Art graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will explore issues of race, geography, time, faith, evolution and more in an exhibition opening Friday (Nov. 4) at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education. The exhibition, “Don’t Be Intimidated By This Painting,” will open with a reception at 6

Actor-playwright Nilaja Sun’s timely one-woman show “No Child…” comes to PlayMakers Repertory Company Jan. 11-15, as part of the theater’s PRC2 second-stage series. “No Child…” replaces “The Amish Project” by Jessica Dickey. The playwright had to cancel her PlayMakers appearance because of other obligations. PRC2 is PlayMakers’ acclaimed series in which each performance is followed

PlayMakers Repertory Company is collaborating with artist Charlotta Janssen, utilizing her work onstage and in exhibition during the run of the theater’s world premiere of “The Parchman Hour: Songs and Stories of the ’61 Freedom Riders.” Charlotta Janssen is a German-American visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been shown around the

An adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s book “Eating Animals” will be performed Nov. 10-12 and Nov. 17-19 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The play will kick off the 2011-2012 performance season in the communication studies department, part of UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. “Eating Animals” was chosen by both UNC

In the summer of 1961, during the first months of America’s civil rights movement, waves of young people rode buses into the heart of the deep South. Mostly college students, the interracial groups challenged Jim Crow laws that segregated interstate travel in the region. Their bravery helped change the course of American history. PlayMakers Repertory

Two scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have won awards from the National Communication Association (NCA), the largest national organization that promotes communication scholarship and education. Dennis Mumby, professor of communication studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, received a Distinguished Scholar Award for a lifetime of scholarly achievement in