Fine Arts & Humanities

A lecture and performances on domestic violence will be a part of the semester-long residency of folklorist Elaine Lawless, the Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Lawless, a professor of English at the University of Missouri, spent a sabbatical year volunteering at a shelter […]

Student playwrights will take center stage in a new one-act festival Oct. 6-9 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Long Story Shorts: The First Annual Festival of Ten Minute Plays” is a free festival sponsored by the writing for the screen and stage program in the department of communication studies. The festival

Nancie McDermott’s culinary journey has taken her full circle: from her grandmother’s big dairy farm kitchen in Orange County to the rural countryside in Thailand and back again. She writes about food for a living, but you won’t find her kitchen to be fussy or pretentious. It is a place where you can fall in love with cooking.

Art, fashion and textiles in early modern Europe are the focus of two upcoming lectures at the Hanes Art Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The speakers will come to campus as part of the Bettie Allison Rand Lecture Series, sponsored by the art department in UNC’s College of Arts and

Writer Al Young will receive the 2011 Thomas Wolfe Prize and deliver the annual lecture on Oct. 4 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The free public talk is at 7:30 p.m. in the historic Playmakers Theatre. Randall Kenan, an associate professor of English and creative writing at UNC, called Young “a

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will launch a new virtual lab that will encourage collaborative, interdisciplinary and innovative digital humanities projects.

A soprano, pianist, violinist and trumpeter make up the newest class of Kenan Music Scholars, who have received full scholarships in music to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The 2011 scholars are Kayla Hill, a soprano from Louisville, Ky.; Christina Lai, a pianist from Plantation, Fla.; Ina Liu, a violinist from

New York artist Thomas Nozkowski and Chicago art historian James Elkins will give free public talks this fall at the Hanes Art Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The speakers will come to campus as part of the Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series, sponsored by the art department in UNC’s College