Six new faculty members will offer highlights of their work and research on such diverse topics as music and social change in Congo to tribal recognition in India March 19, 4-6 p.m. at Hyde Hall on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus.
The public is invited to attend the second annual New Faculty Microtalks, hosted by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH), and a reception that follows. The talks are part of the IAH’s New Faculty Program, designed to engage new College of Arts and Sciences faculty with the university community and promote interdisciplinary scholarship.
The six faculty members and their topics are:
- Jennifer Gates-Foster (Classics), “Archaeological Approaches to Ancient Borderlands.”
- Stephanie Elizondo Griest (English and Comparative Literature), “The Three Solitudes: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands.”
- Luca Grillo (Classics), “Irony, Imperialism and the End of the Roman Republic.”
- Chérie Rivers Ndaliko (Music), “Music and Social Change in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
- Townsend Middleton (Anthropology),” Ethnology’s Second Coming: Tribal Recognition in India.”
- Iqbal Sevea (History), “God’s Name is a Steamship: The Body and Piety in the Age of Modern Technologies of Circulation in North India.”
Terry Rhodes, senior associate dean for fine arts and humanities, will introduce the faculty members. Todd Ochoa, IAH associate director for new faculty development and assistant professor of religious studies, will moderate.
