{"id":7475,"date":"2014-03-06T15:40:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T20:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=7475"},"modified":"2024-07-02T14:36:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:36:15","slug":"microtalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=7475","title":{"rendered":"Six new UNC faculty members offer highlights of their work March 19"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Stephanie<\/a>
Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a new faculty member in English who will talk about her work. (photo by Beth Lawrence)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s New Faculty Program, designed to engage new College of Arts and Sciences faculty with the university community and promote interdisciplinary scholarship.<\/p>\n

The six faculty members and their topics are:<\/p>\n

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  • Jennifer Gates-Foster (Classics), \u201cArchaeological Approaches to Ancient Borderlands.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Stephanie Elizondo Griest (English and Comparative Literature), \u201cThe Three Solitudes: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Luca Grillo (Classics), \u201cIrony, Imperialism and the End of the Roman Republic.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Ch\u00e9rie Rivers Ndaliko (Music), \u201cMusic and Social Change in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Townsend Middleton (Anthropology),\u201d Ethnology’s Second Coming: Tribal Recognition in India.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Iqbal Sevea (History), \u201cGod\u2019s Name is a Steamship: The Body and Piety in the Age of Modern Technologies of Circulation in North India.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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