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February 2023
ChatGPT in Context
What is ChatGPT? Where did it come from? What does it mean for science, scholarship, and public life? Join this interdisciplinary panel for a discussion of this new technology and its real and imagined impacts on the campus community. Alice Marwick, associate professor in the Department of Communication and principal researcher at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life Shashank Srivastava, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science Heesoo Jang, Richard Cole fellow at the Hussman School of…
Find out more »Ambassador W. Robert Pearson ‘Turkey’s Difficult but Powerful Role in Russia’s War Against Ukraine’
Please join TFED and the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs as we welcome Ambassador W. Robert Pearson on February 9 to discuss “Turkey’s Difficult but Powerful Role in Russia's War Against Ukraine.”
Find out more »Demystifying ESG: Charting a Career in Sustainability
Join the Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise to learn about career paths in sustainability and to address the opportunities and risks of an environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) centered approach to financial decision-making. ESG has become a major talking point for a growing number of financial and corporate firms driven by a desire for values-based investing while delivering competitive financial returns. There will be presentations from industry leaders, career advice, and a featured debate with top UNC scholars on…
Find out more »Palm Oil Voices: Making Audible and Tactile Deforested Futures in Indonesia
In cooperation with the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Carolina Asia Center is proud to co-host Palm Oil Voices: Making Audible and Tactile Deforest Futures in Indonesia with Bonnie Etherington Dr. Etherington is Lecturer in Literary & Creative Communication in the School of English, Film, Theatre, Media Studies, and Art History at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
Find out more »Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies
Howard University professor Ana Lucia Araujo will deliver the 2023 Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies on Feb. 23 with a presentation titled “Slavery as History and Memory.” The lecture will examine the recent international developments surrounding the fall of pro-slavery monuments and demands of symbolic and material reparations for slavery and colonialism. By exploring the history of the public debates about slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, the lecture aims to illuminate why and how these debates…
Find out more »‘The Fandango and the Nuevo South: Mapping Mexican Migration and a New Mountain Music’ Lecture with Sophia Enriquez
What Perla Guerrero identifies as the newest iteration of the “New South”, the framework of the Nuevo South reflects how Latinx communities continue to expand and transform the economic, political, and cultural landscape of U.S South. Yet there is still little work that seriously centers the music and celebratory practices of Latinx communities in the South as ways to understand this transformation. This talk asks: what does the Nuevo South sound like? What role do music, food, and dance practices…
Find out more »March 2023
The Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies 20th year anniversary: Comedy and Hip-Hop Show
Students, faculty, and members of the community are all invited to join us for an evening of entertainment featuring Tehran Ghasri, a Black-Persian stand-up comedian, followed by a performance by Syrian-American hip-hop artist Omar Offendum and accompanied by Palestinian-American musician Ronnie Malley and NC local DJ Rang. More about the performers: Tehran Ghasri is a comedian, actor, host, television and radio personality, and philosopher with a law degree. Self-described as part Black, part Persian and part amazing, Tehran has been compared to a mix of Dave…
Find out more »Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Mitsuko Uchida, piano and director
Mitsuko Uchida, one of the greatest Mozart interpreters of our time, shares a long-term collaboration with the MCO, focused on Mozart’s piano concertos. Mitsuko Uchida leads the orchestra from the keyboard. The partnership brings Mitsuko Uchida and the MCO to major venues and multiple-concert residencies across the world. It kicked off in January 2016 with an extensive European tour with 5 concerts in Spain (Alicante, Valencia, Barcelona, Oviedo, and Bilbao) and further performances in Luxembourg, Salzburg, and Frankfurt. Each concert…
Find out more »Diplomatic Discussion with Rana Foroohar, Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Thomas Friedman declared globalization the new economic order in The World Is Flat. But the reign of globalization as we’ve known it is over, argues Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst Rana Foroohar, and the rise of local, regional and home-grown business is now at hand. Foroohar will explore economic localization, the subject of her latest book, "Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post Global World," in a Diplomatic Discussion with the…
Find out more »African Studies Center Language Fair 2023
Celebrate African Languages at UNC-Chapel Hill. The African Language Fair has become one of UNC’s traditions of celebrating Africa’s linguistic and cultural presence on campus. This year’s event will be mostly in-person with student performances and guest artists. Swahili (Jabali Afrika) Wolof (Diali and Diable) Yoruba (Talking Drum by Oluwadamilare Adeoye)
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