Skip to main content

Elizabeth Turk, ‘Healing by the Nation’s Nature in Mongolia: Asian, Central European and Soviet Influences in Medical and Environmental History’

FedEx Global Education Center, DeBerry Board Room 3009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Carolina Global and Transnational History Seminar is pleased to announce our next meeting, co-sponsored by the UNC Department of History and the UNC Center for European Studies. Elizabeth Turk of the University of Cambridge and Columbia University, will speak … Read more

CANCELED: Agnes Kefili, ‘Varieties of Esoteric Islam in Post-Soviet Tatarstan’

FedEx Global Education Center 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

After the collapse of the USSR, intellectuals from traditionally Soviet Muslim ethnicities began the complicated process of rethinking their religious identities, political philosophies, and worldviews. Although Western scholars often present this process as an unproblematic “return to Islam,” the newly … Read more

ChatGPT in Context

University Room, Hyde Hall 176 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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 … Read more