This interdisciplinary conference taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will feature keynote speakers Stephanie Elizondo Griest and Sara Uribe. This event is sponsored by by the Department of Romance Studies; Institute for the Study of … Read more
Ellen Elias-Bursac translates fiction and non-fiction from Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. Her translation of David Albahari’s novel Götz and Meyer received the 2006 ALTA National Translation Award. Her book Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working in a Tug-of-War was … Read more
In honor of their 95th anniversary, the Odum Institute is organizing a speaker series to highlight the interdisciplinary impacts of social science research. As part of this series, Mai Nguyen from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department … Read more
Laura Grimaldi, an Italian painter based in North Carolina, will open a dialogue with the audience on the topic of migration, human rights and the power of storytelling through art, centered around her artistic project on the contemporary Mediterranean migration … Read more
This lecture will focus on the politics of publishing as it relates to labels such as ‘French’ and ‘Francophone.’ Holly Collins’ discussion concentrates on how Québec’s publishing industry boomed at the turn of the 20th century, challenging the prestige and … Read more
This lecture will present the major findings by a team of scholars about the history of Hasidism, from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. This pietistic movement started in a remote corner of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, … Read more
This lecture will present the major findings by a team of scholars about the history of Hasidism, from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. This pietistic movement started in a remote corner of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, … Read more
Marie-Celie Agnant is a Haitian-Quebecois author who writes about the diasporic experience. From Agnant: "My presentation which includes readings of extracts of some of my prose and also poetry, is a testimony in which I expose what I consider as … Read more
Marie-Celie Agnant is a Haitian-Quebecois author who writes about the diasporic experience. From Agnant: “My presentation which includes readings of extracts of some of my prose and also poetry, is a testimony in which I expose what I consider as … Read more
Sarah Horton, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado, Denver, has conducted more than a decade of research on farmworkers’ health and labor conditions in California’s Central Valley, and is author of “They Leave their Kidneys in the … Read more
