April 2018
Visions and Revisions: Romance Utopias and Dystopias
This is the 24th Annual Carolina Conference for Romance Studies, presented by the Department of Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Over the past 23 years, the conference has grown tremendously and is now one of the largest conferences in the country coordinated entirely by graduate students. Each year, professors and graduate students from all over the globe present papers on literature, film, and interdisciplinary topics in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. For the third…
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Yaron Shemer and Michael A. Figueroa, ‘Art Beyond Hostilities: Music and Film in Israel and Palestine’
Often described as the “world’s most intractable conflict,” the crisis embroiling Israel and Palestine has been making headlines for more than 70 years. But behind the violence and deep political and religious divisions lie human stories, told through artistic interventions into the conflict that reflect the possibilities for, and limitations of, Israeli-Palestinian collaboration. This Dialogues seminar will focus on cinema and music as examples of Israelis and Palestinians creating art that goes beyond hostilities. We’ll look at the Oscar-nominated Israeli-Palestinian…
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Global Brexit and the Lost Futures of European Empires
This event will address global responses to the United Kingdom’s anticipated exit from the European Union, and explore the historical context of these events. The keynote panel will take place April 4, and workshop panels will take place April 4–6. More information about topics, speakers, dates and locations can be found here. These events are co-sponsored by the UNC Department of History; African Studies Center; Carolina Asia Center; Carolina Center for Jewish Studies; Carolina Seminars; Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies; Center for Global Initiatives; College of Arts…
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Pillars of Antiquity: Space and Time in Egypt, Greece and Rome
People in the ancient world developed complex ideas about time and place to help them understand their place in the geographic and cosmological order. This seminar will provide new perspectives on how ancient cultures in Egypt, Greece and Rome described the meaning of the cosmos, the importance of prophecies and the significance of time in human lives. Join us for a discussion of how the ancient world created social practices and cultural legacies that endured for centuries in the Mediterranean…
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International Trade and Cultural Exchange from the Renaissance to Today
What do we learn when we exchange goods and ideas with other cultures? How does engagement with the wider world help us understand ourselves? This seminar explores connections among commerce, art and culture in three eras. We’ll travel to early modern Venice to learn about that city-state’s ascendance as a commercial power in Europe and understand how business with the East helped usher in the modern age. Next, we’ll be introduced to American artists of the 19th-century era of imperial…
Find out more »Theatrical Translation as Creative Process: A Conference Festival II
The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review, in collaboration with the Process Series, the Department of Dramatic Art, the Department of Romance Studies and UNC Global at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Language Acts and Worldmaking project at King’s College London will hold a conference/festival on theatrical translation as creative process. Staged readings of translated material with the translators in attendance will be presented and open space will be provided for discussion of theatrical translation, as…
Find out more »The Atomic Bomb and the End of the Second World War
This event is sold out. To be added to the waitlist, email human@unc.edu with your first and last name, email address and phone number. Political and military leaders in the United States planned a final military campaign that could end the war with Japan in 1945, but a land invasion would carry extremely high human and economic costs. The U.S. decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki evolved from careful strategic analysis of these costs, but the new weapons inflicted…
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