February 2021

Forward into February

The spring semester continues with an awesome lineup of events across the College in February, so cozy up with a mug of coffee or tea for these webinars. Learn how English majors succeed in business, hear an illuminating discussion with literary scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. for the College's signature Frey Lecture, listen to some Carolina jazz, experience diverse voices at a storytelling festival and much more. Below is a sampling and not a complete list. Follow College social media, @unccollege, where you'll find updated information, and visit the UNC Events Calendar. Keep up with College news at college.unc.edu.

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"The World in 2021"

Krasno Global Event Series

Wednesday, Feb. 3, 5:30 p.m.

The Honorable Bob Carr, former minister of foreign affairs of Australia and the former longest serving prime minister of New South Wales, will discuss "The World in 2021: How Global Politics Will Change Developments in the U.S., Australia, China and Europe." The event will be moderated by Klaus Larres, Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor.

Learn more about the Zoom event.

"How to Succeed in Business with an English Major"

Department of English and Comparative Literature

Thursday, Feb. 4, 5:30 p.m.

Hear from Carolina English alumni who became leaders in the business world. Learn how they used their English skills to succeed in business — and why they like to hire English majors. Panelists include David Gardner of Motley Fool, Lucrecia Moore of Wells Fargo, Brad Wilson of Wilson Strategic Consulting, Sallie Shuping Russell of BlackRock Private Equity Partners and Tierny Bates of University Career Services.

Learn more and register for the English panel.

"Sousveillance and How to Think Like a Forest"

Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture

Monday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m.

Join artists Maria Gaspar, Huong Ngo and Anna Martine Whitehead in this panel event hosted by the UNC art department. They'll discuss the idea of "sousveillance" -- watching from below of "the monitoring of authorities by informal networks of regular people, equipped with little more than cellphone cameras, video blogs and more." The artists will discuss their respective practices, which encompass performance, social practice and installation.

Learn more and register to attend the Hanes artists panel.

"The Legacy of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow"

Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting Lecture

Tuesday, Feb. 9, 5:30 p.m.

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates Jr., the spring 2021 Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor, will discuss "The Legacy of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow" in conversation with Karla Slocum in this free webinar. Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Slocum is the director of UNC's Institute of African American Research and professor of anthropology.

Learn more at go.unc.edu/gates and register for the event.

Storytelling Festival: Remembrance and Renewal

UNC Process Series

Feb. 17-21

The UNC Process Series Storytelling Festival will feature both traditional and contemporary stories from nationally and locally known storytellers in a five-day festival. The event will focus on diverse voices, all addressing the ideas of remembrance and renewal. How can storytelling illuminate the world as it is now? Can it build community and create cultural and institutional change? Can it be used as an effective platform to battle systemic racism?

Learn more and reserve tickets for the festival.

Two College lectures during civil rights symposium

Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Honors Carolina

Feb. 18-19

Honors Carolina and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities will partner with the UNC Center for Civil Rights for two lectures during the online symposium, "Equal Protection's Grand Promise and Betrayals: Reconstruction, Plessy to Bakke and Beyond: Is There a Way Forward?"

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, will discuss "The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution," for the Frank Porter Graham Lecture on Feb. 18 at 12:15 p.m.

Eric Holder, former U.S. attorney general, will deliver the Weil Lecture on American Citizenship Feb. 19 at 9 a.m.

Register for the symposium, which gives you access to the two lectures.

The IAH will also host Catherine Woollard for the Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture in European Studies Feb. 25 at noon. Woollard will address "Protection vs. Externalization: The politics of law and asylum in Europe 2015-2020."

Learn more about Woollard's lecture.

Hanes Writers-in-Residence Panels

Department of English and Comparative Literature

Feb. 22 and 25

The Frank B. Hanes Writers-in-Residence Program will bring together author and activist the Rev. William J. Barber II and North Carolina poet laureate Jaki Shelton Green for two events.

A reading, conversation and Q&A with Barber and Green, moderated by Gene Nichol of the UNC School of Law, will be held Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. A panel on environmental justice with the Hanes writers-in-residence and N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein will be held Feb. 25 at 3:30 p.m.

Learn more and register for the events.