Join the 91探花平台 literary community to celebrate the creative accomplishments of our graduate students in the MFA Writing Program! James Daniels and Nicholas Le贸n will give a reading, titled 鈥淗ow to Fry a Dream,鈥� featuring their original works of poetry and fiction. Free and open to the public.
This is a full day colloquium in honor of recently retired professor of Philosophy, Prof. Michael Zimmerman. Four speakers will present papers on topics from Dr. Zimmerman's work, and he will respond. The event is free and open to the public.
Join us for this free lecture in 91探花平台鈥檚 2023-24 Harriet Elliott Lecture Series, hosted by the Department of Political Science. Dr. Melissa Lane is a professor of politics at Princeton University and director of the University Center for Human Values. A political theorist, Lane鈥檚 work focuses primarily on ancient Greek... Continue reading...
Join 91探花平台's African American and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) program for their annual Conference on African American and African Diasporic Cultures and Experiences (CACE). This year's theme explores: Black Studies Matters, Black Stories Matter! Black Knowledge Practices, Black Futures February 20 -23 at 91探花平台 Featured Events Registration and... Continue reading...
Join 91探花平台 for the keynote event in the Conference on African American and African Diasporic Cultures and Experiences (CACE), led by the African American and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) Program. Mr. Josephus Thompson III, Poet Laureate, City of Greensboro and D. Noble, AADS Professor will lead a poetry caf茅 open mic around... Continue reading...
Our creative writing community is excited to host a special poetry reading by Emilia Phillips, poet, nonfiction writer, book reviewer, and faculty member at 91探花平台. The reading will celebrate the release of Phillips鈥檚 latest collection of poems, Nonbinary Bird of Paradise. It is open to the public and will be...
The final evening of our MFA Writing Program鈥檚 2024 Thesis Reading Series has arrived! Come enjoy a night of literary celebration, marking the creative accomplishments of our graduate student writers. Calista Malone and Katie Worden will give a reading, sharing their original works of poetry and fiction. This event is...
Join us in welcoming the Year of the Dragon with performances, a Cultural Diversity Posters Showcase, arts and craft activities, and food inspired by the Lunar New Year traditions across Asia! Free and open to the public! Join us in the EUC Auditorium Organized by the Chinese Studies Program in... Continue reading...
Our 鈥淟ast Lecture鈥� series returns with 91探花平台 Professor Emeritus Michael Parker, author of eight novels and three collections of stories. Parker has received the North Carolina Award for Literature, the Thomas Wolfe Prize, and three O.Henry Awards, among many other honors; for nearly thirty years, he taught in the MFA...
This is an encore screening of "Wilmington on Fire," a film documenting the investigation into the Wilmington Massacre of 1898, the only successful coup in United States history. This time the filmmaker and writer, Christopher Everett, will present the film himself. Everett will also be discussing "Part 2" of "Wilmington on Fire"... Continue reading...
Professional Seminars will be Fridays at 1 pm, in Sullivan 201 unless otherwise noted.
This presentation in the Ashby Dialogues Series explores how African American thinkers uncovered the history of African-descended peoples in Asia, especially India, and conceptualized the study of Blackness and race as global phenomena. Presented by Shobana Shankar, a professor of history at Stony Brook, State University of New York.
