September hosts 2008 election series, concerts and plays
Following is a sampling of September events at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Media are invited to use this information for calendar listings and postings and in planning their event-oriented coverage. Events are free to the public unless otherwise noted.
Sept. 3
Seminar: Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease: The Role of Zinc
Noon – 12:50 p.m.
Room 133, Rosenau Hall
Particulate matter (PM) has been designated by the Environmental Protection Agency as one of six criteria air pollutants. In addition to respiratory effects, studies have linked exposure to PM to an increased risk of many cardiovascular effects as well. PM is a complex mixture of particles of all different sizes and composition, which vary depending on source and location, among other things. This makes it difficult to study mechanisms underlying its toxicity. The seminar will be led by J. Grace Wallenborn, a doctoral student in environmental sciences and engineering in the School of Public Health. For more information, call (919) 966-4175 or visit http://www.unc.edu/~weinberg/400/seminar_0903.htm.
Sept. 4
Documentary: “Winning Isn’t Everything”
7 p.m. Memorial Hall
Gorham “Hap” Kindem will show his most recent documentary, “Winning Isn’t Everything,” which follows the 2007 UNC women’s soccer team in its attempt to repeat as NCAA national champions. Kindem plans to show the documentary on Sept. 4 – the night before the soccer team’s rematch with the University of Notre Dame. The Tar Heels defeated the Fighting Irish for the national championship in 2006, but last year, Notre Dame bested UNC in the third round of the NCAA tournament. The documentary DVD will be available for purchase this fall. Tickets are available at Memorial Hall beginning Aug. 19 and are $5 for adults; $3 for UNC students. For more information, visit http://www.unc.edu/~kindemg/. To see a trailer for the documentary, go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyW3zyo5AHk.
Sept. 5
The Chiara String Quartet
8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Memorial Hall
The William S. Newman Artists Series and Music on the Hill festival of the music department present The Chiara String Quartet with music professor and violinist Richard Luby. Music by Brahms and others. Tickets are $15 for the public; $10 for UNC students, faculty and staff. To purchase tickets, call (919) 843-3333. For more information, call (919) 962-1039.
Sept. 9
Lecture: Breaking the Color Line: Changing Interpretations of Slave-Poor White Relations in the Old South by David Brown of Manchester University
4 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Royall Room, George Watts Hill Alumni Center
A lecture by David Brown of Manchester University titled “Breaking the Color Line: Changing Interpretations of Slave-Poor White Relations in the Old South.” Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South. For more information, visit http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13223863821.
David Brooks and E.J. Dionne on the 2008 Presidential Campaign: Frey Lecture
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall
David Brooks of The New York Times and E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post will analyze the 2008 Presidential Campaign in a public discussion. They have been named the 2008 Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professors in the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, contact Dee Reid at deereid@unc.edu, (919) 843-6339.
Sept. 9
Sounds of the South on Film: Ballads to Gospel to Hip-Hop
7 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Wilson Library (outside; inside in case of rain)
The first evening of this two-night film festival will start with light refreshments and a ballad singer. Then filmmaker, Martha King will introduce a screening of “Madison County Projects: Documenting the Sound.” The documentary explores ballad singing and filmmaking in Madison County, N.C. Next, a Durham hip-hop group will perform, and King will introduce the film, “Let the World Listen Right,” which looks at hip-hop as a bridge among people and places. The festival is sponsored by UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South; the media resources center of the House Undergraduate Library; the Southern Folklife Collection and North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library; and Friends of the Library. For more information, call (919) 962-0503.
Sept. 10
2008 Election Series
7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
UNC faculty will help explore the many aspects of the political landscape in this historic elections year. They will examine the issues facing our nation and the state of North Carolina with experts from the fields of political science, public policy, journalism, law, social work and immigration. The General Alumni Association will kick off this series with a panel discussion about the November elections – for the presidency as well as North Carolina’s gubernatorial and senate races. The first meeting will feature a panel of professors including Oscar Barbarin, Hodding Carter III, Maxine Eichner, Ferrel Guillory and Leroy Towns, moderated by political reporter Laura Leslie of North Carolina Public Radio/WUNC-FM. For more information, visit http://www.alumni.unc.edu/ccll.
Sounds of the South on Film: Ballads to Gospel to Hip-Hop
7 p.m. – 8:45 p.m.
Wilson Library (outside; inside in case of rain)
The second evening of this two-night film festival will start with light refreshments and a short set by The Golden Echoes, who are featured in the evening’s screening, “A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle.” The festival is sponsored by UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South; the media resources center of the House Undergraduate Library; the Southern Folklife Collection and North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library; and Friends of the Library. For more information, call (919) 962-0503.
Sept. 11
Book Launch of Anna Hayes’ “Without Precedent: The Life of Susie Marshall Sharp”
5:45 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library
Anna Hayes will talk about her book on Susie Marshall Sharp, the first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court. For more information, call (919) 962-4207.
The Time is Neigh: Organize, Mobilize, Radicalize
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
Tommie Smith, the Olympic gold medalist who orchestrated the clinched fist, black leather glove salute at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, will discuss this historic Olympic moment and its impact in the U.S. and abroad at the height of the black power and liberation movement. This program is a part of the Stone Center’s yearlong reflection on the global significance of 1968-69. For more information, visit http://sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu/programs/events/tommiesmith.
Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet featuring Béla Fleck with Casey Driessen and Ben Sollee
7:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall
With Grammy-winning banjo star and Sparrow Quartet producer Béla Fleck, Grammy-nominated fiddler Casey Driessen and roots/classical cellist Ben Sollee, singer-songwriter/banjo player Abigail Washburn creates raw, inventive, cross-cultural takes on traditional folk and old-time music. For more information, call (919) 843-7776.
Sept. 12
Myths & Tall Tales: Folklore in African American Culture
11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library
A half-day symposium on African American Folklore to feature author Cecil Brown. For more information, visit http://www.unc.edu/iaar.
Ethics in the Professions Series Symposium: Perspectives on Coercive
Interrogation: Nightwind
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
University Room, Hyde Hall
In the first day of the symposium, ImaginAction Creative Director Hector Aristizábal will perform a one-man dramatic reenactment of his torture experience at the hands of paramilitary officials in Columbia in 1982. Sponsored by the Parr Center for Ethics; the curriculum in peace, war and defense; the departments of history, philosophy, political science and sociology; the Institute for the Study of the Americas; the schools of Law and of Journalism and Mass Communication; and the Triangle Center of Terrorism and Homeland Security. For more information, visit http://parrcenter.unc.edu/events/seminars/fall2008/interrogation/reenactment.html.
Sept. 13
Ethics in the Professions Series Symposium:
Perspectives on Coercive Interrogation: Nightwind
8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.
University Room, Hyde Hall
In the second day of the symposium, this day-long program will examine the ethical issues raised by the current methods of interrogation as practiced by the U.S. government. A distinguished roster of speakers will address this timely topic from perspectives and disciplines ranging from psychology, law, philosophy and government. For more information, visit http://parrcenter.unc.edu/events/seminars/fall2008/interrogation/.
“More Than a Feeling?”: Perspectives on the Emotions from Literature, History, Philosophy and Psychiatry (Humanities Program)
9:15 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.
UNC Campus
Many theorists from a variety of disciplines have attempted to define and understand emotions, and in this seminar participants will hear from scholars in the fields of literature, philosophy, history and psychoanalysis. Scholars will consider whether emotions are more linked to the body, or to culture, and how emotions have been defined differently in different periods. Scholars will consider how emotions function as adaptations to perceived events and how the construction of a certain kind of feeling individual is at the heart of many modern works of literature and art. For a list of speakers, registration, prices and more information, visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/human/level_3/2008_fall/1-Feelings.htm.
Fred Raimi and Friends
8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Gerrard Hall
Solo cello suites and arias. Music by Britten, Bach and Handel. With Jeanne Fischer, soprano; Richard Luby, violin and Elaine Funaro, harpsichord. For more information, call (919) 962-1039.
Sept. 15
China by Numbers
2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
Since the beginning of economic reforms in the early 1980s, the world has witnessed the remarkable development of China. This rapid change during the age of globalization begs the questions: What is it that China has developed into? Is China the new superpower of the 21st century? Has China come too far too fast and is due for a cataclysmic collapse? Is the 21st century the China Century that will be to the rest of the world’s advantage? There will be a brief overview of some of the numbers more typically associated with China. One number to be discussed is 8-8-08, the opening date of the Beijing Olympics. For more information, visit http://alumni.unc.edu/.
Sept. 16
Seminar: Lowcountry Landsman: Exploring Charleston Jewish Life in the Colonial Era and Early Republic
2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
From 1776 to 1820 there were more Jews in Charleston, S.C., than in any other city in America. During that period Charleston’s Jewish community exceeded that of New York’s. Influenced by the ways of their white gentile neighbors, they supported slavery, enlightenment ideas and a lifestyle shaped by growing consumption. In 1749 a group of Jews founded the first synagogue in Charleston – one of the earliest Jewish communities founded in the colonies. For more information, visit http://alumni.unc.edu/.
Hodding Carter III delivers the Thomas W. Lambeth Lecture in Public Policy
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Gerrard Hall
Hodding Carter III, a professor of leadership and public policy at UNC, will deliver the Thomas W. Lambeth Lecture in Public Policy. An award-winning journalist, Carter was assistant secretary of state for public affairs and state department spokesman under former President Jimmy Carter. That stint included serving as the public face of the Iran hostage crisis for the Carter administration. The Lambeth Lectureship brings to campus speakers who are practitioners and/or scholars of public policy. It honors Thomas Willis Lambeth, a 1957 UNC alumnus who was administrative assistant to Gov. Terry Sanford and U.S. Rep Richardson Preyer, then executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. For more information, contact Anne Cavitt, cavitt@email.unc.edu.
Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed
7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
In 1968, Shirley Chisholm became the first elected African-American Congresswoman. Director and producer Shola Lynch introduces and will lead a discussion of this documentary film that chronicles Chisholm’s 1972 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination and her dogged refusal to accept the status quo. The screening, co-sponsored by the public policy department and the Creative Campus Initiative, is part of the Stone Center’s yearlong reflection on the global significance of 1968-69. For more information, visit http://sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu/programs/events/chisholmdocumentary.
Sept. 17
PlayMakers Sneak Peek: Pericles
Noon
Paul Green Theatre, Center for Dramatic Art
Bring your lunch to PlayMakers and learn about the production before it opens. Meet PlayMakers Producing Artistic Director Joseph Haj, who directs Pericles, hear about his collaboration with singer/songwriter Jack Herrick of the Red Clay Ramblers and get a behind the scenes look at the set in progress. For more information, call (919) 962-PLAY.
Lecture: When Velvet Drapes Become a Metaphor for Veiled Racial Desire in Gone with the Wind (1939)
2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
This lecture will examine the historical context, production and public reaction to Gone with the Wind from a racial perspective. In addition, it will explore the role and contributions of prominent black characters in the film. Finally, because of the relationships that develop in the film on the basis of race, this critique suggests that many of the white characters in the film masquerade or appropriate blackness themselves – a position that forces participants to examine this film in a new way. For more information, visit http://alumni.unc.edu/.
Master class: David Moss, voice
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Hill Hall Auditorium
Instruction for UNC vocal students by musical artist David Moss. Members of the public are welcome to observe. For more about Moss, visit http://www.davidmossmusic.com/.
For more information about the master class, call (919) 962-1039.
Sept. 18
Lecture: Fall 2008 Crossroads Lecture
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Room 136, Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building
Jerrilyn Dodds, distinguished professor of art history and theory at the School of Architecture of the City College of the City University will deliver a lecture entitled: “Hunting in the Borderlands: Castilians and Nasrids Forge Cultural Identities in the Paintings of the Alhambra.” Reception to follow. Sponsored by the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences and The Mellon Foundation. For more information, visit http://mems.unc.edu.
Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film
7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
Akira’s Hip-Hop Shop (U.S., 2007): As the relationship between a Japanese hip-hop DJ (Akira) and a Black culinary student (Daphne) blossoms, the pair must deal with racial prejudice and for Akira, mounting pressure from his family to return to Japan; Race (U.S., 2007): The pressure is on when two colleagues, an Asian-American woman and African-American man, vie for a promotion to become senior vice-president based on a presentation they each will give; Slowly This (U.S., 1995): A conversation between two male friends, a Japanese-American man and African-American man, provides insight into the complicated issues around race and masculinity. A post-discussion will be facilitated by Fred Ho, a jazz musician, writer and social activist. Co-sponsors of the screenings include the department of Asian studies, minority affairs committee and the Asian Students Association. For more information, visit http://sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu/programs/events/diasporafilmfestivalsept.
Music on the Hill
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Gerrard Hall
UNC Debut Recital: Stefan Litwin, piano. With special guest David Moss, voice. Tickets are $15 for the general public; $10 UNC students, faculty and staff. For more information, call (919) 962-1039.
Sept. 19
Clinic: New York City’s Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Room 107, Hill Hall
New York City’s Vanguard Jazz Orchestra with the UNC Jazz Band. For more information, call (919) 962-1039.
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Legacy
8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Memorial Hall
Hard-swinging, powerful, fast, insanely skillful and downright fun, the 16-piece Vanguard Jazz Orchestra big band hails from New York City’s legendary jazz mecca, The Village Vanguard. Ticket prices range from $65, $45, $36 and $30 for the general public; $10, UNC students. For more information, call (919) 843-3333.
Sept. 20
Here’s to the Land of the Longleaf Pine
8 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Totten Center, North Carolina Botanical Garden
A field trip celebrating the history and natural history of the North Carolina Sandhills. North Carolina Botanical Garden staff will lead a tour of selected sites in the Sandhills Game Land, a showcase of the diverse ecosystem of the Longleaf Sandhills. Participants will see the area marked on early maps as Deserta Arenosa (“Sand Desert”), with its component ecological communities: longleaf pine sandhills, seepage areas with insectivorous plants, streamhead pocosins and canebrakes and the famous “Seventeen Frog Pond.” Participants will visit colony sites of the endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker and view archeological remnants of the naval stores industry, which dominated North Carolina’s economy for a century and made it the “Land of the Longleaf Pine” and “Tar Heel State.” Participants will learn about the role of fire, the phoenix-like force that enriches the regional flora and identify many of the common and rare plants of the distinctive Sandhills flora. Participants must register ahead of time. The fee is $50 for botanical garden members; $60 for nonmembers. For more information and to register, visit http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/69/.
The Silk Road: Cultural Pathway Between East and West (Humanities Program)
9:15 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.
UNC Campus
The Silk Road, or Silk Route, is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction between East and West. It was a region traversed by traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads and urban dwellers from Chang’an (now Xi’an) in China to Asia Minor and beyond. This is a region that includes such present-day states as Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Jordan, Mongolia, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Participants will consider the history and legacy of the Silk Road in this seminar, looking at its development as a trade route, a site of religious practice, a place of artistic creation and as a spur to Western development and expansion.
For a list of speakers, registration, prices and more information, visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/human/level_3/2008_fall/2-SilkRoad.htm.
Sept. 21
Exhibition opening reception for “Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art”
1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Ackland Art Museum
Cupcakes, music and more will enliven this celebration of the Ackland’s 50th anniversary, also being marked with the exhibition, up through Jan.4, “Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art.” The show looks at a major shift in the direction of American art at about the time of the museum’s beginnings. Featuring 61 works by 56 artists, the exhibition looks at how artists of that day began to depart for the first time from abstract expressionism and begin new movements including assemblage and pop art. Never before gathered together or shown in this context, the works tell the story of a pivotal moment in artistic exploration. For more information, visit http://www.ackland.org/visit/calendar.php or call (919) 966-5736.
Circa 1958: Tensions in American Culture and Trends in American Art: A Debate Among Experts: panel discussion
3 p.m.
Auditorium, Hanes Art Center
Following the opening reception for “Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art,” next door at the Ackland Art Museum, the discussion will feature Roni Feinstein, who guest-curated the exhibition, and David Sontag, the Wesley Wallace Professor of Communication Studies at UNC. Feinstein is a corresponding editor for Art in America. For more information, call (919) 966-5736.
Greening our Gardens: Sustainable Gardening in Challenging Times
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
End Zone Room, Rams Head Plaza, South Campus
As our climate and environment change and new environmental challenges arise, sustainable gardening practices become even more important. This program by the General Alumni Association and the N.C. Botanical Garden offers experts’ advice about best practices for a healthy garden and a healthy Earth. The session will cover topics including how best to use water, a limited resource; plant choices that can make a difference and that beautify your garden; what to do about invasive exotic plants in order to promote natural diversity; landscape and gardening techniques that make the best use of drought situations and organic gardening and green products that can help you to reduce losses to insects and pollution to the environment. The lecturers will be Peter S. White, Greg Feller, Chris Liloia, Al Cooke, David Swanson and Ashley Mattison. To register, visit http://alumni.unc.edu/article.aspx?sid=5943.
Sept. 22
Academic Lecture: New Light on the Period of the Maccabees: the Excavations at Tel Kedesh
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Toy Lounge, Dey Hall
Andrea Berlin of the University of Minnesota will lecture on recent excavations at Tel Kedesh in Israel. She holds that recent discoveries provide new evidence of political and social interactions among Jews, Phoenicians and Greeks in second-century B.C. Palestine. For more information, call (919) 962-1509.
Sept. 23
Lecture: Eudora Welty: The Woman and the Myths by Professor Suzanne Marrs
4 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Royall Room, George Watts Hill Alumni Center
Lecture by Professor Suzanne Marrs titled “Eudora Welty: The Woman and the Myths.” Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South. For more information, call (919) 962-0503 or visit http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13223863821.
Sept. 24
Peter Krapp Seminar: “Games of War: Counter Culture, Cyber Culture, Popular Culture”
3:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Hyde Hall
Peter Krapp, associate professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine, will speak at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities in Hyde Hall. Krapp’s research interests include digital culture and media history, cultural memory and non-linear media, history and theory of gadgets, games and simulations and representations of north and south pole regions. He is the author of Deja Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and co-editor of Medium Cool (Duke University Press, 2002: Southern Atlantic Quarterly 101:3). For more information, call (919) 962-0249.
Lecture: Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
The book selected for this year’s summer reading program for incoming Carolina students provides a look at how people with stigmatized identities, based on differences in race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or disability status, are coerced into toning down, or covering, those identities. Join an exploration of Covering, led by UNC faculty members Maxine Eichner and Tim McMillan, and discuss Kenji Yoshino’s belief that these covering behaviors are harmful psychologically for those who practice them, have damaging fall-out for the more socially-dominant groups and threaten the civil rights of us all. The fee is $10; no charge for General Alumni Association members if preregistered. To register, visit http://alumni.unc.edu/article.aspx?sid=6095.
Sept. 25
Lecture: Some Enchanted Evening?: A New Look at Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific
2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
South Pacific (1949) is one of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s best-loved musicals that has wowed Broadway audiences in its recent revival. But despite the warm, fuzzy feelings seemingly generated by American army nurse Nellie Forbush finally finding true love with French plantation owner Emil de Becque, the show’s many layers raise profound, and also difficult, questions about post-war American utopias. Music department chair Tim Carter, David G. Frey Distinguished Professor of music, will discuss the musical. To register, visit http://alumni.unc.edu/article.aspx?sid=6097.
“Help Older Adults Live Better, Longer: Prevent Falls and Traumatic Brain Injury”
2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Web cast
The next Public Health Grand Rounds from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the UNC School of Public Health will look at successful programs in Madison and Kenosha, Wisc. in which physicians, physical therapists, program administrators, occupational therapists, patients and caregivers address the prevention of falls and traumatic brain injury. The case study explores how communities are preventing falls among older adults with physical and cognitive limitations. Faculty and nationally recognized experts will discuss the Wisconsin experience. For more information and to register, visit www.publichealthgrandrounds.unc.edu.
Book Reading & Discussion – Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Bull’s Head Bookshop, UNC Student Store, Daniels Building
UNC alumnus E. Patrick Johnson will discuss his new book, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales, (University of North Carolina Press, 2008). Giving voice to a population previously unaccounted for in southern history, Sweet Tea documents the stories of black gay men who were born, raised and continue to live in the southern United States. At 7 p.m. Johnson will perform narratives of nine men featured in the book during a performance titled, Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales. For more information, visit http://sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu/programs/events/sweettea.
Music on the Porch
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Love House and Hutchins Forum Room 1, 410 East Franklin St.
“Music on the Porch” featuring live performances by Ivan Howard of The Rosebuds, Sara Bell of Regina Hexaphone and Shark Quest, Michael Holland of Jennyanykind, and Reid Johnson of Schooner. Moderated by Katherine Doss. Refreshments provided. Hosted by the Center for the Study of the American South. For more information, visit http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13223863821.
Stage Play: Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales, by UNC Alumnus E. Patrick Johnson
6:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Theatre and Auditorium, Stone Center
The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History and the Center for the Study of the American South are sponsoring the stage play “Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales” by UNC alumnus E. Patrick Johnson. For more information, visit http://sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu/programs/events/pouringtea.
Sept. 26
Gillings School of Global Public Health: Naming ceremony and celebration
11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center
Chancellor Holden Thorp and Dean Barbara K. Rimer will be among those participating in the naming of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. The event honors UNC’s continuing commitment to public health in North Carolina and around the world. For more information, visit www.sph.unc.edu/anticipate or call (919) 966-0198.
“Medieval Pharmacology: Evidence from the Cairo Genizah”
1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Room 569, Hamilton Hall
Dr. Efraim Lev of the University of Haifa will deliver the lecture sponsored by the history department, the medieval and early modern studies program and the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. For more information, visit http://mems.unc.edu.
Ars Organi: A concert in memory of Rudolph Kremer
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Chapel of the Cross
The late UNC organ instructor will be honored by his former student, Robert Parris, who will perform in concert on the organ. For more information, call (919) 962-1039.
Performance of “{it is in you}”
Marie Garlock
8 p.m.
Gerrard Hall
Carolina alumna Marie Garlock will fuse storytelling, dance, movement, live music and spoken word into this work that explores the politics of development, HIV and the body. The performance is part of this year’s Process Series presented by the Office of the Executive Director for the Arts, which showcases new and still developing performances. For more information, call Joseph Megel at 843-7067.
Sept. 27
Annual Alumni Awards Ceremony
10:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Alumni Hall 1, George Watts Hill Alumni Center
The School of Education will honor outstanding alumni at its annual awards ceremony. Open to the public. For reservations and information, call (919) 843-6979.
Sept. 28
Faculty Recital: Stafford Wing, tenor, and former student Frank Zachary, piano
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Auditorium, Hill Hall
Lieder by Schubert, Brahms and Strauss, Kurt Weill’s “Four Walt Whitman Songs” and selected songs by Charles Ives. For more information, call (919) 962-1039.
UNC Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band
7:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall
The concert will benefit scholarships in the music department. General admission, $15; UNC students, faculty and staff, $10. For more information, call (919) 962-1039.
Sept. 30
North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall
“10 x 10” World Premiere composition by jazz pianist Kenny Werner. Soloists James Ketch, trumpet, and Stephen Anderson, piano. Tickets are $20 for the general public; $15 for UNC students, faculty and staff. For more information, call (919) 962-1039.
Ongoing
July 14 – Oct. 12
Exhibit: “Hecho a Mano: Book Arts of Latin America”
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturdays
Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room, Wilson Library
Nearly 100 handmade books from Cuba, Mexico, and Argentina will be on exhibit. The exhibit will include books made by three collectives that provide training and a livelihood for their members, including: Taller Leñateros in San Cristobal de las Casas, in Chiapas, Mexico; Ediciones Vigía in Matanzas, Cuba, which produces elaborate and artistic books with craft and copier paper, crayons and items donated by international visitors; and Eloisa Cartonera in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a collective that purchases cardboard from “cartoneros,” or cardboard scavengers, and transforms it into brightly painted covers for modest editions of books. For more information, call (919) 962-1143 or visit
http://www.lib.unc.edu/spotlight/2008/hecho_a_mano.html.
Aug. 4 – Oct. 15
Exhibit: “Southerners Abroad: A Look at Southerners’ Travels Around the World”
9 a.m. – 6 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturdays
Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library
“Southerners Abroad” is an exhibit that shifts the traditional focus of the Southern
Historical Collection away from the geographical southeastern United States to the world at large. Simply put, Southerners traveled, and this exhibit draws on the collection’s
unique holdings of diaries, letters, photographs and other original manuscript materials
to present the experiences of soldiers, missionaries, teachers, businessmen and
tourists. Spanning the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, selected documents
detail missionary efforts in Japan, an expedition down the Nile by a voluntary
Confederate exile, teaching in Iran, and the European Grand Tour. For more information, visit http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/gallery/current_exhib.html.
Aug. 26 – Sept. 16
Botanical Illustration: Color Theory I
1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays
Totten Center, North Carolina Botanical Garden
This class meets four consecutive Tuesdays. Students learn the basic terminology of colors and how they are produced by the artist. They practice basic color mixing and matching and painting transparent layers of watercolor. Students also learn how to determine a color’s temperature, its values and the relationships between saturated and muted color. Students determine a hue’s complement and how complementary colors interact with one another to create vibrant, harmonious paintings. This is a homework-intensive class and is a prerequisite for most courses in the Botanical Garden’s Botanical Illustration Certificate Program. The fee is $110 for botanical garden members; $125 for nonmembers. For more information, visit http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26/.
Sept. 2 – 11
The American Civil War Series
7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
The General Alumni Association’s Civil War Series presents new offerings of “Selected Biographies of the American Civil War” and “Selected Topics of the American Civil War” as well as an encore presentation of “An Overview of the American Civil War.” In addition, a field study program to Savannah and Charleston will be conducted. For more information, visit http://alumni.unc.edu/.
Sept. 6 – Nov. 29
Tour of the North Carolina Botanical Garden
10 a.m. – 11 a.m. Saturdays
Totten Center, North Carolina Botanical Garden
Free tours of the display gardens of the North Carolina Botanical Garden take place every Saturday. No registration is necessary. Visitors meet at the stone gathering circle in front of the Totten Center shortly before 10 a.m. For more information, visit http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/69/.
Sept. 6 – 27
Native Plant Studies: Bryophytes
1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Saturdays (10 a.m. – 11 a.m. Sept. 27)
Totten Center, North Carolina Botanical Garden
Bryophytes are the oldest group of plants on earth. They are very diverse and inhabit nearly every ecosystem on the planet, yet few people are familiar with these miniature members of the plant kingdom: the mosses, liverworts and hornworts. In this class, participants will learn about bryophyte biology and taxonomy and enjoy these beautiful organisms. This is an elective course for the Botanical Garden’s Native Plant Studies Certificate. The fee is $110 for botanical garden members; $125 for nonmembers.
For more information, call (919) 962-0522 or visit http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26/.
Sept. 8 – 29
Botanical Illustration: Pen & Ink
1 p.m – 4 p.m. Mondays
Totten Center, North Carolina Botanical Garden
Pen and ink is the most traditional medium for the depiction of botanical subjects and is still widely used in botanical publications today. Participants will work with both “old-fashioned” crow-quill dip pens and modern technical pens. Skills learned include the care and feeding of pens, the depiction of space through line weight and stippling, depiction of texture and working with herbarium specimens (pressed plants). There will be regular critiques of students’ work and plenty of one-on-one instruction. This is a core course for the Botanical Garden’s Botanical Illustration Certificate. The fee is $110 for botanical garden members; $125 for nonmembers. For more information, call (919) 962-0522 or visit http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26/.
Sept. 10 – 14
In the Continuum
8 p.m.
Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre, Center for Dramatic Art
The powerful story of two black women, one in South Central Los Angeles and the other in Zimbabwe, whose contemporaneous HIV diagnoses bring the international AIDS epidemic down to very human terms. One of The New York Times Ten Best Plays.
Each performance followed by interactive panel/audience discussion. Tickets range from $24 to $32. For more information and to purchase tickets, call (919) 962-PLAY.
Sept. 15 – Jan. 31, 2009
“Soapboxes and Tree Stumps: Political Campaigning in North Carolina”
9 a.m. – 5 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturdays, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays
North Carolina Collection Gallery, Wilson Library
The gallery will exhibit posters, documents, photos and political buttons of major political campaigns in North Carolina, especially from 1890 to 1990, drawing on a collection of buttons donated to the library by Lew Powell of the Charlotte Observer. The donation of more than 2,600 buttons that Powell collected through the years included about 700 political buttons.
An opening reception for the exhibit will be at 5 p.m. Sept. 25, with a tour of exhibit highlights by Powell starting at 5:20 p.m. At 5:45, Rob Christensen, political columnist for The News & Observer of Raleigh, will speak. Christensen’s new book, from UNC Press, is “The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics: The Personalities, Elections and Events that Shaped Modern North Carolina.” For more information, call (919) 962-1172.
Sept. 19 – Oct. 10
Native Plant Studies: Local Flora of the Fall
1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Fridays
Totten Center, North Carolina Botanical Garden
This class meets on four consecutive Fridays in the fall. With a trained botanist, students will visit a variety of local habitats where they will learn about the native plant species, take an in-depth look at the fall’s woody perennial herbaceous plants and study the characteristics of the fall-flowering plant species. This is an elective course for the Botanical Garden’s Native Plant Studies Certificate. The fee is $100 for botanical garden members; $120 for nonmembers. For more information, visit http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26/.
Sept. 22 – Oct. 20
Native Plant Studies: Nature Journaling
9 a.m. – noon
Totten Center, North Carolina Botanical Garden
This course meets four consecutive Mondays (with one skipped Monday). Create a lasting document of your experience and observations of the natural world. Nature journaling is fun, therapeutic, enlightening and portable, helping participants capture the wonders of nature outside your door or far afield. Instructor Jeannine Reese will guide participants in learning to record what’s blooming in your garden or growing in your mind. This course is an elective for the Botanical Garden’s Native Plant Studies Certificate. The fee is $110 for botanical garden members; $125 for nonmembers. For more information, visit http://ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26/.
Sept. 22 – 26
Light Microscopy for Biomedical Research Workshop
9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Bondurant Hall
A one week workshop on the use of light microscopy in biomedical research is being offered by the UNC Michael Hooker Microscopy Facility. The workshop is intended to provide an introduction to the basic concepts of light microscopy and its application to biological research with lectures, hands on sessions and industry involvement. The cost is $700. For more information, call (919) 843-3268 or visit http://microscopy.unc.edu/lmbr/2008/NCBC-2008-calendar.html.
Sept. 22 – Oct. 8
Continuing Italian
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays
George Watts Alumni Center
Continuing Italian builds on the conversational Italian skills gained in the Beginning Italian class. Participants will expand their knowledge of Italian expressions, broaden their vocabulary, explore more complex sentence structures, increase their understanding of Italian grammar and verb forms and further explore the rich culture of Italy. For more information, visit http://alumni.unc.edu/.
Continuing French
Noon – 1:30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
Continuing French builds on the conversational French skills gained in the Beginning French class. Participants will expand their knowledge of French expressions, broaden their vocabulary, explore more complex sentence structures, increase their understanding of French grammar and verb forms and further explore the rich culture of France. For more information, visit http://alumni.unc.edu/.
Sept. 23 – Oct. 9
Continuing Spanish
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
Continuing Spanish builds on the conversational Spanish skills gained in the Beginning Spanish class. Participants will expand their knowledge of Spanish expressions, broaden their vocabulary, explore more complex sentence structures, increase their understanding of Spanish grammar and verb forms and further explore the rich culture of Spain. For more information, visit http://alumni.unc.edu/.
Sept. 24 – Oct. 12
Shakespeare's Pericles
8 p.m. weeknights and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
Paul Green Theatre, Center for Dramatic Art
PlayMakers Mainstage season opener. An epic tale spanning oceans and generations. With princesses, pirates, assassins, exotic locales, a bawdy house and multiple shipwrecks. One of the Bard’s most popular plays during his lifetime, its enduring themes of loss, redemption and reconciliation still resonate. Directed by PlayMakers Producing Artistic Director Joseph Haj and featuring original music by Jack Herrick of the Tony Award-winning Red Clay Ramblers. Tickets range from $10 to $40. For more information and to purchase tickets, call (919) 962-PLAY.
Sept. 26 – 27
Seminar: Moral Philosophy: Two of the Greek Classics (Humanities Program)
4:30 p.m. Friday, 12:30 p.m. Saturday
UNC Campus
Modeled on the first half of a semester’s introduction to the history of western moral thought, this weekend seminar will explore two books written on moral theory: Plato's Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. The aim of the seminar is to understand and come to grips with the theories of morality they articulate and defend. Knowledge of philosophy will not be presupposed; the seminar is intended to be an introduction to moral philosophy and these classic texts. For a list of speakers, registration, prices and more information, visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/human/level_3/2008_fall/3-MoralPhilosophy.htm.
Conference: “The United States and Cuba: Rethinking Engagement”
9 a.m. – 9 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
The Institute for the Study of the Americas will hold a conference, “The United States and Cuba: Rethinking Engagement.” The conference is conceived around the imperative of advocacy and to advance the logic of a new national debate leading ultimately to the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba. The invited participants and guests will represent a deep cross-section of the most prominent individuals and the most active organizations currently engaged in advocacy of improved bi-lateral relations. The conference will provide an opportunity for proponents of improved relations to exchange expertise and share experiences, to speak to one another and to address the general public as a way to reinvigorate a national debate on the Cuba policy of the United States. For more information, visit http://www.ilas.unc.edu/cuba/cuba.asp.
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