Humanities-Related Events in the Area

Current Events

SEPTEMBER 12
The Ukrainian Famine-Genocide: Reflections After 75 Years
10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Conference, 7:30 p.m. Keynote Address
UNC FedEx Global Education Center
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor, the genocidal starvation of Ukrainians in the 1930s. An interdisciplinary academic conference will place famine and genocide in the context of Soviet and Ukrainian history.  Hosted by the University of North Carolina Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies in collaboration with the Ukrainian Association of North Carolina and with support from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Associate Provost for International Affairs. The exhibit and the events are open to the public.

In the keynote address, eminent scholar Mark von Hagen will explore how the inability to make sense of the famine reflects broader problems--the reluctance to confront the broader history of collectivization, the relationship of the famine to the crimes of the Stalin era, and the need to increase awareness of Ukrainian history. Mark von Hagen is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Arizona State University. Contact CSEEES Associate Director, Jacqueline Olich at jmolich@email.unc.edu or (919) 962-0355.

SEPTEMBER 12 and 13
Torture and Interrogation: Have We Gone too Far?
Hyde Hall (please visit website for event schedule)
The event will kick off on Friday night with a dramatic performance by torture survivor Hector Aristizábal. Saturday features a day-long series of prestigious speakers, including Congressman David Price. This program explores the ethical issues raised by the methods of interrogation practiced by the U.S. government, addressed from perspectives and disciplines ranging from psychology, law, philosophy and government. All are welcome. The event is free and open to the public.
We are very excited about this lineup and hope you will check them out on the website: http://parrcenter.unc.edu/events/seminars/fall2008/interrogation/

SEPTEMBER 19
“New Labour,” Public lecture by David Coates
12-1:30pm
FedEx Global Education Center, Conference Room 4003
Public lecture by David Coates (Wake Forest University) on New Labour. Part of the fall 2008 CES Friday Speaker Series, open to the public. Light refreshments provided.  Hosted by the Center for European Studies/European Union Center of Excellence.

SEPTEMBER 22
2008-2009 Frank Porter Graham Lecture - History in the Making: John McWhorter on Race and Poverty in America
7.30 pm
Memorial Hall
New York Sun columnist and Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow John McWhorter will deliver the 2008-2009 Frank Porter Graham Lecture. Delivering a talk entitled History in the Making: What We Know About Poverty and What We Should Forget, McWhorter will contest mainstream opinion about the causes of inner-city poverty in the late twentieth century and suggest best-practices solutions that are not, in his words, “founded in a revolutionary intent.” The lecture is free and open to the public. The 2008-2009 Frank Porter Graham Lecture is sponsored by the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, with co-sponsors the Office of the Executive Director for the Arts, the Public Policy Majors Union, the Roosevelt Institute, and the Department of Public Policy.
For more information, please contact Kathryn Miller at kathrynm@email.unc.edu or 919-843-7758.

Ongoing Events

JULY 14 THROUGH OCTOBER 12
Hecho a Mano: Book Arts of Latin America
Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room on the third floor of Wilson Library
Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
A pop-out jaguar leaps from the page of a book made in Mexico. A four-inch cardboard altar houses three miniature books of incantations and clay animal figurines. These are among 100 hand-made books from Cuba, Mexico, and Argentina to be displayed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Wilson Library. The exhibit will provide insight into the rich cultural expression and sometimes difficult economic conditions of those countries.

“Hecho a Mano” also will showcase recent acquisitions of the UNC library’s book arts collection. Approximately half of the books were made by three collectives that provide training and a livelihood for their members. View items from the exhibit

On August 27 at 5:45 p.m. in Wilson Library, Mexican poet Ambar Past, founder of Taller Leñateros (“Woodlanders’ Workshop”) in San Cristóbal de las Casas, in Chiapas, Mexico, will speak in Wilson Library about the work of her book- and paper-making collective. Past founded the collective in 1975 after she became interested in preserving the Tzotzil language and expressions that she was learning from local Mayan women. For exhibit information, call 919-962-1143 or rbcref@email.unc.edu