Category: Fine Arts & Humanities
Old East stories
Old East, which has changed along with the University, is the setting for an alternative story about Carolina’s foundation.
Fall 2020 Carolina Arts & Sciences magazine is now online
The fall 2020 issue of Carolina Arts & Sciences — our first virtual-only issue in our 15 years of publication, a change made due to the pandemic — is now … Read more
Presidential debates: how to watch and why
Carolina’s experts urge voters to go beyond debate soundbites, to think about how candidates prepare and to consider how debates could influence the 2020 election.
PlayMakers brings its performances to Sakai
PlayMakers Repertory Company is making its upcoming season available to all Carolina students online. Each of the company’s six performances this season will be available to stream to bring the … Read more
New Russian Language Flagship Program launches
Carolina’s new Russian Language Flagship Program allows students in any academic background to intensively study Russian and participate in professional development programming tailored to each student. A new program at … Read more
2020 Hettleman Prizes awarded to exceptional early-career faculty
The annual Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement have been awarded to four promising faculty members who exemplify groundbreaking and innovative research along with future career … Read more
Asian American Center comes to Carolina, virtually
The new Asian American Center launches a new website and its first programming this week.
The Great Pivot
When classes once again shifted to remote delivery in fall 2020, faculty across the College of Arts & Sciences, with the help of technology and instructional learning experts, say they … Read more
UNC Process Series announces its 2020-2021 season: “Remembrance and Renewal”
The UNC Process Series: New Works in Development presents its 13th season, “Remembrance and Renewal.”
Carolina mourns the passing of “master storyteller” Randall Kenan
Randall Garrett Kenan, a UNC-Chapel Hill alumnus, master storyteller and professor of creative writing in the department of English and comparative literature, passed away at his home the week of … Read more
The show must go on
PlayMakers Repertory Company and the department of music and UNC Opera have adapted their fall seasons to digital formats so students and faculty can still perform while keeping everyone safe … Read more
Emerging Voices Fellow Maria Gutierrez to conduct research, teach at UNC
Maria Gutierrez, an Emerging Voices Fellow in fine arts and humanities, will work remotely with the Center for the Study of the American South this fall and will also teach … Read more
University leaders announce important academic updates
Undergraduate instruction will be paused Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 24 and Aug. 25, to give students time to transition to remote learning, campus leaders announced Thursday.
University to switch to remote instruction, reduce residential density
The shift comes after several reported clusters of positive COVID-19 cases over the past week.
Food Fights
Food is so much more than what we eat, nourishing us beyond our bodies. This sentiment lies at the core of PhD student K.C. Hysmith’s research. She studies the deeply … Read more
Carolina mourns the passing of Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote
Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote, associate professor in the department of American studies in the College of Arts & Sciences, passed away the weekend of Aug. 8 from leukemia.
PlayMakers Repertory Company announces reimagined 20/21 season
Theater company’s 45th season embraces change and delivers range of work digitally.
Roll out the welcome mat
Their interests range from neurodegenerative diseases to eating disorders to race, class and gender to playing and teaching jazz saxophone. Meet six of Carolina’s newest faculty members.
Rethinking aging
A Carolina professor weaves together personal experience, observations of others and history in examining how the pandemic degraded our ideas about the elderly and gave us a taste of old … Read more
Candace Epps-Robertson named the first Jonathan M. Hess Term Professor
Candace Epps-Robertson was named the very first Jonathan M. Hess Term Professor. Named for Jonathan M. Hess, a professor at UNC from 1993 until his death in 2018, chair of the Department of … Read more