Category: Fine Arts & Humanities
A champion for ethical discussions
Senior Austin Foushee’s commitment to the National High School Ethics Bowl has helped encourage the next generation of deep thinkers and inspired the program’s first alumni scholarship.
Bookmark This
Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni. This month’s featured book is “This Isn’t Going to End Well: The True Story of a … Read more
Extracting Extraordinary Things
Graduate student Claire Bunschoten spent a year at The New York Botanical Garden unpacking the history and culture tied to one of America’s favorite flavors: vanilla.
Inspiring creativity
The piano is more than just an instrument for Clara Yang. It’s a refuge and creative outlet. As an associate professor in the music department, she’s sharing that connection with … Read more
Tar Heels reflect on the importance of art
You don’t need to be an art major to be an artist. Art plays a role in all Tar Heels’ lives in some form. On the seventh annual Arts Everywhere … Read more
‘The Story of Us’ creates community through drama
On April 15 and 16, 19 actors — including an Academy-Award winner and a Broadway performer — will tell the stories of 27 LGBTQ+ Tar Heels in the Process Series … Read more
Gathering oral histories from the LGBTQ community
Oral historian Hooper Schultz is studying the history of gay liberation student activism on college campuses in the United Sates during the 1970s. The first gay conference in the Southeast … Read more
Arts Everywhere Day returns April 14
The seventh annual Arts Everywhere Day will feature performances, installations and activities across campus, beginning at 11 a.m. There will be an all-day informational art fair in the Gift Plaza … Read more
Delaney Thull: Making philosophy and ethics accessible to all
A Ph.D. student in the philosophy department, Delaney Thull’s work with the Parr Center helps make ethics accessible to all.
Jocelyn Chatman: Bringing performances to life through costume design
A costume production MFA student in the dramatic art department, Jocelyn Chatman makes performances come alive.
PlayMakers Repertory Company announces 2023-2024 season
PlayMakers Repertory Company recently revealed its lineup of mainstage shows for the 2023-2024 season, which includes two regional premieres, a world premiere and a timeless classic.
Carolina bluegrass
As the bass player of the Carolina Bluegrass Band, senior Lewis Nazarian found a new space to explore music.
Approaching artificial intelligence through an interdisciplinary lens
As anticipation and anxiety fuel debates about artificial intelligence, UNC’s AI Project brings together scholars from philosophy, computer science and linguistics to explore its implications.
Blair Kelley uncovers roots of Black working class
The Center for the Study of the American South director hopes to amplify the work ethic carried from enslavement to freedom.
Rooted: María DeGuzmán
María DeGuzmán, the Eugene H. Falk Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature and the founding director of the UNC Latina/o Studies Program, has been contributing to research at UNC … Read more
Tar Heels build language confidence with virtual reality
Tar Heels in Caroline Sibley’s Advanced Arabic class use virtual reality to explore a virtual world with students in Morocco and Algeria in real-time to hone their language skills.
Black opera enters a golden age
Artists debut new works about Black culture and history while scholars like Naomi André rediscover pieces long hidden in segregation’s shadows.
Bookmark This
Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni, published the first week of each month. This month’s featured book is “A Long Time to … Read more
Philosophy professor Geoff Sayre-McCord makes the abstract accessible … and fun
The Thomas Jefferson Award winner’s “Geoffervescence” is “a tremendous asset to philosophy as an academic field.”
Jane Austen’s Desk
A new NEH grant will support UNC scholars’ creation of an immersive web environment designed to bring Jane Austen’s writing room — and her world — to life.