Thursday, Mar. 30th, 2023, 4-8:30pm Keynote Speaker: La’Meshia Whittington & a panel discussion with residents of Princeville, NC Steele Hall Art Gallery & Annie Merner Pfeiffer Chapel, Bennett College Join HNAC for the opening celebration of Greensboro and Princeville’s Climates of Inequality exhibit: Environmental Justice and the Underground Railroad. “Climates of … Continued
Faculty Workshop: Using an Essential Question to Activate Learning Wednesday, Mar. 15th, 2023, 3-4:30pm (followed by a reception) Presenter: Dr. William B. Crow, Lehigh University Weatherspoon Art Museum Creating an impactful, memorable experience for students who are encountering works of art for the first time often means that we need … Continued
HNAC Cafe: Place-based Experiential Education for Online Learning Thursday, Mar. 2nd, 2023, 5:30pm Presenters: Dr. Aaron Allen and Catherine Bowlin Weatherspoon Art Museum Please join us for an open dialogue between Dr. Aaron Allen and Catherine Bowlin about their work to connect place-based and online pedagogies through the Cape Fear Watershed … Continued
“Vast Oceans: The Transatlantic African Sufi Path” Friday, Feb. 24th, 2023, 5pm Presenter: Dr. Youssef Carter, UNC-Chapel Hill Zoom In this talk, Dr. Carter will share his fascinating study of the transatlantic spiritual network of African-American and West African Muslims who are members of the Mustafawi Tariqa (Sufi Path). These … Continued
“Hearing Lwów Out of War, 1939: Singing and the Limits of Sonic Evidence” Friday, Feb. 24th, 2023, 4pm Presenter: Dr. Andrea F. Bohlman, Associate Professor of Music at UNC-Chapel Hill UNCG, Music Building, Room 217 This talk draws attention to a three-and-a-half-minute sound recording made December 1939 in Prenzlau, Germany. … Continued
New Work in Queer and Trans Studies: Latinx Studies Friday, Feb. 24th, 2023, 3:00pm Presenters: Dr. Carolina Alonso, Fort Lewis College: “The Coming-of-Age Experience in Chicanx Queer Novels” Dr. Omi S. Salas-SantaCruz, Pennsylvania State University: “Decolonial Perspectives for Trans* Latinx Studies” Register here: https://uncg.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpcOuurzsoHNWy1gHIUSQst6Ga1xqFQeR1
Donbass Film Screening and Discussion Thursday, Feb. 23th, 2023, 6:30pm Moderator: Dr. Jeff Jones, Associate Professor of History UNCG, School of Education Building, Room 120 Even before Russia’s February 24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a surreal war had raged in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine. In the Donbass, war … Continued
The Archaeological Institute of America and the Department of Classical Studies announces: “Imagining a Greek Home for an Egyptian Goddess: Time, Landscape and Architecture in Greek Sanctuaries to Isis” Tuesday, Feb. 7th, 2023, 6pm Presenter: Dr. Lindsey Mazurek, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University UNCG, Moore Humanities and … Continued
“By the Book: American Refuge with Diya Abdo” Tuesday, Feb. 7th, 2023, 6pm Presenter: Dr. Diya Abdo, Professor of English at Guilford College Greensboro History Museum Join us for a conversation with Dr. Diya Abdo. Her new book American Refuge: True Stories of the Refugee Experience shares the stories of … Continued
“HNAC Cafe: Education in the Carceral System” Thursday, Feb. 2nd, 2023, 5:30pm Presenters: Kristen Powers, Benevolence Farm; Mona Evans, Benevolence Farm; Crystal Thompson, UNCG English Department; Jeffrey Kaplan, UNCG Philosophy Department Weatherspoon Art Museum Please join us for our first HNAC Cafe of the semester: a roundtable discussion concerning education … Continued