PlayMakers at 40 revisits The Crucible (event spotlight)
In 1976, PlayMakers Repertory Company became the professional theater-in-residence on the UNC campus and brought Arthur Miller’s gripping play, The…
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Artists After Hours
Introducing Artists After Hours, an occasional feature in which we interview faculty, staff and students who pursue artistic avocations in…
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Exploring Muslim identities (theme: tolerance and understanding)
Popular culture tends to view the world’s great religions as monolithic identities, when the complex history of religion encompasses a…
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Creativity, conflict and social change in the Congo (theme: global engagement)
Chérie Rivers Ndaliko and her husband, Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, run Yolé!Africa, which provides a space for youth in eastern Congo…
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Food through a new lens (theme: food and the environment)
UNC cultural anthropologist Colin Thor West became interested in the lives of rural farmers and the challenges they face when…
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Popular minor connects philosophy, politics, economics (theme: an enlightened citizenry)
The program sponsors a national undergraduate colloquium that brings top PPE students to the UNC campus each year. (photo courtesy…
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Documenting UNC’s black pioneers (theme: social justice)
Last year, student interns at the Southern Oral History Program interviewed 16 of the “Black Pioneers,” African-Americans who attended UNC-Chapel…
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Jump-starting conversations and collaborations
A Q&A with Terry Rhodes ’78, senior associate dean for fine arts and humanities, about “Carolina’s Human Heart.”
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Carolina’s Human Heart: Living the arts and humanities
The arts and humanities inform, inspire, energize and excite us. They bring context and meaning to the important issues of…
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“Spoken Word/Spoken Justice”: A Q&A with Mohammad Moussa
Mohammad Moussa (photo by Nida Allam) Q: Tell me more about “Shattered Glass,” a performance that you wrote in tribute…
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