
Co-sponsored Events
Highlights
2009
Feb. 27-28, 2009
"The Lastmaker," a performance archive of restless ghosts from varied pasts
Co-sponsors: Department of communication studies, Carolina Performing Arts, department of dramatic arts and Duke University department of theatre studies
April 2-4, 2009
Conference: "The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories"
Co-sponsors: Southern Oral History Program, UNC Press, UNC School of Law Center for Civil Rights, and the UNC Academic Affairs Library
April 13-15, 2009
Lecture/Reading Group: Roberto Esposito
Co-sponsors: Department of Germanic languages and literature, Duke University's Franklin Humanities Institute and the College of Arts and Sciences
April 15-17, 2009
Conference: "Monuments and Memory: Race and History"
Co-sponsors: Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University and the Research Network on Race and Ethnic Inequality
Sept. 18, 2009
Reading Group: Bruno Latour, first in a monthly reading group series leading up to Latour's visit in March 2010
Co-sponsors: Carolina Lectures in Critical Thought and Duke University's Franklin Humanities Institute
Sept. 24, 2009
Lecture: Sean McCann, professor of American literature at Welseyan University, on American presidents and literature
Co-sponsors: Department of English and comparative literature
Oct. 19, 2009
Lecture: Rebecca J. Scott, professor of history and law at the University of Michigan, on "Freedom, Law and Dignity in the Era of the Haitian Revolution"
Co-sponsors: Department of history, Institute for the Study of the Americas, and the Initiative for a Center and Program for Trans-Oceanic 18th- and 19th Century Studies.
Oct. 29, 2009
Panel and Roundtable: "The Fall of the Wall: Twenty Years Later"
Co-sponsors: UNC and Duke University departments of Germanic languages, the Center for European Studies and Carolina Seminars
Nov. 23, 2009
Lecture: James Bohman, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, on Habermas, international law and cosmopolitanism
Co-sponsors: Department of political science