June 2021
How Inequality Kills: Equity as a Health System Imperative
Please join us for our final Interdisciplinary Seminar in Health Equity for the academic year. Following the theme of the impact structures have on health disparities, we will hear a presentation from Dr. David Ansell, MD, MPH on How Inequality Kills: Equity as a Health System Imperative. This important seminar is a collaborative effort of the Sheps Center, Carolina Seminars, and Rush University. The seminar will take place on Tuesday, June 22nd from 3pm-4pm EST. Please register here: https://go.unc.edu/Dd49L
Find out more »September 2022
Douglass Hunt Lecture: Feminist and African: Women’s Resistance to Gendered Pacification
Africa’s postcolonial states continue to exhibit profound contradictions in the arena of gender politics. While women’s movements have successfully pursued a great many legal and policy reforms, the implementation of new laws and policies remains very challenging, as state structures often lack the will and the capacity, or worse, work to appropriate and subvert real change. Yet feminism continues to spread on the continent, constituting an intellectual and political force for freedom that challenges the ongoing exploitation and oppression of…
Find out more »Welcome to the Digital Village!
Almost 5 billion people—two thirds of the global population—now go online. The Internet has changed how we work, learn, govern, and fall in love. Yet despite its digital turn, geography has failed to grapple with the patterns and significance of Internet connection for rural people and places, particularly in the Global South. This talk brings together agrarian studies and digital geography to situate emergent online practices within longer trajectories of agrarian change. To do so, I advance the concept of…
Find out more »February 2023
Begin Within: Designing Classrooms for Healing, Love, and Liberation
Please join the Carolina Seminar on Transformative Pedagogy in Times of Crisis for a workshop with: Michelle Chatman Begin Within: Designing Classrooms for Healing, Love, and Liberation Friday Feb 24, 2023. 11am- 2pm*. 4th Floor, Global Education Center How can our classrooms model the kind of world we want and that is calling to be born? Scholars are examining the harm often perpetuated in academia and how healing can be cultivated through anti-racist and anti-oppressive efforts that intentionally center equity, justice,…
Find out more »Missing Discussions: Institutional Constraints In The Islamic Political Tradition
As part of the Formal and Quantitative Seminar (FAQS) James Robinson (University of Chicago) will speak about Missing Discussions: Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition. Join in person or on zoom James Robinson is University Professor and the Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago and the director of The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. His work explores the underlying causes of economic and political development and the…
Find out more »Recovery and Resilience among Child and Youth Mini-Conference
Join us for a mini-conference on Recovery and Resilience among Child and Youth on February 27th from 9am-5pm on the UNC Greensboro campus (with virtual option). This event is open to academics and community providers and sponsored by the Child and Family Research Network and Care-to-Share Collaborative. Students are strongly encouraged to attend and to submit a research poster to share. In the last three years, societal stress and trauma exposure have become even more rampant. Although children, youth and families are…
Find out more »April 2023
Leveraging North Carolina’s Assets to Prevent Child Trauma
FRONTIER in the FPG Child Development Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill brings to you this statewide Summit, Leveraging North Carolina’s Assets to Prevent Child Trauma. Momentum is growing in NC for building trauma-informed systems that strengthen resilience and weed out systemic and often intergenerational sources of child trauma. To advance this work, it is critical that community-research-policy partnerships are forged to promote the widespread adoption of science-based strategies and encourage a transformational shift from a reactive to a preventative approach. This inaugural…
Find out more »Leveraging North Carolina’s Assets to Prevent Child Trauma
FRONTIER in the FPG Child Development Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill brings to you this statewide Summit, Leveraging North Carolina’s Assets to Prevent Child Trauma. Momentum is growing in NC for building trauma-informed systems that strengthen resilience and weed out systemic and often intergenerational sources of child trauma. To advance this work, it is critical that community-research-policy partnerships are forged to promote the widespread adoption of science-based strategies and encourage a transformational shift from a reactive to a preventative approach. This inaugural…
Find out more »Leveraging North Carolina’s Assets to Prevent Child Trauma
FRONTIER in the FPG Child Development Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill brings to you this statewide Summit, Leveraging North Carolina’s Assets to Prevent Child Trauma. Momentum is growing in NC for building trauma-informed systems that strengthen resilience and weed out systemic and often intergenerational sources of child trauma. To advance this work, it is critical that community-research-policy partnerships are forged to promote the widespread adoption of science-based strategies and encourage a transformational shift from a reactive to a preventative approach. This inaugural…
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