Carolina Seminars
2019 Douglass Hunt Lecture with David Daley
NCThe Douglass Hunt Lectures will feature author David Daley for its 2019 lecture series.
A Conversation with Frank Wilderson III
A dialogue among UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, students, and Frank Wilderson III, award winning author and former elected official for the African National Congress. Moderated by Tanya Shields, Director of Carolina Seminars.
Dual Impact of Covid-19 and Systemic Racism and Inequity on Children’s Developmental Trajectories in the Early Years: Interdisciplinary Conversations and Development of a Research-Policy Agenda
This meeting will discuss, from a policy-lens, the impact of the COVID crisis on child education, and in particular, focusing on the systemic inequities that disproportionately impact black and other minoritized children and communities. The goal is to inform us of issues and action-driving needs that can be addressed with innovative science and interventions that …
The Double Whammy: The Disproportionate Impact of Systemic Racism and COVID on Children of Color
Please join our next Carolina Seminar—The Double Whammy: The Disproportionate Impact of Systemic Racism and COVID on Children of Color—featuring Debra Furr-Holden, Director of the Flint Center for Health Equity Solutions. Dr. Furr-Holden has developed a critically important body of research, practice and policy around the Flint water supply contamination and other social determinants of …
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 …
Douglass Hunt Lecture: Feminist and African: Women’s Resistance to Gendered Pacification
Sonja Haynes Stone Center - Hitchcock Multipurpose Room 150 South Rd, Chapel Hill, North CarolinaAfrica’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 …
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? …
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 …
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 …
