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We seek serious and sustained conversation among a wide variety of persons in profession, discipline, practice, and office; in gender/ethnicity; and intellectual orientation. We particularly want to reach beyond the campus for members, including colleagues at North Carolina Central University, Duke University, Appalachian State University and North Carolina State University, area colleges, state and local government, institutes and organizations.
The Seminars are by definition interdisciplinary and cross professional and their method is dialogue. A proposal for a Carolina Seminar may be submitted by any member of the faculty of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and by anyone holding appointment here as Non-Faculty EPA. Please contact our office for more information on the proposal process.
American Indian Studies
This seminar is an opportunity for collaborative scholarship for scholars of American Indians, to include American Studies, Anthropology, Education, English, History and Relgious Studies.
Convenor:
Jean Dennison, UNC-CH, Anthropology
Theda Perdue, UNC-CH, American Studies
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Behavioral Research with Minority Populations
The focus of the seminar’s work is research with families and communities and a study of the range of problems that emerge in research with minority populations and creative solutions to those problems.
Convenors:
Beth Kurz-Costes, UNC-CH, Psychology
Eleanor Seaton, UNC-CH, Psychology
British Studies
This seminar is focused largely on the history of early modern and modern Birtish and British imperial history.
Convenor:
Lydia Lindsey, NC Central, History
Susan Dabney Pennybacker, UNC-CH, History
Julia Rudolph, NC State, History
Brent Sirota, NC State, History
Philip Stern, Duke University, History
Tatiana String, UNC-CH, Art
Susan Thorne, Duke University, History
Carlton Wilson, NC Central, Dean, Liberal Arts
website: http://triangleglobalbrithistseminar.web.unc.edu
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Central Javanral Javanese Gamelan
Gamelan Nyai Saraswati is a large collection of bronze and wooden musical instruments, and Nyai Saraswati has been resident at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2000. Traditionally in Java, where the gamelan plays a significant religious and cultural role in everyday life, Karawitan is taught orally from generation to generation. This seminar seeks opportunities to learn more about Indonesian culture and to explore how gamelan functions socially, historically, and in relation to other art forms.
Convenor:
Marzanna Poplawska, UNC-CH, Music
Comparative Islamic Studies
This seminar is a forum for sharing research in multiple disciplines focusing on Islamic culture in different regions. By featuring visiting scholars and inviting outside speakers, it greatly enriches our concentration in this field.
Convenors:
Carl W. Ernst, UNC-CH, Religious Studies
Charles Kurzman, UNC-CH, Sociology
Website: http://www.unc.edu/depts/islamsem/
Early American History Seminar
This seminar is a group of early American historians who meet to discuss papers of the seminar members. This process has proven essential to stimulating one another’s work.
Convenors:
Kathleen DuVal, UNC-CH, History
Holly Brewer, NCSU, History
Website: http://history.unc.edu/teahs
Ecology and Social Process in Africa
Presentations and discussions focus on how research in the social sciences and humanities helps us to understand the relationships between Africans and their physical environment.
Convenors:
Barbara Anderson, UNC-CH African/Afro-American Studies
Michael Lambert, UNC-CH African/Afro-American Studies
Working Group in Feminism and History
This seminar includes historians based at Triangle universities who meet to discuss gender-related topics that cut across regional and temporal specializations.
Convenors:
Emily Burrill, UNC-CH, Women's Studies
Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University, History
John Wood Sweet, UNC-CH, History
Website: http://www.unc.edu/wgfh/
French Cultural Studies and American Intellectuals
This seminar draws on recent work in the fields of French history, literary studies, and art history to explore evolving issues in French-American intellectual exchanges and the evolving role of intellectuals in both American and French societies.
Convenors:
Don Reid, UNC-CH, History
James Winders, Appalachian State University
North Carolina German Studies Seminar Series
North Carolina possesses an incredibly rich and impressive roster of scholars working in German Studies. This seminar seeks to foster intellectual exchange among students, scholars, and the wider community at both public and private institutions of higher learning.
Convenors:
Karen Hagemann, UNC-CH, History
Konrad Jarausch, UNC-CH, History
Richard Langston, UNC-CH, Germanic Languages and Literature
Website: http://www.unc.edu/ncgs/
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Global Climate Change
This seminar will be a forum for scholars at area universities and in the Research Triangle to collaborate on critical global change issues, linking social, biological, and earth sciences.
Convenors:
John Bruno, UNC-CH, Biology
Lauren Buckley, UNC-CH, Biology
Pam Jagger, UNC-CH, Public Policy
Global South
The Global U.S. South Working Group brings together a mix of thinkers with a broad range of interests from the University of North Carolina and the Triangle to engage in multidisciplinary conversation about our changing world. The group concentrates on globalization's impact on the contemporary American South, focusing on the interplay between the "far away and deep within". To that end, the members of our group are literary authors, psychoanalysts, and others who explore culture.
Convenors:
James Peacock, UNC-CH, Anthropology
Intellectual History in Transatlantic Perspectives
This seminar invites guest presentations, studies recent published works in intellectual history, as well as provides an opportunity for the presentation of works in progress.
Convenors:
Malachi Hacohen, Duke University, History
Steven Vincent, NCSU, History
Cosponsor: Wake Forest University, Dept. of Political Science, http://www.wfu.edu/politics/
Website: www.triangleintellectualhistory.org
Jewish Studies
Our intention is to create a forum in which scholars working on topics relating to Jewish Studies can meet, become better acquainted with each other's work, debate and exchange ideas.
Convenors:
Yaakov Ariel, UNC-CH, Religious Studies
Malachi Hacohen, Duke University, History
Website: http://blog.aas.duke.edu/jss/
Law and Public Policy
This interdisciplinary seminar is devoted to discussion and analysis of contemporary policy problems and legal problems they raise.
Convenors:
Dan Gitterman, UNC-CH, Public Policy
Eric Muller, UNC-CH, Law School
Legal History
This seminar operates as a workshop for research-in-progress for area scholars in legal history. This collaboration also serves to deepen the links between area History Departments and Law Schools.
Convenors:
Edward Balleisen, Duke University, History
Eric Muller, UNC-CH, Law
Jonathan Ocko, NCSU, History
Website: http://www.law.duke.edu/legal_history/
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Literature and Psychology
A literary seminar consisting of academic and mental health professionals in the Triangle who gather twice a month in one another's homes to discuss short stories, poems, novels, and theatrical performances of PlayMakers Repertory Company. Discussion is focused on the personalities and actions of fictional characters, as well as the authors who create them.
Convenor:
James L. Peacock, UNC-CH, Anthropology
Medieval Studies
This seminar offers a humanities-based interdisciplinary forum for the study of history, art history, religious studies, literature, women's studies and other fields covering the period ca. 500-1500. Geographically, the seminar ranges across Europe and the 'greater Mediterranean,' including Byzantium and the Islamic world.
Convenors:
Mona Hassan, Duke University, Religion
Jehangir Malegam, Duke University, History
Julie Mell, NCSU, History
Brett Whalen, UNC-CH, History
Website: http://history.unc.edu/triangle-medieval-studies-seminar
Russia and Its Empires, East and West
This sseminar operates basically as a workshop and participants include academics and PhD students engaging in all aspects of Russia, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.
Convenors:
Jeff Jones, UNC-Greensboro, History
Anna Krylova, Duke University, History
Gleb Tsipursky, UNC-CH, History
Graduate Assistant:
Aaron Hale-Dorrell, UNC-CH, History
Website: http://www.unc.edu/depts/slavic/events/Carolina_Seminars_Spring 2011.html
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