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Events and Speakers
- Dr. Richie Davidson, Keynote: Well-Being is a Skill, and Master Class
- Carter Sickels, author of The Prettiest Star
- Dr. Ari Friedlander, From Babel to Biopolitics: Class, Sexuality, and Race in Early Modern English Rogue Literature
- Dr. Cord Whitaker, The Harlem Middle Ages: W.E.B. Du Bois and Global Black Medievalism
- Dr. Jennifer Gomez-Menjivar, Professional Development Series: Blackness and Indigeneity in Abiayala, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Dr. Clint Carroll, Knowing the Land: Indigenous Strategies for Revitalization and Adaptation
- Campus Week Event Series
- Realities of Poverty Tour with First Year Students
- Cherokee Trip with First Year Students
Supported Projects:
- Humanities Program Readers Project
- EBCI/Indigenous Studies Constellation Groups
- First Year Student Showcase
- Humanities Program Summer Workshops
- First Year Experience Pilot Program (LANG 120 – FYS – HUM 124 Collaborations)
- Prison Education Program
- HUM 124 Peer Mentoring and Course Ambassador Pilot
2020-2021 Academic Year
Events and Speakers
- WORLDS ~ WORDS: Virtual Multilingual Indigenous Series Spring 2021
- Pachaysana: Stories, Land, and Justice Webinar/workshops with LA 478 & AIIS courses
- Dr. Toril Moi, Virtual Critical Perspectives Series
- Dr. Ben Steere, virtual HUM 124 lecture on Cherokee mounds, towns and stories
- Dr. Caley Smith, virtual HUM 124 lecture on Vedas in ancient India
- Claudia Rankine, online Visiting Writer Series
Supported Projects:
- Humanities Program Readers Project
- First Year Experience letter writing project
- Drums for the UNCA African Music and Dance Ensemble
- Humanities Program Faculty Summer Workshop Series
- Humanities Program Lecture Series: Conversion to Video
HUM Program Faculty Research and Conference Support
2019-2020 Academic Year
Events and Speakers
- Bill Plympton – Visiting Animator
- 400 Years of African-American Resilience Commemoration Activities:
- Key speaker, Dr. Molefi Kete Asante
- “Aesthetics of the Afro-Americas” Concert
- Dr. Rangi Matamua – Māori Astronomy
- Saki Mafundikwa – Founder of Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts
- Dr. Jay Garfield – Buddhist scholar and philosopher
- Arthur Flowers – Poet and Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Speaker
- Elodia Castillo Vasquez – Maya Ch’orti’ indigenous authority from Guatemala
- Odyssey Community Dialogues: Three conversations using Homer’s Odyssey as the context for exploring current societal challenges
Supported Projects:
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Faculty Working Group
- Dinikanawidido’i: Eastern Band of Cherokee Community Advisory Council
- Humanities Advisory Board
- Humanities Readers Project
HUM Program Faculty Research and Conference Support
- Eric Roubinek
- Duane Davis
- Greta Trautmann
- Jeremias Zunguze
- James Perkins
- Lise Kloeppel
- Sonia Kapur
2018-2019 Academic Year
Events and Speakers
- Michael Twitty – Farm to Table
- Kuntala Ray – Carnatic Musician
- Dr. Alison Bigelow – Popul Vuh Digitization
- Tibetan Monks
- Trauma and Philosophy Conference
- Naboba Documentary – Amado Villafaña Chaparro Residency
- HUM 414 Students to Black Mountain College We Insist! Max Roach Freedom Now
- Brown v. Board of Education@65
- Dr. Janine Jones Residency
- Roger May, Appalachian Photographer
- Gory (Rogelio López Marín) Art Exhibit
HUM Program Faculty Research and Conference Support
- Elena Adell
- Toby King – Humanities Center Summer Residency
- Will Revere – Humanities Center Summer Residency
- Jinhua Li
- Megan Underhill