Guest Lectures

2018 Frank Porter Graham Lecture: Healthcare’s Seven Dirty Words

Fedex Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium (1015) 301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Elizabeth G. Taylor is executive director of the National Health Law Program (NHeLP), a nationally recognized legal nonprofit dedicated to protecting and advancing the health rights of low income and underserved individuals. Elizabeth has spent her career advancing justice both … Continued

Lunch and Learn with Toshi Reagon, 2018 Hillard Gold ’39 Lecturer

Graham Memorial, Room 039 (Basement Level) 218 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Toshi Reagon is a versatile singer, composer, musician, curator and producer with a profound ear for sonic Americana--from folk to funk, from blues to rock. Among many accolades, Tohi is a National Women's History Month Honoree, 2010 recipient of OutMusic's … Continued

2020 Eve Marie Carson Lecture featuring Karen Parker ’65

Zoom

You're invited to attend the virtual 2020 Eve Marie Carson Lecture featuring Karen Parker ’65, the first African American woman undergraduate to attend Carolina. Karen will speak about trailblazing a path as a student at Carolina during the civil rights … Continued

Structures of Inequality: Hour of Action

Zoom

Reserve this hour to get involved, volunteer your time, or learn more about bias and discrimination. We will meet, offer options for activism you can complete during this hour, and then check back in to report what we accomplished. Register … Continued

UNC Center for Civil Rights presents Symposium on the Past, Present, and Future of the Equal Protection Clause

Zoom

The UNC Center for Civil Rights is excited to present “Equal Protection’s Grand Promise and Betrayals: Reconstruction, Plessy to Bakke and Beyond: Is There a Way Forward?” The symposium will explore the origins, present status, and the future promise of the Equal Protection Clause. Speakers and panelists will … Continued

Frank Porter Graham Lecture presents: The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner

Zoom

Professor Foner is on the country’s preeminent historians of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. He has authored more than twenty books, including the magisterial text, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 (1988), and most recently, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and … Continued

Structures of Inequality: Moving Forward on College Access

Zoom

In the fall, Honors Carolina kicked off an ongoing examination of Systems of Inequality with a series of programs on structural racism. This semester, we will turn our attention to related questions of bias and discrimination. Topics will range from … Continued

Your Science Can Affect Policy: How & Why Psychological Scientists Should Engage in Advocacy

Graham Memorial, Room 039 (Basement Level) 218 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join us for a screening of the American Psychological Association's webinar, "Your Science Can Affect Policy: How and Why Psychological Scientists Should Engage in Advocacy", which is part of their "Essential Science Conversations" series, where panelists and audience members can … Continued