UNC Asheville alumni, students and families will celebrate Homecoming 2020 with many special events, headlined by a Bulldog basketball doubleheader, the Alumni Awards Banquet, and special closeout parties for alumni and students, on and off campus.
February's Death Café will be held from 5-6:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 21, at UNC Asheville's Reuter Center, home of OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Center. This event is free and open to everyone.
The Bulldog men's and women's teams will face Big South rivals in a Homecoming weekend doubleheader at Kimmel Arena. The action begins at 2 p.m. on Saturday when the women tip off against USC Upstate. Then at 4:30, the men face Presbyterian in their final home game of the regular season.
This joint concert, Music Leads the Way, will celebrate the women's suffrage movement, and feature the University Chorale and Reuter Center Singers, both directed by Chuck Taft, and the student musicians of UNC Asheville's Wind Ensemble, directed by Fletcher Peacock, the university's director of instrumental studies. The concert takes place at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 23 in Lipinsky Auditorium, free and open to everyone.
Disability is Diversity Week is an annual event at UNC Asheville, formerly known as Disability Awareness Week. The week's workshops, films and more, all free and open to everyone, focus on disability as an identity of diversity and difference to be not only accepted but celebrated.
Guitarist and UNC Asheville music faculty member Andy Jurik will give a free public lecture, "It is always three o’clock in the morning" - Dowland, Britten, Melancholy, Death, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.
TheatreUNCA will present four performances of Henrick Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, adapted by Patrick Marber, directed by Aaron Snook. Curtain will be 7:30 p.m. on Thursday-Saturday, and 2 p.m. for Sunday's matinee. General admission tickets are $12.
This second community dialogue in the The Odyssey Project: The Journey Home series will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 27 in the Sherrill Center on campus, in the Ingles Mountain View Room. The series is free and open to everyone.
Middle and high school students from the region will present their original research during this N.C. Student Academy of Sciences District 8 Competition, which takes place from 12:30-5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28 in Highsmith Student Union, Alumni Hall.
Erik Larson, in conversation with Denise Kiernan, will discuss his new book, The Splendid and the Vile – A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz. This ticketed event takes place at 6:30 p.m. in the Highsmith Student Union Blue Ridge Room, presented in partnership by Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, and UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program and Departments of English and History.
Elodia Castillo and Roderico Y. Diaz, two Mayan leaders from Guatemala, will speak and present photographs at noon on Tuesday, March 3, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. This event is free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville will screen the documentary, narrated by Jodie Foster, "Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché," at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, in the Highsmith Student Union Blue Ridge Room. This event, part of the University's Women's History Month observance, is free and open to everyone.
The Bulldogs take on defending Big South champion Radford at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4, in Kimmel Arena. In this final home game of the regular season, the Bulldogs will honor the graduating seniors at halftime.
Bill Plympton will present and discuss his works as an independent animator at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4, in Rhoades Robinson Hall Room 125. This event is free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville will present a conference for people interested in getting teacher certification, whether currently in high school, college, or considering a return to college as a post-bac student. In addition to learning about teacher certification programs at UNC Asheville, attendees will hear from English teacher Bobbie Cavnar, 2017 N.C. Teacher of the Year and 2018 NEA Foundation Top Public School Teacher in the Nation. This conference is free and online registration is available.
UNC Asheville will host its third biennial Philosophy of Disability Conference, March 6-7, 2020, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. All conference presentations are free and open to everyone.
The sixth seeded UNC Asheville women's basketball team will fact Charleston Southern in the first round of the Hercules Tires Big South Championship Tournament at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10 in Kimmel Arena on campus.
This event is POSTPONED.
Ashley Moraguez and Anne Jansen, UNC Asheville assistant professors of political science, will be the presenters at the next Pints with Professors gathering, from 5-7 p.m. on Monday, March 16, at Archetype Brewing, 174 Broadway St., Asheville. Admission is free; food and beverages are not.
UPDATED MARCH 12 - This event is CANCELED.
UNC Asheville has canceled or postponed all public events other than those shown here. Please check back for updates - when new online events are confirmed, we will post information here. We apologize for any inconvenience and encourage everyone to try to stay safe.
UPDATE MARCH 12 - This event is POSTPONED.
UPDATED MARCH 12 - This event is CANCELED.
UPDATE - This event will not take place on campus but will be a livestream event for ticketholders - see the Malaprop's website for more information.
This online session, presented by UNC Asheville's Family Business Forum, and will feature Rollin Groseclose of Johnson Price Sprinkle and Sandra Dennison of the SBTDC, will take place from 2-3 p.m. on Tuesday, April 7, free and open to everyone.
Richard Chess, UNC Asheville Roy Carroll Distinguished Professor of English, under the auspices of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, will present this webinar from 3-4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15. This online event is free; a $10 donation to the center is suggested.
This free webinar, which begins at 2 p.m. on Monday, April 20 and is presented by UNC Asheville's Family Business Forum, will feature attorneys Sabrina Rockoff and Murphy Fletcher from McGuire, Wood & Bissette. They will recap all of the recent changes to employment laws related to COVID-19, including sick pay and leave laws, unemployment, and how to handle other practical workplace problems presented by COVID-19.
UNC Asheville's Center for Jewish Studies, in partnership with the Fine Arts Theater, will offer a free, online, on-demand screening, April 22-24, of the new documentary film by Tod Lending, Saul and Ruby's Holocaust Survivor Band. Viewing will be free for the first 75 people who register by April 21.
This event, originally scheduled for March 19 on campus will now be available to all as an online discussion that will take place from 7-9 p.m. on Thursday, April 23.
UNC Asheville's Center for Jewish Studies presents a virtual discussion with Israeli musician, chazzan and Jewish spiritual leader Danny Maseng, via Zoom at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13.
Trey Adcock, Associate Professor and Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at UNC Asheville, will present a webinar, from 10:30-11:30 a.m. on Monday, May 18, based on the oral histories and photos he and his students have gathered to document the history and impact of the Snowbird Day School in the Qualla Boundary.
Ashley Moraguez, UNC Asheville assistant professor of political science will be on the panel discussing "Does Your Vote Count: The Impact of Gerrymandering" hosted online by the League of Women Voters of Asheville-Buncombe County, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 3, via Zoom.
UPDATED JUNE 16 - This event is now fully booked with no more reservations being accepted.
Leadership Asheville will present a virtual Summer Buzz webinar, "Reopening: Where Are We? Health, Schools and Business" from 9-10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 22, free and open to everyone, with pre-registration required.
UNC Asheville will host a free drive-in screening of the movie "Space Jam," on Thursday evening, July 30. To help maintain safe social distancing, only 65 vehicles will be admitted and advance tickets are required, first-come first served.
UNC Asheville Writer-in-Residence, best-selling novelist Wiley Cash, will host a livestream book talk featuring Sarah M. Broom, author of The Yellow House, in conversation with Imani Perry, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13.
Best-selling novelist and UNC Asheville Writer-in-Residence Wiley Cash will host a book talk with Justin A. Reynolds, author of Early Departures, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20. This online event is free and open to everyone; pre-registration is required.
The next Leadership Asheville Buzz Breakfast webinar will take place via Zoom at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 26. The topic will be November's election, and featured panelists will be Western Carolina University Department Head of Political Science and Public Affairs Chris Cooper, and Buncombe County Director of Election Services Corinne Duncan.
OLLI - the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville - will continue its series of webinars on racial disparity with a discussion of criminal justice issues, at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 27, free and open to everyone, with pre-registration required.
Best-selling novelist and UNC Asheville Writer-in-Residence Wiley Cash will host a book talk with Heather Bell Adams, author of "The Good Luck Stone," at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 27. This online event is free and open to everyone; pre-registration is required.
UNC Asheville will begin a series of a free webinars on economics with a talk at noon on Thursday, Sept. 3, by Heather Boushey, president and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and author of "Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It." This online event is free and open to everyone via Zoom. A link will be posted here closer to the event date.
Philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum will be interviewed by UNC Asheville Professor of Philosophy Brian E. Butler, in the 2020 Frederic R. and Molly S. Kellogg Biennial Lecture in Jurisprudence, presented online this year by the Library of Congress. This event is free and open to all, with limited registration, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 3 p.m.
The fall 2020 Visiting Writer Series from UNC Asheville's Department of English begins with the Katherine Min Memorial Reading and will feature an introductory reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Andrew Sean Greer, and readings by two alumni poets - Zefyr Lisowski and Jesse Rice-Evans. This online event is free and open to everyone, and takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 9.
UNC Asheville Research and Teaching Fellow Kyle Murphy will present a chemistry seminar, "Chirality-assisted synthesis towards the generation of helical ladder polymers," from 2:30 to 3:20 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 11. This is the first in a series of weekly seminars from UNC Asheville's Department of Chemistry. The seminar is free and open to everyone via Zoom.
OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville will continue its series on racial disparity with a free webinar at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 16 – What is the Path to Achieving Educational Equity for Students of Color? This event is free and open to all; pre-registration is required.
Sharon Harrigan, author of the novel "Half," and the memoir, "Playing with Dynamite," will read and discuss her work when UNC Asheville's Visiting Writer Series, all online this year, continues on Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 7:30 p.m. This event is free and open to everyone on Zoom with pre-registration required.
UNC Asheville Professor of History Daniel Pierce, and Ashley Whittle of Ramsey Library Special Collections will present a free webinar, "Historic Monuments and Telling the 'Full Story of American History:' The RAIL Memorial Project and the Case for Memorializing the Incarcerated Laborers who Brought the Railroad to Western North Carolina," at noon on Thursday, Sept. 17, via Zoom, with pre-registration required.
UPDATED on Sept. 16 - Due to expected rain on Sept. 17, this event is being moved to Sept. 24.
UNC Asheville will continue its fall 2020 series of a free webinars on economics with a talk at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17, by Dietrich Vollrath, author of "Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy is a Sign of Success." This online event is free and open to everyone via Zoom, with pre-registration required.
UNC Asheville's Fall 2020 Chemistry Seminar Series continues at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18, with a talk on "Metabolic effects of naphthalene exposure," by Chase Stevens, a doctoral student in pharmacology and toxicology in the Feihn Lab at the UC Davis, and a 2017 UNC Asheville graduate. This seminar is free and open to everyone via Zoom.