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.
UNC Asheville's Center for Jewish Studies presents an online workshop with Yavilah McCoy, At the Intersection of Racism and Anti-Semitism, on Tuesday, Sept. 22, from 7-8:30 p.m. This event is free and open to everyone, with pre-registration required.
With proposals now being considered that college basketball be played in "bubbles" similar to those of the NBA and NHL, UNC Asheville's Department of Athletics will present an online discussion about bubbles at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23. Access to the webinar is open to all.
Angela Morales, author of The Girls in My Town, a collection of personal essays, will read and discuss her work when UNC Asheville’s Visiting Writer Series, all online this year, continues on Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 7:30 p.m. This event is free and open to everyone on Zoom.
UNC Asheville Archivist Gene Hyde and NOAA Metadata Specialist Elizabeth Harper will present “Raising Archival Awareness in a Regional Studies Organization: The Appalachian Studies Case,” at noon on Thursday, Sept. 24.
"Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap" will be the next topic in the Racial Disparity Webinar Series from OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville. This online event is free and open to everyone via Zoom at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24.
UNC Asheville Lecturer in Chemistry and Biochemistry Caitlin Farr will present an online seminar in organic chemistry at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 25. This online event is free and open to everyone via Zoom.
Discovery Day is the UNC Asheville Open House that gives students and families a chance to see what makes the UNC Asheville experience unique. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this year’s Discovery Day events will be held virtually.
UNC Asheville Associate Professor of History Sarah Judson will present at Zoom webinar, Locating Grassroots Democracy: The Asheville Tenants Rent Strike of 1968-69, from 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 1. This webinar is free and open to everyone.
The next online event in UNC Asheville's Fall 2020 Chemistry & Biochemistry webinar series will be "Polymeric Materials and Catalysis," presented by Brian K. Long, associate professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. This webinar is free and open to everyone, beginning at 11:45 a.m.
UNC Asheville’s student Xtet, directed by Justin Ray, will perform live at noon on Thursday, Oct. 1 at Reed Plaza on the campus. The show will be livestreamed on the Department of Music Facebook page – in-person attendance is free, but limited to UNC Asheville students, faculty and staff, with limited numbers and physical distancing to conform with COVID-19 safety protocols.
UNC Asheville's Fall 2020 Visiting Writer Series will continue at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 7 with readings by Luke Hankins and Sebastian Matthews. This Zoom event is presented by UNC Asheville's Department of English and is free and open to everyone with pre-registration required.
UNC Asheville will continue its fall 2020 series of a free webinars on economics with a talk at noon on Thursday, Oct. 8, by Tomáš Sedláček, chief macroeconomic strategist at Czech commercial bank CSOB and author of Economics of Good and Evil: the Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street. This online event is free and open to everyone via Zoom.
In this online talk at noon on Thursday, Oct. 8, bestselling novelist Wiley Cash will discuss two questions he always asks when writing a novel. First, "what is this?" Second, "what do I call it?" He also will discuss and read from his forthcoming novel. Pre-registration is required.
UNC Asheville's Departments of Environmental Studies and Biology present the next in their series of webinars, "Salmonella outbreaks in poultry: from the backyard flock to the processing plant," by Andrea Etter, assistant professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Vermont. The webinar, free and open to everyone, takes place at noon on Thursday, Oct. 8, via Zoom.
UNC Asheville’s student Horace Silver Ensemble, directed by Zack Page, will perform live at noon on Thursday, Oct. 8 at Reed Plaza on the campus. The show will be livestreamed on the Department of Music Facebook page – in-person attendance is free, but limited to UNC Asheville students, faculty and staff, with limited numbers and physical distancing to conform with COVID-19 safety protocols.
John Grisham’s new novel, A Time For Mercy, the follow-up to his beloved novel A Time to Kill, launches nationally on Tuesday, Oct. 13, and Grisham will kick off his online book tour with a noon Zoom conversation with another best-selling novelist, Wiley Cash.
Asa Eger, associate professor of early Islamic history at UNC Greensboro will discuss the physical and ideological aspects of the early interactions between Christianity and Islam, to add perspective to contemporary events, in this free webinar at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14. Pre-registration is required.
UNC Asheville's Department of Education presents an online platform for meaningful conversations about the teaching profession from our teaching alumni. This conversation, from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, will be lead by current teachers to focus on future teachers.
Moon Duchin, the mathematician called upon by Pennsylvania’s governor to aid in drawing up nonpartisan Congressional district maps, will share how she uses mathematical modelling to assess the fairness of district lines when she delivers UNC Asheville’s 2020 Parsons Lecture via Zoom, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15.
William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr., co-author of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr. and Kirsten Mullen co-authors of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, will be featured in this concluding webinar in the fall 2020 series from UNC Asheville's Department of Economics. This online event takes place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, and is free and open to all. Pre-registration is required.
UNC Asheville’s seventh annual African Americans in Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia Conference will take place online this year, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16. The conference is free and open to everyone with pre-registration required.
TheatreUNCA will bring Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy Antigone to life as a radio drama podcast with an online debut set for 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 18 on the UNC Asheville Department of Drama’s Vimeo channel. Visit drama.unca.edu/engage/theatreunca to register for this free event and receive a password-protected link to listen to the show between Oct 18 and 25.
UNC Asheville will host a virtual Climate Teach-In from noon-1 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, with faculty and community experts addressing interdisciplinary issues related to climate science, climate impacts and adaptations, and climate solutions. The virtual program is free and open to all.
UNC Asheville’s Fall 2020 Visiting Writer Series will continue at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20 with a reading by Xhenet Aliu. This Zoom event is presented by UNC Asheville’s Department of English and is free and open to everyone with pre-registration required.
UPDATED Oct. 23, 2020: No blood donations can be accepted today (Friday) due to Red Cross staffing issues.
This webinar, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22, is free and open to everyone. Areas of focus in the webinar will be African American women and the Suffrage Movement, discursive politics within Women's Suffrage Movements, and women's suffrage in the South.
UNC Asheville has announced the inaugural Turning of the Maples Virtual 5K. Complete your 3.1 mile run/walk the weekend of October 23-25, 2020, to take in the colorful fall leaves wherever you are. Registration is now open at unca.edu/Virtual5K and the $10 fee includes an exclusive Turning of the Maples 5K beanie hat, a Turning of the Maples 5K sticker, and a downloadable race bib to print off at home.
Meghan McGreal, a 2015 UNC Asheville graduate student, now part of the Goodpaster Group at the Chemical Theory Center at the University of Minnesota, will discuss electronic structure theories and graduate school experiences at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 23 in a webinar presented by UNC Asheville's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. This webinar is free and open to everyone.
Discovery Day is the UNC Asheville Open House that gives students and families a chance to see what makes the UNC Asheville experience unique. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this year’s Discovery Day events will be held virtually.
UNC Asheville’s Fall 2020 Visiting Writer Series will continue at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 27 with a reading by Melissa Range. This Zoom event is presented by UNC Asheville’s Department of English and is free and open to everyone with pre-registration required.
Benjamin L. Schmitt of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will present a free webinar, Moving Science from a ‘Nice-to-Have’ to a ‘Must-Have’ in U.S. Foreign Policy: Stories from a Physicist on the Front Lines of Transatlantic Security Policy, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 28. Pre-registration is required.
UNC Asheville's Departments of Biology and Environmental Studies are hosting a webinar presented by Jim Chapman, senior geologist for oil and gas regulation at N.C. Geological Survey, part of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality.
This online event is free and open to everyone, beginning at 11:45 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22.
Pete Kekenes-Huskey, associate professor of cell and molecular physiology at Loyola University Chicago, and a 2001 UNC Asheville graduate, will discuss computational modeling of Ca2+-binding proteins, at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30.
UNC Asheville's Arts & Ideas Program presents Art For Our Times, Nov. 2-7, 2020 to engage with visual, digital, performing, and contemplative art forms that offer us a moment of pause, reflection, and meditation. Some of the showcased works directly address the events of our times, others offer experiences that invite the audience to observe, reflect, and respond in their own way. Many of these events, exhibitions and experiences will not be open to the public due to COVID-19; some will be available to all via livestream or asynchronously.
UNC Asheville’s student Funk-Fusion Ensemble, directed by Mike Barnes, and the Afromusics Ensemble, directed by Jonathan King, will perform live at noon on Thursday, Nov. 5 on the UNC Asheville Quad, with the performances blending with the Tuning Meditation event also on the Quad as part of Arts for Our Times week. The show will be livestreamed on the Department of Music Facebook page – in-person attendance is free, but limited to UNC Asheville students, faculty and staff, with limited numbers and physical distancing to conform with COVID-19 safety protocols.
UPDATED NOV. 4: This event is canceled.
Mildred Barya, UNC Asheville assistant professor of English and winner of the North Carolina Humanities Council's 2020 Linda Flowers Award, with be featured in a reading at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5. This online event, which also features writers Carol Scott-Conner and Susan Wilson, is free and open to everyone.
UNC Asheville Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Education Tiece Ruffin will lead a virtual community gathering exploring best practices and solutions that support positive academic outcomes for Black youth, from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Nov. 7. This event is hosted by the Asheville City Schools Foundation and is free and open to everyone with registration here.
UNC Asheville's student Contemporary Guitar Ensemble, directed by Tim Doyle of the music faculty, will perform in a free livestream concert at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9, on the Department of Music Facebook page.
Leisa Rundquist, UNC Asheville professor of art and art history, will discuss her forthcoming book, The Power and Fluidity of Girlhood in Henry Darger’s Art, as part of the weeklong Intersect Chicago art festival, which is digital this year. Rundquist's conversation with Debra Kerr, president and CEO of Intuit (The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art), will take place at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, with registration required for the livestream.
UNC Asheville's student Bluegrass Ensemble, directed by Jonathan King, will perform on the Quad outside of Lipinsky Hall on campus at noon on Thursday, Nov. 12. The performance will be streamed live on the Department of Music Facebook page. In-person attendance is restricted to UNC Asheville students, faculty and staff, with social distancing and face coverings.
UNC Asheville’s student ensemble, the Xtet, directed by Justin Ray of the music faculty, will perform modern jazz compositions, including originals, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12. The concert will be livestreamed for free on the Department of Music Facebook page.