“Ever Wonder Where Your Garbage Goes? Landfills, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice” Blair L. Pollock serves as a solid waste planner for Orange County, North Carolina. A founding member of the Carolina Recycling Association, he helped initiate Orange County’s public recycling … Read more

Mishio Yamanaka, a PhD candidate in UNC’s Department of History and the 2017-18 McColl Fellow, will show how Creoles of color in New Orleans achieved the partial desegregation of public schools during Reconstruction and resisted resegregation in 1877. In her … Read more

Talking about table manners is a prickly proposition–and big business in the twenty-first century. Join us for a “proper” southern luncheon with Kimberly Kyser, author of Ticket, a thoroughly modern etiquette book that demystifies the dreaded prissiness of “proper” behavior. … Read more

This event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs to Patrick Horn at pathorn@unc.edu will be appreciated. Light refreshments will be served.

“‘Besides being water of good quality, it is very good water’: Redefining Public Health Metrics of Water Quality” Professor Javier Arce Nazario is an Associate Professor in the Geography Department at UNC-Chapel Hill. His research program has focused on the … Read more