Professor Lewis R. Gordon will discuss the meaning of knowledge production and the distinctions between facts and knowledge, logical and reason, and how research can work to support or challenge current systems of power. This talk initiates an interdisciplinary conversation between data scientists and scholars in the humanities about the role of research and teaching in the broader social,...
This two-week journey, led by Professor Judith LaPietra, will offer students a unique opportunity to experience the beauty and resilience of Rwanda today. More than 26 years after a horrific genocide, Rwanda has charted its own path toward reconciliation and emerged as a unique and progressive landscape.
Known as the land of a thousand hills, our journey will begin...
In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-two, Columbus "sailed the ocean blue," paving the way for the creation of Spain's transatlantic empire and the beginnings of the modern global economic, political, and cultural system.
We are preparing a Study Abroad to Rwanda for the Summer of 2021, led by Prof. LaPietra. More information very soon.
https://studyabroad.uncc.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=11731
Over the weekend of April 13-14, our Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies hosted its first in a series of international conferences, “Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide.” The conference, held at UNC Charlotte’s Center City, brought together more than 100 scholars, activists, educators, and students to discuss origins, significance...
Feminist Transation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives (Routledge, 2017) explores feminist approaches to translation across diverse geographical and historical locations as resistant transnational practices that challenge multiple forms of domination. In the piece, they introduce feminist translation studies, discuss the role that translation plays in the transnational and...