College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

A series of programs scheduled in February and March will look at the impact of the Civil War on North Carolina, and how the state’s role in the Confederacy plays out today in the ongoing tensions surrounding the monuments of that war.

Natalie Cisneros, an assistant professor at Seattle University, will present “How Does It feel to be a Problem? Racism and the ‘Immigration Crisis’” at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Cone University Center, Room 111.

The book “Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race and the Gothic South” has a murder, a dowager of fading “Southern aristocracy,” two eccentrics living with goats in a decaying mansion, conspiracy, racism and injustice. On Tuesday, Feb. 19, author Karen Cox will give a public presentation about her book as part of the Personally Speaking series.

Steven Rogelberg is used to being in front of large groups of people to talk about his research on meetings. But recently, he had the chance to reach perhaps his largest audience yet as a guest on CBS This Morning.

Orchids have a long history of being associated with love, which makes them a perfect gift for Valentine’s Day.

The 2019 Botanical Gardens Orchid Sale, scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 9, through Thursday, Feb. 14, is an opportunity to purchase one or more of these elegant flowers. Orchids will range in price from $10 to $25. Sale hours coincide with the greenhouse’s normal operating hours.

Mariana Ortega, an associate professor at Penn State University, will present “Memento Vivere: Shadow Ground, Aesthetic Memory and the Border” at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 24, in the Atkins Library Halton Reading Room.

An anthropologist who focuses on the edge of experience—on voices, visions, the supernatural and the world of psychosis—will deliver the 35th Loy P. Witherspoon Lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 5, at UNC Charlotte Center City.

Tanya Maria Luhrmann, often cited as T.M. Luhrmann, is the Watkins University Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. As this year’s Witherspoon lecturer, she will discuss “Shamans and Schizophrenia: How Religious Practice May Change Psychotic Experience.”

“There’s a Garden in My Beer” captures the essence of the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens Urban Roots Lecture set for 6 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 30, at Free Range Brewing.

Tanure Ojaide, the Frank Graham Porter Professor of Africana Studies, is co-recipient of the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.

Stories of liberation from slavery or oppression have become central to African American women’s literature. In “Freedom Narratives of African American Women: A Study of 19th Century Writings,” author Janaka Bowman Lewis posits that these texts represent an earlier discussion on civil rights than the ideas of racial uplift that culminated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.