Community Events

Welcome to the second week of the semester. I hope you had a chance to get some rest over the weekend.  News on College Name The Dean notified chairs on Friday that of the two remaining approved name choices for our new college he will recommend “College of Humanities, Earth & Social Sciences” to the […]

Welcome to the Fall 2023 Semester! I am excited to begin this academic year with you and look forward to working together as we move forward. I am so pleased to send the inaugural “This Week in LACS”! Please bear with me as this is a very long one, since it is the first. Important […]

Event Date: February 16, 2023 – 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Location: Cone Center: After Hours The Department of Languages and Culture Studies is proud to announce its 6th Multi-language Poetry Slam on February 16, 2023 at 7 pm in Cone Center After Hours. All students and faculty with a passion for poetry and spoken […]

Event Date: November 18, 2022 – 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM Location: Cone Building Lucas Room The Arabic Culture Club, in partnership with International Education Week presents: A Talent Show & Paint Night A fun night of socializing and creativity with fruits and dessert while producing a personal work of art to take home! If […]

Event Date: November 17, 2022 – 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Location: COED 010 UNC Charlotte will have a visit from Italian Film Director and Sociologist Andrea Segreand the screening of his 2020 documentary Molecole The documentary is in Italian with English Subtitles. After the screening of the documentary, Dr. Segre will be available for […]

The International Education Week at UNC Charlotte will feature movies, painting, food, culture, history and, of course, languages. Please see the following link for a detailed schedule of all the varied events across campus from November 14 through November 18. Read more here

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Event Date: April 6, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Location: Zoom On Wednesday, April 6 at noon, join us to learn about and discuss an edited volume. Each author will talk for ten minutes about his chapter. Later, the group will talk about the process of putting together an interdisciplinary project with contributors […]

This presentation is based on Janzen’s recent book Unholy Trinity: State, Church and Film in Mexico, which argues that the sustained use of religious imagery is a way that Mexican films communicate social and political commentary to their audiences in a simple straightforward way. She gives an overview of how films from the Golden Age […]

Event Date: March 5, 2021 – 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM Location: Virtual More information to come! Read more here