The Great Self-Portrait
Dr. Hronek examines the nature of cyborg in fictional literature and media and ponders the questions of whether technology is portrayed as a liberator or another means of oppresion.
College of Arts & Sciences Calendar of Events
12 events found.
Events
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UNCG's Moore Humanities and Research Administration (MHRA) Building 1111 Spring Garden St, Greensboro, NC
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Kendon Smith Lecture Series: Understanding the Real-World Contexts and Interactions that Shape Early Development
Elliott University Center Auditorium 507 Stirling Street, Greensboro, NC, United StatesThe Psychology Department hosts its annual Kendon Smith Lecture Series in November, exploring the theme: "Out the Lab and Into the 'Wild:' Understanding the Real-World Contexts and Interactions That Shape Early Development." The series is free and open to the public, bringing international experts on mind and behavior to UNC Greensboro.
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Samba Drumming Roots Workshop
UNCG School of Music 100 McIver St, Greensboro, NC, United StatesLearn Samba’s roots from colonial Bahia and the legacies of slavery to a vibrant Afro-Brazilian cultural expression celebrated globally, while playing on provided instruments.
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Arrivals: A Reading by the 1st-year students in the MFA Writing Program at UNCG
The Creative Program at UNC Greensboro and The Greensboro Review will host a fiction and poetry reading featuring the 1st-year students in the MFA Writing Program on Thursday, December 4th at 7 PM at Greensboro Project Space, 111 E. February One Place. The event is free and open to the public.
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Media Studies Instructors’ Artists-in-Residence Exhibit “Gate City: Playable Space”
See UNCG Faculty and filmmakers Jennida Chase and Hassan Pitts' video installation as artists in residence with Creative Greensboro during the Festival of Lights and through December 15!
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Minerva Media Festival
Join us at 6pm on December 10 in Jarrell Hall for a showcase of selected Media Studies student films!
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Rethinking the Algorithm: AI and the Human Experience – Ashby Dialogues Speaker Matthew Engelhard of Duke University
UNCG's Moore Humanities and Research Administration (MHRA) Building 1111 Spring Garden St, Greensboro, NC"Toward interpretable, timely, context-aware clinical decision support" - Learn about how AI can monitor electronic health records for early signs of chronic conditions, delivering timely and context-aware clinical recommendations to help improve patient outcomes.
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2026 CACE Conference: Race And Education
The 36th Annual CACE Conference will feature keynotes by Dr. Frederick Douglas Dixon, Dr. Deborah Barnes, and Dr. Tracy Bailey. Join us for three days of presentations, roundtable conversations, poetry, performances, and workshops, hosted by the UNCG Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies.
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Beyond One Data Type: MultimodalLearning and The Future of Precision Health
Petty Science Building, Room 213 317 College Ave, Greensboro, NC, United StatesThis talk will introduce the common multimodal learning approaches, highlight key challenges and conclude with future directions toward reliable, transparent, and privacy-preserving clinical applications.
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March 13 – April 5 Exhibition: “Limits of Freedom”
Rockingham Community College 315 Wrenn Memorial Road, Wentworth, North Carolina, United StatesLimits of Freedom, an exhibition created by UNCG’s Public History Program, is a part of the America 250 NC Commemorative project. Limits of Freedom highlights the role that enslaved individuals had in making the nation despite being barred from the freedom the country proclaims.
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Helen Barton Lecture: The Math and Politics of Counting People
Petty Science Building 317 College Avenue, Greensboro, NC, United StatesThe Census is our most fundamental tool for measuring who lives in the United States, and where. Ever since the founding of the country, the categories have reflected how Americans think about ourselves, and the data gets used for everything from funding allocations to political districting. So, it might be surprising that the most recent Decennial Census included intentional injections of random numbers to noise the data for privacy protection. This was hugely controversial! In this talk, Moon Duchin will explain some of the history and the impacts of how we enumerate the country.
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Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Seminar Speaker Series: Kenichi Yokoyama, Ph.D.
Sullivan Room 201: How Nature Uses Radical Chemistry to Build Peptide Antibiotics”