• Book Talk: ‘Legacies of Trade and Empire’

    Join for us a rich discussion with the editors of Legacies of Trade and Empire: Breaking Silences (Cambridge 2023), Beheroze Shroff and Shihan de Silva Jayasuria (moderated by Rupa Pillai). You can learn more about the book, including ordering it, here: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-9432-6 The program is generously funded by the Ashby Dialogues and hosted... Continue reading...

  • African-American Discoveries in India: Who Mapped the Global Black Diaspora?

    Ashby Dialogues
    UNCG Curry Building Room 303 1109 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro, NC

    This presentation in the Ashby Dialogues Series explores how African American thinkers uncovered the history of African-descended peoples in Asia, especially India, and conceptualized the study of Blackness and race as global phenomena. Presented by Shobana Shankar, a professor of history at Stony Brook, State University of New York.

  • Ashby Dialogues: Healing Disclosures of Food and Faith

    Ashby Dialogues

    Please join us for the first event of the Ashby Delectable Dialogues series (Spring 2025): Cultivating Interdisciplinary Food Conversations.

    Dr. Derek S. Hicks, Associate Professor of Religion and Culture at the School of Divinity, Wake Forest University will be delivering a talk followed by Q&A on "Healing Disclosures of Food and Faith"

  • Auditing Large Language Model Ecosystems: From Model Outputs to Agentic System Deployment

    Petty Building - Room 219 317 College Ave, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States

    The College of Arts & Sciences' Ashby Dialogues presents this lecture by Dr. Tianlong Chen, a computer science professor from UNC Chapel-Hill. The 2025-26 Ashby Dialogues explores the theme, "Rethinking the Algorithm: AI and the Human Experience."