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This 90-minute program will engage the scope of Culture Mill’s five-year residency with Southern Futures at Carolina Performing Arts in both academic and poetic language. In it, speakers will contextualize an iterative process that has engaged a racialized history on UNC Chapel Hill’s campus, and how the complex intersections of power and place continue to land on our bodies today. Through reflections on performances of Eclipse and processes such as the Social Geographies Seminar and the Old Well Practice, we will explore ways in which artistic interventions on university campuses open new pathways for experiential learning and knowing to be an agent of change.

Presenters and facilitators include Dr. Elizabeth Olson, Professor of Geography and Global Studies and IAH Interim Director; Culture Mill artists-in-residence at Carolina Performing Arts; and Dr. Cortland Gilliam, former Chapel Hill poet laureate. 

Inspired by the oral histories collected by the Marian Cheek Jackson Center and in service to greater understanding of these histories, Culture Mill and collaborators will facilitate a slow sound walk and a listening circle at UNC’s Old Well. This practice is a way to bring awareness to the untold stories that live in the bricks in the heart of campus, and by extension, in the university of North Carolina and in the town of Chapel Hill itself. Artists, students, and members of the local community will assemble in a communal practice of awareness and care, which aims to open the possibility for briefly reimagining how an iconic space at the heart of the oldest public university in America might live differently in the public imagination. 

These two restorative circles are facilitated spaces for speaking and listening to one another as a means of metabolizing our different embodied experiences around Eclipse and related experiences. Restorative circles have been a central care-practice in the creation of Eclipse and other collaborations in Culture Mill’s residency with Southern Futures at Carolina Performing Arts. A circle is often a means of unearthing deeper layers of individual and communal understanding of this work.

Facilitated by Val Hanson, Executive Director of Dialogue in Support of Community

The Carolina Center for Neurostimulation was founded in 2017 in the UNC Department of Psychiatry with the vision of meeting the growing needs of patients and researchers interested in neurostimulation treatment paradigms. Since its inception, the center has become a hub for patients interested in trying experimental treatments for their depression and contributing to the discovery of novel treatments across mental health diagnoses. The Carolina Center for Neurostimulation also has a number of trials aimed at answering questions regarding the function and signature of typical electrical activity in the brain. The leadership at the Carolina Center for Neurostimulation is uniquely positioned to pursue answers to these scientific questions and push the bounds of network neuroscience research and treatment.

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