. . . dinner and conversation with Honors classmates and a member of the Carolina faculty.
More information for the Food for Thought series for the Fall 2009 semester will be available Summer 2009. For more questions regarding this program, please call 919-966-5110
Food for Thought programs for the Spring 2009 semester included:
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - Ms. Virginia Carson (Director, Campus Y) will be talking about her career path and the University budget crisis.
Ms. Carson is a 1971 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was a student leader of the Campus Y during the turbulent years of civil rights, Vietnam War protests, and early feminist issues. Ms. Carson went on to law school at Columbia University. She practiced communications and corporate finance law in Washington, D.C. from 1974 until 1989. After law practice, she organized Capital Kids' Radio Company to purchase and operate radio stations in Washington and Baltimore. Along with operating the radio stations, Ms. Carson worked as an arbitrator, mediator and trainer of arbitrators and mediators for American Arbitration Association and the National Association of Securities Dealers. In Washington, Ms. Carson served on the Board of Directors for Healthy Babies Project, a private non-profit organization providing counseling and access to prenatal care for disadvantaged and homeless pregnant women.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - Dr. Gregory Flaxman (Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature) will speak on "Defunding the Humanities."
For previous Food for Thought evenings, visit our archive.
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