Community Calendar

Why has modernity become the age of genocide? This presentation will explore the idea that genocide is a byproduct of organizing ourselves into a global order of states and therefore a structural dysfunction. Featuring Martin Shuster, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy and the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte│capitalismstudies.charlotte.edu
Tuesday, Jan. 13; 6 p.m. at Independent Picture House (4237 Raleigh St, Charlotte);

Using research from Cooperation and Hierarchy in Ancient Bolivia: Building Community with the Body, Sara Juengst, Ph.D. discusses how ancient Bolivians organized their communities through several notable sociocultural and environmental changes, as reflected through disease, diet, and trauma on human skeletal remains. This Personally Speaking lecture asks, how can burials and skeletons teach us about the lives of past people and how their societies shifted in the face of environmental, social, and economic change? │ chess.charlotte.edu

5:15 p.m. with a reception at 4:15 p.m.

Join the Coalition for Comprehensive Women’s Healthcare for a panel discussion to sort facts from fear and science from a sales pitch! You don't want to miss this community education conversation. The Coalition for Comprehensive Women’s Healthcare is bringing together a panel of women’s health experts to cut through the noise. We’ll talk about what the science actually says, what’s still emerging, and where slick marketing or misinformation is drowning out real, evidence-based care.
Perimenopause and Menopause is confusing, especially when every scroll brings a new miracle supplement, hormone hack, or wellness fix. How do you know who or what to trust? Make sure you drop your questions into the form when you purchase your ticket!
We’ll explore symptoms, treatment options, and whole-person support! Menopause impacts every part of YOU: physically, emotionally sexually, socially, and financially. Come ready for conversation, answers to your questions, and a hopeful look at women's health.

The final Personally Speaking series event of the year explores how down-on-their-luck messiahs and wandering poets in the sixteenth-century Afghan highlands challenge us to rethink what we know about Afghanistan, the history of Islam, and our relationship to the past and to language. Using research from the recently published Singing with the Mountains: The Language of God in the Afghan Highlands, William E. B. Sherman explores a remarkable Muslim movement known as the Roshaniyya—or the ‘illuminated ones’—who believed not only in following the word of God, but in making their own words divine and revelatory. │religiousstudies@charlotte.edu

5:15 p.m. with a reception at 4:15 p.m.