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Sympathetic Ink: The Personal, Professional, and Everything in Between

Sympathetic Ink: The Personal, Professional, and Everything in Between

Mimi V. Chapman, MSW, Ph.D. I'm a professor at UNC Chapel Hill and currently Chair of the Faculty. In this space, I share perspectives, personal and professional. All opinions are my own.

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Atmospheric Memory

29 Mar 2022 Mimi Chapman: Writing about the intersection of personal and professional life

“The air itself is a vast library on whose pages are forever written all that has ever been said.”
-Charle Babbage, 9th Bridgewater Treatise 1837

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Preparation

6 Jan 2019 Mimi Chapman: Writing about the intersection of personal and professional life

We stood speechless as we scrolled through the images that she had sent without captions. Utter misery inflicted on desperate people at our Southern border. How in God’s name are we allowing this?

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“Always listen to the Art.”

13 Mar 2017 Mimi Chapman: Writing about the intersection of personal and professional life

What we practice becomes part of who we are.

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Conversation and Curlew River

7 Nov 2014 Mimi Chapman: Writing about the intersection of personal and professional life

A river crossing is at the heart of Curlew River, Benjamin Britten’s opera now on-stage at Carolina Performing Arts. Some colleagues (Amy Weil and Aaron

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Compagnie Käfig

3 Mar 2014 Mimi Chapman: Writing about the intersection of personal and professional life

Last week our family went to see Compagnie Käfig, a group of 11 dancers from Rio de Janeiro who combine hip hop and samba to

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Arts@theCore

29 Jan 2013 Mimi Chapman: Writing about the intersection of personal and professional life

Last semester, through a series of happy coincidences, I was invited to join a faculty planning group for a new UNC/Carolina Performing Arts initiative called

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