Throughout the year, WNCHA hosts select panel discussions on timely, community topics. The recordings of these events are free to view here below.
Be sure to check our event calendar for these upcoming special programs.
While these events are free, please consider making a donation if you are able. All donations support our Community-Funded Ticket Program, which provides no cost tickets to our other live events to those who could not afford to attend otherwise.
Refugees and Resettlement
As American forces withdrew from Afghanistan last summer, preparations were already underway to resettle many Afghans in the United States. In this ongoing process, several individuals and families have been relocated to western North Carolina. This is not the first...
Vaccines and Public Health
Three historians will discuss past pandemics and public health crises—including smallpox, polio, and the 1918 flu— in WNC and Appalachia. They are joined by two immunologists and professors of biology who will address Covid-19, vaccines, and our current pandemic...
Shiloh, Past and Present
Founded by newly freed people after the Civil War, Shiloh is one of Asheville’s oldest historically Black communities. Due to construction of the Biltmore Estate, and later changes wrought by highway and interstate development, the community boundaries have changed...
Asheville’s Monuments
Our city, like many others, is currently wrestling with the meanings and fates of many controversial statues and monuments. This symposium aims to help facilitate community engagement and dialogue in advance of the Vance Monument Task Force’s anticipated report at the...