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Events and Lectures
October 2010

Greetings!

October is here and The Center for the Study of the American South's calendar is overflowing with films, discussions, lectures, and exhibitions.

The Hutchins Lecture series continues October 5th with Adriane Lentz-Smith. 
Our second photography exhibition opens October 14th, featuring Jimmy Williams. The end of the month, October 28th, brings a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird with a screening of the film at the Varsity Theater and a post-film reception at the Ackland Museum. Please check our website for the most up-to-date information.  We hope to see you soon!
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Hutchins Lecture with Adriane Lentz-Smith -
The World's Experience
4 to 5:30 p.m.
The Royall Room in the UNC Alumni Center
Free and Open to the Public.


Adriane Lentz-Smith will weave the Lentz-Smithblack freedom struggle into the story of the United States' emergence as a world power. Tracking biographies of activists and veterans of World War I, Lentz-Smith will discuss how they used the international arena as a staging ground in their fight against white supremacy.

Adriane Lentz-Smith is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of History at Duke University.  Her most recent book is Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I(Harvard University Press, 2009), looks at the black freedom struggle in the World War I years, with a particular focus on manhood, citizenship claims, and the international experience.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Writing the Magic Carpet of Literature - Editor Alane Salierno Mason discusses writing, editing, and publishing with tw
o of her authors, Mary Helen Stefaniak and Randall Kenan.
4 to 5 p.m.

Pleasants Family Assembly Room in Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Free and Open to the Public.
 
Professor Randall Kenan of the Creative
To Kill A Mockingbird Cover Writing Program moderates a discussion with novelist Mary Helen Stefaniak and the editor they share, UNC 2010 Distinguished Alumna Alane Salierno Mason, as they reflect on writing, editing, and publishing, and on the many things they have learned from the South -- and the world -- about literature. Complete details ...

Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Center for the Study of the American South, both at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Thursday, October 14, 2010
Exhibition Opening Reception for Jimmy Williams Photography
With musical performance by Big Ron Hunter

5 to 7 p.m.

The Love House and Hutchins Forum
Free and Open to the Public.


Jimmy Williams is a fine art
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and commercial photographer based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Much of William's photography focuses on fleeting moments rich with emotion. One of his most recent series, Music Makers, is a natural extension of his previous work, purposefully expanding on themes like preservation and perseverance. The photography allows the subjects to tell a story honestly, without pretense or expectation.

In 2008, Williams was awarded Outstanding Achievement in Photography at the 2008 International Spider Awards and 2nd place Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year at the 2008 Lucie Awards Gala at the Lincoln Center, NYC.

Thursday, October 28, 2010
A Celebration of 50 Years of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
5 to 9 p.m.

The Varsity Theater and The Ackland Art Museum

Free with a UNC One Card and $3 for the general public

To Kill A Mockingbird CoverHarper Lee's beloved novel To Kill a Mockingbird reaches its 50-year mark this year and Chapel Hill and UNC-CH are coming together to offer a celebratory screening and discussion open to the campus community and the general public. The experience of watching the film together on the big screen at the Varsity Theater will be enriched by a discussion after the film with writers Lee Smith, Jill McCorkle, Randall Kenan, Minrose Gwin, and Jaki Shelton Green. Gene Nichol, law professor and director of the UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, will serve as moderator.
 
A reception will be held after the discussion at the Ackland Art Museum, with homemade cakes from the period of the novel provided by Carrie Boone's Sweet Fingers Bakery and music drawn from UNC's Southern Folklife Collection. Complete Details...
 
Co-sponsored by UNC Center for the Study of the American South, UNC School of Law, Chapel Hill-Orange County Visitors Bureau, UNC Department of American Studies, and the Ackland Art Museum.