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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Alessandro Portelli - They Say in Harlan County, An Oral History
12 to 1 p.m.
University Room in Hyde Hall
Free and Open to the Public
Dr. Alessandro Portelli, Professor of American Literature at the University of Rome-La Sapienza will be  speaking about his new book, They Say in Harlan County, An Oral History. Stories of 150 residents of Harlan County, Kty., over the last 25 years will be highlighted with tales of the dramatic mining strikes of the 1930s and 1970s. "With rare emotional immediacy, gripping narratives, and unforgettable characters, 'They Say in Harlan County' tells the real story of a culture, the resilience of its people, and the human costs of coal mining." Complete Details....
Sponsored by American Studies Department at UNC, UNC History Department, Curriculum in Folklore, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and the Center for the Study of the American South.
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Pauli Murray v. UNC: Wrestling with Change in the Jim Crow South
A participating event in the Pauli Murray Centennial Celebration, Pauli Murray Project, Duke Human Rights Center
6 p.m. - Reception prior to the discussion at 5:15 p.m., sponsored by the Friends of the Library
Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library
Free and Open to the Public
The Pauli Murray Project, an  initiative of the Duke Human Rights Center focused on the Durham neighborhood where Murray grew up, is celebrating the 100th anniversary of her birth with a series of programs beginning in November. UNC-Chapel Hill's contribution to this landmark occasion is this panel discussion highlighting Murray's unsuccessful attempts in 1938-39 to gain admittance into the applied social work program within the sociology department chaired by Howard Odum. This is an involved and painful episode in the history of desegregation in North Carolina. The aims of the panel are to invite the university community to learn about this history and to encourage reflection on the story of Murray's activism: what kind of example does she offer in our own time? Complete Details....
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC, Southern Historical Collection/Wilson Library at UNC, The Pauli Murray Project/Duke Human Rights Center, Carolina Women's Center at UNC, UNC School of Information and Library Science (grad student assistance), The Stone Center for Black Culture and History, UNC (organizational and in-kind assistance)
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Friday, November 5, 2010
Carolina Blues Benefit with Lightnin' Wells & John Dee Holeman
 This concert,on UNC-Chapel Hill's campus, is part of RaleighCharter's Schools Sustaining Roots Music Community Project. This collaboration with UNC's Southern Studies Dept. aims to increase awareness of North Carolina Piedmont traditions. This free benefit concert will be held on the porch of the historic Love House - 410 East Franklin Street. This concert concludes a daylong event for SOOTS students and leaders and inaugurates SOOTS' relationship with area ethnographers, including those from UNC and Duke University. To sustain roots music, SOOTS must not only raise funds, but work to raise young folklorists as well. Complete details...
Presented by SOOTS (Sustaining Roots Music Community Project) and the Center for the Study of the American South as a benefit to Music Maker.
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Hutchins Lecture with Victoria Bynum - In The Long Shadow of the Civil War
 For her Hutchins Lecture Series talk, In the Long Shadow of the Civil War, Victoria Bynum will examine three regions of the South where inner civil wars of deadly physical conflict and intense political debate continued well into the era of Reconstruction and beyond. Throughout, riveting stories of Union supporters, political dissenters, and interracial communities belie stereotypes of Southerners as uniformly supportive of the Confederate cause, while illuminating postwar relations among classes and races and between the sexes. Complete Details.....*****************
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Hutchins Lecture with Sybil Kein - Louisiana Creole Culture and its Significance in the 21st Century
 In Louisiana Creole Culture and its Significance in the 21st Century, Dr. Kein imagines the end of Louisiana's Creolite. In her view, the Louisiana Creole culture will be mourned as a significant loss by some, and celebrated by others as the final end of a bothersome, confusing, insignificant, and divisive part of Louisiana and American history. Complete Details....
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