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Events, Concerts, and Lectures
Winter and Spring 2011 Preview

Greetings!

Best wishes for a Happy Holiday Season from all of us here at the Center!

While the thermometer says brrrr, we have
a stellar line-up of lectures, talks, and performances spring semester to look forward to.

The Center's 2011 Alfred Dupont Chandler Jr. lecture features Gavin Wright, the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History at Stanford University. Our Charleston Lecturer for 2011 is John T. Edge, the director of the Southern Foodways Alliance.

We will be co-sponsoring a number of events throughout the semester, including journalist Isabel Wilkerson's visit to UNC on February 18, 2011. Wilkerson, former national correspondent and bureau chief at the New York Times and the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism, will be on campus to discuss her new book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.
 

The Music on the Porch concert series this spring features a sacred steel concert in conjunction with the 1st annual Southeast Sacred Steel Conference, a March concert with Jon Shain, Mark Simonson and Steve Kruger and jazz-flavored concert in April with Shana Tucker and Gabriel Pelli

Painting by Theresa Gloster.
Our art gallery will feature exhibitions from Robert Stone's book, Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition, the paintings of Theresa Gloster and photos from Michael Carlebach, who is also featured in the Southern Cultures photo issue, which is due out in June.

The Hutchins Lecture series for the spring semester will kick off on January 18th with Kevin Boyle talking about History Redemption: Civil Rights, History and the Promise of America. February 1st brings Fran
�oise Hamlin to campus to speak about Civil Rights at the Crossroads. February has 8th Minrose Gwin speaking on the subject of Medgar Evers. Michael Kreyling on February 15th will speak on Who Needs Ceremonies of Memory?. Marci Campbell talks about her research in recognizing and intervening creatively to address root causes of poor health in Eastern North Carolina on March 1.  The Devil and the Blues is the focus of Adam Gussow's lecture on March 15. And, on April 5th, Barbara Ellen Smith winds up the series with her lecture, "The Politics of Place."

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2010-2011 Charleston Lecture -
John T. Edge
John Edge with Watermelon
photo by Angie Mosier.
This year's Charleston Lecturer is John T. Edge. John is the director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, a contributing editor to Gourmet magazine, a columnist for The Oxford American, and the New York Times. The lecture is April 6, 2011 at 6 p.m. in the Pleasants Family Room at Wilson Library.

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2010-2011 Chandler Lecture - Gavin Wright
portrait of Gavin Wright

Gavin Wright, the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History at Stanford University, will be the Chandler Lecture keynote speaker at the Global American South Conference, which is taking place on the UNC campus March 18-19. His lecture will be March 19th at 4 p.m. in the  Fed-Ex Global Education Center's Nelson Mandela auditorium.

For information about the conference, please see the Global American South Conference website.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Hutchins Lecture with Kevin Boyle
History Redemption: Civil Rights, History and the Promise of America

4 to 5 p.m.  The Royall Room in the UNC Alumni Center
Free and Open to the Public

Kevin BoyleKevin's most recent book, Ace of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age(Henry Holt, 2004; paperback edition, 2005), won the National Book Award for non-fiction, the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Tolerance Book Award, the Society of Midland Authors Book Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The Hutchins Lecture Series is generously supported by the Hutchins Family Foundation and the UNC General Alumni Association.

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Tell About the South with Patricia Parker and Faith S. Holsaert

We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest: Continuing the Work of Ella Jo Baker and SNCC

12 to 1 p.m.
Conference Room at CSAS
Open to UNC faculty and graduate students. RSVP required.
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Hutchins Lecture with Francoise Hamlin
"Ours is a hell of a story": Civil Rights at the Crossroads

4 to 5 p.m.  The Royall Room in the UNC Alumni Center
Free and Open to the Public

Hamlin pictureFran�oise Hamlin will lecture on the black freedom struggle in Mississippi through the lens of a local fifty-year study in Clarksdale. Fran�oise N. Hamlin is the Hans Rothfels Assistant Professor in History and Africana Studies at Brown University. Her upcoming book is At The Crossroads: Clarksdale and the Black Freedom Struggle After World War II.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Hutchins Lecture with Minrose Gwin
Medgar Evers

4 to 5 p.m.  The Royall Room in the UNC Alumni Center
Free and Open to the Public

minrose gwinGwin's current scholarly project, Mourning Medgar Evers, focuses on central Mississippi in the summer of 1963. It brings together imaginative writing about the life and death of NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers, whose murder in June of that year was the first political assassination of a public figure in the Sixties, lighting a powder keg of racial frustration across the country.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Hutchins Lecture with Micheal Kreyling
Who Needs Ceremonies of Memory?: The 150th Anniversary
4 to 5 p.m.  The Royall Room in the UNC Alumni Center
Free and Open to the Public

Michael Kreyling is currently working on a book that explores the cultural politics of memory in representations of the South through an examination of re-enacted memory in latter-day versions of the Civil War, the construction of white liberal southernness in post-Civil Rights fiction and works by authors such as Robert Penn Warren and W.E.B. Dubois.

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Wednesday, Febuary 16, 2011
Tell About the South with Dale Hutchinson

Landscapes and Liabilities: the Transformation of the American South and the Consequences for Health

12 to 1 p.m.
Conference Room at CSAS
Open to UNC faculty and graduate students. RSVP required
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