Tuesday, February 8 Hutchins Lecture with Minrose Gwin - Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement
Her current scholarly project, Mourning Medgar Evers, focuses on central Mississippi during the summer of 1963. It brings together imaginative writing about the life and death of NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers, whose murder was the first political assassination of a public figure in the sixties, lighting a powder keg of racial frustration across the country. For complete details... The Hutchins Lecture Series is generously supported by The Hutchins Family Foundation and the UNC General Alumni Association. **************** Tuesday, February 15 Hutchins Lecture with Michael Kreyling - Who Needs Ceremonies of Memory?: The 150th Anniversary
Free and Open to the Public
Michael Kreyling will be speaking about his current book, which explores the cultural politics of memory through an examination of re-enacted memory in latter-day versions of the Civil War, the construction of white liberal southern-ness in post-Civil Rights fiction and works by authors such as Robert Penn Warren and W.E.B. Dubois. For complete details.... ****************
Tuesday, February 15 The Search for Blind Lemon: Jim Dickinson's Legacy and Big Star's Third Encore Concert
Afternoon events, starting at 2:30, Pleasants Family Room at Wilson Library
Evening Concert, 8 pm , Historic Playmakers Theater
At 2:30 p.m., Dickinson's widow, Mary Lindsay Dickinson, will present " The Search for Blind Lemon: Jim Dickinson's Legacy," using music, photos, and text from the memoirs that her husband wrote in 2008, a year before his death. Musician and record producer Chris Stamey, at 3:45, will conduct a Skype interview with Jody Stephens of the band Big Star and John Fry, founder of Ardent Studios in Memphis. They will discuss the Big Star's album, Third/Sister Lovers, which Dickinson produced and Fry engineered, and which will be performed later that evening in a concert at the Historic Playmakers Theater on campus at 8 pm. **************** Wednesday, February 16
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 **************** Friday, February 18 Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 5:30 pm Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center Isabel 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 discuss her new book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration during her visit to the UNC campus. A book-signing will follow at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and is open to the public, but registration is required. you can register at: http://tinyurl.com/wilkerson-at-unc ****************
Monday, February 28
Innovation, Engagement, and the Humanities: Models and Methods
10 to 3:30
Hyde Hall at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Registration required. (Lunch Provided)
This forum offers an invitation to explore some of the ways in which the practice of the humanities on the Carolina campus already exemplifies innovation, engagement, and entrepreneurship. Building on the tradition of public service that has defined this university, professors and graduate students in the arts and humanities are working across disciplinary and institutional lines to embrace collaborative approaches to central questions of who we are, what we value, and how we relate to each other. To register please go to:
http://bit.ly/fN8K06
The Center for the Study of the American South, Program in Folklore in the American Studies Department, and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities are co-sponsoring this forum.
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