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What's Happening in February 2011

Greetings! 

 

The spring semester is in full swing and we are ready for the warmer weather to head our way!  

 

The Center's new video channel featuring our various lectures and events is now live. Check it out at  http://vimeo.com/uncsouth/videos. We will continue to add lectures and talks as they happen throughout the semester. 

 

Coming up on February 8th and 15th, respectively, we have Hutchins Lectures from Minrose Gwin,"Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement"; and Michael Kreyling, "Who Needs Ceremonies of Memory?: The 150th Anniversary."

 

On February 15th, we are co-sponsoring, along with the Southern Folklife Collection at Wilson Library, a lecture and discusion about Jim Dickinson, a legendary figure in the Memphis music world.  Later that evening there will be a concert performance of Big Star Third, which was produced by Mr. Dickinson, featuring members of Lost in the Trees, The Old Ceremony, Mandolin Orange, Birds & Arrows, The dBs, NC Symphony, Mayflies USA, the Tomahawks and guests Brett Harris, Sidney Dixon & Greg Humphreys. It should be a very special show. Tickets available here.   

 

Tell About the South on February 16th features Dale Hutchinson, a professor in the UNC Anthropology Department, who will be speaking on the topic of Landscapes and Liabilities: the Transformation of the American South and the Consequences for Health.  


Isabel Wilkerson, former national correspondent and bureau chief at The New York Times and the first African American 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, here on campus on February 18th.  

 

On February 28th, the Center, along with our co-sponsors, is hosting, "Innovation, Engagement, and the Humanities: Models and Methods." This forum will explore the ways in which the practice of the humanities on the Carolina campus exemplifies innovation, engagement, and entrepreneurship.

 

Please see below for more details and check our website for the most up-to-date information. We hope to see you soon!


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Tuesday, February 8
Hutchins Lecture with Minrose Gwin - Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement

4 to 5 p.m.

The Royall Room in the UNC Alumni Center 

Free and Open to the Public  


minrose gwin

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. 

 

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Tuesday, February 15
Hutchins Lecture with Michael 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 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.... 


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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 

 

jim dickinson photo 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.

 

big star poster picMusician 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.

 

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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 

 

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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 WilkersonIsabel 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  

 

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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) 

 

engaged humanities

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.