Tuesday, March 15
Hutchins Lecture with Adam Gussow
The Devil and the Blues
Adam Gussow is an associate professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and teaches courses in American and African American literature, the blues tradition, southern autobiography, and race in American culture and currently working on a book about the devil and the blues. In addition to his academic credentials, Gussow is a professional harmonica player and teacher. He has published three books: Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir (Pantheon, 1998, reissued by Minnesota, 2009); Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition (Chicago, 2002), winner of the Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature; and Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives From Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York (Tennessee, 2007). The Hutchins Lecture Series is supported by The Hutchins Family Foundation and the UNC General Alumni Association. ****************
Thursday, March 17 Music on the Porch with The Allen Boys 5-7 p.m. The Center for the Study of the American South Free and Open to the Public The Allen Boys, North Carolina's only touring Sacred Steel band, kicks off the ArtsCenter's Southern Sacred Steel Conference here at the Love House and Hutchins Forum. The Allen Boys are DaShawn Hickman, his cousins Cameron and Ramsey Moore and Adrian Bonville. Sacred Steel is infectious, uplifting, steel-guitar fronted music from certain House of God churches. Folklorist Robert Stone, will moderate. This project is made possible by the Center for the Study of the American South, The Arts Center and a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. **************** Saturday, March 19 Alfred Dupont Chandler Jr. Lecture with Gavin Wright Sharing the Prize: The Civil Rights Revolution and the Southern Economy Fed-Ex Global Education Center 4 p.m. Open to the Public Gavin Wright, the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History at Stanford University, will be giving the 2010-2011 Alfred Dupont Chandler, Jr. Lecture on Southern Business History as the keynote address for the Global American South Conference. A collaboration between the Center for Global Initiatives, the Global Research Institute, and the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC, the conference will identify, analyze, and engage the key problems arising from or associated with the economic crisis of 2007-2008 in the region, and to further the development of appropriate policy responses. **************** Wednesday, March 23 Tell About the South with Scott Matthews, CSAS Postdoctoral Fellow
12-1 p.m.
Conference Room at CSAS
Open to UNC faculty and graduate students. Lunch provided but RSVP required
'Privilege of Perception: Documentary Expression in Hale County, Alabama, 1910 - 2010' **************** Thursday, March 31 Music on the Porch with Jon Shain, Rhiannon Giddens, and Steve Kruger (moderated by Peter Holsapple) 5-7 p.m. The Center for the Study of the American South Free and Open to the Public Jon Shain is the rare folkie who truly brings the "chops" to his songs along with the lyrics. From learning Piedmont Blues at the side of Big Boy Henry to his years playing with local folk-rock band Flyin' Mice to his solo career, Shain has always weaved a variety of roots music influences into his songwriting.
It's hard to contain the energy and enthusiasm of Rhiannon Giddens, a member of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. Her life story reads like a postmodern novel with overlapping plots. Talents and fascinations, whims and obsessions tumble over each other and pour out in a fiery stage performance rooted in disciplined virtuosity. It's the training of opera overflowing into the unchained world of old-time music. Steve Kruger picked up the guitar, fiddle and banjo as a teenager, and then spent the next 9 years playing in living rooms, dance halls and fiddlers conventions around North Carolina, East Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia. For his latest project, he is taking song texts from the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore and putting them to music. He is a student in the University of North Carolina's Folklore Program, and studies music, memory and land-use issues.
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Tuesday, April 5 Hutchins Lecture with Barbara Ellen Smith
The Politics of Place
Free and Open to the Public
This lecture illuminates the theoretical meanings of place as a political resource in the U.S. South. What understandings of place contribute to divergent political agendas (e.g., the "southern way of life" vs. progressive global connections)? What are the limitations and insights of these varying perspectives?
Barbara Ellen Smith is the Director of Women's and Gender Studies and professor of Sociology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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