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Sharing the South 

September 2011 

Greetings! 

 

It is hard to believe that the summer of 2011 is now over. The students are back in town and bring a wonderful jolt of energy to both the Center and the town. We are looking forward to fall temperatures and a wonderful array of events, lectures, music, and art. 

 

Please check our website for the most up-to-date information on the Center and it's program. We also have active Facebook pages and Twitter feeds. We hope to see or hear from you soon!

Center Events for September

 8 September - Hutchins Lecture with Alice Ammerman 

15 September - Charlie Thompson lunchtime reading from his new book, Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World 

15 September - Music on the Porch with Caitlin Cary, Jonathan Byrd and Matt Douglas

22 September - Opening Reception for the Coke-Cola Memorabilia Exhibition

 

 

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The Center is pleased to announce the 2011-12 Hutchins Lecture Series.  This year's lectures include a professor in Public Health, a writer/photographer, a History Professor, a Professor of Social Medicine, a Law Professor, a Professor of Anthropology, and an freelance journalist and author. We will continue to video these lectures so if you are unable to attend, but would like to view them, please go to our Vimeo channel.

In our art gallery, we will be exhibiting selections from Stephen and Sandra Rich's Coke memorabilia collection through the fall semester. This collection is one of largest private collections in the country and we are so pleased that they are able to share it with us.

 

This year we are beginning a new programming initiative called the Southern Film Series. We are bringing three films to campus this year, beginning on October 27th with the 1951 version of Show Boat, on February 9th with Mississippi Masala, and on March 1st the wonderful documentary, The Loving Story. After the screening of each film, there will be a panel discussion. Tickets will be free for students and $4 for the public. 

 

Save the date of October 26th for our 2011-12 Charleston Lecture. It will feature Natalie Dupree, author of eleven cookbooks about the American South, entertaining and basic cooking. Please look for more details soon. 

 

On September 15th, we will be hosting Charlie Thompson from the Center for Documentary Studies for a lunchtime discussion of his new book, Spirits of Just Men.  

 

Also on the 15th is our first Music on the Porch of the academic year. Caitlin Cary, Jonathan Byrd, and Matt Douglas will join us for playing and discussion.  

 

The Center's 2010-11 print newsletter is now here. To view a copy as a pdf please click here. If, however, you would like a printed copy, please contact us with your address and we would be happy to send one to you.  

 

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Southern Oral History Program 

 

This summer, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall entered phased retirement at the University and stepped down as director of the Southern Oral History Program. This newsletter does not offer sufficient space to describe Jacquelyn's molding of the Program from a solitary labor of love into an international leader in scholarship about the American South. Jacquelyn's recent election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences does, however, offer a glimpse of her influence on writing and studying history.  

 

Stepping in as Interim Director is Della Pollock, Professor of Communication Studies and a long-time friend and colleague of Jacquelyn and the Program. Della brings years of oral history experience, particularly with oral history performance. She is a fervent believer in the role of oral history in community building, which is best expressed of late in her work with the Marian Cheek Jackson Center in Chapel Hill, where residents and Carolina undergraduates are forging new bonds in part through shared oral history work.

 

We said farewell to our Associate Director, David Cline. An accomplished scholar prior to his arrival at UNC, David strengthened the Program during his three-year tenure, leading important new civil rights oral history research projects; representing us at national and international conferences; and bringing in a major contract to conduct oral histories for the Smithsonian Institution. David moves on to become an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Virginia Tech, where he will co-found a program in public history.

 

SOHP fieldworkers Jessica Wilkerson and Joey Fink returned to Knoxville, Tennessee this past May to continue a project begun last summer to document women's activism in East Tennessee. They interviewed women who participated in well-known feminist battles, such as the failed effort to pass an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, campaigns for reproductive health, and gender equality in higher education. The eighty interviews the SOHP conducted the past two summers document how women in the South and Appalachia experienced changes in gender relations in the second half of the twentieth century. We are grateful to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and to the Center for the Study of the American South for supporting this important work.

 

Della Pollock and David Cline led a Burch Honors Seminar in Kenya in June and July. Funded through the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, the seminar sent Carolina students to work with Della, David, and Professor Peter Wasamba and four graduate students from the University of Nairobi to study oral history, performance, Swahili language, and Kenyan history. They also conducted oral history interviews on issues of displacement on the rural coast. The seminar was the latest chapter in an ongoing collaboration between the SOHP and the University of Nairobi, which has resulted in a number of trips between Kenya and North Carolina, and is an important addition to a growing understanding of the role oral history can play in policy development.   

 

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