personalities, writers, and filmmakers playing to consumers' anxiety about modernity. Ellis will be talking about her book,
October 26th is the date of the 2011-12 Charleston Lecture on Southern Affairs. This year's lecturer is Nathalie Dupree, author of eleven cookbooks about the American South and entertaining. That same evening the acclaimed Lantern Restaurant is generously hosting a fundraising dinner on behalf of the Center. Owner & Chef Andrea Reusing recently was named the Best Chef of the Southeast 2011 by the James Beard Foundation. The menu will include soft shell shrimp, Lantern pickles and house made charcuterie along with other incredible food. For more details or to purchase tickets ($150 each), please call us at 919-962-5665. The Center's inaugural Southern Film Series begins October 27 with a screening of Showboat (1951). We are featuring our series as part of the campus-wide film forum series that the Ackland Art Museum has put together with departments, schools and organizations from across campus. All films will be screened at 6:30 pm on Thursday nights at the Varsity Theatre in downtown Chapel Hill. Finally, on November 4th we will be co-sponsoring an all-day symposium on Albion Tourg�e entitled, A Radical Notion of Democracy: Law, Race, and Albion Tourg�e, 1865-1905 at the State Library Building and State Capitol Building in Raleigh, North Carolina. Concluding the program will be a performance of Constitutional Tales in the House Chamber of the State Capitol, a live reenactment of scenes from the Constitutional Convention of 1868. |