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Sharing the South 

October 2011 

Greetings! 

 

The Center has a number of wonderful upcoming fall events, including lectures from  Karen Cox, Ellis Anderson, and Nathalie Dupree, a blues concert benefit with Music Maker Relief Foundation and SOOTS, and A Radical Notion of Democracy: Law, Race, and Albion Tourge, 1865-1905.   

 

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

30 September - Piedmont Blues Benefit Concert



26 October - Charleston Lecture with

26 October - Benefit Dinner at Lantern Restaurant


 

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Dreaming of Dixie Cover
The October and December Hutchins Lectures feature Karen Cox and Ellis Anderson, respectively. Karen will be talking about her book Dreaming of Dixie, How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture, in which she shows that the chief purveyors of this constructed nostalgia for the Old South were outsiders of the region, especially advertising agencies, musicians, publishers, radio
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personalities, writers, and filmmakers playing to consumers' anxiety about modernity.
Ellis will be talking about her book,
Under Surge, Under Siege (University Press of Mississippi, 2010).

We will continue to record our Hutchins lectures and post them to our
Vimeo channel.

Dupree Book Cover

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 Tourge entitled, A Radical Notion of Democracy: Law, Race, and Albion Tourge, 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.