Small CSAS Transparent PNGlove House small

Sharing the South  

March 2012  

Greetings! 

 

The semester is officially at the halfway point, and spring, along with March Madness, is definitely here. Our upcoming event programming includes a Hutchins Lecture with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, author of Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, recipient of the 2012 Bancroft Prize for History; a Jazz, Etc. Music on the Porch with Eric Hirsh, Kim Arrington, and Peter Lamb; and in April, the 6th Annual Global American South Conference, a collaboration between the Center for Global Initiatives, the Global Research Institute, the Center for the Study of the American South, and the Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Southern Cultures has an update on new
essays and features online for Women's History Month, and the Southern Oral History Program updates you on their latest happenings.

Please check our website for the most up-to-date information on the Center and its programs. We also have an active Facebook page and Twitter feed. We hope to see or hear from you soon!

Upcoming Events @ the Center and UNC-CH 
  • March 23rd - Concert for the American Indian graduate recruitment weekend here on the Center's porch. The performance will feature UNC Faculty members Malinda Maynard Lowery and Dan Cobb, Clyde Ellis of Elon University, along with expert steel guitar player and blues historian John Troutman from U of LA-Lafayette. Begins at 6 p.m. Open to the public.
  • April 19th - Hutchins Lecture with Paul Reyes. 4:30 p.m. at the Johnson Center for Undergraduate Excellence, UNC-Campus.

_______________________


Support the Center

 

Your tax-deductible gift helps the Center sustain and expand its programming, aid more students and researchers, explore more solutions to southern problems, and reach more diverse communities.

Click here to learn more.


Connect

Southern Cultures

Southern Cultures, the Center's award-winning and peer-reviewed quarterly, is celebrating Women's History Month by doubling the size of its online archive of material dedicated to Women & Gender. Readers whose institutions are affiliated with Project Muse can read these essays and features at no cost, and the quarterly's most recent content on Women & Gender is also available for the Kindle, Nook, and Sony Reader.
SoutSOHP Mic Logohern Oral History Program Hits the Airwaves on North Carolina Public Radio   

 

March 2nd, The Southern Oral History Program began the "Voices for Civil Rights" radio series on North Carolina Public Radio, which will run each Friday morning in March. Morning Edition host Eric Hodge will be joined by SOHP Digital Humanities Coordinator Seth Kotch to play and discuss clips from interviews conducted as part of the Civil Rights History Project. You can listen here to each installment as they air.

 

The Civil Rights History Project, a joint undertaking of the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress, took the SOHP across the country, conducting fifty interviews with civil rights movement veterans. Seth served as Project Supervisor and Joe Mosnier, independent historian and former SOHP Associate Director, conducted the interviews.

 

On March 6th, SOHP Associate Director Rachel Seidman and Field Scholar Joey Fink, joined by Laura Clark Brown of UNC's Southern Historical Collection, and Laura Micham, Director of the Sallie Bingham Center and Curator of the Sexuality and Gender History Collection at Duke University, appeared on The State of Things to discuss the importance of women's history, the challenge of "finding" women and gender in the archives, and the SOHP's ongoing effort to bring women to the forefront of the history of the American South. Rachel and Joey also talked about the SOHP's newest project, the Long Women's Movement in the American South, and played excerpts from SOHP's field work in east Tennessee. Listen here to the program.

 

This summer, Rachel Seidman, Associate Director of the Southern Oral History Program, will be teaching an exciting new undergraduate course this summer: "The Women's Movement in the Triangle: Oral History and Civic Engagement," for Summer Session I.

Hutchins Lecture Series

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, author of Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, a recipient of the 2012 Bancroft Prize for History, will be giving the March 22nd Hutchins Lecture at 4:30 pm in the Kresge Foundation Common Room (Room 039) at the Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence in Graham Memorial Hall.

Her groundbreaking book uncovers the activism of visionaries--both well-known legal figures and unsung citizens--from across the ideological spectrum who sought something different from, or more complicated than, "integration." 

Dr. Brown-Nagin teaches courses on American social and legal history, constitutional law, education law, and policy and public interest law. She has written widely on civil rights history and law and has published in both law and history journals. She was the Charles Warren Visiting Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School in fall 2008.  
Music on the Porch

Music on the Porch, our outdoor music series, is back! This spring we have two concerts scheduled. Our March 26th concert, Jazz, Etc., features artists Kim Arrington, Eric Hirsh, and Peter Lamb.

  This series brings talented, knowledgeable, and eclectic musicians from around the region together to play and engage in discussion about sense of place, the creative process, and how the rich culture of the South influences music and musicians, with specific attention given to the thriving North Carolina music community. All concerts take place at the Center's offices, 410 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, on Thursday evenings from 5:30 to 7:30 pm and are free and open to the public.