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Sharing the South  

April 2012  

Greetings! 

On Saturday, April 21st, the Global American South Symposium, "The Changing Face of the American South: Demographic Shifts and Migrations," will take place at the FedEx Global Education Center on UNC's campus. The symposium is a collaboration between the Center for Global Initiatives, the Global Research Institute, and the Center for the Study of the American South. This interdisciplinary symposium exploring the globalization of the Southern United States reveals the interplay of the global and the local, not simply the impacts from economic globalization down to the Southern regional and local levels, but also the often surprising ways that local culture and experience influence distant communities and regions. We will bring together scholars, policy makers, musicians, artists, and practitioners from North Carolina, the southern region, and beyond. The symposium is free with registration. 

The final Music on the Porch of the year, with Maria Albani, Shirlette Ammons, and Heather McEntire takes place on Thursday, April 26th. Freddie Jenkins from WUNC's Back Porch Music will be moderating. This outdoor music series brings talented, knowledgeable, and eclectic musicians from around the region together to play and engage in discussion about a "Southern" sense of place, the creative process, and how the rich culture of the South influences music and musicians. All are free and open to the public. Bring a blanket, picnic, and enjoy an early evening of wonderful music and engaging discussion.  

At Music on the Porch we will also be announcing The Sounds of the South Award winner for 2012. This $1,000 grant is awarded once a year to a UNC-Chapel Hill undergraduate student wishing to record, and conduct scholarly research with musicians within any genre of southern music during the summer.

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!
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SOHP Launches Collaboration with UNC's Digital Innovation Lab

 

This month, the SOHP began a working partnership with UNC's Digital Innovation Lab on an exciting project that will use new technologies to map the Long Women's Movement in the American South. The project will analyze our growing body of oral history interviews on the women's movement with an eye toward visualizing the movement across time and space, the result being a new way of reading, listening to, and using oral histories. The collaboration is made possible in part with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

 

The SOHP on the Airwaves

 

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, in an interview with the Gilder Lehrman Institute, discussed the legacy of the civil rights movement, reminding us that we should celebrate its success but remember that we are far from achieving its goals.

 

Associate Director Rachel Seidman, joined by Field Scholar Joey Fink, appeared on WUNC's The State of Things this past March to discuss SOHP research on the women's movement. Listen here. 

 

SOHP hosts the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

 

On March 17th, the Southern Oral History Program hosted the Right Honourable Owen Paterson, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and his staff at the Center for a day-long visit. The Secretary of State sought the SOHP's advice on whether and how to initiate an oral history program in Northern Ireland concerning "The Troubles," the era of conflict between Protestant unionist and Catholic loyalist communities that was at its most intense from the 1960s through the 1990s. In collaboration with partners from the Southern Historical Collection, Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy, the Duke Center for Human Rights, and the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History, SOHP staff and affiliates led discussions on the nature of oral history projects, their potential role in international reconciliation processes, and best practices in terms of ethics and accessibility.    

Southern Cultures

The Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures, the Center's award-winning and peer-reviewed quarterly, is now sold-out in the print version, but is available for download to the Kindle, Nook, and Sony Reader.
Music on the Porch

Music on the Porch, our outdoor music series, continues on April 26th with Maria Albani, Shirlette Ammons, and Heather McEntire.

All concerts take place at the Center's offices, 410 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, on Thursday evenings from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., and are free and open to the public.