University Day Celebration

• 3 pm
  Welcome by Chancellor James Moeser
• 3:10 pm
  Introduction to the Virtual Museum of University History, Annette Cox, Center for the Study of the American South
• 3:30 – 4:30 pm
  Symposium on University History with
  
  Harry Watson, Professor of History and Director, Center for the Study of the American South
  
  William Darity Jr., Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Economics and Director, Institute of American American Research
  
  James Leloudis, Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean for Honors and Director, James M. Johnson Center for Undergraduate Excellence
  
  Jacquelyn Hall, Professor of History and Director, Southern Oral History Program
  
• 4:30 pm
  Discussion
• 5:00 pm
  Reception in the lobby

On University Day, October 12, 2006, the chancellor will show to the public for the first time a website created to make the history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill more available to the general public. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South and the University Libraries, the site will describe the university’s founding, its relationship with slavery, its experience in the Civil War and Reconstruction, the coming of coeducation, the rise of its research mission, and many other themes that run through its history. After the demonstration of the website, there will be a symposium on university history with four distinguished scholars who are experts on race relations, gender studies, and Southern and North Carolina history.

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South and the University Libraries.