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Please note that all of the James A. Hutchins Lectures will take place on Tuesdays at 3:30 in the Royall Room, George Watts Hill Alumni Center, on the UNC-CH campus. Click here for detailed directions.
Spring 2008
January
Tues., 1/15
Documentary Film Premiere on UNC-TV
"Senator No: Jesse Helms"
9 p.m.
UNC-TV
Presented with support from the Center for the Study of the American South
Mon., 1/28
Film Screening
"Durham: A Self-Portrait"
6:30 p.m.
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
150 South Road
UNC Campus
Free and open to the public.
Wed., 1/23
Film and Symposium
"Joel Williamson and the Meaning of Southern History"
4-5:30 p.m., with reception to follow
Alumni I Room
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
UNC campus
Tues., 1/29
James A. Hutchins Lecture:
"Rape and the Roots of the Montgomery Bus Boycott"
Danielle McGuire
CSAS Postdoctoral Fellow
3:30 p.m.
Royall Room
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
UNC campus
February
Tues., 2/5
James A. Hutchins Lecture:
"What Does the Cigarette Epidemic in the American South Tell
Us about Global Tobacco Control Today?"
Louis M. Kyriakoudes
Associate Professor of History
University of Southern Mississippi
3:30 p.m.
Royall Room
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
UNC campus
Tues., 2/26
James A. Hutchins Lecture:
"Jesse Helms and the Contours of American Aids Policy"
Stephen Inrig
CSAS Postdoctoral Fellow
3:30 p.m.
Royall Room
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
UNC campus
Thurs., 2/28
Annual Meeting:
Southern Intellectual History Circle
6-8:30 p.m.
Hitchcock Room
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
UNC campus
Co-sponsored with the History Department
Fri., 2/29
Symposium:
Civil Rights and the Body in the American South
9:45 a.m.-7:45 p.m.
Roseneau Hall, UNC School of Public Health,
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by
the Center for the Study of the American South
and the Duke University Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine
Annual Meeting:
Southern Intellectual History Circle
9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Hitchcock Room
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
UNC campus
Co-sponsored with the History Department
March
Mon., 3/1
Symposium:
Civil Rights and the Body in the American South
9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Roseneau Hall, UNC School of Public Health,
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by
the Center for the Study of the American South
and the Duke University Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine
Annual Meeting:
Southern Intellectual History Circle
9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Hooker Auditorium
UNC School of Public Health
Co-sponsored with the History Department
Tues., 3/18
James A. Hutchins Lecture:
"Lynching, Spectacle, and Cinema, 1900-1940"
Amy Wood
Associate Professor of History
Illinois State University
3:30 p.m.
Royall Room
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
UNC campus
Thurs., 3/20
The Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Lectureship
in Southern Business and Economic History
"A Historian's Perspective on the American South's Current Development Dilemma"
Lacy K. Ford, Jr.
Professor of History
University of South Carolina
3:30 p.m.
Royall Room
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
UNC campus
Tues., 3/25
James A. Hutchins Lecture:
"Gender, War, and Violence: Enslaved Women and the Armies of the Civil War
Thavolia Glymph
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies
Duke University
3:30 p.m.
Royall Room
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
UNC campus
Sat., 3/29
Symposium:
Civil War
in honor of Alan Stephenson,
donor of the Stephenson Chair in Civil War History
8:15 a.m.-4 p.m.
111 Carroll Hall
UNC campus
Free and open to the public
No registration required
Co-sponsored by the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense, the Center for the Study of the American South, and the Department of History
April
Richard Wright Centennial
TBA
Sat., 4/5
Conference:
Southern Research Circle 2008 UNC Interdisciplinary Conference
for Graduate Research on the American South
9 a.m. until 12 noon
Love House and Hutchins Forum
410 East Franklin St.
UNC campus
Limited to graduate student participants
Tues., 4/8
James A. Hutchins Lecture:
"Teaching Citizenship: Septima Poinsett Clark
and the Role
of Education in the Black Freedom Struggle"
Katherine Mellen Charron
Assistant Professor of History
North Carolina State University
3:30 p.m.
Royall Room
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
UNC campus
Sun., 4/13
Beyond the Sunbelt: Southern Economic Development
in a Global Context
3:30-7:30 p.m.
UNC campus
Pre-registration required
Co-sponsored with the Center for Global Initiatives, the Office of Economic and Business Development and Quintiles Transnational Corporation.
Mon. 4/14
Beyond the Sunbelt: Southern Economic Development
in a Global Context
9 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
UNC campus
Pre-registration required
Co-sponsored with the Center for Global Initiatives, the Office of Economic and Business Development and Quintiles Transnational Corporation.
Sat., 4/19
Conference:
Southern Research Circle 2008 UNC Interdisciplinary Conference
for Graduate Research on the American South
1 p.m. until 5 p.m.
Love House and Hutchins Forum
410 East Franklin St.
UNC campus
Limited to graduate student participants
May
Fall 2007
September
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Tues., 9/11
Otis L. Graham, Jr.
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, and
Visiting Scholar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“FDR and The Environment: The Southern Front”
3:30 p.m.
Royall Room
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
UNC campus
Tues., 9/18
Christopher Arris Oakley
Assistant Professor of History at East Carolina University
The Media, the Klan, and the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina
3:30 p.m.
Royall Room
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
UNC-CH campus
October
Thurs., 10/4
Conference Keynote
Caryl Phillips
Novelist and Professor of English, Yale University
Reading from Dancing in the Dark
8:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre, Center for Dramatic Art
UNC-CH campus
Caryl Phillips' reading is the keynote event of Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Advent of American Mass Culture, a conference co-sponsored with the History Department and continuing on Friday, October 5.
Fri., 10/5
Conference, Cont.
Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Advent of American Mass Culture
9:00 a.m-5:00 p.m.
University Room 109
Institute for the Arts and Humanities
UNC-CH campus
Organized by W. Fitzhugh Brundage and co-sponsored with the
UNC History Department
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Tues., 10/9
Robert E. Bonner
Fellow, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
“Proslavery Extremists and the Counter-revolutionary Confederacy”
3:30 p.m.
Chapel Hill Museum
523 East Franklin St.
Parking available
NOTE CHANGE IN VENUE
Tues., 10/30
William W. Freehling
Senior Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
“The Road to Disunion: The Climactic Uncertainty”
3:30 p.m.
Alumni I Ballroom
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
UNC-CH campus
November
Tues., 11/6
Conference
Speculating on the South: Reimagining the Historical South
through Scholarship and Art
8:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence
UNC-Chapel Hill campus
Registration required.
John Wharton Lowe
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director, Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies, Louisiana State University
“Unleashing the Loas: The Literary Legacy of the Haitian Revolution in the U.S. South and the Caribbean”
3:30 p.m.
Alumni I Ballroom
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
UNC-CH campus
Wednes., 11/7
Conference, Cont.
Speculating on the South: Reimagining the Historical South
through Scholarship and Art
8:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence
UNC-Chapel Hill campus
Registration required.
Thurs., 11/8
Conference, Cont.
Speculating on the South: Reimagining the Historical South
through Scholarship and Art
8:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
Hanes Annex, 2204 Erwin Road
John Hope Franklin Center
Duke University
Registration required.
Fri., 11/16
Conference
The Perils of Public Homage: Thomas Ruffin and
State v. Mann in History and Memory
November 16
9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Dialectic Chambers of the Di Phi Society
New West, Cameron Ave., UNC-CH Campus
Click here for directions
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
December
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