Speakers, Conferences, and Performances Spring 2006

Ralph Stanley, A Conversation with the Bluegrass Legend
Moderated by Robert Cantwell, UNC professor of American Studies and author of Bluegrass Breakdown
Co-sponsored with the Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Library

Brooksie Harrington
"Aesthetics of Black Gospel Music"

Anna Agbe-Davies, Asst. Prof. of Anthropology, DePaul University
"This Is Not a Pipe: Artifacts, Power, and Race in 17th-Century Virginia"
Sponsored by the UNC Archaeology Program

Bruce Levine, professor of history, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War"

Program: "We remember the Wilmington Ten: 35 Years Later"
Sponsored by the Institute of African American Research, in association with the Center for the Study of the American South, the Southern Oral History Program, and the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs of the UNC-Chapel Hill.

Film: Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina
Leonard Rogoff, filmmaker, and Steve Channing, historian

Robert J. Norrell, Bernadotte Schmitt Chair of Excellence, Department of History, University of Tennessee
"The House I Live In: Race in the American Century"

Rebecca J. Scott
"Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery"

Robert Russell, Addlestone Professor in the Department of Art History
and director of the Program in Historic Preservation and Community Planning,
College of Charleston
"The Architecture of Politeness. The Charleston Single House: Form and Meaning"

2nd Annual University-wide African American History Month Lecture
Robin D. G. Kelley
" Celebrating Community: A Tribute to Fraternal, Social, and Civil Group Institutions"

Psyche Williams-Forson, assistant professor, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
“Traveling the Chicken Bone Express: A Perspective on Food and African American Travel Experiences”

Conference: "Navigating the Global American South"
Co-sponsored with the University Center for International Studies and with generous support from Quentiles Transnational

Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in the American South
Joyce Antler, Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture at Brandeis University
“Passing the ‘Torch of Idealism’: Gertrude Weil as Southern Jewish Citizen-Activist”
Introduction by Eli N. Evans,’ 58

Alfred D. Chandler Lecture in Southern Business History
Lee Craig, Department of Economics, North Carolina State University
"Of Papers and Politics: Josephus Daniels and the Raleigh News and Observer"

Third Annual Gladys Coates University History Lecture
Harry Watson, director, Center for the Study of the American South,
UNC-Chapel Hill

Speakers, Conferences, and Performances Fall 2005

Thursdays on the Terrace Concert
Kwabena Osei Appiagyei
Co-sponsored with the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence

Panel discussion with Timothy Tyson, author of Blood Done Sign My Name

Thursdays on the Terrace Concert
The Southern String Band
Co-sponsored with the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence

Thursdays on the Terrace Concert
Tommy Edwards
Co-sponsored with the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence

James C. Cobb, Spalding Distinguished Professor of History, University of Georgia
"Bubbas and 'Bamas,' Rednecks and Rappers: The New Faces of Southern Identity"

Thursdays on the Terrace Concert
Joel Harrison
Co-sponsored with the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence

John Dittmer, professor emeritus of history, DePauw University
"The Medical Committee for Human Rights:
Race and the Politics of Health Care in the Civil Rights Era"

Patricia Bernstein
Author of The First Waco Horror: the Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP

Thursdays on the Terrace Concert
Co-sponsored with the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence

Derek Alderman, Associate Professor of Geography, East Carolina University
"Untangling Kudzu’s Place in Southern Culture: Of Biography and Biogeography"
Co-sponsored by the Departments of History and Geography

Thursdays on the Terrace Concert
Mark Selby & Tia Sillers
Co-sponsored with the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence

Thursdays on the Terrace Concert
Co-sponsored with the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence

Inaugural Charleston UNC Alumni Lectureship
Richard W. Riley, Former United States Secretary of Education and Former Governor of South Carolina
"The American South: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century"

Nick Spitzer, creator and producer of public radio's American Routes,
Mellon professor in the humanities, Tulane University, Professor of folklore and cultural conservation, University of New Orleans
"After the Storm: Envisioning a Future for New Orleans Culture and Community through Music and the Building Arts"

Thursdays on the Terrace Concert
The Branchettes
Co-sponsored with the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence

Michael Newton, PhD, Celtic Studies, University of Edinburgh
"Lost Voices of the Afro-Celts"
Co-sponsored by the Department of History

Thursdays on the Terrace Concert
Cosmas Magaya and Beauler Dyoko 2005
Co-sponsored with the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence

Jerome Williams, a.k.a. Top Notch the Villain, Mississippi Delta hip-hop artist
Ali Colleen Neff, UNC-CH graduate student and Mississippi Delta folklore specialist
"Let the World Listen Right: Function and Folklore in the Rural Roots of Southern Hip-Hop"

Lawrence N. Powell, professor of history, Tulane University
Executive Director, Tulane/Xavier National Center for the Urban Community
"New Orleans: An American Pompeii?"

William Leuchtenberg, professor emeritus, UNC-Chapel Hill
Discussing his new book, The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson

Speakers, Conferences, and Performances Spring 2005

Charles Joyner
Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History at Coastal Carolina University
"Lee Hays: A Southern Radical and His Music"

Mary Frances Berry
Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania
"Callie House and the Black Reparations Movement: 1897 to the Present"

Undergraduate Discussion
Melody Barnes and Cassandra Butts from the Center for American Progress on major policy issues facing the second Bush administration.
Co-sponsored by the Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence.

New Strategies for Southern Progress
Conference to rethink critical issues facing the South and to rechart its progress. For more details see http://www.newsouthernstrategies.org.
UNC-Campus

Conference on the Globalization of the American South
Two-day event with over 60 presentations by scholars, policy makers, and practitioners covering diverse aspects of globalization in the South.

Screening of the film Big Fish
Introductory remarks by and Q& A with Daniel Wallace

Economic Development Seminar
"After the Factories: What is the New Economic Development Model for North Carolina"

Johanna Schoen
Reading from the author's recent book Choice & Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare

Southern Research Circle
One-day conference of cross-disciplinary research on all aspects of the South

Alfred D. Chandler Lecture in Southern Business History
Alan Olmstead, University of California-Davis
"Wait a Cotton Pickin' Minute!" A New View of Changing Slave Efficiency

Judith Peiser
Director, Center for Southern Folklore
"Bar Mitzvahs, Blues & Barbecue: It Ain't Nothin' But a Party"

Speakers, Conferences, and Performances Fall 2004

Dr. Tawfiq Yousef
"American Studies in a Global Context: Studying the United States at the University of Jordan"

David H. Rosen
"The Tao of Elvis: The Myth and Meaning of America’s King"

Thursdays on the Terrace
The Bluegrass Experience

Gavin James Campbell
"Britney on the Belle Curve: Dixie in the Life of an American Pop Princess"

Thursdays on the Terrace
John Dee Holeman & Billy Stevens

Conference
"Remembering Reconstruction at Carolina"

John T. Hill
"Walker Evans: Conceptions and Misconceptions"

Thursdays on the Terrace
Work Clothes, The Ghost of Rock, and Portastic

Felder Rushing
"Tough Plants and Cheesy Yard Art: What All Southerners Share"

Thursdays on the Terrace
Southern Culture on the Skids

Paul Reber
"Old Salem and the Challenge for History Museums in the 21st Century"

Author Reading: Timothy Tyson
Blood Done Sign My Name

Thursdays on the Terrace
Cool John Ferguson

Thursdays on the Terrace
Sons of New Bethel

Jim Clinton
"Journey to the Center of the South"

Thursdays on the Terrace
Bob Carlin, The Joe Thompson Band, Kirk Sutphin/Marvin Gastor, and The Hillbilly Pals

Scott Blackwell and Patrick Long
"Come into My Mind"

Thursdays on the Terrace
Jacqui Malone

Speakers, Conferences, and Performances 2003-2004

Dan Duffy
"Asia in North Carolina: Steps towards Asian American Studies in the South"

Sally Bermanzohn
"Through Survivors Eyes:
A Memoir of the November 3, 1979 Greensboro Massacre"

Clyde Milner
Carol O'Connor
"South by West: Thoughts on Two Regions"

Remember the Alamo!
Advance screening of American Experience PBS documentary followed by discussion with film director Joseph Tovares and historians Harry Watson and Kathleen Duval.

Nancy Fairley
"The Tucker Grove Camp Meeting: Tensions Between the Sacred and Secular"

Sidney Mintz
"Ancient Fusion: The Uncovering of a Caribbean Cuisine"

Robert O’Meally
"Ecstacy of Influence: The Training of Billie Holiday"

Jennifer M. Spear
"The Racial Politics of Colonial New Orleans: Episodes in the Development of a Tripartite Racial System"

Ann Romines
"Willa Cather and Quilt Culture"

Edward L. Ayers
"The Civil War at Eye Level"

Bob Whyte
Banjo presentation: Southern songs, Yankee songwriters

Alice Walker
Frey Foundation Visiting Distinguished Professor
An Evening with Alice Walker

Jean Yellin
"Harriet Jacobs: A Life"

Speakers, Conferences, and Performances 2002-2003

Peter A. Coclanis
"What Made Booker Wash(ington)?: The Wizard of Tuskegee in Economic Context"

Bill Malone
"Country Music, Where Art Thou?"

Laurie Langbauer
"British Travelers in the South"

Heather Williams
"In Secret Places: Acquiring Literacy in Slave Communities"

Glenn Hinson
Featuring Gospel singing by The Branchettes
'Fire in My Bones: Experiencing Transcendence in African American Gospel'

Roger Kennedy
"From Eisenhower through Clinton: Fifty Years on the Edge of History"

Laura Wexler

Adrienne Davis
"The Sexual Economy of American Slavery"

Speakers, Conferances, and Performances 2001-2002

Thadious Davis
“Out of the South: Emancipation, Jubilee, and Modernism”

Bertram Wyatt-Brown
“Death of a Nation: The Emotional Stress of Confederate Defeat”

John Egerton
“The South of What?: Looking for Direction to the Latest Incarnation of the Motherland”

Houston Baker
“Southern Revisions: Re-Thinking Moderism, Re-Reading Booker T”

Brian Ward
“Black-Oriented Radio and the Southern Civil Rights Movement”

Trudier Harris-Lopez
“Celebrating Bigamy and Other Outlaw Behavior”

William “Sandy” Darity Jr.
“Schooling, Race, and Challenging Curricula in North Carolina”

Thomas Wharburton
“Mattie Rigsbee’s Music”

Jacqueline Dowd Hall
“Representing Women/Workers: True Fiction from the South”

Charles Reagan Wilson
“Thinking Local, Acting Global: Border and Places in the New Regionalism”

Alfred D. Chandler Lecture
in Southern Business History

James C. Cobb

Gavin Wright
“Old South, New South, Sunbelt South”

David L. Carlton
“Community Entrepreneurship Three North Carolina Cases”

Kenneth Lepartido
“What's Southern About Southern Business”