| The UNC Interdisciplinary Conference
for Graduate Research on the American South
Part I: Saturday, November 4
9-12:30 am
Part II: Saturday, November 11
1:30-4:30 pm
Frank Porter Graham Student Union, Room 3418
This conference is sponsored
by the Center for the Study of the American South. All participants
are members of the Center's Southern Research Circle. The SRC’s
goal is to foster new understandings of the South and its people and
to encourage a sensibility
among researchers as to how their work can speak to broad audiences
outside their individual fields.This event is free and open to the public.
Schedule of Events: Part I
Saturday, November 4
FPG Student Union Rm 3418
9:00 AM: Protest, Punishment, and Power: Southern Politics
and Labor
Sarah Clere, English
Women are Workers Too: An Analysis of Three 1930s
Strike Novels
Seth Kotch, History
From Progressivism to Barbarism: Capital Punishment
in the Mind of the South
Timothy Galow, English
Ambivalence and Ambiguity in North Carolina's
Speaker Ban Law
Commenting: Katie Otis, History
10:00 AM: Remembering and Representing Black Visionaries
Mary Alice Kirkpatrick, English
Roving Visionaries: Re-Imagining the Southern
Landscape
John Hubbell, Folklore
Patch My Heart: Memphis' Soul Survives 1968
Commenting: Jessica Hardie, Sociology
10:45 AM: God and Country, or Religion and Politics
Chad Seales, Religious Studies
Patriotic Bodies: Sacrament and Sacrifice in Siler
City Fourth of July Parades, 1901-1932
Carie Hersh, Anthropology
Transnational Parachurches and the Intersection of
Religion
and Politics in Virginia Beach, Virginia
Commenting: Matthew Thompson, Anthropology
11:30 AM: Top Notch the Villain
Ali Neff, Folklore
Let the World Listen Right: Function and Folklore in the Rural
Roots of Southern Hip-Hop
Brian Graves, Communication
The Life and Music of Top Notch the Villain (a.k.a.
Jerome Williams)
Featuring the artist himself, Top Notch the Villain
Schedule of Events: Part II
Saturday, November 11, 2006
FPG Student Union Rm 3418
1:30 PM: North Carolina: Lots of Drama
Timothy Galow, English
Amibalence and Ambiguity in North Carolina's
Speaker Ban Law
Kelly Morrow, History
Sex in the South: The Sexual Revolution at UNC,
1969-73
Matthew Thompson, Anthropology
Staging "the Drama": The Continuing
Importance of Cultural Tourism in the Gaming Era
Commenting: Ali Neff, Folklore
2:30 PM: Southern Landscape, or the Birds and the Trees
William Gibbons, Music
The Musical Audubon: Ornithology in the Symphonies of
Anthony Philip Heinrich
Lee Ann Jacobs, Biology
A study of mechanisms affecting biodiversity in southeastern
temperate forests
Cindy Spurlock, Communication
Sprawling Carolina
Commenting: Brian Graves, Communication
3:30 PM: Post-Desegregation South: Health, Education, and Activism
Jessica Hardie, Sociology
High Hopes?: Community and Family in Shaping Educational
Expectations in the Post-Deseg South
Kelly Quinn, Epidemiology
Predictors of Change in the Black-White Health Gap
in the U.S. South: 1960-2000
Katie Otis, History
I'll Picket the Commission: Political Activism Among Florida
Retirees, 1960-1980
Commenting: Seth Kotch, History
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