The 2008 UNC Interdisciplinary Conference
for Graduate Research on 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 a sensibility among researchers as to how their work can speak to broad audiences outside their individual fields. Panels will consist of a twelve-minute presentations by each speaker, followed by a five-minute peer comment, and then we will open the floor for fifteen minutes of questions and discussion.
Saturday, April 5, 2007
We will begin at 9 a.m.
The Love House and Hutchins Forum Conference Room
9:00 a.m.
Women, Men and Ideas in the Nineteenth Century
Timothy Williams, History
Becoming Men of Letters: The Education of Male Youth in the South, 1795–1861
Nancy Schoonmaker, History
Where Do We Go from Here?: Spiritualism and Eternity in 1850s Nashville
Elizabeth Smith, History
“Having Their Tales Told”: Political Power and Female Deviance in the Urban South, 1865–1876
Commenting: Josh Davis, History
10 a.m.
Politics, Identity, and Race
David P. Cline, History
The Prophets of Albany: The Southwest Georgia Project as Interracial Ministry
Elizabeth Gritter, History
Local Black Electoral Mobilization and the Black Freedom Struggle in Memphis and the Urban South, 1889–1974
Catherine Conner, History
From Blue to White: Remaking Civic Identity Through Urban Renewal in Birmingham, Alabama, 1966–1990
Commenting: Dwana Waugh, History
11 a.m.
Race, Education, and Health
Hilary Green, History
Educational Reconstruction: African-American Education in the Urban South, 1865–1890
Melissa Piper, Public Health
Other People's Children: Assessing the Social Origins of Racial Inequality in Infant Health in Alamance County, N.C.
Dwana Waugh, History
From Forgotten to Remembered: Black Education and the Long Process of School Desegregation
Commenting: Elizabeth Smith, History
12 noon
Organizing for Change
Andrea Winkler, Social Work
Southern Organizational Development Initiative
Commenting: Elizabeth Gritter, History
Saturday, April 19, 2008
We will begin with lunch at noon.
The Love House and Hutchins Forum Conference Room
1 p.m.
Man and Nature
Aaron Shackelford, English
Romance & Mechanization: The Paradox of the Horse in the Civil War
Christy Violin, Biology
Rehabilitating Southeastern Urban Streams: The Importance of Colonist Availability to Insect Community Recovery
Commenting: Erin Stevens, Archaeology
1:45 p.m.
American Indians Reconsidered
Angela Calcaterra, English
“Jumbleing of two Sorts of Flesh together": William Byrd II, American Indians, and Literary Representation
Erin Stevens, Archaeology
The Making of a Monument: Investigating an Ancient Mound in the Mississippi Delta
Commenting: Hilary Green, History
2:30 p.m.
The Immigrant Experience
Brendan Greaves, Folklore
“A Paper Wedding”: Consalvos, Cigars, Collage, and the Cuban Immigrant Experience in Florida
Jessica Fifield, Commnication Studies
Exprésate: Ahora, Mañana, y Siempre. A Case Study ~ Latina/Latino Youth in Durham, North Carolina
Deborah Royals, Comm Studies
Exprésate: Ahora, Mañana, y Siempre. A Case Study ~ Latina/Latino Youth in Durham, North Carolina
Commenting: Catherine Conner, History
3:15 p.m.
Representations in Music
Joshua Davis, History
Soul Transactions: African American Consumption, Business, and Rhythm and Blues in Georgia and the Carolinas
Katherine Doss, Folklore
Louisiana Romp: Examining the Performance of Traditional Cajun Music Within a Contemporary Setting
Commenting: Tim Williams, History
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