March 19 Guha Shankar, "Work of Native Knowledge in the Age of Digital Reproduction"
The Folklore Program and Department of American Studies is proud to host a visit from Guha Shankar, Folklife Specialist at the American Folklife Center. Guha will be talking about the national library’s collaborative projects with Native American and other indigenous groups in the area of knowledge repatriation and access. The talk will be held on March 19 at 3:30pm in Toy Lounge of Dey Hall at UNC.
February 5 Michelle Lanier, "Home Going: An Exploration of Spirit-Centered Ethnography"
On Thursday February 5 3:30 pm, in Donovan Lounge on the second floor of Greenlaw, folklorist and public historian Michelle Lanier will discuss her experiences while studying the tradition of "home going" or funerary mourning among the Gullah/Geechee community.
The Folklore Program is proud to host a presentation by Christopher Nelson, Assistant Professor in Anthropology at UNC,The Folklore Program is proud to host a presentation by Dr.
Robert Cantwell, Townsend Ludington Professor of American Studies at UNC,
on Thursday, September 25, at 3:30 p.m. in Donovan Lounge, on the 3rd Floor
of Greenlaw Hall at UNC. Dr. Cantwell will be speaking about "If Beale Street Could Talk:
Towards a Vernacular Music Criticism." Through the presentation Cantwell will look
for the basis of a vernacular music criticism in a process of reflexive listening
where memory and history come together.
The Folklore Program is proud to host a presentation by anthropologist David Samuels on
Monday, March 31, at 3:00 p.m. in Toy Lounge, on the fourth floor of UNC's Dey Hall. Currently a
fellow at the National Humanities Center, Samuels will be speaking about “Interrogative Genres,”
tackling the thorny problem of genre in the study of folklore. In his presentation, Dr. Samuels
will discuss his innovative work in Native American language and song, exploring how attention to
voice might yield more productive ways of grappling with the difficult questions of genre mixing.
The Folklore Program is proud to host a presentation by Dr.
Marcie Cohen Ferris--
an Assistant Professor of American Studies at
UNC, and a core faculty member of the Folklore Program
--
on
Monday, Feb. 25, at 3:00 p.m. at the Love House, the Franklin Street
home for the Center for the Study of the American South. Dr. Ferris
will be speaking about
"The Biscuit Chronicles: Following the Food to
Southern Identity." Please join us as we consider the
food on
southern tables, and what this tells us about place, history, and
southerners' social identity.
The American South has long defined itself--and been defined by outsiders--in terms of its
differences with the North. Yet the region is rapidly moving out of this national and oppositional
frame of reference into one that is more international and integrative. At the same time that the
South is going global (and serving as home for such international brands as UPS, CNN, and KFC),
ever-increasing numbers of immigrants are making this region their home . . . and becoming
southerners. Much has been made of the demographic and economic aspects of this shift. In this
colloquium presentation, Dr. Peacock will discuss globalism's impact on a region legendarily
resistant to change, and the impact this shift is having on the southern sense of self.