Center for the Study of the American South

Tell About the South

Taking its name from a passage in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, the Center's series of lunchtime presentations of works in progress by faculty and senior graduate students is well into a second successful year. Structured to provide a scholarly and collegial forum for coments and suggestions by an audience of academic peers, this year's talks have probed a broad range of southern scholarship.

Topics have included literature as a window on southern life, demographic change in North Carolina, American Indian issues and culture, antebellum student life in Chapel Hill, land use, race relations, struggles at the Mexican border and capital punishment.