Lectures for 2010 - 2011
Fall 2010
September 7, 2010 Noel Polk, University of Southern Mississippi (Emeritus) - Agitators: Civil Writes in Mississippi
September 21, 2010 Michael McFee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - My Inner Hillbilly, a poetry and essay reading
October 5, 2010 Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University - The World's Experience
November 9, 2010 Victoria Bynum, Texas State San Marcos (Emerita) - The Long Shadow of the Civil War
November 16, 2010 Sybil Kein, Michigan State (Emerita) - Louisiana Creole Culture and its Significance in the 21st Century
Spring 2011
January 18, 2011 Kevin Boyle, Ohio State - History Redemption: Civil Rights, History and the Promise of America
February 1, 2011 Francoise Hamlin, Brown University - Ours is a hell of a story: Civil Rights at the Crossroads
February 8, 2011 Minrose Gwin, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement
February 15, 2011 Michael Kreyling, Vanderbilt University - Who Needs Ceremonies of Memory?: The 150th Anniversary.
March 1, 2011 Marci Campbell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Health and Wealth: Addressing Root Causes of Poor Health in Eastern NC Through Assets Development
March 15, 2011 Adam Gussow, University of Mississippi - The Devil and the Blues
April 5, 2011 Barbara Ellen Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - The Politics of Place