Embracing critical conversations and creative expressions for a diverse and changing South
Please join us in the Stone Center Theatre, where groundbreaking civil rights lawyer James E. Ferguson II will present the 2014 Charleston Lecture in Southern Affairs, titled "Fifty Years of Civil Rights Litigation--Everything is Different--But Not Much Has Changed." Co-sponsored by … Read more
“The Evidence of Things Done: Social (In)Justice & Struggles in the 21st Century” Through a blending of prose and poetics and historical and contemporary times, Dr. Rhonda Y. Williams will bear witness to the representations, politics, and activist campaigns that … Read more
Award-winning poet, author, and creative writing professor Joseph Bathanti will deliver the 2016 Charleston Lecture in Southern Affairs, titled "Alma Stone Williams: Black Mountain College’s First Black Student." In 1944, Alma Stone Williams, an African American musician from Atlanta, Georgia, … Read more
Join us in the Stone Center Theatre for the 2017 Charleston Lecture in Southern Affairs by Philip and Pierce Freelon, titled "Black Space Making and the Built Environment." Philip Freelon is a renowned architect who served as the lead designer … Read more