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“Southern Things” Issue Launch

Love House & Hutchins Forum 410 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join us at the Love House & Hutchins Forum as we celebrate our fall issue on "Southern Things" with a night of good food, strong drink, and the finest storytelling. This special issue, guest edited by Bernie Herman, features essays … Read more

Charleston Lecture: Philip & Pierce Freelon

Sonja Haynes Stone Center UNC-Chapel Hill, 150 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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

Co-sponsored event: Alice Gerrard, Ruth Perry & Friends at Nightlight

Nightlight Bar & Club 405 1/2 West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill, United States

This Friday, Nightlight Bar & Club will host local legend of traditional and folk music Alice Gerrard, performing with Jim Watson and Cliff Hale. Following their performance, singer/ songwriter and MIT Professor Ruth Perry will discuss and perform ballads from … Read more

Tell About the South: Ryan Emanuel on Indigenous Communities & Environmental Justice

Love House & Hutchins Forum 410 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

In the Southeastern United States, indigenous communities are often omitted from discussions about environmental justice. These omissions permeate public policy and have serious implications for Native American tribes living in the region today. A case in point is the proposed … Read more

Tell About the South: Karida Brown on “The Subaltern School”

Love House & Hutchins Forum 410 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

In this talk, Brown will introduce her new research project, The Subaltern School, in which she undertakes a global socio-historical examination of segregated schooling. In the spirit of the CSAS colloquia, she will "tell about two Souths": that of the … Read more