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Hutchins Lecture: Robert Gipe on Appalachian Storytellers and Sociopaths

Graham Memorial Hall 210 E FranklinSt, Chapel Hill

“Storytellers and Sociopaths: Thoughts on How We Define Reality from Post-Obama Appalachia” This lecture will explore connections between the rich storytelling tradition, grinding economic challenges, hard political choices, despair, and hope experienced by people in the southeast Kentucky coalfields. Gipe … Read more

Film Screening + Q&A: Getting Back to Abnormal

Full Frame Theater American Tobacco Campus, Durham

Join us at the Full Frame Theater in Durham's American Tobacco Campus for a provocative exploration of Southern race and politics on film, followed by a Q&A with Directors Paul Stekler and Andrew Kolker. New Orleans' long history of political … Read more