Embracing critical conversations and creative expressions for a diverse and changing South
If you're nearby (or up for a road trip!), join us at the Power Plant Gallery at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham to get a first look at our Documentary Arts Issue, guest edited by Tom Rankin and featuring … Read more
In a Southern Cultures essay published in 2000, Jerry Leath Mills came up with a “single, simple, litmus-like test the quality of southerness in literature . . . Is there a dead mule in it?” We were curious if Mills’s … Read more
Join us for two days of concerts, lectures, research presentations, panels, an exhibit, and a workshop to celebrate the launch of the Carolina Bluegrass Initiative. Sponsored by the Southern Folklife Collection and the Department of Music, the Carolina Bluegrass Summit … Read more
Join us in celebrating the Winter Issue of Southern Cultures at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Curator Trevor Schoonmaker will discuss the current exhibit, Southern Accent, with artists Jeff Whetstone and Stacy Lynn Waddell. Selections from Southern … Read more
Join us at the Center to celebrate a very special issue of Southern Cultures. We'll enjoy music by Sam Gleaves, readings by Silas House, and a mountain menu by Sherri Castle. Attendance is free and open to the public, but … Read more