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****The March 31st Concert with Jon Shain, Rhiannon Giddens (of the Carolina Chocolate Drops) and Steve Kruger, Moderated by Peter Holsapple, Will Take Place In The PLEASANT FAMILY ASSEMBLY ROOM, LOCATED IN THE MAIL HALL OF WILSON LIBRARY Due To Weather Forecast For Thursday.**** MUSIC ON THE PORCH, SOUTHERN MUSIC SHAKEN AND STIRRED An…

Michael Kreyling – Who Needs Ceremonies of Memory?: The 150th Anniversary (2/15/11) from CSAS on Vimeo. Professor Kreyling’s Hutchins Lecture speaks about his current project, which explores the cultural politics of memory in representations of the South through an examination of re-enacted memory in latter-day versions of the Civil War,…

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced today that The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant of $500,000 to continue the activities of the “Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement” project through December 2012.  A grant from the Foundation in 2008 launched this collaborative, entrepreneurial online…

Minrose Gwin – Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement (2/8/11) from CSAS on Vimeo. Minrose Gwin, who is the Kenan Eminent Professor of English at UNC Chapel Hill, talks about her current scholarly project, Mourning Medgar Evers, which focuses on central Mississippi during the summer of 1963….

Hyde Hall at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities 10 to 3:30 (Lunch provided with registration) Chancellor Thorp has stressed that the call to innovation and entrepreneurship must include “the whole university,” not just “a handful of scientist-inventors.” Yet to many in the humanities the concepts of innovation and…

MARCH 17, 2011: THE ALLEN BOYS, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SOUTHERN SACRED STEEL CONFERENCE. The Allen Boys, North Carolina’s only touring Sacred Steel band, kick off of The ArtsCenter’s Southern Sacred Steel Conference, March 17-20, 2011.  The Allen Boys are cousins DaShawn Hickman, Cameron and Ramsey Moore, and Adrian Bonville.  Sacred…

Francoise Hamlin – Ours is a Hell of a Story: Civil Rights at the Crossroads (2/1/11) from CSAS on Vimeo. Françoise Hamlin’s lecture is on the black freedom struggle in Mississippi through the lens of a local fifty-year study in Clarksdale. Professor Hamlin is the Hans Rothfels Assistant Professor in…

Kevin Boyle, History Redemption: Civil Rights, History and the Promise of America (1/18/11) from CSAS on Vimeo. Professor Boyle teaches twentieth century American history, with an emphasis on class, race, and politics at Ohio State University. He has received OSU’s Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award and the Distinguished University Lecturer Award….

For the past four years Harbage Page has photographed the possessions left behind by immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican Border near Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Mexico. Immigrants swim across the Rio Grande and then quickly change from wet clothes into dry clothes and disappear into the general population. If stopped by…