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Fall 2010

September 7, 2010    Noel Polk, University of Southern Mississippi (Emeritus) – Agitators: Civil Writes in Mississippi 

September 21, 2010   Michael McFee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – My Inner Hillbilly, a poetry and essay reading

October 5, 2010   Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University – The World’s Experience

November 9, 2010   Victoria Bynum, Texas State San Marcos (Emerita) – The Long Shadow of the Civil War

November 16, 2010   Sybil Kein, Michigan State (Emerita) – Louisiana Creole Culture and its Significance in the 21st Century

Spring 2011

January 18, 2011   Kevin Boyle, Ohio State – History Redemption: Civil Rights, History and the Promise of America

February 1, 2011   Francoise Hamlin, Brown University – Ours is a hell of a story: Civil Rights at the Crossroads

February 8, 2011   Minrose Gwin, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill – Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement

February 15, 2011   Michael Kreyling, Vanderbilt University – Who Needs Ceremonies of Memory?: The 150th Anniversary.

March 1, 2011   Marci Campbell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Health and Wealth: Addressing Root Causes of Poor Health in Eastern NC Through Assets Development

March 15, 2011   Adam Gussow, University of Mississippi – The Devil and the Blues

April 5, 2011     Barbara Ellen Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University – The Politics of Place