Lectures for 2011 – 2012 (Archives)

FALL 2011

September 8 – Alice Ammerman, Director, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, UNC-CH

Food in the South: Health, Happiness and the Economy

Introduction by Barbara Rimer, Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor, The Gillings School of Global Public Health

October 6 – Karen Cox, Associate Professor, Department of History, UNC-Charlotte

Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture (UNC Press, 2011)

Introduction by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, William Umstead Distinguished Professor of History, UNC

December 1 – Ellis Anderson, writer and photographer

Under Surge, Under Siege: The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina (University Press of Mississippi, 2010)

Introduction by Gavin P. Smith, Director, Institute for Natural Hazards and Disasters, UNC-Chapel Hill

SPRING 2012

January 19  – Giselle Corbie-Smith, Professor, Social Medicine and Professor, Department of Medicine

Introduction by Gail E. Henderson, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill

February 16 – Kent Reilly, Professor of Archaeology and Director, Center for the Study of Arts and Symbolism of Ancient America, Texas State University

The Art and Iconography of the Ancient American South

Introduction by Vin Steponaitis, Professor of Anthropology and Director of Research Labs of Archaeology, UNC

March 22 – Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

Introduction by Jack Boger, Dean, UNC School of Law

April 19 – Paul Reyes, freelance magazine journalist and contributor to Virginia Quarterly Review

Exiles in Eden: Life Among the Ruins of Florida’s Greatest Recession (Henry Holt, 2010)

Introduction by Roberto Quercia, Professor & Director of the Center for Community Capital; Director of Master’s Program