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CSNS Fall Research Roundtable: Tina Shull: Climates of Inequality

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Tina Shull of the History department will be discussing her Climates of Inequality project which will exhibit in the Spring.

Powwow at UNC Charlotte

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The Native American Staff and Faculty Caucus is co-hosting the Annual Powwow at UNC Charlotte with the Native American Student Association.This event aims to build community among Native Americans in the region and to build awareness of the Native cultures among the Charlotte community and beyond. For more information: https://nasfc.charlottewp.psapp.dev/annual powwow.  │Inclusive Excellence Grant project […]

Dr. Bertha Maxwell-Roddey Distinguished Africana Lecture.

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The Department of Africana Studies is hosting keynote speaker Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans, Professor, Institute for Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Georgia State University. │africana.charlottewp.psapp.dev 

W + GRA Leadership Cafe: Taking Space Without Apology

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W+ GRA Leadership cafe:  Taking Space Without Apology,  Tuesday, 10/25, 9 am. discussing safety, economic opportunity, and health and wellness among women and girls in the Charlotte Metropolitan area.  Please Register:  https://womengirlsalliance.charlottewp.psapp.dev/our-events

2020 Levine Lecture: “The Fighter and the Victim: Two Enslaved Women in the Life of Frederick Douglass”

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Join us for the Center for the Study of the New South’s Annual Levine Lecture, this year featuring  Dr. Bill Andrews of UNC Chapel Hill. Dr. Andrews will discuss his book, Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865(2019; New York: Oxford University Press). The lecture will be held at the Levine […]

Book Signing: John David Smith

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Come join us as Center faculty member John David Smith signs his new book, Dear Delia The Civil War Letters of Captain Henry F. Young, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), on campus next Wednesday at 3PM in the Popp Martin Student Union.  “This revealing collection of letters is one of the best […]

Book Talk: Elizabeth Herbin-Triant’s Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods

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NewSouth2019.pdf Please join us on November 7 at 4PM in Atkins Library’s Halton Reading Room for Dr. Elizabeth Herbin-Triant’s talk about her hot off the press book: Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods (Columbia Press, 2019). Dr. Herbin-Triant is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.  We’ll have hot […]

Center/Botanical Gardens’ Historical Trail to Interpret Cultures

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Concept Plan # 1 June 2019.pdf The Center for the Study of the New South is excited to be able to help tell North Carolina’s story through the “Walking Through Carolina: An Outdoor Living Exhibit” project – coming Fall 2020. Thank you to the North Carolina Humanities Council for funding this work. Please visit this link to […]

Levine Lecture: What We Remember, What We Forget, and Why

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Noted author – scholar Timothy B. Tyson, winner of the Best Book of 2017 from both the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio for his book The Blood of Emmett Till, will deliver UNC Charlotte’s 2019 Levine Lecture on Thursday, March 14. His topic will be “What We Remember, What We Forget, and Why,” examining the place […]