Turning South

Civil War, Civil Rights, and Cultural Memory

Sponsored by the African American Studies Program and the Department of English

Thursday, February 10, 2011

1:00-3:30 p.m.

Fowlkes Auditorium, Colvard Student Union

Session One: 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Politics of Cultural Memory Panelists: Ted Atkinson, Dept. of English, MSU; James Giesen, Dept. of History, MSU; Shirley Hanshaw, Dept. of English/African American Studies Program, MSU; Donald Shaffer, Dept. of English/African American Studies Program, MSU; Jason Ward, Dept. of History, MSU. Moderator: Trudier Harris, J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor Emerita, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Session Two: 2:15-3:15 p.m.

Civil War, Civil Rights, and the (Re)making of History in U.S. Culture, 2:15-3:15 p.m. Panelists: Martyn Bone, Dept. of English, University of Mississippi; Leigh Anne Duck, Dept. of English, University of Mississippi; Anne Marshall, Dept. of History, MSU; Michael Williams, Dept. of History/African American Studies Program, MSU. Moderator: Noel Polk, Dept. of English, MSU.

Closing Remarks: 3:15 p.m.

Houston Baker, Jr. Distinguished University Professor and Professor of English, Vanderbilt University MSU Scholar-in-Residence