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The 2010 Special Music Issue is available now--with another classic FREE CD.
Hurricane Katrina, 5 Years Later
Cameras After Katrina (photograph by Donn Young)
Scholars, Researchers, Community Leaders and Artists Observe the 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
September 8-10, 2010
Chapel Hill, NC - In observence of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina – this country’s largest natural and human-caused disaster – The Center for the Study of the American South at UNC-CH and the UNC Center for the Study of Natural Hazards and Disasters, in partnership with the Center for Poverty, Work and Opportunity, the School of Government and the School of Law are coming together to explore the human impact of the storm through workshops, storytelling, photography, singing and songwriting. A series of free events from Wednesday, September 8th through Friday, September 10th will offer attendees an opportunity to understand how the storm impacted people and communities and how lives are being rebuilt and renewed. All the Details...
Noel Polk to Present Hutchins Lecture
On September 7, Noel Polk will present Inside Agitators: Civil Writes in Mississippi. He will look at a novel by Mississippian Jack Butler, Jujitsu for Christ. which took as a subject not so much the Civil Rights movement itself as its effect, as it spirals out away from the movement into the civilian ranks where white and black attempt to come to terms with its meaning for them and their relationships.
Noel Polk, professor of English, emeritus, is a specialist in the American novel. He has published and lectured widely in the United States, Europe, Japan, and the former Soviet Union on William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. Publications include Eudora Welty: A Bibliography of Her Work (1993), Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner (1996), and Outside the Southern Myth (1997). He has edited the novels of William Faulkner for the Library of America and Random House and recently (2001) edited a new edition of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men for Harcourt Brace. Noel is also editor of The Mississippi Quarterly.
All Hutchins lectures take place at the UNC Alumni Center's Royall Room at 4pm. The Hutchins Lecture Series is generously supported by the Hutchins Family Foundation.