UNDERSTANDING THE SOUTH, UNDERSTANDING MODERN AMERICA MANCHESTER, MAY 22-24, 2008
Provisional Programme
Thursday, May 22
3.00-5.00pm: Check-in & Registration
Registration will take place at Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre (see: http://www.conference.manchester.ac.uk/chancellorshotelconferencecentre/)
6.00-7.00pm: Buffet Dinner
7.00-7.45pm: SAHC Drinks Reception
8.00pm: Performance
Sandi Russell,
Render Me My Song: African American Women Writers From Slavery to the Present
Friday, May 23
9.30-10.40am: Beyond the Plantation South
Michael Bibler (Manchester):
Droughts, Diasporas, and Climate Change: New Serpents next to Old in the Southern Garden
Leigh Anne Duck (Memphis):
Post-Plantation Nation: Manderlay and C.S.A: The Confederate States of America
Chair: Monica Pearl (Manchester)
10.40-11.00am: Tea/Coffee Break
11.00am-12.45pm: Race and Place, Plots and Politics
Steven Lawson (Rutgers):
Still Running for Freedom: Southern Black Votes and the Changing Face of American Politics
Benjamin Houston (Carnegie Mellon): Taking the Low Road of Least Resistance: Race, Interstate 40, and Urban Renewal in Nashville and America
Allison Graham (Memphis):
Magical Misery Tour: Conjuring (Eu)Genocide in New Orleans
Chair: David Brown (Manchester)
12.45-1.30pm: Lunch
1.30-3.15pm: Southern Conservatism, American Conservatism
William A. Link (Florida): Jesse Helms and the Making of Modern American Conservatism
Thomas Ruys Smith (East Anglia): '
Bring Our Country Back': Country Music, the Southern Strategy and the 1968 Presidential Election
Clive Webb (Sussex): Confrontation or Containment? Civil Rights Groups, Southern Extremists and the Unsolved Hate Speech Issue
Chair: Richard King (Nottingham)
3.15-3.45pm: Tea/Coffee Break
3.45-5.30pm: Gender, Race and Religion
Heather Bryson (Florida):
Silencing White Dissent: Political Manhood in Birmingham, Alabama, 1956-1961
Jane Dailey (Chicago):
Race, Marriage, and Sovereignty in the New World Order
Paul Harvey (Colorado):
From Racism to Patriarchy: The Evolution of Southern Religious Conservatism
Chair: Nancy Hewitt (Rutgers)
6.30-7.30pm: Conference Dinner
Saturday, May 24
9.30-10.40am: Tales of the Extended South
Victoria Kennefick (Cork):
The 'outlawed figures' of Flannery O'Connor and Frank O'Connor: Religion, Redemption and Rebellion in the Two Souths
Martyn Bone (Copenhagen):
Migration, Labour, and History in the Literature of the Extended South: Hurston, Brodber, and Banks
Chair: Eithne Quinn (Manchester)
10.40-11.00am: Tea/Coffee Break
11.00am-12.45pm: Region, Race and Memory
Angela Zombek (Florida):
I Was Put Here to Contribute to Baseball: The Public Commemoration of Larry Doby
Sharon Monteith (Nottingham):
Looking Back: Struggles Over Remembering and Representing Civil Rights Organizers
John Kirk (Royal Holloway): '
Remember Little Rock!': Legacies of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Chair: Natalie Zacek (Manchester)
12.45-1.30pm: Lunch
Conference Officially Disperses