February 2012
22 February 2012
6 pm
200 Mitchell (auditorium)
Graduate Association for African-American History Film Series
The theme for this year’s series is Black Soldiers in Film. All showings will be held
Wednesday evenings throughout February 2012. Each film will be followed by a brief
discussion. Pizza and drinks with be served.
This evening’s film will be Glory, 1989.
23 February 2012
3 pm
226 McWherter Library
Address by Tracy Lauritzen Wright
Tracy Lauritzen Wright, director of Administration and Special Projects at the National
Civil Rights Museum, has worked in museums and arts organizations for 17 years, 9
of them the National Civil Rights Museum. Her primary responsibility is serving as
project director of the first renovation of the museum’s permanent exhibitions in
their 20-year history. She will review how changes in scholarship, heritage tourism,
and technology are influencing the design of the new exhibits at the museum and will
provide a special preview of the renovation.
23 February 2012
6 pm — reception
6:30 pm — lecture
University Center Theater
2011-2012 Belle McWilliams Lecture
In connection with the upcoming 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation,
Dr Eric Foner, Dewitt Clinton professor of history at Columbia University, will discuss his latest
book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. He will explore the fascinating, complex evolution of Lincoln’s views about slavery
from his Kentucky roots through his presidential vision for post-Civil War America.
Dr Foner is the author or editor of 26 books. A scholar of American intellectual,
political, social, and racial history, he has won almost every major prize in his
profession. Foner has served as president of three historical and professional organizations
(Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society
of American Historians), curated prizewinning museum exhibitions, and won numerous
teaching awards at Columbia. He has also written in popular venues such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. He also has appeared on programs such as Charlie Rose, The Daily Show, and The Colbert
Report.
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize, and
it was named by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year.
This Belle McWilliams Lecture for 2011-2012 is also sponsored by the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities. For more information, call Dr Aram Goudsouzian, director of MOCH, at 901.678.2520.
24 February 2012
1:30 pm
223 Mitchell
Departmental faculty meeting
25 February 2012
10 am - 2 pm
Lobby of the Communication and Fine Arts Building
Ancient Egypt Family Day
Opportunities include writing names in hieroglyphs, coloring a mask while learning
about ancient Egyptian gods, making a personal copy of an ancient Egyptian amulet,
seeing real ancient Egyptian artifacts in the Egyptian Gallery, and meeting students
and Egyptologists of the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology. Guided tours of
the Egyptian collection will be offered.
A special event is the School for Scribes, an intensive, hour-long session about ancient
Egyptian hieroglyphs. Class size in the School for Scribes is limited, so please call
901.678.2649 to reserve a place. Scribes must be 10 years of age or older.
For information or to make group reservations, call 901.678.2649.
29 February 2012
6 pm
200 Mitchell (auditorium)
Graduate Association for African-American History Film Series
The theme for this year’s series is Black Soldiers in Film. All showings will be held
Wednesday evenings throughout February 2012. Each film will be followed by a brief
discussion. Pizza and drinks with be served.
This evening’s film, the last in the series, will be The Tuskegee Airmen, 1995.
March 2012
1 March 2012
11 am - 1 pm
University Center River Room
100 Years of Women at The University of Memphis
This series, which will continue on 15 March and 22 March, will feature discussion based on Dreamers. Thinkers. Doers. A Centennial History of the University of Memphis, by Dr Janann Sherman, Dr Beverly G. Bond, and Frances Breland of the Department
of History. Today’s topic is “The Campus Community: Women & African-Americans.”
Please bring a brown bag lunch; light refreshments will be served.
For more information on this event sponsored by the Center for Research on Women,
African and African-American Studies, and the Department of History, send e-mail to Jennifer Gooch or call 901.678.2642.
1 March 2012
7 pm
Fogelman Executive Conference Center
“The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story Story of America's Great Migration”
Community Conversation featuring Isabel Wilkerson, who spent most of her career as
a national correspondent and bureau chief at the New York Times. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of the New York Times in 1994, making her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to
win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African-American to win for individual reporting.
Wilkerson has also won the George Polk Award and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship,
and she was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Her book The Warmth of Other Suns is the story of some six million black Americans who fled the American South for
an uncertain existence in the urban North and West, a movement known as the Great
Migration. It won the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and numerous
other prizes.
The conversation is sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves.
1 March 2012
7:30 pm
Hardie Auditorium of Palmer Hall, Rhodes College
“The Future of Plants: Diversity, Conservation and Sustainability”
Lecture by Sir Peter Crane, Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
at Yale and a visiting scholar from Yale University.
Dean Crane’s visit is co-sponsored by Rhodes’ Biology Department, Environmental Studies
and Sciences, the Spence L. Wilson Chair in Humanities, and the University of Memphis
Department of Biological Sciences.
From 1992 to 1999 Dean Crane was director of the Field Museum in Chicago with overall
responsibility for the museum’s scientific programs. From 1999 to 2006 he was director
of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of the largest and most influential botanical
gardens in the world. He is a member of the Royal Society, a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of several other scientific academies.
He was knighted in the United Kingdom in 2004 for services to horticulture and conservation.
Dean Crane will also conduct discussions in two classes at Rhodes earlier in the day:
Forests and Climate Change (9:30 am, Barret 034) and Evolution of Insectivorous Plants
(11 am, Frazier-Jelke B). If you are interested in attending one or both of these
sessions or if you would like more information, please contact Professor Scott Newstok
at newstoks@rhodes.edu.
2 March 2012
1 pm
Place to be announced later
Presentation of prospectuses for dissertations (Unowsky)
10 March 2012
6 pm
Cotton Museum, 65 Union Avenue
Book signing by Dr Jeannie Whayne
Dr Jeannie Whayne will discuss and conduct a book signing for Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South, a volume in the Making the Modern South series published by Louisiana State University
Press.
Delta Empire tells the story of a powerful plantation owner, Robert E. “Lee” Wilson, in the Arkansas
delta and his role in the evolution of southern agriculture from the late nineteenth
century through World War II. Wilson transformed an inheritance of 400 acres of land
in Mississippi County, Arkansas, into a 50,000-acre lumber operation and cotton plantation.
Early on, Wilson saw an opportunity in the swampy local terrain, which sold for as
little as fifty cents an acre, to satisfy an expanding national market for Arkansas
forest reserves.
Dr Whayne is a professor of history at the University of Arkansas, director of the
Arkansas Center for Oral and Visual History, editor of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, and secretary-treasurer of the Arkansas Historical Association. She is co-author
of Arkansas: A Narrative History and co-editor of The Clinton Riddle: Perspectives on the Forty-second President.
15 March 2012
11 am - 1 pm
University Center River Room
100 Years of Women at The University of Memphis
This series, which began on 1 March will continue on 22 March, will feature discussion based on Dreamers. Thinkers. Doers. A Centennial History of the University of Memphis, by Dr Janann Sherman, Dr Beverly G. Bond, and Frances Breland of the Department
of History. Today“s topic is “The Founders.”
Please bring a brown bag lunch; light refreshments will be served.
For more information on this event sponsored by the Center for Research on Women,
African and African-American Studies, and the Department of History, send e-mail to Jennifer Gooch or call 901.678.2642.
16 March 2012
12:30 pm
200 Mitchell (auditorium)
Phi Alpha Theta pizza lunch (Potter)
20 March 2012
9:30 - 10:30 am
Place to be announced
Topic to be announced
A new series by the Graduate History Association called 00:10 at 10:00, a monthly
free coffee hour and 10-minute presentation on a professional development issue. Free
coffee will be served from 9:30 to 10:30 and the presentation will begin at 10 am.
The Graduate History Association is a dues-free organization for all graduate students
in History. For more information about the series contact Wendy Clark, vice-president
of the Graduate History Association, at wjclark@memphis.edu.
24 March 2012
8 am - 3 pm
University Center
West Tennessee History Day
Winners of school competitions in the western region of Tennessee will compete to
advance to the state level in Nashville in April. All of these events are part of
National History Day. Categories include essays, exhibits, performances, documentaries, and web sites.
The theme for this year is Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History.
22 March 2012
11 am - 1 pm
University Center River Room
100 Years of Women at The University of Memphis
This program is the last in a series that features discussion based on Dreamers. Thinkers. Doers. A Centennial History of the University of Memphis, by Dr Janann Sherman, Dr Beverly G. Bond, and Frances Breland of the Department
of History. Today’s topic is “The Campus Community: Student Life.7rdquo;
Please bring a brown bag lunch; light refreshments will be served.
For more information on this event sponsored by the Center for Research on Women,
African and African-American Studies, and the Department of History, send e-mail to Jennifer Gooch or call 901.678.2642.
30 March 2012
1:30 pm
223 Mitchell
Departmental faculty meeting
April 2012
7 April 2012
Time and place to be announced later
Phi Alpha Theta banquet and History awards day
12 April 2012
6 pm
Lobby of the College of Communication and Fine Arts
An informance on Arabian Nights by Dr Kent Schull, assistant professor of history
An introduction to the production by the Department of Theatre and Communication of “The Arabian Nights”
by Mary Zimmermann, which will run 12-14 and 19-21 April 2012.
13 April 2012
12:30 pm
200 Mitchell (auditorium)
Phi Alpha Theta pizza lunch (Potter)
17 April 2012
9:30 - 10:30 am
Place to be announced
Topic to be announced
A new series by the Graduate History Association called 00:10 at 10:00, a monthly
free coffee hour and 10-minute presentation on a professional development issue. Free
coffee will be served from 9:30 to 10:30 and the presentation will begin at 10 am.
The Graduate History Association is a dues-free organization for all graduate students
in History. For more information about the series contact Wendy Clark, vice-president
of the Graduate History Association, at wjclark@memphis.edu.
27 April 2012
Time and place to be announced
Center for Research on Women Banquet
In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Center for Research on Women, and 100 Years
of Women at the University of Memphis, CROW, together with African and African-American
Studies and the Department of History, will host a banquet honoring 100 women who
made a difference to The University of Memphis.
If you know of a woman who made a difference to The University of Memphis and you
would like to honor her, please visit http://www.memphis.edu/crow/100women-nomination.htm to make your nomination.
More information will be posted on the CROW website when available, or you may call 901.678.2770.
June 2012
2-30 June 2012
Summer Study Abroad in Canada: Six Nations Iroquois (or People of the Longhouse)
Dr Arwin D. Smallwood, associate professor of history, will lead students on a month-long
trip from Montreal to Toronto, traveling through some of the communities associated
with the Six Nations Iroquois.
Students will meet at Riverside Inn in Kahnawake, a Mohawk community near Montreal,
on June 2, where they will attend Iroquoian linguistics and philology seminars, tour
historic areas, learn about the spiritual ways of the Nation and the archaeology of
the area, and visit with members of the Mohawk Nation. They will work with the Kahnawake
Survival School to help them expand upon the knowledge of their history.
There will be traveling to museums such as the McCord Museum of Canadian History and
Archives in Montreal, and the Canadian Museum of Civilization and Archives in Ottawa,
archaeological sites such as the Droulers site, and colleges and universities such
as the McGill University’s First Peoples’ House, University of Montreal, and Kiuna
Institution, a Native junior/community college, and Pointe-a-Calliere Montreal Museum
of History and Archaeology.
From Kahnawake and the Montreal area, students will go to Tyendinaga in Ontario, where
they will hear lectures from experts from many college campuses, including Loyalist
College, Trent University, and McMaster University, and will visit Ronathahonni Cultural
Center and the Akwesasne Reserve.
A visit to Grand River, near Toronto, will include a language workshop, a historic
tour, and a visit to the Woodland Cultural Center. Education in this area will be
supplemented by lectures from professors from the University of Western Ontario and
the University of Toronto. Students will also get to meet members of the Oneida Nation
and the Delaware Reserve.
One of the highlights of this trip is visiting Niagara Falls. While there, students
will get to meet members of the Tuscarora Nation.
At the end of the trip students will be expected to write a paper detailing their
experiences and what they learned through the trip.
The total cost of the program is $2,800 (subject to change). The program fee includes
the $350 application fee (payable by 1 March 2012), room and board, train and bus
passes, lectures and tickets to museums and cultural centers. The program fee does
not include U of M tuition for 3 credit hours, airfare, medical insurance, and personal
expenses.A Study Abroad Scholarship is available to U of M students. Eligibility and
instructions on how to apply may be found with the program application. Scholarship
and financial aid information may be found on the Study Abroad website.
For more complete information, read the full description of the program at Study Abroad, telephone Dr Arwin D. Smallwood at 901.678.3869, e-mail him at asmallwd@memphis.edu, visit his office in 121 Mitchell Hall, or e-mail tigersabroad@memphis.edu to set up an appointment with the Study Abroad Advisor.
8 June 2012
7:30 am - 4:30 pm
Rose D. Theatre Lecture Hall
The Delta — Everything Southern 7th Annual Conference
Annual conference dedicated to the history, arts, and music of the Mississippi Delta.
Morning speakers include Willy Bearden, Memphis author and filmmaker from Rolling
Fork, MS, who will interview in person Richard Leatherman; Dr Michael Trotter of Greenville,
MS, who will speak on healthcare in the Delta, past, present, and future; Dolph Smith,
local artist, who will speak on a lifetime of Delta art and culture; and Willy Bearden
once more, who will speak on the lifelong friendship between Shelby Foote and Walker
Percy of Greenville, MS.
After lunch, registrants may choose to attend any two of the five breakout panel discussions,
which include Richard Leatherman and Rudi Scheidt; Dr Michael Trotter, Dr Scott Morris,
and D. Katrina Poe, on health issues of the Delta; Dolph Smith and Maude S. Clay,
on Delta art and photograpy; Sam Brookes, forest archeologist, on the pre-historic
archeological finds in the Delta; and Roger Stolle, Preston Lauterbach, and Tom Graves
on Delta music.
For more information, contact William Bearden, chairman of the conference, at 901.522.9313
or willyb@aol.com; Dr Nicholas Gotten at 901.682.9955 or ngotten@aol.com; Inez Todd of The University of Memphis Libraries at 901.678-8219 or ineztodd@memphis.edu; or visit the website for the conference.
August 2012
29 August 2012 - 28 September 2012
McWherter Library
Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War
Traveling exhibit of the American Library Association in collaboration with the National
Constitution Center, focusing on Lincoln’s struggle to meet the political and constitutional
challenges of the Civil War. Organized thematically, the exhibition explores how Lincoln
used the Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the war—the secession
of Southern states, slavery, and wartime civil liberties.
29 August 2012
6 - 8 pm
McWherter Library, second floor west area
Presentation by Dr Scott Marler in connection with the exhibit Lincoln: The Constitution
and the Civil War.
31 August 2012
6 - 8 pm
Mitchell Hall
Book discussion and lecture in connection with the exhibit Lincoln: The Constitution
and the Civil War.
September 2012
5 September 2012
6 - 8 pm
McWherter Library, second floor west area
Presentation by Dr Susan O’Donovan in connection with the exhibit Lincoln: The Constitution
and the Civil War.
7 September 2012
6 - 8 pm
Mitchell Hall
Book discussion and lecture in connection with the exhibit Lincoln: The Constitution
and the Civil War.
12 September 2012
6 - 8 pm
McWherter Library, second floor west area
Presentation by Dr Tim Huebner in connection with the exhibit Lincoln: The Constitution
and the Civil War.
14 September 2012
6 - 8 pm
Mitchell Hall
Book discussion and lecture in connection with the exhibit Lincoln: The Constitution
and the Civil War.
19 September 2012
6 - 8 pm
McWherter Library, second floor west area
Presentation by Daphene McFerren and Charles McKinney in connection with the exhibit
Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War.
20-22 September 2012
Doubletree Hotel, 2431 N. Glenstone, Springfield, MO 65803
Thirty-Fourth Mid-America Conference on History
This year’s conference is sponsored by the Department of History, Missouri State University.
Proposals for papers and sessions, including overview sessions and graduate papers,
welcomed. The proposal deadline is 1 June 2012. Proposals should include a paragraph
about the content of each paper.
The conference will have as featured speakers Douglas Brinkley, speaking on “Walter
Cronkite: An Eyewitness to American History”; Rami Khouri, speaking on “History in
the Making: Understanding the Arab Uprisings In Their Proper National and Political
Contexts”; and George Rable, speaking on “God as General: Was There a Religious History
of the American Civil War?”
For more information and to submit proposals, contact Worth Robert Miller, Conference
Coordinator, Department of History, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897;
e-mail BobMiller@MissouriState.edu; or telephone 417.836.4141.
21 September 2012
6 - 8 pm
Mitchell Hall
Book discussion and lecture in connection with the exhibit Lincoln: The Constitution
and the Civil War.
October 2012
1-5 October 2012
11 am - 2:30 pm each day
Rotunda of McWherter Library
Banned Books Week
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