Southern Intellectual History Circle

20th Annual Meeting
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
February 28 – March 1, 2008

• For information about dinining in Chapel Hill, click here or in pdf.
• For transportation information, click here.
• For information about parking at UNC, click here. The most convenient public parking deck to the Stone Center (the site of the keynote and of Friday's sessions) is the Ram's Head Deck, which is located on Ridge Road at the south end of the football stadium. It is the blue square beneath the football stadium on the campus parking map (available by clicking the link above). the most convenient parking deck for Saturday's session at the School of Public Health is the Dogwood Deck on Manning Drive (on the map this deck is a large square to the lower left of the Ram's Head Deck and the football stadium). The Dogwood Deck is in the heart of the UNC hospital complex.
• For information about accommodations in Chapel Hill, please see our list of recommended accomodations in Chapel Hill or visit the Orange County/Chapel Hill Visitors Bureau.

Program

Thursday, February 28

Thursday sessions will be in the Hitchcock Room at the Stone Center.

6:00 p.m.

Keynote Address

• Chair: Steven M. Stowe, Indiana University
• Speaker: Walter Johnson, Harvard University
  “Rethinking the Capitalism/Slavery Question (from the Vantage Point of the Mississippi River)”

7:15-8:30 p.m.

Reception hosted by the Southern Historical Collection at meeting site

Friday, February 29

All Friday sessions will be in the Hitchcock Room at the Stone Center.

9-10:30 a.m.

Session I: Discussion of Keynote Address

• Edward E. Baptist, Cornell University
• Christopher Morris, University of Texas, Arlington
• Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Session II: Indians and Empire in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast
Chair: Theda Perdue, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
  “Spanish and Indian Ambitions in the Revolutionary Gulf South”

• Joshua Piker, University of Oklahoma:
  “Lies, Damn Lies, and Indian History: Killing Acorn Whistler”

Comment: Alan Gallay, Ohio State University
Claudio Saunt, University of Georgia

2:30-4:30 p.m.

Session III: Civil Rights, History, and Memory
Chair: Jane Dailey, University of Chicago

• Kimberley L. Phillips, College of William & Mary
  “John Oliver Killens’ GIs: Re-imagining the World War II South in the 1960s”

• Renee Romano, Wesleyan University:
  “’Do It Cause It’s Good for Business’: the Edgar Ray Killen Trial, Heritage Tourism, and Packaging History in Neshoba County, Mississippi”:

Comment: Jennifer Ritterhouse, Utah State University
Houston Roberson, Sewanee, the University of the South

5:00-6:30 p.m.

Reception hosted by UNC Press and the Center for the Study of the American South at the meeting site

Saturday, March 1

All Saturday sessions will be in Hooker Auditorium at the School of Public Health.

9:30 – 11:30 a.m. Roundtable discussion of Session II

Chair: Beth Barton Schweiger, University of Arkansas

1-3:00 p.m. Roundtable discussion of Session III

Chair: Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University