Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...or public health. Articles may focus on cultures, particular persons, places, industries, or events, or, they may compare the treatment of ideas or images across several works, genres, or decades....
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...Dreams': Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future." Southern Spaces, August 29, 2006, https://southernspaces.org/2006/rebuilding-land-dreams-expressive-culture-and-new-orleans-authentic-future. Trethewey, Natasha. "Congregation." Southern Spaces, September 9, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/congregation. Weber, Lynn. "No Place To Be Displaced:...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...and the process of assembling the book, One Place. Part 3: A discussion of Kwilecki photographs that reveal insider-outsider tensions in Decatur County. Part 4: Kwilecki's subjects and the continuity...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Cause ideology to the formation of southern literature (à la the "Southern Renaissance"), Hardwig reminds readers that much local color literature takes place far away from the plantation, in places...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
Tarsus, Alabama It takes a while to find the place where I can hold the photograph and the mountain will finish itself, and a while until I'll let it drop...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...Richmond, Virginia, 2010. In the exhibition’s main hall, a large map of the world is colored in bright post-it notes mostly by children who have written their places of origin....
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...with references to local people and places. As Chuck Brown, the guitarist and bandleader (who with his band The Soul Searchers pioneered the genre in the 1970s), observed, "It's easy,...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...studies offerings and presenting significant new scholarship. We encourage scholars to submit panels that engage with ideas of space and place. Below is the SLSA's call for panels. The Many...
Old Elementary
Terrified or furious, my brother would call me: it's in there, he'd swear, in the old elementary— desperate to blame something—asbestos, radiation, unhappiness itself— to place, displace the cancer onto...
Insistent Traces
Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...