These informal programs are an opportunity to hear from Wilson Research Fellows about their research work that draws on the collections and expertise of the Wilson Special Collections Library. Please visit Wilson Library’s fellowships page to learn more.
Upcoming
Affordances of the Asylum; and Genealogies of Non-citizen Incarceration in the US South
Wednesday, September 14, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Elisabeth Harris presents, “Affordances of the Asylum” and Andreina Malki presents, “Genealogies of Non-citizen Incarceration in the US South”
Register for Affordances of the Asylum; and Genealogies of Non-citizen IncarcerationThe WWII Farm Labor Program, Right to Work, and Organizing Migratory Workers in the South; and North Carolina’s Leading Role in Late 20th Century White Power Organizing
Wednesday, October 12, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Jennifer Standish presents, “The WWII Farm Labor Program, Right to Work, and Organizing Migratory Workers in the South” and Irene Adair Newman presents, “First in Fight: North Carolina’s Leading Role in Late 20th Century White Power Organizing”
Register for Organizing Migratory Workers in the South; and North Carolina’s Role in White Power OrganizingGay Liberation in College Towns & on University Campuses; and The Portraits and Possessions of Anne of Cleves and Sibylle of Cleves
Wednesday, November 9, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Hooper Schultz presents, “Other Voices, Other Souths: Gay Liberation in College Towns & on University Campuses” and Sarah Emily Farkas presents, “Women’s Consumption: The Portraits and Possessions of Anne of Cleves and Sibylle of Cleves”
Register for Gay Liberation in College Towns Campuses; Portraits and Possessions of Anne and Sibylle of ClevesPast
Looking for Casey Jones in the Southern Folklife Collection; and Singing a Renunciation in the Southern Appalachia
Wednesday, February 9, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Scott Huffard presents, “Looking for Casey Jones in the Southern Folklife Collection” and Noah Angell presents, “’If I was a Lizard in the Spring’: Singing a Renunciation in the Southern Appalachia.”
Watch Looking for Casey Jones and Singing a RenunciationLiving Disfranchisement; and White Fear and Radical Potentialities in the Plantation Household
Wednesday, March 9, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Rob Riser presents, “’Living Disfranchisement’” and Rebekah Aycock presents, “’upside down and inside out’: White Fear and Radical Potentialities in the Plantation Household.”
Watch “A Living Disfranchisement”; and White Fear and Radical PotentialitiesInvestigating Historical Plant Use in the American South; and American Literature & the Anxiety of Disappearance
Wednesday, April 13 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Sierra Roark presents, “The Hunt for Plants Among the Papers: Investigating Historical Plant Use in the American South” and Gina Caison presents, “Erosion: American Literature & the Anxiety of Disappearance.”
Watch Investigating Historical Plant Use; and American Literature & the Anxiety of DisappearanceNationsBank and the End of the New Deal Financial Order; and The Escape of Matthew Bullock and American Lynching on Trial
Wednesday, May 11, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Conrad Jacober presents, “The Southern Route to Interstate Banking: NationsBank and the End of the New Deal Financial Order” and Derrick White presents, “A Million Klansmen on a Negro’s Trail: The Escape of Matthew Bullock and American Lynching on Trial.”
Watch NationsBank and the End of the New Deal Financial Order; and The Escape of Matthew BullockUnions, Cooperatives, and the Social Gospel in the American South; and Repurposing William Wordsworth in Victorian Devotional Poetry Anthologies
Wednesday, June 8, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Huntley Hughes presents, “Alternative Modernities: Unions, Cooperatives, and the Social Gospel in the American South” and Eric Bontempo presents, “The Devotional Wordsworth: Repurposing William Wordsworth in Victorian Devotional Poetry Anthologies.”
Watch Unions, Cooperatives, and the Social Gospel; and Repurposing William Wordsworth
