Georgia State University history lecture

Friends/Colleagues,

A reminder that next Thursday, April 24 we will be hosting UNC's Fitzhugh Brundage for our 2008 Dale Somers Memorial Lecture. Professor Brundage's writing centers on historical memory in the South since the Civil War. His works include The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (2005), Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901 (1996) and Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 (1993).

This year's activities will be composed of two events:

1) Dr. Brundage will conduct an informal faculty development seminar on the topic "Beyond Blackface; African Americans and the creation of American Mass Culture, 1890 to 1930". This is in 804 GCB from 1.30-3.00 pm.

2) The lecture itself: "Is Southern History still a front in the Culture Wars?" This is at 4pm in Troy Moore Library (9th floor GCB). We will also be awarding our 2008 Dale Somers Memorial Book Awards to David McCreery and Rob Baker in recognition of their contributions to scholarship.

Please mark your calendars, and feel free to publicize this far and wide. Bring your students! Flier attached.

Best,

Jake Selwood.

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Jake Selwood, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Georgia State University