March Events

March 2 (Tuesday), 4 pm. New Perspectives: Alabama and the WPA: Nick Taylor, author of American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA. University Chapel. Press Release (PDF).

March 11 (Thursday), 3 pm. Discover Auburn: Giovanna Summerfield, "Images of Sicilian Women." Special Collections and Archives Department, Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

March 25 (Thursday), 3 pm to 4:45 pm. Panel Discussion: Art & Law: An Interdisciplinary Investigation. Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. Press Release (PDF).

March 25 (Thursday), 3 pm. Book Talk: Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton, Teddy's Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry between the Great Wars. Special Collections and Archives Department, Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

March 26 (Friday), 8:30 am to 5 pm. Symposium: Celebrating a Century of Flight: The Wright Brothers in Alabama, 1910-2010. Alabama Department of Archives and History. Press Release (PDF). For more information, visit www.auburn.edu/wrightbrothers.

Symposium on Wright Brothers and Aviation in Alabama

For more information, visit www.auburn.edu/wrightbrothers.

February Events

February 11 (Thursday), 3 pm. Alabama Big Read: Alan Gribben, "The Importance of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer." Special Collections and Archives, RBD Library.

February 18 (Thursday), 3 pm. Discover Auburn: James Brown, "Growing Vegetables Organically." Special Collections and Archives, RBD Library.

February 20 (Saturday), 9 am--Noon. Workshop: "Five Useful Things You Can Learn About Writing in 180 Minutes," with Richard Goodman, Author of The Soul of Creative Writing. Co-Sponsored by OLLI at Auburn. Lexington Hotel. To register, call 334-844-5100 or click here (PDF).

February 25 (Thursday), 4 pm. Book Talk: Susan Youngblood Ashmore, Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972. Special Collections and Archives, RBD Library.

Beyond the Rhetoric of Crisis: Strategies for Future Success in the Humanities

Join us on Thursday, January 28 at 3:00 p.m. at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art for a panel presentation by Syracuse University Humanities Center founding Director Gregg Lambert and Humanities Research & Grants Consultant Corri Zoli.

Lambert and Zoli will look at how to create concrete strategies that address the key issues involved in current challenges while addressing how and why the historical humanities and the traditional disciplines have changed. They will also discuss how to address the real concerns for the humanities today, including plausible and sustainable solutions.

For more information, read the press release here (PDF) or call 334.844.4946.

Discover Auburn Continues with Dr. Wylin Wilson

Dr. Wylin D. Wilson will present a talk entitled "Christian Identity and Economic Justice in the Rural South" on Thurs. Jan. 21 at 3:00 pm in the Special Collections and Archives Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library as part of the Discover Auburn series.

Dr. Wilson is a Scholar-in-Residence at Dunstans Episcopal Church at Auburn University.  Her lecture will focus on the gap in theological and ethical discourse regarding serious consideration of marginalized populations such as rural southern, persistently impoverished African-Americans in the Black Belt.

Discover Auburn is a year-long series that features programs on research, history, and other topics of interest by Auburn faculty, staff, and graduates.  The series will continue on Feb. 18 with a talk by Dr. James Brown entitled "Growing Vegetables Organically."

A reception will follow the program. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, Auburn University Libraries, and the Access & Community Initiatives, Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs. For more information on the program and the series, contact the Center at 334.844.4946 or visit www.auburn.edu/cah.

Symposium Video Now Online

Sessions from the Creek War and War of 1812 in the South Symposium are now available free of charge at iTunesU. The symposium, co-sponsored by the CMD Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, with funding from the National Park Service, was held in May 2009 at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art.

Click here to access the sessions in the iTunesU Store.

Book Talk with David Carter

College of Liberal Arts professor Dr. David Carter will discuss his new book, The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement: Civil Rights and the Johnson Administration, 1965-1968, at 3:00 pm on Thursday Sept. 24, 2009, in the Special Collections and Archives Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

Carter, Associate Professor of History and History Department Graduate Program Officer, received his PhD from Duke University in 2001 and a BA with Highest Honors in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992.

The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement is a study of the shifting relationships between the presidency of Lyndon Johnson and grassroots advocates of racial and economic equality. The book extends the traditional timeline of the civil rights movement beyond passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

This program is sponsored by the Auburn University Libraries, the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and the Auburn University Bookstore. A reception will follow the program, and copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. For more information on the program contact the Center at 334.844.4946 or cah@auburn.edu.