CMD Center for the Arts and Humanities News
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- May 11, 2021
- 2021 Draughon Seminars in State and Local History
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The 2021 Draughon Seminars in State and Local History featuring Dr. Shari L. Williams launch this week with a presentation at the Irondale Public Library. Dr. Williams will give a talk titled “’Come Now, and Let Us Reason Together’: Cooperative Extension Clubs Empowerment of African American Farm Women and Girls, 1928-1965.”
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- April 29, 2021
- Sewing Machine Donated to Pebble Hill
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A piece of history has returned to Pebble Hill. Clarke S. Yarbrough and his daughter Terri Lorant recently donated a 1925 Singer sewing machine to the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill. The sewing machine belonged to Clarke's mother, Mary Strudwick Yarbrough, who used the sewing machine to complete a special quilt while living in Pebble Hill.
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- April 15, 2021
- 2021 Recipient of Bert Hitchcock Graduate Award in Southern Studies
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The Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities is pleased to announce that Laura King is the 2021 recipient of the Bert Hitchcock Graduate Award in Southern Studies. King will discuss her research on Tuesday, April 20 at 4 PM on Zoom. To register for the meeting, visit aub.ie/hitchcockaward.
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- April 1, 2021
- Reading Roads: A Conversation with Thomas Hallock and Kathryn Braund
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The public is invited to “Reading Roads: A Conversation with Thomas Hallock and Kathryn Braund,” a live virtual program on Thursday, April 15 at 4 PM on Facebook. Following the virtual program, an in-person book signing will be held in the courtyard of Pebble Hill. Books will be available for purchase from the Auburn University Bookstore.
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- March 4, 2021
- Black History Speaker Series: Dr. Ellen Spears
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The Department of History Black History Speaker Series will feature Dr. Ellen Spears on Friday, March 19 at 11 AM on Zoom. Dr. Spears will discuss “The Long Environmental Justice Movement in Alabama.”
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- February 23, 2021
- Becoming the Beloved Community Amid the Fragility of Democracy and White Supremacy
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The Auburn University College of Liberal Arts will host a public virtual dialogue on Monday, March 1, on “Becoming the Beloved Community Amid the Fragility of Democracy and White Supremacy,” at 6 PM in commemoration of the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, AL.
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- February 18, 2021
- Panelists to Discuss Artist George Fuller and Draughon Center Acquisition on March 3
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Three experts on the life, work, and research materials related to nineteenth-century American painter George Fuller will participate in an online panel discussion on Wednesday, March 3 from 12 PM to 1 PM (CST) at facebook.com/cmdcah.
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- February 4, 2021
- Black History Speaker Series: Dr. Nicole Ivy
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The Department of History Black History Speaker Series will feature Dr. Nicole Ivy on Tuesday, February 16 at 11 AM. Dr. Ivy will discuss “On Historical Tableaux and J. Marion Sims’s Montgomery Clinic.”
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- January 28, 2021
- Teaching the Humanities Workshop and Discussion
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Faculty and graduate students are invited to “Humans All the Way Down: A Discussion on Teaching the Humanities” on Friday, February 26 from 12 PM to 2 PM on Zoom. Registration is available at aub.ie/teachinghumanities.
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- January 7, 2021
- BPL's Eighteenth Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture
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As part of the celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, each January the Birmingham Public Library’s Department of Archives and Manuscripts sponsors Begin the Day: The Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture. Now in its eighteenth year, the King Lecture has featured civil rights activists, scholars, children’s book authors, and community leaders discussing civil rights history and contemporary human rights issues including immigrant rights, voting rights, human trafficking, and Islamophobia.
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