Sewanee Center for Southern Studies

02/01/2024

01/26/2024

Join us February 1st at 4:30pm for a lecture by award-winning author John Jeremiah Sullivan!

01/10/2024

A nice article from the Washington & Lee student paper about a Southern Studies symposium held there in November, where John Grammer gave one of the talks.

Scholars from universities throughout the American South are renegotiating what “southern-ness” means in an environment of evolving racial inequality. John Grammer, director of the Center for Southern Studies at Sewanee University, said southern universities must learn to represent “the actual...

12/14/2023

We have followed Hannah Palmer's "Ghost Pools" project since it started. As you'll recall, she installed temporary "memorials" at the former sites of public swimming pools in the Atlanta area that were closed down rather than permit racially integrated swimming. "Ghost Pools" was a brilliant and original contribution to the often unconstructive conversation about monuments and memorials in the South. Here's a very appreciative review from Art Papers. By the way, word has reached us that Hannah's second book will be published before too long. Congratulations on all counts, Hannah!

In this review, Cathy Byrd covers Hannah Palmer's 'Ghost Pools", exploring the fraught history of public pools in the United States.

11/27/2023

Friends in Virginia, think about joining John Grammer and colleagues from Virginia and Chapel Hill for this symposium at Washington & Lee, Friday December 1.

11/09/2023

Our Digital Technology Leader, Hannah Huber, just released her new book, Sleep Fictions, with the University of Illinois Press Digital Humanities Series. Check it out:

The author also provides a website and text visualization tool that offers readers an interdisciplinary, deconstructed analysis of the book’s primary texts. The website can be found at sleepfictions.org.

10/01/2023

Join us in Naylor Auditorium (Gailor Hall) on Monday, October 9th, for the in-person launch event for the Locating Slavery's Legacies database. This has been a tremendous collaboration with the Roberson Project and its many institutional partners. We hope you to see you there!

10/01/2023

Big News.

10/01/2023

The Roberson Project is planning a series of events in connection with the public launch of the Locating Slavery's Legacies database on Wednesday, Oct. 4.

There is a workshop for Sewanee faculty on staff on Tuesday, Oct. 3 and a public forum in Naylor Auditorium on Monday, Oct. 9.

There also is a webinar, "Monumental Progress," on Wednesday evening at 6:30 Central/7:30 Eastern, with commentary by Dr. Torren Gatson, Director of Public History at UNC Greensboro, and discussion by four of our pilot partners. You may register for this Zoom event here:

https://sewanee-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xaMJOQUsQ_uOUMEzya7jTA #/registration

09/26/2023

Join us October 3rd at 4:30pm for a lecture by author and historian Rachel Martin!

07/17/2023

Good for you, Alabama Shakespeare Festival! This organization is doing food things for the literary and theatrical life of the region.

The ambitious program, slated to seed 22 new plays, has announced its first 4 commissioned writers: Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Robert Schenkkan, Mansa Ra, and Lauren Gunderson.

03/30/2023

"Ghost Pools." Temporary arts installations at the former sites of public swimming pools that were closed or abandoned because the alternative was racially integrating them. Another amazing and original project by our friend Hannah Palmer.