Lamar Lecture Series
The Lamar Lecture series, made possible by the bequest of the late Eugenia Dorothy Blount Lamar, began in 1957. The series promotes the permanent preservation of southern culture, history and literature, andit is recognized as the most important lecture series on southern history and literature in the United States. Speakers have included nationally and internationally known scholars, such as Cleanth Brooks, James C. Cobb, Trudier Harris, Fred Hobson, Eugene Genovese, and Eric Sundquist. The University of Georgia Press publishes The Lamar Lecture Series.
2012 Lamar Lectures
Michael Kreyling
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University
A Late Encounter with the Civil War
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10:00 am, Monday, October 15, 2012 "Race Suicide and the Civil War: Semicentennial"
7:30 pm, Monday, October 15, 2012 "Civil Rights and the Civil War: Centennial"
7:30 pm, Tuesday, October 16, 2012 "The Afterlife of the Civil War: Sesquicentennial"
Michael Kreyling is the author of The South that Wasn't There: Postsouthern History and Memory (2011), Inventing Southern Literature (1998), Figures of the Hero in Southern Narrative (1986), and Eudora Welty's Achievement of Order (1980) and several other works. From 2010 to 2012, he was president of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature.
Previous Lamar Lectures
- Donald Davidson (Vanderbilt) – Southern Writers in the Modern World
- Bernard May (Virginia) – Myths and Men: Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson
- Jay B. Hubbell (Duke) – Southern Life in Fiction
- T. Henry Williams (LSU) – Romance and Realism in Southern Politics
- Arthur Palmer Hudson (UNC) – Folklore Keeps the Past Alive
- Dewey W. Grantham, Jr., (Vanderbilt) – The Democratic South
- Edd Winfield Parks (Georgia) – Edgar Allan Poe as Literary Critic
- Thomas D. Clark (Kentucky) – Three Paths to the Modern South: Education, Agriculture, and Conservatism
- C. Hugh Holman (UNC) – Three Modes of Modern Southern Fiction: Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe
- Clement Eaton (Kentucky) – The Waning of the Old South Civilisation, 1860s-1880s
- No Lecture – NB: 2 were delivered in 1968
- Fletcher M. Green (UNC) – The Role of the Yankee in the Old South and Hodding Carter (Greenville, Mississippi) – Their Words Were Bullets: The Southern Press in War, Reconstruction, and Peace
- Floyd C. Watkins (Emory) – The Death of Art: Black and White in the Recent Southern Novel
- George B. Tindall (UNC) – The Disruption of the Solid South
- Louis D. Rubin, Jr., (UNC) – The Writer in the South
- Lewis P. Simpson (LSU) – The Dispossessed Garden: Pastoral and History in Southern Literature
- Clarence L. Ver Steeg (Northwestern) – Origins of a Southern Mosaic: Studies of Early Carolina and Georgia
- Walter Sullivan (Vanderbilt) – A Requiem for the Renascence: The State of Fiction in the Modern South
- Merrill D. Peterson (Virginia) – Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue
- Jack P. Greene (Johns Hopkins) – Paradise Defined: Studies in the Relationship between Historical Consciousness and the Emergence of Corporate Identities in Plantation America, 1650-1800 (unpublished)
- Richard Beale Davis (Tennessee) – A Colonial Southern Bookshelf: Reading the Eighteenth Century
- Marcus Cunliffe (Sussex) – Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery: The Anglo-American Context, 1830-1860
- Samuel S. Hill (Florida) – South and North in American Religion: A Comparative Analysis by Selected Epochs
- Thomas Daniel Young (Vanderbilt) – Waking Their Neighbors Up: The Nashville Agrarians Rediscovered
- Paul M. Gaston (Virginia) – Women of Fair Hope
- Richard N. Current (North Carolina, Greensboro) – Northernizing the South
- R. Don Higginbotham (North Carolina) – George Washington and the American Military Tradition
- Cleanth Brooks (Yale) – The Language of the American South
- John Shelton Reed (UNC) – Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy
- Marion Montgomery (Georgia) – Possum, and Other Receits for the Recovering of “Southern Being”
- Don E. Fehrenbacher (Stanford) – Constitutions and Constitutionalism in the Slaveholding South
- Lucinda H. MacKethan (North Carolina State) – Daughters of Time: Creating Woman’s Voice in Southern Story
- Fred C. Hobson, Jr., (UNC) – The Southern Writer in the Postmodern South
- Bill Malone (Tulane) – Romance, Realism, and the Musical Culture of the Southern Plain Folk
- Eric J. Sundquist (UCLA) – The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern Black Fiction
- John Blassingame (Yale) – Planter Testimony (unpublished)
- Bertram Wyatt-Brown (Florida) – The Literary Percys
- Jack Temple Kirby (Miami University) – The Countercultural South
- Trudier Harris (Emory) – The Power of the Porch: Narrative Strategies in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Gaynor, and Randall Kenan
- Drew Gilpin Faust (Penn) – Women on Women in the War: The Civil War in Southern Fiction (unpublished)
- Eugene D. Genovese (Emory) – A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South
- Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. (Mississippi) – Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West
- Adam Fairclough (University of East Anglia) – Teaching Equality: Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow
- Edward Ayers (UVA), Thadious M. Davis (Vanderbilt), Linda Wagner-Martin (UNC), Joel Williamson (UNC) – South To the Future: An American Region in the Twenty-first Century
- Theda Purdue (UNC) – “Mixed Blood” Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South
- Peter H. Wood (Duke) – Weathering the Storm: Inside Winslow Homer’s Gulf Stream
- Michael O’Brien (Cambridge) – Henry Adams and the Southern Question
- James C. Cobb (UGA) – Before and After Brown: Jim Crow, the Brown Decision, and the Changing Face of Southern Identity
- Barbara J. Fields (Columbia) – Teach About the South (unpublished)
- Richard Gray (Essex) – A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature
- Anne Goodwyn Jones (Mississippi) — Before and After the War: Formations of Southern Manliness (unpublished)
- Paul Harvey (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) — Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster in the Evangelical South
- Mark Smith (South Carolina) — Histories of a Hurricane: Camille, 1969
- Minrose Gwin (North Carolina) — Rembering Medgar Evers: Aesthetics, Justice, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
- Gary Gallagher (Virginia) — Becoming Confederates: Three Paths to a New National Loyalty
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