CMD Center for the Arts and Humanities News

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.

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.

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.” 

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.

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.  

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.” 

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.

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.