Due to the University's ongoing efforts to stem the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), this event has been canceled.
Dr. Adam Dean is an associate professor of history and the John M. Turner Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of Lynchburg. He is the author of "An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era." An American Sign Language interpreter will be on hand for the lecture.
Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie is a professor of history and foodways at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. His lecture examines the historical relationship between food, drink, and politics, and regional differences across the United States.
Dr. Holly Anthony Pinheiro is assistant professor of history at Augusta University. His research focuses on the intersectionality of race, gender, and class in the military from 1850 through the 1910s.
Poet and actor David Mills, author of "Boneyarn," will read from his work. A Q&A and book signing will follow the reading.
Dr. Deborah Tannen has studied how ways of talking can be different between men and women and how these differences can affect conversations and relationships. For example, they can affect what is happening at home or in the classroom. They also might influence relationships with friends or family members. And, possibly change how someone interacts […]
The N-word is a word that gets a lot of attention when celebrities say it. Paula Deen, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Mel Gibson, Hulk Hogan, Jesse Jackson, Kyle Larson, Jennifer Lopez, John Mayer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Richards, Joe Rogan, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Barbara Walters, or, Larry Wilmore are all people who have said it.
This word is also in songs, rhymes, and ditties that children learn, and it can be found in commercials, too. Some rap songs have this word in them, and it's bleeped out of TV shows and movies.
This presentation is an opportunity to discuss a single word that has been called "the most inflammatory, shocking and historic word in the English language." Ultimately, this presentation asks how words construct identities — individual, communal, and even national.
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