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Death! 'Tis a melancholy day: Dying, Mourning, and Memory in the American South
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On April 1-2, 2011, the History Department at NC State University in Raleigh will host "Death, 'tis a melancholy day": Dying, Mourning, and Memory in the American South," an interdisciplinary conference to provide an exchange of ideas and perspectives on issues related to death and dying in the American South. The goal of the conference is to initiate and support research projects and conversations that will lead to a forthcoming collection on Death in the South. The region has long been burdened by a reputation as the Haunted South, one built upon the persistence of death, evidenced for example in the forms of the malarial environments of the colonial South, Indian wars, the atrocities of slavery, dueling, high maternal death rates in the Antebellum era, the Civil War and the Confederate dead, lynching, the struggles of the Depression, Civil Rights assassinations and murders, and most recently Hurricane Katrina. But historians continue to examine the South without attention to death as a formative influence on southern life and culture. This conference is designed to highlight ways in which death framed southern life and history.
The panels are:
* Southern Death in Local Contexts
* The Politics of Southern Death
* Racial Constructions of Death in the Twentieth-Century South
* Social Structures of Death in the Early South
* Suicide in the Victorian South
* Grief in the Antebellum and Civil War South
* Death, Memory, and Southern Landscapes
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