Special Collections Lecture Series
Appalachian Removals and Relocations, Spring 2007 Lecture Calendar
Tuesday, March 20
"Cherokee Removal:
A National and Regional Perspective"
John Finger, UT history professor emeritus
Dr. Finger is an expert in Native American history, and author of The Eastern Band of Cherokees, 1819-1900 and Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century.
Tuesday, March 27
"Nineteenth-Century Come-Heres:
Planting Intentional Communities in the Rocky Soil of Tennessee"
Benita Howell, UT anthropology professor emeritus
Dr. Howell's research interests include rural development, environmental planning and folk culture studies of Southern Appalachia. Her books include Folklife along the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River and Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South.
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Tuesday, April 10
"Goodbye to the Old Home Place:
Removals by the National Park Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority"
Bruce Wheeler, UT history professor emeritus
Dr. Wheeler has written the books TVA and the Tellico Dam: A Bureaucratic Crisis in Post-Industrial America and Knoxville, Tennessee: A Mountain City in the New South, which was published in 2005 by UT Press.
Each event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a reception and lectures will start at 6 p.m. The lectures will be held in the Delivery Hall of the historic James D. Hoskins Library, 1401 Cumberland Avenue, on the UT Campus. Parking is available behind Hoskins Library in Lot S12.
The Special Collections Library will also hold an exhibit featuring original materials that explore the themes of Appalachian removals and relocations. The exhibit opening will be Monday, March 19 at 3:30 p.m. in the Special Collections Library and will run through October 2007.
The lectures and exhibit are free and open to the public. These events are part of the University of Tennessee's Ready for the World programs, which are chosen to expose students to aspects of another culture. This academic year's emphasis is on Appalachian culture and its influence.
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