Television Companies Support cspan2 as a public service. Moderator for today dr. Stephanie w mcdaniels is a longtime friend of the festival having served on the board of directors for many years she is a professor of english and dean of the graduate school at the jackson state university. Dr. Mcdaniels. [applause] its all yours. Of course, i cant sit down yet. I just want to remind yall whenever if you want to ask questions you will need to come to the microphone at the podium right there and no matter how loud your teacher voice is, try not we dont want you to shout itou from your seat, okay, because as we said we are filming this. Now. Great, thank you, thank you guys for coming. [applause] thank you for joining was the autobiography panel and at this time i have the pleasure of introducing our 3 distinguished panelists and their great work. First we have miariam, native of augusta, georgia, University Distinguished professor of english at the university of cay aand founding director
Jackson state university, doctor mcdaniels and all yours. [applause] of course i cant sit down that. I want to remind you if you want to ask questions will need to come to the microphone at the podium no matter how loud your teacher voice is, we dont want you to shout it from your seat because weth are filming this. Thank you. Thank you guys for coming. [applause] thank you for joining us with the autobiography panel. I have the pleasure of producing our distinguished panel of their great work. First we have marion graham, a native of georgia, the University Distinguished professor ofhe english at the university of kansas and founding director of the history of black writing which she established at the university of mississippi and 1983. The history of black writing has led national and International Initiatives to promote research, teaching and Public Engagement with literary studies with the National Endowment for humanity. The author of 12 books that redefined the field especially
Our moderator for today is a long time friend of the festival having served on the board of directors for many years. She is a professor of english and the graduate school at the jackson state university. Dr. Mcdaniels. Its all yours. [applause]co a course i cant sit down yet. I want to remind you all that whenever if you want to ask questions you will need to come to the microphone and the podium and no matter how loud your Teacher Voices we dont want you to shout it from your seat because thank you. And thank you guys for coming. Mi [applause] thank you for joining us. At this time i had the pleasure of introducing or three distinguished panelists and their great works. First we have miriam graham, founding director of the history of riders which he established at the university of mississippi in 1993. The history of writing his lead National International initiative to promote Research Teaching and Public Engagement with black literary studies in the National Endowment for the human
This youre not in a Motor Vehicle or a train where you dont see anything. Thats a lovely slow pace where you get to meet people and get to interact with people at a ground level. You get to stay in their homes and get to understand cultures from the inside out. So, i do feel like i had this birds eye view of the world which i didnt before growing up england where i was dying to get out and i felt claustrophobic. I needed to get my head around on what this planet we live on and what we need to do to get along and to overcome all these big problems. I feel like i have some answers now that i didnt before. And i feel like the world has been sort of scaled down in many ways to that little boat that i spent so many months in my life on. When youre out on an ocean, on a small boat, you have to adapt to the circumstances. You have to live within your within finite means. You have to think about conservation of your food and water and your power and you have to fix stuff. And i think thats som
War . Not a whole lot. But her name does refer to a period in both american and european history that witnessed important and farreaching changes to american and european culture. The timeframe of victorian culture as we call it often coincides with her reign, years of 1837 to 1901, and particularly when someone talks about victorian culture in europe, if someone says victorian culture, they are likely referring to england, not necessarily america. Here in america is sometimes people take the view of victorian culture from the 1830s to about 1900 or so, but you can put that into in early and late. Because this is post civil war, we will state focus on the victorian culture in america that takes place after the civil war, after 1865, and we will run it up through the first years of the 20th century, to the 10 and even a little bit the teens. When we talk about victorian , particularlyrica after the civil war, we are looking at a society that has undergone a lot of changes because of tha