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Philip Mills Herrington at Birdsville Plantation Desperately Seeking Scarlett
Searching for Tara in the Land of Gone with the Wind
Since the release of Margaret Mitchell’s bestselling novel in 1936 and its blockbuster film adaptation three years later, Gone with the Wind has sparked a desire to find Tara, the fictional home of Scarlett O’Hara. In this presentation, Virginia Humanities Fellow Philip Mills Herrington, will guide you through the physical and imagined spaces of “finding […]
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Creative Commons image courtesy Flickr user Bethany Khan Singing the Nation Into Being
The ‘Black National Anthem’ and the Politics of Performance
What can videos and metadata tell us about Black subjectivities, nation, and diaspora? What might we gain by considering performances as part of an ephemeral archive? Virginia Humanities Fellow Sonya Donaldson (New Jersey City University) will discuss a digital humanities project she’s working on that curates performances of James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and […]
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Virginia Humanities Fellow Karen Chase - Photo Courtesy of Karen Chase Eliza! Eliza!
One Virginia Woman's Role in America's Founding - A Q&A with Karen Chase
By Nora Pehrson Karen Chase is a 2019 Virginia Humanities Fellow in residence at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. She is working on a forthcoming book, Eliza! Eliza! A work of historical nonfiction, it will tell the oft-forgotten stories of two real women—Eliza House Trist and Eliza Lucas Pinckney—and their contributions to America’s founding. […]
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Painting by J. W. Waterhouse: "Miranda, a character in 'The Tempest', a play by William Shakespeare" Hunger
The Jamestown Background of Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Join us in Charlottesville when Virginia Humanities Fellow Hannah Wojciehowski (University of Texas at Austin) will consider the evidence that Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” may have its roots in Jamestown. In 1609, the Sea Venture, the flagship of a resupply mission sailing to Jamestown, was caught in a hurricane and ran aground at Bermuda, then an uninhabited […]
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Photo courtesy April Manalang The Cultural Cost of Unbelief
What Irreligiosity Means to Minority Millennials in the 21st Century
Aprilfaye Manalang teaches Interdisciplinary Studies and research methods at Norfolk State University. Her current research project seeks to investigate how minority millennials perceive, interpret, and construct unbelief: put short, why are minority millennials leaving the church? Moreover, she wants to learn how that unbelief influences their civic engagement and political outcomes, and how it is […]
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Photo courtesy April Manalang Minority Millennials and the Rise of “Religious Nones”
A Q&A with April Manalang
By Nora Pehrson April Manalang is an assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Norfolk State University, where she teaches classes on citizenship, race, religion, and immigration. As a Virginia Humanities Resident Fellow, Manalang spent this summer researching the decline of churchgoing in minority millennial populations. In 2016, she spent time with Virginia Humanities researching Filipino-American […]
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Kim O'Connell holds a photo of her parents on their wedding day. - Photo by Pierre Courtois, Library of Virginia The Saving Grace of Spring Rolls
A Story of Food, Place, and Family
Join Virginia Humanities Research Fellow Kim O’Connell, an independent scholar from Arlington, for a talk on her research using her own story of mixed-race heritage—half-Caucasian, half-Vietnamese—to explore Vietnamese immigrants and refugees who came to Virginia in the wake of the Vietnam War. Her work is for a forthcoming book that shares a title with this […]
African American Heritage • Books & Literature • Fellowships
The Long History of Racism and Police Violence in Chicago (and America)
Legendary Civil Rights lawyer Flint Taylor presents his recently published book, “THE TORTURE MACHINE: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago.” In addition to describing his work to uncover the use of torture in the Chicago Police Department, Taylor will discuss his involvement in other landmark civil rights cases, including the 1969 state-sponsored murder of Black […]
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Book Artist, Frank Brannon. Courtesy of Frank Brannon. Watsini: Return to the White World
Paper and book artist Frank Brannon, in residence at Virginia Humanities in 2016-17 as the Robert C. Vaughan Fellow and now an educator with Northern Virginia Community College, will discuss the publications from his fellowship regarding the historical Cherokee Phoenix newspaper, published between 1828 and 1834. His talk will include reflection on his ten years […]
