GONE WITH THE WIND

20 мая 2019 в 19:00 в аудитории 430 (Белый зал) выступит Дэвид Голдфилд, University of North Carolina, с лекцией Gone with the wind. Лекция пройдет на английском языке, регистрация не требуется.

The American South has always been different – slavery, secession, poverty, rural, and segregated – seemingly the reverse of American ideals. As novelist William Faulkner noted, in the South, the past is not even past, as the recent conflict over Confederate monuments attests. Why is this so? How have other regions in the U.S. contributed to the Southern mixture of myth and history? And what does its persistence say about the nation?