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COVER PHOTO: (1912) View of Nantucket Mill from main office, Eden, NC. Photo from the A.J. Eggleston collection, James Library, Rockingham Community College
E M O C L E W Welcome to the fifth Global American South conference hosted by UNC-Chapel Hill. Although the concept “Global American South” can seem elusive at times, surely all of us living in this region sense that in recent decades the South’s interactions with the world have changed. To be sure, it is erroneous to think that the South was ever completely isolated f rom broader currents—the early settlement of the South by Europeans and Af ricans was, in fact, a vivid expression of global economic forces— but clearly the region’s engagement with the world has changed in various ways of late. For starters, the region has become more diverse demographically, socially, and culturally. Moreover, the state’s “traditional” economic order is no more. Today every North Carolinian feels what journalist Thomas Friedman refers to as the pressures, constraints, and opportunities coming f rom the increased importance of world trade and the “democratizations” of technology, finance, and information related thereto. As social theorist Manuel Castells puts it, the phase of globalization the world has been experiencing for the past thirty or forty years has led to a “radical compression of space and time,” which has ramped up economic competition worldwide. Increased competition has brought with it many economic benefits, along with considerable anxiety and, alas, pain. What we hope to do over the course of this day-long conference is to explore some of the complex issues relating to economic globalization in the American South with a particular emphasis on North Carolina. Few states in the region have experienced so many of the positive and the negative consequences of economic globalization as has the Old North State. A number of these consequences will receive extended treatment today. Our overarching objective for the conference is not so much to provide all the answers, but to help us to formulate better questions relevant to moving the state forward in perilous economic times.
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A D N AG E 9:00am
Check In James & Florence Peacock Atrium
9:30am
Welcome Nelson Mandela Auditorium
Niklaus Steiner, Director, Center for Global Initiatives, UNC-Chapel Hill
9:45am
Plenary Panel The Future of the South
Nelson Mandela Auditorium
Introduction: Peter Coclanis, Director, Global Research Institute and Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill Moderator: Daniel Gitterman, Global Research Institute Fellow and Department of Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill Ted Abernathy, Executive Director, Southern Growth Policies Board Andy Brack, President and Chairman, Center for a Better South David Carlton, Global Research Institute Fellow, UNC-Chapel Hill and Department of History, Vanderbilt University Hodding Carter, III, Department of Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill Bonnie Gordon, Senior Program Director for Education, MDC Jerry Weitz, Director, Urban and Regional Planning Program, East Carolina University Jesse L. White, Jr., Former Director, Office of Economic and Business Development, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Breakout Session I A. The Politics of Poverty and Economic Development in the Modern South Nelson Mandela Auditorium
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Moderator: Peter Coclanis, Director, Global Research Institute and Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill Lacy Ford, Vice Provost and Department of History, University of South Carolina Ferrell Guillory, Founder and Director, Program on Public Life and Department of Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill James Leloudis, Associate Dean for Honors and Director, James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, UNCChapel Hill
B. Transitioning Workers and Industries for Tomorrow: The Role of Community Colleges and Universities Room 1005
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Moderator: Niklaus Steiner, Director, Center for Global Initiatives, UNC-Chapel Hill Leslie Boney, Associate Vice President for Economic Development and Engagement, UNC General Administration Cynthia Liston, Principal, CD Liston Consulting, Chapel Hill, NC Scott Ralls, President, North Carolina Community College System James Zuiches, Vice Chancellor, Extension, Engagement & Economic Development, NC State University
C. Global Charlotte and Southern ‘Salad Bowl’ Development Room 1009
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Moderator: Harry Watson, Director, Center for the Study of the American South and Professor of History, UNC-Chapel Hill Owen Furuseth, Associate Provost for Metropolitan Studies and Extended Academic Programs, UNC-Charlotte William Graves, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, UNC-Charlotte Tom Hanchett, Historian, Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, NC Heather Smith, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, UNC-Charlotte
12:45pm
Lunch+LISTEN Boxed lunches are available from 12:45 in the James and Florence Peacock Atrium. We further invite you to attend a film screening and performance in Room 1005 with your lunch, details below.
1:30pm Black Banjo Roots & Cultural Tourism
Room 1005 Cecelia Conway, Department of English, Appalachian State University Steve Kruger, Musician
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Breakout Session II A. Migration, Migrants, and the Economy of the 21st-Century South Nelson Mandela Auditorium
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Moderator: Niklaus Steiner, Director, Center for Global Initiatives, UNC-Chapel Hill Hannah Gill, Assistant Director, Institute for the Study of the Americas and Research Associate, Center for Global Initiatives, UNC-Chapel Hill Cheryl Jones, School of Nursing, UNC-Chapel Hill Ted Mouw, Department of Sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill
B. Sunrise and Sunset Industries in North Carolina Room 1005
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Moderator: Peter Coclanis, Director of the Global Research Institute and Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill Patrick Conway, Global Research Institute Fellow and Department of Economics, UNC-Chapel Hill Gary Gereffi, Director, Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness and Department of Sociology, Duke University Mac McCorkle, Global Research Institute Fellow, UNC-Chapel Hill and Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University Meenu Tewari, Global Research Institute Fellow and Department of City and Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill
C. Economy and Context: Culture, Experience, and Psychology in the Global South Room 1009
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Moderator: Harry Watson, Director, Center for the Study of the American South and Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill Cecelia Conway, Department of English, Appalachian State University Vann Joines, President and Director, Southeast Institute for Group and Family Therapy Randall Kenan, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill Lucinda MacKethan, Department of English, NC State University James Peacock, Department of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Alfred Dupont Chandler, Jr. Lecture Sharing the Prize: The Civil Rights Revolution and the Southern Economy
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Introduction: Peter Coclanis & Harry Watson Gavin Wright, Department of Economics, Stanford University
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Reception James & Florence Peacock Atrium
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Sharing the Prize: The Civil Rights Revolution and the Southern Economy
Gavin Wright, Department of Economics, Stanford University The lecture will document the economic gains to African-American Southerners resulting from the Civil Rights breakthroughs of the 1960s, and then ask whether these advances came at
the expense of white southerners or as part of an economic restructuring that also enhanced the wellbeing of most southern whites.
Gavin Wright is the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1982. His primary appointment is in the Department of Economics, but he is also Professor by Courtesy in the Department of History. Wright has longstanding interest in the economic history of the American South: The Political Economy of the Cotton South (1978) dealt with the cotton economy in the 19th century; Old South, New South (1986) considered the problems of development in a low-wage region within a larger national economy; Slavery and American Economic Development (2006) analyzes slavery as a set of property rights, comparing economic trends in the slave and free states as a kind of “Cold War” competition between rival systems. Wright’s current research is on the economic causes and consequences of the Civil Rights Revolution. The Alfred Dupont Chandler, Jr. Lectureship in Southern Business History was established in 1998 at the Center for the Study of the American South to encourage the study of Southern business and economic history. The lectureship brings distinguished and innovative scholars to UNC-Chapel Hill annually to participate in seminars, to consult with faculty and students, and to present a public lecture on a topic related to the South’s business or economic history.
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ANEL P P LENARY
9:45am
Nelson Mandela Auditorium
The Future of the South Over the last half century the South has made impressive economic progress on a wide range of metrics, and the region’s policy makers can take pride in and (some) credit for this fact. As the region’s progress has begun to stall in recent decades, though, it has become apparent to most observers that the economic strategies that proved so successful in the postwar decades were no longer as effective as they previously had been. In this roundtable discussion the panelists offer some observations regarding what went wrong—and how the region can get back on the growth track. Introduction: Peter Coclanis, Director, Global Research Institute and Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill Moderator: Daniel Gitterman, Global Research Institute Fellow and Department of Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill
Ted Abernathy, Executive Director, Southern Growth Policies Board Andy Brack, President and Chairman, Center for a Better South David Carlton, Global Research Institute Fellow, UNC-Chapel Hill and Department of History, Vanderbilt University Hodding Carter, III, Department of Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill Bonnie Gordon, Senior Program Director for Education, MDC Jerry Weitz, Director, Urban and Regional Planning Program, East Carolina University Jesse L. White, Jr., Former Director, Office of Economic and Business Development, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Ted Abernathy
Executive Director, Southern Growth Policies Board Born in Dallas, N.C., Ted received his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his Master’s from Johns Hopkins University, is a graduate of the Economic Development Institute and is an Eisenhower Fellow for global economics. The focus of his 30-year economic development career has included work for cities, counties, regions and the private sector. Most recently he served as Executive Vice President and COO for the Research Triangle Regional Partnership. Since 2008, Ted has been Executive Director of the Southern Growth Policies Board, a 39-year old public policy think tank that provides economic development research and policy advice for 13 Southern states.
Andy Brack
President and Chairman, Center for a Better South Andy Brack is president and chairman of the Center for a Better South, a regional think tank that develops pragmatic ideas for Southern leaders who want to make a difference in the region. Brack also edits and publishes Charleston Currents and Statehouse Report, a weekly legislative forecast and syndicated newspaper column. A former congressional candidate, Brack also has a daily news service and communications strategy consulting business. Brack holds a master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. He and his family live in Charleston, S.C.
Hodding Carter, III
Department of Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill Born in New Orleans, LA, in 1935, Carter lived and worked in Greenville, Mississippi through 1976. He was a journalist at a family daily there, became an editor, and was involved in both politics and economic development efforts. He was State Department spokesman under President Carter, then spent 18 years in Washington as national television and print journalism reporter, columnist, anchor and commentator. From 1995-98 he was a tenured professor of public policy journalism at the University of Maryland, then was president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami. Carter currently serves on the board of several organizations involved in Southern economic development.
Daniel Gitterman
Global Research Institute Fellow and Department of Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill Daniel Gitterman is Associate Professor of Public Policy and a Fellow at the Global Research Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dan, a political scientist by training, received a B.A. from Connecticut College, an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and an A.M. and Ph.D. from Brown University. Dan’s research interests include the American welfare state and politics of social policy, and the political economy of globalization and labor standards. His recent book, Boosting Paychecks: The Politics of Supporting America’s Working Poor, published by Brookings Institution David Carlton Press, examines the role of federal income tax and minimum Global Research Institute Fellow, UNC-Chapel Hill and wage in supporting low income working families. Department of History, Vanderbilt University David L. Carlton is a historian Bonnie Gordon of the American South. A Yale Senior Program Director for Education, MDC Ph.D., he has been teaching at Bonnie Gordon is a senior program Vanderbilt University since 1983. director at MDC and leads the His scholarship has centered on Partners for Postsecondary Success the industrialization of the South, project, a Gates-funded multibeginning with Mill and Town in site demonstration to accelerate South Carolina, 1880-1920 (LSU, postsecondary credential completion 1982). He has written a number of essays on the history of through sustainable community the South and its economic development, many of which are partnerships. Gordon previously collected in a book he co-authored with Peter A. Coclanis, The led MDC’s knowledge development, communications, and South, the Nation, and the World: Essays on Southern Ecopolicy liaison work on the Achieving the Dream initiative. nomic Development (Virginia, 2003). His ongoing project, Prior to joining MDC, she was the College Prep program which uses North Carolina as a case study, is an attempt to officer at the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, where she define a “southern style” of industrialization by looking at the designed a college-school partnership program to improve strategies southern businesspeople pursued in their efforts to academic achievement for underserved students and helped develop a more advanced economy after the Civil War. lead the development of the College Ready New England
P-16 Alliance, a regional policy and program collaboration in support of college access and success for underserved students. She is a 20-year veteran of higher education administration with extensive experience with state and national education associations. Gordon has provided independent consulting services to both corporate and nonprofit clients for policy analysis and program support in education, management, board development, human resources, marketing, public relations, and fundraising. She has served as a member of the American Council on Education Commission on Adult Learning and Education Credentials, the board of visitors of Air University (United States Air Force), and as a program evaluator for the Pennsylvania Department of Education. In addition, she has served on the national Pathways to College Network Executive Committee and the Fenway High School Board of Directors. Gordon is currently a member of the Executive Service Corps of the Greater Triangle Board of Directors.
Jerry Weitz
Director, Urban and Regional Planning Program, East Carolina University Jerry Weitz, Ph.D., FAICP, joined East Carolina University’s faculty in August 2010. Prior to ECU he headed his own planning and development consulting firm, along with various teaching positions. He is the author of publications on growth management and since 2003 has served as editor of Practicing Planner, the quarterly membership publication of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). He was elected to the College of Fellows of AICP in 2008.
Jesse L. White, Jr.
Former Director, Office of Economic and Business Development, UNC-Chapel Hill Dr. Jesse L. White, Jr., recently retired as the founding Director of the Office of Economic and Business Development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Government. Prior to coming to UNC-Chapel Hill in January 2003, he headed the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Southern Growth Policies Board. White was also a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University in 1990 and a private consultant in economic development.
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Nelson Mandela Auditorium
The Politics of Poverty and Economic Development in the Modern South
Poverty has been an enduring theme throughout the South’s history, even as the region converged upon national norms during the boom years of the Sunbelt. In this panel, the presenters offer a variety of insights regarding policy efforts to fight poverty and promote economic development in recent decades. Moderator: Peter Coclanis, Director of the Global Research Institute and Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill
Lacy Ford
Vice Provost and Department of History, University of South Carolina Lacy K. Ford is Vice Provost and Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. Twice a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Ford is the author most recently of Deliver Us From Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South, published by Oxford University press in 2009 and winner of the 2010 Mary Lawton Hodges prize for best book on the South published in 2009, and “Economic Development and Globalization in South Carolina,” in Southern Cultures (Spring 2007).
Ferrel Guillory
Founder and Director, Program on Public Life and Department of Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill Ferrel Guillory has been the Director of the Program on Public Life at UNC-Chapel Hill and a lecturer with the School of Journalism and Mass Communication since 1997. He is also adjunct faculty with the Department of Public Policy, and a Senior Fellow with MDC Inc., a workforce and
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Hall, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and Christopher Daly); Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920; and To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America (co-authored with Robert Korstad, Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and History at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy). He and Korstad are currently working on a research and civic engagement project on “The Moral Challenge of Poverty and the Ethics of Service,” supported by Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics and UNC-Chapel Hill’s Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity. Their work is also part of a collaborative initiative on the Long Civil Rights Movement, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and UNC-Chapel Hill. Partners include the University of North Carolina Press, the UNC-Chapel Hill University Library, the Center for James Leloudis Civil Rights of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law, and Associate Dean for Honors and Director, James M. the Southern Oral History Program at the UNC-Chapel Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, UNC- Hill Center for the Study of the American South. Chapel Hill James Leloudis’s chief interest is the history of the modern South, with emphases on labor, education, race, and poverty. He has published three books on these topics: Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (co-authored with Jacquelyn economic development nonprofit research firm in Chapel Hill. He served as a Ford Foundation Writer in Residence at MDC Inc in 1995. Guillory co-authored The Carolinas: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: An Exploration of Social and Economic Trends, 1924-1999 and The State of the South, reports to the region issued by MDC Inc. He sits on the Board of Trustees for the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching and is a member of the Council on the Southern Community, Southern Growth Policies Board. In 2001, he was appointed by Governor Mike Easley to the North Carolina “Education First’’ Task Force, and in 1999-2000 he was appointed by Governor Jim Hunt and chairman Erskine Bowles to the Steering Committee of the North Carolina Rural Prosperity Task Force. He is a former James K. Batten Professor of Public Policy at Davidson College.
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11:15am Room 1005
Transitioning Workers and Industries for Tomorrow: The Role of Community Colleges and Universities
It is clear that the South’s economic prospects going forward will be determined in large part by the degree of success we have in developing human capital, particularly through education. Both the four-year university and the community college system can play a vital role in facilitating such development, and the presenters on this panel discuss some of the salient issues educators will face in the years ahead. Moderator: Niklaus Steiner, Director, Center for Global Initiatives, UNC-Chapel Hill Leslie Boney
Associate Vice President for Economic Development and Engagement, UNC General Administration Leslie Boney serves as Associate Vice President for Economic Development and Engagement for the 17 campus University of North Carolina system. His duties include leading the system’s efforts to more meaningfully respond to the needs of the state’s communities, government and businesses, including work on economic development, innovation, public policy development and global engagement. He serves on a number of state and regional boards, including the Southern Growth Policies Board, the North Carolina Innovation Council, the Governor’s China Council, the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center, and as the university representative on the NC Economic Development Board.
Cynthia Liston
Principal, CD Liston Consulting, Chapel Hill, NC Ms. Liston focuses on innovative strategies and collaborative approaches to research, policy development, and capacity building. She has 17 years experience researching, developing, and managing workforce and community college projects in the United States and with international partners. Her expertise includes education and workforce policy areas such as models for serving specific industry clusters; workforce needs assessments; contextual and project-based learn-
ing; entrepreneurship education; global competencies and exchange; community colleges’ organizational structures for achieving multiple missions; career pathways; and efforts to expand educational access for disadvantaged populations and places. Ms. Liston is currently principal of CD Liston Consulting. From 1995 to 2007, she worked at Regional Technology Strategies, Inc., a national economic and workforce development policy organization in Carrboro, NC. Serving as Director of Workforce Development Programs, she led research teams, developed new programs, and facilitated multi-college international partnerships focused on learning and innovation. Previously, Ms. Liston worked for the national association of electric utilities and served on the legislative staff of US Senator Jim Sasser (TN) in Washington, DC. She holds a Masters of Public Policy from Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute and a B.A. in Political Science and French from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Scott Ralls
President, NC Community College System Dr. R. Scott Ralls has served as the seventh president of the NC Community College System, which provides educational opportunities and workforce training to nearly 900,000 students since May 2008. Five years as a community college president in North Carolina, decades in workforce and economic development and scores of innovative initiatives in education, technology and job training have provided a well-rounded foundation for Dr. Ralls’ leadership role in the 58-college system. Dr. Ralls holds a Bachelor of Science
degree with highest distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Maryland, as well as an appointment as an Adjunct Full Professor in the College of Education at NC State University.
James Zuiches
Vice Chancellor for Extension, Engagement, and Economic Development, NC State Dr. James Zuiches leads programs including the Cooperative Extension Service, Industrial Extension Service, Small Business and Technology Development Center, noncredit programs of the Jane S. McKimmon Center for Extension and Continuing Education, the Economic Development Partnership, and the General H. Hugh Shelton Leadership Center. His research specializations include demography, rural sociology and research administration. Previously, Zuiches served as dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics at Washington State University, and as director of Cooperative Extension and the Agricultural Research Center and professor in the Department of Community and Rural Sociology. In 2005, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and other foundations funded his project to create the National Coalition for Rural Entrepreneurship and increase support for job creation and economic growth in rural areas. He served as a W. K. Kellogg Foundation program officer, funding many community and rural development projects. Zuiches has also served at Cornell University (1982-86), the National Science Foundation (1979-82), and Michigan State University (1971-79).
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11:15am Room 1009
Global Charlotte and Southern ‘Salad Bowl ’ Development
Once a rather homogenous place, Charlotte has become an increasingly polyglot city in recent decades. The Queen City’s growing diversity is evident in a variety of ways, and on this panel the presenters focus on the new spatial patterns that have emerged as Charlotte has gone global. Moderator: Harry Watson, Director, Center for the Study of the American South
Owen J. Furuseth
South City (with Heather Smith) and published peer-reHeather Smith viewed papers on subjects such as the culture of the Southern Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, UNCventure capital industry, Southern entrepreneurial culture, Charlotte the role of Southern culture in the development of North Dr. Heather Anne Smith is an Carolina’s financial industries and urban transformation in Associate Professor of GeograCharlotte. Dr. Graves has also served on the editorial board phy at the University of North of The Southeastern Geographer and as a faculty fellow in Carolina at Charlotte. She also economic development policy at the Institute for Emerging holds appointments as the DirecIssues at North Carolina State University. tor of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ interdisciplinary Tom Hanchett Urban Studies Minor and as a Historian, Levine Museum of the New South Faculty Research Associate with the UNC Charlotte Urban Tom Hanchett is staff historian Institute. She received her Ph.D. from the University of at Levine Museum of the New British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. For the past 15 South in Charlotte. Educated at years, a central focus of her research has been immigrant Cornell University, the Universettlement and adjustment with recent emphasis on the sity of Chicago and UNC-Chapel dynamics of Hispanic immigration to Charlotte and other Hill, he is author of a study of emerging gateways. Dr. Smith is co-editor of two recent Charlotte, “Sorting Out the New books -Latinos in the New South: Transformations of Place South City,” and has written (Ashgate, 2006 – with Dr. Owen Furuseth) and Charlotte, widely on the history of shopping malls, urban planning, William Graves NC: The Global Evolution of a New South City (Univerand other aspects of the built environment. Department of Geography and Earth Sciences , UNCsity of Georgia Press, 2010 – with Dr. William Graves). A For more on his Salad Bowl Suburbs research, visit: Charlotte keen advocate of translating research into community based saladbowlsuburbs.org William Graves is an associate change, she is a founding partner of the Mecklenburg Area professor of economic geography. Partnership for Primary Care Research (MAPPR), a reHis main research interests are search and outreach network comprised of academics, front in the evolution of the modern line medical providers and community members working South, particularly the intersecto eliminate barriers to primary care access for Hispanic tion of culture and economy. He newcomers in the Charlotte urban area. served as co-editor of Charlotte: the Global Evolution of a New Associate Provost, Metropolitan Studies and Extended Academic Programs, UNC-Charlotte Owen J. Furuseth is the Associate Provost for Metropolitan Studies and Extended Academic Programs and a Professor of Geography at UNC Charlotte. He has an active research program focused on community change and neighborhood-level analyses of quality of life. During the past decade, his research has increasingly focused on the impact of Latino immigration in North Carolina, more broadly, and in Charlotte, specifically. He is co-editor of “Latinos in the New South: Transformations of Place” published by Ashgate in 2006. Furuseth is Vice Chair of Charlotte’s Latin American Coalition, the oldest and largest Latino community service organization in Mecklenburg County.
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LUN C H + L I S T EN
12:45pm
Peacock Atrium
Bagged lunches served today are from the locally-owned eatery Sandwhich, and everything in the bag is compostable, as are the cups. Please put this compostable material in the large green compost bins to help conserve resources.
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Black Banjo Roots & Cultural Tourism
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The short film “Black Banjo Gathering 2005” will be screened as an example of Cultural Tourism and its usefulness in the economic downturn to guide the discussion. The banjo is heard around the world from the Blue Ridge to Japan and remains a symbol of the South, but few listeners realize the gourd banjo came from West Africa. Banjo tradition enlivened song and dance, paced rituals, recalled the homeland, and helped Africans survive enslavement and build African American communities. Accompanying her, Steve Kruger suggests some of the history of mountain music with songs and tunes like “Jovial Hunter” and the “Coo Coo.” (Please feel free to bring your lunch to this presentation) Cecelia Conway
Department of English, Appalachian State University Cecelia Conway is a folklorist, author, and Professor of English at Appalachian State University. Her academic specialty is Folklore: Roots of Mountain Music (African Roots of the Banjo; Ballad Keepers), Appalachian Culture & Literature, and 20th Century American Literature.
Steve Kruger
Musician Steve Kruger picked up the guitar and banjo as a teenager. He moved to northwestern North Carolina, got bit by the old time music bug and took up the fiddle. He spent the next 9 years playing in living rooms, dance halls and fiddlers conventions around NC, East TN and Southwest VA. Since 2009 he has been a student in the UNC-Chapel Hill Folklore program. His music combines old time Southern music, country blues, jugband music and original songwriting. For his latest project, he is taking song texts from the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore and putting them to music.
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Nelson Mandela Auditorium
Migration, Migrants, and the Economy of the 21stCentury South
One of the hallmarks of the globalization of the American South in the last 20 years has been the rise of immigration. This panel considers the impact immigrants have had on issues such as wages, employment, and workforce development. Moderator: Niklaus Steiner, Director, Center for Global Initiatives, UNC-Chapel Hill
Hannah Gill
Assistant Director, Institute for the Study of the Americas and Research Associate, Center for Global Initiatives, UNC-Chapel Hill Hannah Gill is an anthropologist with a specialization in Latin American/Caribbean migration studies. She is the Assistant Director of the UNC Chapel Hill Institute for the Study of the Americas, where she directs the Latino Migration Project, a collaborative program with the Center for Global Inititiatives. Dr. Gill is the author of “The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina: New Roots in the Old North State” (UNC Press 2010) and teaches the APPLES Global Course, “Latin American Immigrant Perspectives: Ethnography and Action, ” which involves a spring break trip to Guanajuato, Mexico each year. She received a DPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford, England in 2004. She is a native of North Carolina and an alumnus of UNC Chapel Hill.
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Cheryl Jones
School of Nursing, UNC-Chapel Hill Cheryl Bland Jones, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of Nursing, and a Research Fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is known for her work in nursing health services research, having devoted her career to studying micro- and macro-level issues in the nurse workforce to improve the work environment, executive practice, and the cost and quality of health care. One of Cheryl’s most recognized contributions has been the development, testing, and refinement of an innovative and highly regarded method to measure nurse turnover costs. She has also studied other important and related nurse labor market issues, including nurse retention, wage differentials, employment patterns and migration. A study currently underway and funded by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing examines the personal, professional, employment, and job characteristics of internationally-educated and U.S.-educated nurses, as well as barriers and facilitators to internationallyeducated nurse employment in the U.S. Prior to joining UNC-Chapel Hill, Cheryl served as a Senior Health
Services Researcher at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in the U.S. government, where she examined the nursing workforce at organizational and public policy levels. She also served as a Primary Care Policy Fellow in the U.S. Public Health Service from 1999 to 2000, and is a co-author of one of the most highly regarded financial management texts for nurse and healthcare leaders. View her page: go.unc.edu/y4LKp
Ted Mouw
Department of Sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill Ted Mouw is a sociologist who studies labor markets, inequality, and immigration. He grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and lived in Indonesia teaching English for two years after college. He has lived in Chapel Hill since 1999. He is currently working on three projects: (1) the role of employment and occupational skills on the likelihood of low-wage workers escaping from working poverty, (2) the effect of immigration on the employment and wages of native-born workers, and (3) the role of social networks in immigration using network data collected from Mexico and the United States.
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Room 1005
Sunrise and Sunset Industries in North Carolina
North Carolina’s mix of traditional and modern, high-tech industries has long been remarked upon by scholars and policy makers. In this session, the presenters focus on some of the developmental challenges and opportunities this mix poses as the Old North State attempts to move ahead. Moderator: Peter Coclanis, Director, Global Research Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill Patrick Conway
Global Research Institute Fellow and Department of Economics, UNC-Chapel Hill Patrick Conway is Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He attended Georgetown University as an undergraduate, receiving his degree in 1975. He then did graduate work at Princeton University, receiving an MPA degree in 1979 and a Ph.D. in Economics in 1984. His research has focused upon the international aspects of trade and finance with developing countries. He is the author of three books and many refereed journal articles. He was awarded the university-wide William C. Friday Award for excellence in teaching, and has been inducted into the Order of the Golden Fleece and the Frank Porter Graham Honor Society. In his current research project, he has turned his experience in economic growth and adjustment to international competition abroad towards the question of stimulating growth and adjustment in North Carolina.
published numerous books and articles on globalization, social and economic upgrading, and international competitiveness in various parts of the world. His books include: Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia (Princeton University Press, 1990); Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism (Praeger Publishers, 1994); Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA (Temple University Press, 2002); The New Offshoring of Jobs and Global Development (International Institute of Labor Studies, 2006); and Global Value Chains in a Postcrisis World: A Development Perspective (The World Bank, 2010). Gereffi’s research interests deal with the competitive strategies of global firms, the value chains governance, and current trends in various global industries, including apparel, offshore services, agri-foods, and the smart grid.
Mac McCorkle
Meenu Tewari
Global Research Institute Fellow and Department of City and Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill Meenu Tewari is Associate Professor of Economic Development in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC Chapel Hill, and Director of the department’s Economic Development Specialization. She is interested in the political economy of development, local industrialization, skill formation and upgrading within regional and global production networks. Her work focuses comparatively on developed and developing countries. An ongoing project focuses on cross-border mobility and the economic transformation of mature industries.
Global Research Institute Fellow and Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University Pope “Mac” McCorkle has served as a consultant on economic development and other major issues to political candidates, state governments, and various Gary Gereffi organizations for the last two Director, Center on Globalization, Governance & decades. From 1994-2008, as Competitiveness and Department of Sociology, Duke the principal of McCorkle Policy University Consulting, Mac worked for state Gary Gereffi is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center and federal candidates in North Carolina as well as 28 other states. Currently he is a Visiting Associate Professor of on Globalization, Governance, the Practice at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public & Competitiveness at Duke University. He received his B.A. Policy. Mac has published a number of articles on politics and public policy in such scholarly outlets as The Journal of degree from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. degree Law and Politics, The American Journal of Legal History, from Yale University. Gereffi has Southern Cultures, and History News Network.
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Economy and Context: Aspects of Culture, Experience, and Psychology in Globalizing North Carolina and Beyond
This panel explores the Global American South economic context through cultural and psychological dimensions: 1) how world forces are configured locally; 2) through specific cultural expressions ranging from the banjo to the novels of Charles Chesnut; and 3) how motivations and reactions interact with global/local forces, including the economy. Moderator: Harry Watson, Director, Center for the Study of the American South
Cecelia Conway
Randall Kenan
Department of English, Appalachian State University Department of English, UNC-Chapel Hill Cecelia Conway is a folklorist, Randall Kenan is the author of author, and Professor of English a novel, A Visitation of Spirits; at Appalachian State University. two works of non-fiction, WalkHer academic specialty is Folking on Water: Black American lore: Roots of Mountain Music Lives at the Turn of the Twenty(African Roots of the Banjo; First Century and The Fire This Ballad Keepers), Appalachian Time; a young adult biography of Culture & Literature, and 20th James Baldwin; and a collection Century American Literature. of stories, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award). He also edited and Vann Joines wrote the introduction for The Cross of Redemption: The President and Director, Southeast Institute for Group Uncollected Writings of James Baldwin. Among his awards & Family Therapy, Chapel Hill, NC are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Dos Passos Prize, Vann S. Joines, Ph.D. is a a Whiting Writers Award, and the American Academy of Licensed Clinical Psychologist Arts and Letters’ Prix de Rome. He is associate professor of and President and Director of English at UNC-Chapel Hill. the Southeast Institute for Group & Family Therapy, Chapel Hill, Lucinda MacKethan NC. He is an approved supervi- Department of English, NC State University Lucinda MacKethan is Professor sor of AAMFT and a certified teaching and supervising transof English Emerita at NC State actional analyst. Dr. Joines is also a certified teacher and University, where she taught practitioner of Advanced Integrative Therapy and a Life courses primarily in Southern Fellow of AGPA. He is a founding member and diplomate and African American literature of the Redecision Therapy Association. He is co-author of for 37 years. She is the author TA Today and Personality Adaptions, and author of the or editor of six books, including Joines Personality Adaptations Questionnaire. three plantation memoirs. At NC State Dr. MacKethan was a two-time recipient of her
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college’s Board of Governors award, and she also received the university’s highest faculty award, the Holladay Medal. She was a fellow at the National Humanities Center and chaired the NC Humanities Council from 2001-2004. In her “non-retirement,” Dr. MacKethan continues to write and give talks about southern plantation culture.
James Peacock
Department of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill Dr. James Peacock’s latest research focuses on the US South and Southeast Asia in relation to history, memory and global issues. His most recent accolades include the Johnson Award for Excellence in Teaching (2008); the Massey Award for Service (2008); the Citizen of the World (2006); the Boaz Award, American Anthropological Association (2002); the Thomas Jefferson Award (1995); the Order of the Golden Fleece (1995); and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995).
S OR S S P ON Center for Global Initiatives
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The Center for Global Initiatives is a catalyst for the innovative work of faculty and students at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is entrepreneurial and nimble in its approach to fostering initiatives that deepen knowledge and understanding of our complex world. For its work, the Center is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as one of only eleven National Resources Centers in Global Studies. The goal of the Center for Global Initiatives is three-fold:
1. Cultivate ideas that have the potential to reshape intellectual communities 2. Bridge disciplinary boundaries to generate diverse perspectives 3. Engage external audiences in the university’s global activities
11th GLOBAL Annual PHOTO
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visualizing human ANTI-CONFERENCE rights In an unconventional forum, Visualizing Human Rights brings together painters, photographers, writers, poets, filmmakers, and printmakers to put a human face on human rights in an effort to reach beyond traditional academic approaches.
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Entries Due Early Fall 2011
Niklaus Steiner, Director Niklaus Steiner is the Director of the Center for Global Initiatives at UNC-Chapel Hill. His research and teaching interests include migration, refugees, nationalism, and citizenship, His most recent book “International Migration and Citizenship Today” (Routledge, 2009) is a thought-provoking examination of the ability of international migrants to move and the ability of states to control this movement. 17
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Center for the Study of the American South
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The Center for the Study of the American South extends the historic role of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the world’s premier institution for research, teaching, and public dialogue on the history, culture, and contemporary experience of the southern United States. The Center promotes initiatives in the University’s tradition of regional service and scholarship.
Harry Watson, Director
Watson’s specialties are the antebellum South, Jacksonian America, and the history of North Carolina. He serves as Director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South and co-editor of its journal, Southern Cultures. His most recent book is Andrew Jackson Versus Henry Clay: Democracy and Development in Antebellum America (1998). His most recent article is “‘The Common Rights of Mankind:’ Subsistence, Shad, and Commerce in the Early Republican South,” The Journal of American History 83 ( June 1996), 13-43. 18
S OR S S P ON Global Research Institute
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The Global Research Institute, a center for scholarly research on key global issues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also serves as a channel through which knowledge can be circulated and applied to real world problems. Research fellowships are granted annually on a competitive basis for scholarship on targeted themes, bringing together both talented faculty members at UNC and distinguished visiting scholars to collaborate on the most pressing global challenges facing North Carolina and the world.
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The Global Research Institute will host a follow-up conference in the FedEx Global Education Center on November 12, 2011, that will examine many of the issues discussed today in greater historical depth. This conference will mark the release of a cross-disciplinary policy memo that assesses the economic performance of the South in recent decades and make a series of economic policy recommendations.
Peter Coclanis, Director
Peter A. Coclanis is Albert R. Newsome Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Global Research Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill. He took his Ph.D. in History at Columbia University in 1984 and joined the faculty at UNCChapel Hill that year. He works primarily in the fields of U.S., Southeast Asian, and international economic and business history and has published widely in these areas. His most recent book is Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Globalization in Southeast Asia over la Longue Durée (2006). In 2012 the University of Georgia Press will publish his book, Home and the World, based on his Averitt Lectures in Southern History at Georgia Southern University. 19