Fall Lecture/Film Series: Elvis's America: 1956, Salem
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Start time: 4:00 PM
Location: Jule Collins Smith Museum
ELVIS'S America: 1956 is an eight-part series o flectures that takes as its broadest topic mid-twentieth-century America, its popular culture and the social and political atmosphere from which it emerged. The series is public programming related to Elvis at 21: New York to Memphis, an exhibiton of gelatin-silver print photographs taken by Alfred Wertheimer and organized in conjunction with Govinda Gallery, Washington D.C., on view at JCSMuseum October 10, 2009 to January 9, 2010. The lectures will be presented in the museum's auditorium.
Free and Open to the Public.
Film Organizing Committee:
Kathleen Hale, Political Science
Ralph Kingston, History
Iulia Pittman, Foreign Languages and Literatures
Aaron Rashotte, Biological Sciences
Sunny Stalter, English
Lectures supported by a grant from the Alabama Humanities Foundation, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Films Sponsored by the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts, the College of Science and Mathematics, and the Departments of English, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, and Political Science.