University of North Carolina Center for Global Initiatives

The sixth annual Global American South Conference will be held Saturday, April 21, 2012.  The theme will be "The Changing Face of the American South: Demographic Shifts and Migrations".

The Global American South Conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an interdisciplinary conference exploring the globalization of the Southern United States.  Each year’s theme reveals the interplay of the global and the local, not simply of the impacts from economic globalization down to the Southern regional and local levels, but also of the often surprising ways that local culture and experience influence distant communities and regions.  We bring together academics, policy makers, musicians, artists, and practitioners from North Carolina, the southern region, and beyond.

The conference is free with registration. 

The Global American South Conference is a collaboration between the Center for Global Initiatives, the Global Research Institute, the Center for the Study of the American South, and the Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC Chapel Hill.

Take a look at past years' schedules and media: 2011, 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005!