By Carley Conrad
University Relations and Creative Services Office
CONWAY – Dr. Natalie Ring, Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians, will be delivering talks on April 20 and 21.
Ring, who also serves as associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Dallas, will give a public talk at UCA Downtown on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 7 p.m. The talk, titled “Angola Prison in Louisiana: The History and Meaning of Place,” examines the Angola prison in order to think about regional and national identities during the early twentieth century. UCA Downtown is located at 1105 West Oak Street.
On Thursday, April 21, 2016, Ring will give an address at 5 p.m. in the UCA Student Center, Room 223. A reception precedes the talk at 4 p.m. This keynote address, titled “Mapping Regional and Tropical Pathologies: The Problem South in the National Imagination,” centers on the topic of how cultural representations of the South made the project of Reconstruction one of rehabilitation and reform that transformed the South into a mission field and an immense laboratory for social and cultural change.
These events are made possible the Arkansas Humanities Council, College of Liberal Arts, Phi Alpha Theta, Department of History, Department of English and Department of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures.