CONTRIBUTED BY AUBURN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
OF LIBERAL ARTS
NOV. 3, 2023
The public is invited to “Picturing Justice: Race and the Supreme Court,” a lecture by renowned historian Vernon Burton, on Friday, Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill. A reception will precede the talk at 6 p.m.
The reception and public lecture are held in recognition of Kenneth W. Noe. Noe is Draughon Professor of Southern History Emeritus at Auburn University, where he taught in the Department of History from 2000 to 2021. He is the author or editor of eight books, most recently “The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate and the American Civil War,” a Lincoln Prize finalist in 2021 and co-winner of the 2022 Colonel Richard W. Ulbrich Memorial Book Award.
Orville Vernon Burton is the inaugural Judge Matthew J. Perry Distinguished Chair of History and Professor of Global Black Studies, Sociology and Anthropology, and Computer Science at Clemson University. Burton is a prolific author and scholar with more than twenty authored or edited books and nearly three hundred articles published. In 2022 he was appointed to the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College, and received the Southern Historical Association’s John Hope Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award.
The program is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities and the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University.
The Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill is located at 101 S. Debardeleben St., Auburn. For more information on the program, call (334) 844-4903 or visit www.auburn.edu/cah.
NOV. 10, 2023
An AU Student Singer/Songwriter Competition will be held at Pebble Hill in Auburn on Friday, Nov.10 at 7 p.m. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.
All students selected to compete will perform one original song for a live audience at the event, and judges will determine finalists for a second and final round. The winner of the event will perform a third and final song to close the event. The winner will receive $500 and the two finalists will receive $250 each. Hosts for the evening will be Professors of Practice Jilla Webb and Khari Allen Lee of the AU Department of Music’s Commercial Music Program.
Tickets for the event are $15 for the general public and $7.50 for students. Purchase tickets at www.aub.ie/songwritercompetition.
Pebble Hill is located at 101 S. Debardeleben St. in Auburn and is home to the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts. The event is presented by the Center and AU Department of Music.