About this Collection
"A Moveable Feast" lecture series was established by the College of Liberal Arts at Armstrong Atlantic State University in February 2013. The lectures are held at historic sites in Savannah, GA.
The Georgia Southern University College of Arts and Humanities continues the series. The records in this collection represent the lectures held after the Armstrong State University and Georgia Southern University merger. To view records for lectures held before the University merger, please visit https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/armstrong-moveable-feast/.
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Searching for Identity: Refugees, Tourists, and Exiles
Lindsey Chappell and Srobana Bhattacharya
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The Child Knows Best: Disability Justice in Inclusive Education
Andrew Bulla and Paul Andrew Tubig
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Redefining Manhood: Archaeology, History, & Prisoner of War Resistance in the latr 19th and early20th Centuries
Brian K. Feltman and Ryan K. McNutt
11-11-2021The first lecture of the 2021-2022 Moveable Feast Lecture Series will be Thursday, Nov. 11, at the Hinesville Performing Arts Center. Georgia Southern University’s Dr. Brian K. Feltman, an Associate Professor of Modern European History, and Dr. Ryan K. McNutt, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology, will present Redefining Manhood: Archaeology, History, & Prisoner of War Resistance in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. This event is free and open to the public both in person and via Facebook Live.
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Shakespeare Near the Park
Georgia Southern University, Departments of Literature, Theater, an Music
4-23-2020Brush up your Shakespeare! Brighten up that Bard! Put a sparkle on the Swan of Avon! On this, the traditional date of Shakespeare’s birthday, the College of Arts and Humanities invites you to celebrate the occasion by sharing in a musical feast, where our faculty from the Departments of Literature, Theater, and Music will delight you in three Acts. The Literature faculty will open the curtain with a short introduction to Shakespeare, and throughout the gala they will offer brief background sketches for each of the selected scenes our troupe will perform. Act I will take you to a staged rendition of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, followed by a musical performance of “Tonight” from West Side Story. Act II will transport you to the “wooing” scene from The Taming of the Shrew, paired with a frolicsome version of “I Hate Men” from Kiss Me, Kate. The celebration will close with a reenactment from The Merry Wives of Windsor and a grand finale from Verdi’s opera, cameoing our very own Falstaff. And with that we’ll bid you adieu until next season!
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Breaking Gendered Boundaries in Our Bones and Our Crimes
Virginia Estabrook and Kate Perry
3-5-2020We often hold profound expectations about gender that construct our judgements about the political and personal worth of others. This lecture will explore two distinct cases in which the rigidity of these expectations informs the way we respond to both historical and contemporary figures. Dr. Estabrook will focus on Savannah’s own Casimir Pulaski, whose remains have now been confirmed to have been buried beneath the monument in Monterey Square. Focusing on the forensic attributions of anthropologists, she will explore the complex issues that surround the history, anatomy, gender and myth-making unearthed in the bones of this Revolutionary War general. Dr. Perry, will shift the focus to contemporary issues and discuss the ways global norms about gender influence perceptions of and responses to gendered bodies. She will outline the experiences of women involved in human trafficking–discussing women as victims, perpetrators, law enforcement officers, NGO workers, and academics; emphasizing how the roles these women inhabit intersect with global norms about gender, political power, and security. Together these scholars will urge us to reconsider the boundaries of gender we have come to inhabit and see the worlds that are possible when we break them.
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Harnessing the Shadows: Ghosts, Vampires, and Undying Relationships to Our Past
Alena Pirok and Kendra R. Parker
11-3-2019Vampires, and ghosts, and us–oh my! In the spirit world of the Halloween season, Drs. Pirok and Parker invite you to embrace the shadows that represent our deepest fears in the stately and hauntingly beautiful Mansion on Forsyth Park. Dr. Pirok will examine the relationship between the Southern Gothic literary tradition and the development of Savannah’s ghost tourism, a development that has earned Savannah the claim of being “the most haunted city” in the country. She will explore how our streets are not haunted by individual specters but, by and large, by a mythical vision of Savannah’s own past. Dr. Parker will further trace how mythical recollections of an antebellum South, replete with its own tormented history, contribute to the post-emancipation stereotyping of Black people as vampiric predators. Together they will invite you to reconsider how stories of hauntings, vampires, and things undying shape our images of the past, our experiences of the present, and our apparitions of the future.
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Portrait of the Icon as a Young Woman: Photography and the Making of Stardom
Amanda Konkle and Bridgett Conn
10-10-2019The persona of the celebrity thrives on the tension between images of the public and private—or the performed and the authentic—self. This tension is frozen in time in the many star-studded portraits that comprise “Portrait of the Artist,” an exhibit of photographic portraiture currently on display at the Jepson Center for the Arts. In this lecture, Dr. Conn will discuss the various methods of creating portraits of the “real” person behind the star persona, dispelling the idea that a photographer need only be in the right place at the right time to capture a compelling image. “Behind-the-scenes” photos of stars “as they are” on set often reveal how the stars see themselves, rather than the roles they are scripted to play. As Dr. Konkle will discuss, this is heartbreakingly true for Marilyn Monroe, whose final film role put her in the position of confronting the star persona she had crafted through poised and polished photos with a raw, exposed version of herself as a young woman rather than a star. Together they will explore how the stars we think we see are often a fantasy created by the “ocular proof” of the camera’s lens.
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On the Water and Beneath the Waves; Stories of Coastal Georgia
Kurt Knoerl and Jennifer Sweeny Tookes
4-18-2019Salt marshes, rivers, lakes and the Atlantic Ocean are integral parts of Coastal Georgia’s culture and heritage. This presentation highlights the ways researchers preserve the stories of maritime communities through collecting oral narratives and listening for echoes of the past. Kurt Knoerl will explore how shipwreck sites along our coast often act as accidental time capsules, containing information about vessels and their demise, as well as their crews, passengers, shipbuilders and many others. Focusing on the contemporary era, Jennifer Sweeney Tooks will trace representative stories coastal Georgians tell of life on the water, paying particular attention to those about commercial fishing and its importance to the state’s living history and culture. Together they will demonstrate how — both on and below the water — many Georgia communities have depended on the coastal environment for their cultural base for generations.
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Writing and Rewriting the Bible: The Dead Sea Scrolls 70 Years Later
Jason Tatlock and Da Pioske
3-28-2019The initial discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls just over 70 years ago is undoubtedly one of the most important finds of the 20th century. The scrolls are both the earliest manuscripts of texts found in the Hebrew Bible and some of the most informative examples of Jewish sectarian literature. The varied documents embody a long tradition of scribal activity stretching back hundreds of years into the days of the Israelite monarchy. In addition to exploring scribal techniques in ancient Israel, Dan Pioske and Jason Tatlock will address some of the unique material contained within the Dead Sea Scrolls, such as early references to Suffering Messianism and the Binding of Isaac or Akedah.
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Everyday Anti-Racism: Images, Institutions, and You
Alicia Brunson, Dina Walker-DeVose, and Christopher Cartright
2-21-2019Educational disparities in Savannah, in Georgia and in the South persist. Media images provide visual evidence of an unjust status quo. The era of segregation in the United States is not over. With this recognition, we must ask ourselves how we can better advocate for racial justice in our society and in our daily lives. Building on the premise that a critical understanding of racism will strengthen our ability to advocate for justice in our local and global communities, this panel of scholars will provide a survey of contemporary research on race and racism. Each will examine how racism continues to affect our institutions, our media and our daily interactions. Together they will explore how educational discrimination and representations of African-Americans in media help us visualize the complex social systems in which racism persists. By the time they conclude, the panelists hope to have challenged you to examine biases you may hold.
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Actions and Reactions: Sounds and Sights of a World Foregone
Benjamin Warsaw and Martín Gendelman
1-10-2019On the occasion of the Jepson Center’s “Monet to Matisse” exhibition, this concert and lecture will illuminate a series of connections between musical and visual creators during the times of social turmoil in which Claude Monet and Henri Matisse shaped their art. Martín Gendelman will discuss the historical, cultural and biographical backdrop of the selected compositions from late 19th and early 20th-century composers, from Chopin to Gershwin, whose classical compositions Benjamin Warsaw will introduce and perform. Together they will illustrate the mirroring of musical and artistic movements that have influenced our culture for more than a century.
