Sex, Race, and Sweet Petunias: A Bass Connections Team Conversation with Rissi Palmer

Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Time: 6:30 p.m. — A reception will precede the conversation at 6:00 p.m.
Location: Smith Warehouse Bay 4, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall
Please RSVP here.

The “Rosetta Reitz’s Musical Archive of Care” Bass Connections team welcomes Rissi Palmer! She’ll be in conversation with us as we explore the album Sweet Petunias, issued by Rosetta Records in 1986 (part of the Rosetta Reitz Papers in the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture). The conversation will also feature Bass Connections undergraduate team members Lindsay Frankfort and Trisha Santanam and team co-leader singer-songwriter Tift Merritt.

A reception will precede the conversation at 6:00.

Registration not required, but much appreciated. Please RSVP here.

Hosted by the Forum for Scholars and Publics (Forum @ FHI), with the support of Bass Connections, the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, the Social Science Research Institute, and Duke Arts.