Six with UM ties among 2022 award winners The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters honored several University of Mississippi alumni and faculty members as part of its annual awards to accomplished individuals in various creative fields. UM alumni and faculty receiving 2022 awards from the MIAL are William Dunlap and Kenneth Holditch, recipients of the …
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Summer Sunset Series Returns to the Grove
The June 12 show features the Bill Perry Quintet, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and Living Blues magazine The annual Summer Sunset Series returns to the Grove stage at the University of Mississippi with a series of four Sunday evening concerts in June. Summer Sunset Series is a free community …
Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne on his journeys in and out of the blues
Living Blues #278 features bluesman Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne on the cover. Wayne is one of the few remaining piano-playing frontmen in the blues. He talked with Living Blues earlier this year about his journey on the keyboard into, out of, and back to the blues. Iowa may not be known as a hotbed of …
Ralph Eubanks honored for Reflecting Mississippi
Ralph Eubanks claims he is a nonfiction writer because he is bad at making things up, but his gentle grace in describing the beauty and pain of the landscape of Mississippi needs no fictionalization. The Mississippi Humanities Council has lauded Eubanks, visiting professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and writer-in-residence …
Congrats May Graduates
We are so proud of of our May graduates! Congratulations on all of your hard work. Daisy Bruce of Troy, Alabama is graduating with a double major in Southern Studies and Political Science with Cum Laude honors. Danielle Buckingham of Louisville, Mississippi is graduating with an M.A. in Southern Studies. Her thesis “Good Love is …
Journey to Commencement: Braxton Thomas
Journey to Commencement: Mattie Ford
Imani Perry lecture rescheduled online for April 12
Imani Perry will give her rescheduled Oxford Conference for the Book/Future of the South Lecture “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon Line to Understand the Soul of A Nation” at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12. During this virtual event, she will give a 45-minute lecture, and Castel Sweet, director of the Center …
Mississippi Day set for Saturday, April 9
Saturday, April 9, 2022 The Circle 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Mississippi Day is an outdoor “open house” where visitors will enjoy a variety of hands-on learning activities, exhibitions and demonstrations, and opportunities to engage with our many academic departments. Members of the public, families, alumni, UM students, faculty and staff, and prospective students and their …
Giving Day Starts Today
Act now to build a better tomorrow for the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Ole Miss Giving Day starts this morning. Today and tomorrow, our alumni, friends, faculty, staff, and even students will give to strengthen the Center and the entire university – forever. We invite you to join the celebration! Visit the …