The Brown Bag Luncheon Series takes place each Wednesday at noon in the Barnard Observatory Lecture Hall during the regular academic year. For more information, contact us.

Spring Semester 2013

JANUARY
30  “Who Belongs? :  Becoming Tribal Members in the South”
Mikaela Adams,  Assistant Professor of Native American History

FEBRUARY
6   “’I Won’t Be  Reconstructed’:  Confederate Memory in Popular Cutlure”
Joseph Thompson, Southern Studies Graduate Student

13   “An Anthropological Cultural Study of Mid 20^th century Black Mississippians’ enculturation process  and the impact of cultural diffusion during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in West Point, Mississippi”
Terry Jean Williams Buffington, Cultural Anthropologist & Folklorist
Oxford, Mississippi

20   “’I Can See It All From Here’:  What Happens When Andrew Bird Comes South”
Mel Lasseter, Southern Studies Graduate Student

27   “Down Friendship:  A Journey Home”
Chelsea Wright, Southern Studies Graduate Student

MARCH
 6   “Flush Times and Fever Dreams:  A Discussion of Capitalism & Slavery in the Age of Jackson”
Josh Rothman, Director, Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South
Associate Professor  of History and African American Studies
University of Alabama

13   SPRING BREAK

20   “How to Parse a Press”
Walter Biggins and Steve Yates, University Press of Mississippi

27   “Asian Invasion: Asian Carp and Their Journey through the Mississippi River System”
Meghan M. Holmes, Southern Studies Graduate Student

APRIL
3   “A History of Southern Recording Studios”
Jim Markel and Mark Neill

10   “A Screening of This Haus of Memories”
Justin Nystrom, Director
Documentary and Oral History Studio
Loyola University-New Orleans

17   “Forward Rebels? The Memory of the Civil Rights Movement at the University of Mississippi, 1962-2012″
Jillian McClure, Southern Studies Graduate Student

24   “The New Encyclopedia of Southern  Culture”
Ann Abadie, former Associate Director, CSSC
James Thomas, Associate Director-Publications, CSSC
Ted Ownby, Director, CSSC
Charles Reagan Wilson, former Director, CSSC
Kelly Gene Cook Chair of History

Fall Semester 2012

SEPTEMBER
5   “Short Films About Interesting Mississippians”
Rex Jones, Producer Director
University of Mississippi Media and Documentary Projects

12  “With the Pavement as My Plate:  Foodways Among the Jackson, Mississippi, Homeless”
Joseph Ewoodzie, PhD candidate
University of Wisconsin, Madison

19  “The Margaret Walker Alexander Center”
Robert Luckett
Jackson State University

26  “Legacies from the Battles of Ole Miss: The James Meredith Incident and the 1965 Southern Literary Festival”
Robert Hamblin, Professor English
Director, Center for Faulkner Studies
Southeast Missouri State University

OCTOBER
3   “Robert F. Kennedy and Mississippi Freedom Riders, Meredith & Poverty”
Ellen Meacham
The Meek School of Journalism and New Media

10  “’We’ll Never Turn Back’: Voter Registration in Mississippi”
A Film produced by Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee

17  “A Preview of the SFA Symposium: ‘Barbecue: An Exploration of Pitmasters, Places, Smoke, and Sauce’”
Sarah Camp Arnold, Editor of GRAVY
Southern Foodways Alliance

24  “Since 1962: Thinking Historically About School Prayer, the Supreme Court and the South”
Chuck Westmoreland, Assistant Professor of History
Delta State University

31  “Chinese Whispers: Southern Reflections in Australia’s Swamps Sounds”
Gretchen Wood, Southern Studies Graduate Student

NOVEMBER
7  Election Day and Southern Politics discussion
Led by Darren Grem, University of Mississippi

14  “Native Ground: A Gammill Gallery Exhibit Talk”
Rob McDonald, Photographer & Professor of English
Associate Dean, Virginia Military Institute