Schedule for Forum on Race and Ethnicity

 3rd Annual UM Faculty and Graduate Student Forum on Race and Ethnicity Monday, Feb. 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., The Inn at Ole Miss (Ballroom) *If you would like to join us for breakfast and/or lunch please RSVP by Friday, Feb. 16. Breakfast (9:30-10 a.m.) Welcome/Panel 1 (10-11 a.m.) Moderator: Simone Delerme, McMullan Associate

November SouthTalks start this week

American Landscapes book jacket

The SouthTalks fall season is winding down, but here are all the SouthTalks for the remainder of the semester: At noon Nov. 1, William Dunlap and W. Ralph Eubanks present “Southern Light, Southern Landscape” in the Speaker’s Gallery of the University Museum. They plan to discuss the connection between the landscape of the American South

Historian Focuses on Lives of Black Americans During Reconstruction

Kidada Williams

Kidada Williams gives annual Gilder-Jordan Lecture Many Americans learn in school that Reconstruction failed, but few can accurately identify who failed to do what and why. In the annual Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern Cultural History, historian and author Kidada E. Williams answers those questions in “The Devil Was Turned Loose: African Americans in the War Against Reconstruction.”

SouthTalks Focus on Creativity in the South

Man standing in field

Lectures begin Sept. 6 with discussion of changing minds Creativity in the South is the programming theme for the 2023-24 academic year at the University of Mississippi‘s Center for the Study of Southern Culture. The fall SouthTalks series begins by recognizing that the U.S. South is a region of profound contrast. “Extreme poverty exists uneasily

Faulkner Fans to Flock to Oxford for 49th Annual Conference

Put a Little Honey in My Sweet Tea lecture July 23 at 7:30 p.m.

For the 49th consecutive year, writers, scholars and avid fans of Oxford’s Nobel Prize-winning author will gather at the University of Mississippi for the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. This year the conference, themed “Queer Faulkner,” will focus on the diverse genders, sexualities and desires of characters in William Faulkner’s work and people in the noted

Summer Sunset Series includes Southern Studies alumni showcase

An Afternoon with Ted Ownby Sunday June 11. Lecture at 3, picnic at 4, concert at 6

Each Sunday in June, members of the Lafayette-Oxford-University family can gather on the Grove for a night of music and culture as the annual Summer Sunset Series returns to the University of Mississippi. The free concert series will kick off at 6 p.m. June 4, and each Sunday includes blues, Southern rock and vintage indie

SouthTalks continue in the month of March

Continuing the programming focus for the March SouthTalks at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture is “Race in the Classroom.” Two events are planned for March 1. At noon in Barnard Observatory, join documentary editor Sarah Garrahan as she talks about strategies for editing documentary feature films, including working with a team, how

U.S. Poet Laureate Slated as UM Baine Lecturer

Ada Limon with hands on a table

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón is set to deliver this year’s Baine Lecture at the University of Mississippi. Limón will discuss “What Poetry Can Do” beginning at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7 in Fulton Chapel. Free and open to the public, the event is co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Center for the

SouthTalks series begins Jan. 25 with Michael Fagans

A black and white photo of Edmund Clark standing in a field in the Mississippi Delta

The programming focus at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture for the 2022-23 academic year is “Race in the Classroom,” and the spring SouthTalks lectures follow that theme. Historically, classrooms have functioned as both intensely local spaces and as broader political stages on which debates about equality, identity and access have played out

University to Honor James Meredith’s Legacy

Photo of James Meredith

Sixty years after civil rights activist James Meredith integrated the University of Mississippi, students, faculty, staff, alumni and guests will gather in his honor to commemorate the anniversary of that defining moment in the university’s history. Meredith, who became the first African American student to enroll at UM on Oct. 1, 1962, will take the