The Center, working with the University Press of Mississippi, independent booksellers, and cultural and academic institutions throughout the state, has planned a number of events celebrating the publication of The Mississippi Encyclopedia for the summer and fall of 2017. Each event will include talks by speakers like Encyclopedia senior editors Ted Ownby and Charles Reagan Wilson, subject editors, and scholar-contributors to the volume. We’ll announce who will speak at each event soon.
Dr. D’Andra Orey of Jackson State University gave a Brown Bag talk on Wednesday, April 12 as part of the Center’s Radical South Brown Bag Series, presented in partnership with the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies. Documentarian Chris Colbeck interviewed him about his research, and you can watch the interview here.
David Wharton has received the 2017 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Photography for his recent book, The Power of Belief: Spiritual Landscapes from the Rural South.
Students in Dr. Andy Harper’s Southern Studies 537: Documenting the South in Film completed short films as a final project for the class in the Fall of 2016. Watch excerpts from each film below.