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Do Good Fund to Exhibit Photographs in Gammill Gallery This Fall

By admin on September 25th, 2017

Photographs from the Do Good Fund’s photo collection will be exhibited at various venues in Mississippi during the fall of 2017. Those venues include the Gammill Gallery (Southern People, Southern Places) from late September through mid-December, the UM Art Department’s Gallery 130 (NOW: Contemporary Southern Photography) during October, as well as at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gallery of Art and Design (Portraits of Southerners) October 12–December 12. There are smaller exhibits scheduled in several Water Valley venues and possibly one in Sumner.

Jamie Joyner Endowment Created to Assist Graduate Students in Southern Studies

By Rebecca Lauck Cleary on September 20th, 2017

While fresh flowers or a night out to dinner might be a perfectly acceptable birthday present, Ernest Joyner III of Tupelo, Mississippi, went one step further. His recent birthday surprise to his wife, Jamie, was the creation of the Jamie Joyner Endowment in Southern Studies to assist University of Mississippi graduate students.

Center for the Study of Southern Culture: A Short History of the First Forty Years

By admin on September 18th, 2017

Center for the Study of Southern Culture: A Short History of the First Forty Years This short history by Anna F. Kaplan can also be found, along with entries on Frederick A. P. Barnard, William Faulkner, William Ferris, Living Blues, and the University of Mississippi, in The Mississippi Encyclopedia, recently published by the University Press …

STUDY THE SOUTH Article “Revisiting Deliverance”

By admin on September 14th, 2017

On June 19, Study the South published a new essay by Isabel Machado, a Brazilian historian currently living in Monterrey, Mexico, while writing her PhD dissertation for the University of Memphis.

Center Welcomes Incoming Graduate Classes

By admin on September 14th, 2017

This fall, southern studies launches its new master of fine arts in documentary expression program. The goal of this new program is to teach students who already possess considerable skill and experience in documentary techniques and interdisciplinary scholarship to produce documentary films, photography, or audio projects of high quality. The background for this idea is that the southern studies MA program has graduated numerous students who, as they complete the program, say they wish they had the time and attention to apply their newly learned skills to a polished project.

Brown Bag Lectures Announced for Fall

By Rebecca Lauck Cleary on August 25th, 2017

The Fall 2017 Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture series begins this week. Most lectures are at noon on Wednesdays in the Tupelo Room of Barnard Observatory (Room 105) and are free and open to the public.

New Exhibit Features Work by Documentary Photography Students

By admin on August 25th, 2017

The photographs in this exhibit are from last spring’s Southern Studies seminar in documentary photography taught by David Wharton. The students’ semester-long assignment was to construct a visual inquiry of north Mississippi, paying special attention to comparing some of the area’s small communities to bustling, college-town Oxford.

Workshop Students Document the Arts in Oxford

By admin on August 21st, 2017

Last week, we hosted a three-day documentary workshop for 11 incoming and current MA students in Southern Studies and students in the new MFA in Documentary Expression program. Documentarians Andy Harper, John Rash, and Rex Jones of the Southern Documentary Project and Ava Lowrey and Sara Wood of the Southern Foodways Alliance taught the workshop.

On Symbols, Violence, and the Confederacy in Southern University Towns

By admin on August 18th, 2017

This article is adapted from a Southern Register Director’s Column by Ted Ownby, written in the Spring of 2014.

Ralph Eubanks to Serve as Visiting Professor at UM

By Rebecca Lauck Cleary on August 7th, 2017

Alumnus and author will teach courses in Southern studies and English OXFORD, Miss. – Author and journalist Ralph Eubanks returns to the University of Mississippi this fall, this time as a visiting professor. The Mount Olive native will teach a Southern studies course this fall and an English course during the spring semester. His Southern …

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