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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 …

MISSISSIPPI STORIES Turns One

By admin on July 25th, 2017

The Center’s documentary media website Mississippi Stories launched in July of 2015. In celebration, here are some stories so far for 2017, in case you missed them.

Check out the June/July 2017 LIVING BLUES

By admin on July 13th, 2017

Living Blues #249 (June/July 2017) is a special issue devoted to the blues of Yazoo County, Mississippi. We explore the history of the county, the music and the musicians who made it. We then turn our spotlight on the current scene and the man who has committed his life to keeping it alive.

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