Dr. Simone Delerme and Dr. Catarina Passidomo along with Department of Sociology and Anthropology professors, Dr. J.T. Thomas (sociology) and Dr. Marcos Mendoza (anthropology) are planning the third annual Faculty and Graduate Student Forum on Race and Ethnicity. This year the forum will be Monday, Feb. 26 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Like last …
In honor of its upcoming 30th year, the Oxford Conference for the Book has received a surprise gift from Hawthornden Foundation. Jimmy Thomas, director of the conference, which is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, welcomed the news. “We are both thrilled and incredibly grateful for …
Interested in learning about the Southern Studies graduate programs? Register for the January 19 virtual open house using the link below. We can answer all of your questions. January 19 at 4 p.m. CST: https://olemiss.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsdeCgrz8qE9N37SrW_1WWaRSX-YQgMwhX
The Southern Documentary Project is hiring two new Professors of Practice in Documentary Expression to teach in Southern Studies and to produce their own documentary stories and to produce their own documentary stories. Open to storytellers of all mediums. Go here for more information.
The application deadline for undergraduate admission to Southern Studies is Jan. 10, 2024. Southern Studies is an interdisciplinary program that combines required cultural studies courses on the American and global South with courses from multiple disciplines including history, literature, sociology, anthropology, music, political science, journalism, and documentary studies. Students in the program take introductory classes …
The University of Mississippi will observe 175 years of service to the state and the nation with a celebration at 1 p.m. Nov. 6 in front of the historic Lyceum. When Mississippi’s flagship university opened its doors on Nov. 6, 1848, with four faculty members and 80 students, it was poised to be the state’s …
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 …
Join author Michael Farris Smith at the Powerhouse in Oxford for an evening of cinema featuring the film adaptation of his book “Desperation Road.” Smith’s novel was named Indie Next, honored on numerous Best Books lists, and will be his second feature-film adaptation but the first to release. The Southern noir thriller is set in …
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.” …
Retired University of Mississippi history and Southern Studies professor Ted Ownby often talks of his fondness for former students, and now those students can make history by providing for future scholars through the Ted Ownby Initiative to Support Graduate Education. By establishing the Ted Ownby Initiative to Support Graduate Education, graduate students in the years …