One of the nation’s top scholars of slavery and gender will explore how much enslaved people in the South knew about the law and how that influenced their decisions to flee to the North in this year’s Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern Cultural History at the University of Mississippi. Thavolia Glymph, a professor at the Duke …
Campus premiere of ‘Our Movement Starts Here’ to include panel discussion, exhibit Filmmakers John Rash and Melanie Ho had a busy summer showing their documentary feature “Our Movement Starts Here” at film festivals. Now they’re bringing the acclaimed production to the University of Mississippi for a screening and discussion. The film chronicles the story of …
“The Cash Value of Racism in America—and Its Schools” presented by Tracie McMillan After journalist Tracie McMillan began reporting on the material advantages of racial privilege in America, she ended up in the public schools of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Using the story of two millennial sisters—the Becker girls—as a starting point, McMillan pieces together a seventy-year history …
Events kick off Sept. 12 with journalist Tracie McMillan The environment can refer to a person’s surroundings or conditions, or a particular geographical area. Taking the latter meaning, the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture hones in on Southern environments for its 2024-25 programming. “We will begin with its most obvious …
The SouthTalks series continues the “Creativity in the South” programming focus this spring at the University of Mississippi, with lectures, performances and film screenings examining the interdisciplinary nature of Southern studies. The series is sponsored by the university’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture. All events are free and open to the public and, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 – nowhere to greater effect than at the University of Mississippi, which marks the 60th anniversary of its integration this fall. With that in mind, programming for 2022-23 academic year …