“Great Fiction Needs More Than One Translation: Translating Welty’s Delta Wedding into Japanese” presented by Koji Motomura and Annette Trefzer Koji Motomura, who is currently working on the translation of Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding into Japanese, will take up various issues surrounding his translation and discuss them with Annette Trefzer. His topics include the overall reception …
Film Screening: Promised Land: A Story about Mound Bayou In 1887 two formerly enslaved cousins bought 840 acres of swampland in the Mississippi Delta. Benjamin T. Green and Isaiah T. Montgomery used the site to found Mound Bayou, which went on to prosper as the largest and most self-sufficient all-Black town in the United States. Promised …
“I Don’t Wanna Say the Wrong Thing! How to Reconcile with Race in the Classroom” presented by Frederick Gooding Jr. Discussing topics centering around race can often be awkward and uncomfortable—but it doesn’t always have to be! Uncover and discover how we are closer to racial reconciliation than we think by learning the three key steps we …
“Blackout: The Continuing Assault against Black Bodies” a virtual SouthTalk presented by Barbara Harris Combs Blackness in a society built largely on anti-Black sentiments simultaneously renders Black bodies both a heightened sense of visibility and invisibility in society. In this talk, Combs shares insights from her new book, Bodies out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society, …
“Seeing the Unseen” presented by Michael Fagans Too often we walk past things without seeing them for what they are or what they could be. Expanding how we think about images allows us to see the world in a different and broader way. This SouthTalk is an expansion of Fagans’s University of Mississippi TEDx talk, …
The twenty-ninth Oxford Conference for the Book returns for three days of panel discussions with authors, publishers and book lovers. This is the longest-running event put on by the Center and is always free and open to the public, and takes place in the spring. See website for full details.
This workshop begins with a brief recounting of the process by which the New Orleans City Council undertook to rename more than forty streets, parks and places honoring former Confederates and Reconstruction-era insurrectionists, to our knowledge the largest effort at urban recommemoration in modern US history. As co-chair of the panel of experts that advised …
Visiting Documentarian Jasmín Mara López will screen her film “Silent Beauty” at Malco Theatre November 9 at 6:30 p.m. Jasmín Mara López is a Mexican-American filmmaker living between Los Angeles and New Orleans. Born in the U.S. with familial roots in México, her childhood was affected by issues experienced on both sides of the U.S.- …
The semester concludes at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2 in the Tupelo Room of Barnard Observatory with the fall documentary showcase, a celebration of the work by our documentary students. Each artist will present their work, followed by a Q&A session.
As a virtual event, Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant presents “Where We Matter: Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe, Howard Women, and the Co-Creation of Campus Belonging, 1922–1937” at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 9. From 1922 to 1937 Dean Slowe worked with Howard undergraduates to build an extracurricular program focused on Black women’s community, personal growth, and joy. Drawing on …