“Humanists as Activists: Exploring Our Social Responsibility as Writers” Clinnesha D. Sibley (virtual event) This interactive SouthTalk will allow participants to explore characters and dramatic situations that reflect injustices in our current world. In the spirit of social change, urgency, and activism, participants will be able to create and discuss original literature that encourages radical …
“Skating South: Oral Histories and Music” Southern Studies students enrolled in SST 533 will present their work, which includes oral histories and videos that document the skateboarding community in Mississippi. The presentation will be followed by a performance from the punk band School Drugs.
“Slavery and Race in Holly Springs” Jodi Skipper, panel moderator This panel will be moderated by Jodi Skipper, author of the book Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the US South, and feature cofounders of the Behind the Big House Program, Chelius Carter and Jenifer Eggleston, Members of Gracing the Table, …
Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd and Darren Grem Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South explains a curiosity: why a feminine ideal rooted in the nineteenth century continues to enjoy currency well into the twenty-first. Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd examines how the continuation of certain …
“Race in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies” with Deesha Philyaw and Ethel Scurlock (virtual event) Readers and critics alike embraced Deesha Philyaw’s The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, a collection of nine short stories focused on Black women, sex, and the Black church. Yet the collection is rarely discussed as being “about race,” with emphasis …
“Region, Race, and History: Racial Palimpsests in the Southern U.S.” with Angel Parham (virtual event) The racial history of the US is too often defined monolithically in terms of a Black/White color line which has consistently dominated the country. But careful attention to particular regional histories, particularly in the US South with its connections to Latin America …
“Coming Full Circle: My Journey through the University of Mississippi to Many Points Beyond and Back” presented by Dorothye Quaye Chapman Reed Author, columnist, academic, businesswoman, and 1974 UM alumna, Dorothye Quaye Chapman Reed said that she was“only three years old when Emmett Till was killed in neighboring Tallahatchie County, I was ten when James Meredith …
Vishwesh Bhatt has been the chef at Snackbar in Oxford since its opening in 2009. A native of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Bhatt is a graduate of the University of Kentucky. He moved to Oxford after college to begin a graduate program in political science but soon abandoned academia for restaurant kitchens. When folks in Mississippi …
Maarten Zwiers presents “Race Land: The Ecology of Segregation,” which is a global and environmental history of the Jim Crow South during the Cold War era. Segregationists not only exploited (and destroyed) human beings, but also the environment—human and natural resources were systematically mined to uphold the social ecosystem of the South. In this SouthTalk, …
Documentary photographer David Wharton will discuss images in his Gammill Gallery exhibition, which includes photographs from his recently published fourth book, Roadside South, the third in his Trilogy of the American South series. The exhibition, also titled Roadside South, is currently on view in the Gammill Gallery in Barnard Observatory through September 30. David Wharton …