On Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 6 p.m., Daina Ramey Berry will deliver this year’s Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern Studies. The lecture is free and open to the public and will take place in Nutt Auditorium on the University of Mississippi campus. Her lecture is Teaching the Truth: Race and Slavery in the Modern Classroom. Slavery in the …
Imani Perry will give her rescheduled Oxford Conference for the Book/Future of the South Lecture at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12. During this virtual event, she will give a 45-minute lecture, and Castel Sweet, director of the Center for Community Engagement will facilitate the Q&A directly following the lecture. This webinar event is open …
“Southern Punk Archive: Stories and Music” Join us for a unique look at the impact punk and hardcore music has had on the American South through video presentations of first-person oral history interviews conducted by Southern Studies graduate students. The event will conclude with a live performance from New Orleans-based punk/ska band Joystick! who have …
Nancy Bercaw presents “Listening to Mississippi: Displaying the Defaced Emmett Till Historical Marker at the Smithsonian.” In 2019, two Smithsonian curators spent several weeks in Mississippi to see if they could ethically display the defaced Emmett Till marker in Washington, D.C. After listening to culture workers and learning from Tallahatchie County residents, they co-curated an …
The Oxford Conference for the Book is returning to Oxford and the University of Mississippi campus on March 30, 31, and April 1, 2022, as an in-person event, with special partnerships with the Willie Morris Awards in Southern Writing and the National Book Foundation, the administrators of the National Book Awards. Confirmed participants include Imani …
Photography Installation Open House Annemarie Anderson THIS GARDEN: Oysters and Place In Spring Creek, Florida is an open-house documentary exhibit that showcases oyster farmers in Spring Creek, Florida. Still photographs and audio recordings in this project reveal men and women at work within the bounds of nature. In these images, the Gulf of Mexico is …
At noon on Thursday, April 14, Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. presents “Getting Something to Eat” in Auditorium 124 in the Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union. Ewoodzie spent more than a year following a group of socioeconomically diverse African Americans—from upper-middle-class patrons of the city’s fine-dining restaurants to men experiencing homelessness who must organize their …
Annette Trefzer presents “Eudora Welty’s Photographic Vision” at noon on Wednesday, April 13. Internationally known as a writer, Eudora Welty was also a talented photographer, yet the prevalent idea remains that Welty simply took snapshots before she found her true calling as a renowned fiction writer. But who was Welty as a photographer? What did …
This virtual SouthTalk at noon on Friday, March 25 invites photographer Sam Wang to discuss his current Photography Exhibition and Documentary Film screening at the Oxford Film Festival. There will be a discussion between Wang, South Carolina-based photographer and Clemson University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts; John Rash, Southern Documentary Project producer/director; and Brooke …
At 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 24 for this virtual event, Annemarie Anderson, Simone Delerme, and Kelly Spivey present the Summer Avenue Oral History Project. Summer Avenue, a six-mile section of US Highway 70, one of the first paved, signed highways in the US, has been known by a number of names over the years …