We will host an informational session at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3 in Room 105 of Barnard Observatory. Prospective students will learn about each program, meet faculty, staff, and current students, and have an opportunity to ask questions. Interested individuals should register here. Early application deadline for funding consideration for Fall 2022 admission is Feb. 1, …
Andrea Morales presents “Roll Down Like Water: Photography of Everyday History From Memphis, Tennessee” in the Gammill Gallery, on display from Nov. 8, 2021 to Jan. 14, 2021. She will be at a gallery walk on Tuesday, Nov. 9 at 4 p.m.
The University of South Carolina Press published Taste the State: South Carolina’s Signature Foods, Recipes, and Their Stories, a guide co-written by Southern Studies alumnus Kevin Mitchell and author David Shields. Mitchell and Shields present the cultural histories of native ingredients and showcase the evolution of the dishes and the variety of preparations that have emerged. With surprising stories from …
At noon Nov. 3 in the Paris-Yates Chapel on the University of Mississippi campus, Adam Guettel, Blake McIver and Mary Donnelly Haskell will have a conversation about Elizabeth Spencer’s novella “The Light in the Piazza,” which was made into a musical. In celebration of Mississippi writer Elizabeth Spencer’s one hundredth birthday, the University of Mississippi …
Road through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial Jessica Ingram and David Wharton Jessica Ingram’s Road through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial was shortlisted for the 2020 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award and named one of the New York Times Best Art Books of 2020. The result of nearly a decade of research and fieldwork, …
The Southern Cultural Renaissance of the Early Twenty-First Century Charles Reagan Wilson Reflecting the dramatic changes in southern society in the last twenty years, the South’s culture has been transformed. The increasing social diversity is leading to a multicultural society in which African Americans, Latinos, Asians, the white working classes, LGBT people, and others are …
A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309 presented by Aaron Cometbus and Scott Satterwhite The house at 309 6th Avenue has long been a crossroads for punk rock, activism, veganism, and queer culture in Pensacola, a quiet Gulf Coast city at the border of Florida and Alabama. In A Punkhouse in …
On Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Gertrude Ford Center for the Performing Arts, in a production of “The Fannie Lou Hamer Story,” Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye channels Fannie Lou Hamer in a riveting 60-minute journey of storytelling showered with eleven inspiring songs and a video montage of the civil rights movement. The Fannie …
“The Price of the Ticket: Paying for Diversity and Inclusion” by Deborah Gray White Many colleges and universities have added “diversity and inclusion” to their mission statements in recent years, but these goals have financial and emotional costs and are not achieved without intentional and thoughtful effort to dismantle the structures that perpetuate exclusion and …
“The Land of Open Graves: Understanding the Current Politics of Migrant Life and Death along the U.S.-Mexico Border” by Jason De León Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. federal government has relied on a border enforcement strategy known as Prevention through Deterrence. Using various security infrastructure and techniques of surveillance, this strategy funnels undocumented migrants toward …