When:March 27, 2019 @ 7:11 pm – March 29, 2019 @ 8:11 pm
Where:Oxford, Mississippi
Events
Southern Studies Documentary Thesis Presentations
When:May 1, 2018 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Where:Burns Belfry Museum and Multicultural Center, 710 Jackson Ave E, Oxford, MS 38655, USA
On Tuesday, May 1 at 7pm, the Center will host Documentary Thesis Presentations for Southern Studies M.A. students Rachel Childs, Rebecca Lauck Cleary, and Victoria De Leone.
Gallery Reception for A PIECE OF HEART by Ashleigh Coleman
When:April 19, 2018 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
Striking Voices: The Portraits and Interviews Closing Reception
When:April 10, 2018 @ 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
On Tuesday, April 10 at 5:00 in Barnard Observatory, the Center will host a closing reception for the exhibit Striking Voices: The Portraits and Interviews. Following the reception, at 5:30 p.m., journalist Emily Yellin and photographer Darius B. Williams will give a public talk on Striking Voices, their multimedia journalism project based on in-depth, video interviews with Memphis …
Radical South Talk by Josh Burford: “Queer Down South – History is a Weapon”
When:April 9, 2018 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
Josh Burford of the Invisible Histories Project of Alabama will discuss the importance of LGBTQ archives.
Queer Mississippi: Oral History Performance
When:April 25, 2018 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Where:Burns-Belfry Museum and Multicultural Center, 710 Jackson Ave E, Oxford, MS 38655, USA
Dr. Jessica Wilkerson’s graduate seminar on southern LGBTQ history and oral history methods will present “Queer Mississippi: Oral History Performance,” on Wednesday, April 25 at 7pm at Burns Belfry Museum and Multicultural Center, 710 Jackson Avenue E . Students will reflect on oral history interviews completed for the class and connect the interviews to broader themes …
“Fisk Jubilee Singers: Multidisciplinary Readings on History and Agency”
When:February 19, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Where:Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory
An academic companion event to the Thursday, February 22nd Black History Month concert by the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Panel discussion including George Korlasi Dor, Music Dr. Karen V. Davidson Smith, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Education, and Fisk Jubilee Singers Alum Ethel Young-Scurlock, English and African American Studies Greg Johnson, Blues Archive Ted Ownby, History and Southern Studies …
Striking Voices: The Portraits and Interviews – Talk with Emily Yellin and Darius Williams
When:April 10, 2018 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
On Tuesday, April 10 at 5:30 p.m. in Barnard Observatory, journalist Emily Yellin and photographer Darius B. Williams will give a public talk on Striking Voices, their multimedia journalism project based on in-depth, video interviews with Memphis sanitation workers who went on strike in 1968, and their wives and children. Martin Luther King was in town …
Visiting Documentarian Series: Kim Rushing
When:February 21, 2018 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Where:Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory
On Wednesday, February 21 at 5:30pm, documentary photographer Kim Rushing will give a public talk as part of a series of visiting documentarians. Each documentarian will also meet with graduate students in the Center’s MFA in Documentary Expression. R. Kim Rushing has taught photography at Delta State University for twenty-three years. He holds an M.F.A. from …
Gallery Opening Reception: FINDING MISSISSIPPI by Photographer Betty Press
When:February 22, 2018 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
A reception for Finding Mississippi, a documentary photography exhibit by Betty Press, which will be open in the Gammill Gallery until March 23. Her artist statement for the exhibit follows: This selection of images reveals a slightly surreal, hidden narrative of Mississippi’s landscape and the indomitable spirit of the people—sometimes fanciful, humorous, quirky, mysterious, and …