When:February 22, 2018 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Where:Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts
The Center for the Study of Southern Culture is a presenting partner for this UM event.
Events
Brown Bag: “Saving Slave Houses”
When:April 18, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
APRIL 18 at noon Jobie Hill “Saving Slave Houses” Since 2011 Jobie Hill’s research and professional work has focused exclusively on domestic slave buildings. She is engaged in interdisciplinary research examining the dwellings of American slavery, the influence these dwellings had on the lives of their inhabitants, and the preservation of slave history. In 2012 …
Brown Bag: “‘Cautious but Solid Character’: Southern Feminists and the State”
When:April 11, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
APRIL 11 at noon Jennifer Bingo Gunter “‘Cautious but Solid Character’: Southern Feminists and the State” Gunter’s talk is an investigation of the interactions of feminists and the state from 1966 through 1985. Nationally, women cooperated with officials of state agencies to push their agenda of self-sovereignty. Inspired by the Second Wave of the women’s …
Brown Bag: “New Orleans and the New Southern Food Movement”
When:April 4, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
APRIL 4 at noon Catarina Passidomo “New Orleans and the New Southern Food Movement” Passidomo has a joint appointment in anthropology and Southern Studies, and works closely with the Southern Foodways Alliance. Her research interests include Southern foodways, critical race studies, social justice, food systems, social movements, and the connections between food and culture, identity, …
Brown Bag: “Writing Histories of Environmentalism in the U.S. South”
When:March 28, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
MARCH 28 at noon Ellen Spears “Writing Histories of Environmentalism in the US South” Building on histories of environmental activism in the Southern US, Spears’s talk explores the challenges facing American environmentalism in 2017. Ellen Griffith Spears is an associate professor in the interdisciplinary New College and the Department of American Studies at the University …
Brown Bag: “A Shrine for the State: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, and Religious Remembrance at Warm Springs, Georgia”
When:March 7, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
MARCH 7 at noon Darren Grem “A Shrine for the State: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, and Religious Remembrance at Warm Springs, Georgia” Focusing on Warm Springs, Georgia, where Franklin D. Roosevelt died in April, 1945, this talk will detail how New Dealers and other liberals memorialized their approach toward the federal state, business, …
Brown Bag: Charles Reagan Wilson
When:February 21, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
FEBRUARY 21 at noon Charles Reagan Wilson will present a Brown Bag lecture on his current research.
Brown Bag: “Valentine to Carolina” Film Screening
When:February 14, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
FEBRUARY 14 at noon Ava Lowrey “Valentine to Carolina” Filmmaker Ava Lowrey presents two films highlighting the varying food cultures of North Carolina. Her films All Fried: Carolina Fish Camps and Siler City explore how newcomers to the region use food to create communal spaces. Lowrey is the Pihakis Foodways Documentary Filmmaker. She is a graduate of …
Brown Bag: “Two Sides of the Same Diaspora: A Look at Sites of Slavery in Holly Springs, MS and Bimbia, Cameroon”
When:February 7, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
FEBRUARY 7 at noon Jodi Skipper “Two Sides of the Same Diaspora: A Look at Sites of Slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and Bimbia, Cameroon” Jodi Skipper is associate professor of anthropology and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. She received her BA in history from Grambling State University, her MA from Florida State …
Brown Bag: “Telling Our Stories – The Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum”
When:January 31, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
January 31 at noon Katie Blount and Michael Morris “Telling Our Stories: The Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum” Katie Blount, director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and Michael Morris, from the department’s Programs and Communication Office, will discuss the opening of the two new museums in downtown Jackson …