The second annual Food Media South symposium, offered by the Southern Foodways Alliance, is set for February 19–20 in Birmingham, Alabama. Learn more here.
Aaron Bobrow-Strain will deliver the keynote lecture of the 2015 Southern Foodways Alliance Grad Student Conference on Thursday, September 10 at 6:30pm in Barnard Observatory. Dr. Bobrow-Strain is a professor in the Politics Department at Whitman College, where he teaches on the global food system, environmental politics, immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border, and political economy. …
Center institute the Southern Documentary Project, in partnership with the Mississippi State Department of Archives and History, has produced a short film about the Voting Rights Act of 1965. There will be a screening on Tuesday, September 22 at 6pm. More details to come.
On Friday, September 18 at noon, the UM Department of Sociology and Anthropology will present a Brown Bag Lecture by Patti Guiffre of Texas State University. Giuffre is author of Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen. Learn more about Dr. Giuffre and her talk here. This lecture is presented …
On Wednesday, November 11 at noon in Barnard Observatory, Cynthia Joyce will present a talk on her new book, Please Forward: How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina. Learn more about the book here. Cynthia Joyce has been a writer, editor, and web producer for more than 15 years and has contributed to several regional and …
On Wednesday, October 28 at noon in Barnard Observatory, Maarten Zwiers of the University of Groningen will present a Brown Bag Lecture. The title of his talk will be “Southern Popular Culture and Politics in the 1970s.” Brown Bag Lectures take place on select Wednesdays during the fall and spring semesters in the Tupelo Room …
On Wednesday, November 18 at noon in Barnard Observatory, Andrew Harper, director of the Southern Documentary Project, will host a screening and discussion of recently-completed and in production SouthDocs films. Brown Bag Lectures take place on select Wednesdays during the fall and spring semesters in the Tupelo Room in the west wing of Barnard Observatory. …
On Wednesday, September 9 at 5:30pm the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC will host a screening of The Toughest Job: William Winter’s Mississippi, a film by the Southern Documentary Project, an institute of the UM Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Following the screening, there will be a conversation …
On Wednesday, September 23 at 7pm in the Tupelo Room of Barnard Observatory, the Sarah Isom Center will present a lecture by Dr. Michael Bibler entitled “Tin Roof Rusted: The Silliness and Ecstasy of The B-52s.” Dr. Bibler is Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University. Learn more about him here.
On Wednesday, October 14, at noon in Barnard Observatory, Dr. Angela Pulley Hudson of Texas A&M University will present a lecture on her book Real Native Genius: How an Ex-slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians. The book will be published in the fall of 2015 by the University of North Carolina Press. Learn more …