On Wednesday, October 21 at noon in Barnard Observatory, Ashley Smith will screen clips from Emma Lytle’s 1940 amateur film “Raisin’ Cotton” as well as some selections from her home movies from Perthshire Plantation that are held at the University of Mississippi Archives and Special Collections. She will also discuss the ways that the meaning …
On Wednesday, September 23 at noon in Barnard Observatory, Dr. John Bullion of the University of Missouri will present a lecture entitled “Lyndon Johnson, Civil Rights, and the Democratic Party in the South.” Learn more about Dr. Bullion here. Brown Bag Lectures take place on select Wednesdays during the fall and spring semesters in the …
On Wednesday, September 16, at noon in Barnard Observatory, Dr. Charles Hughes of Rhodes College will discuss his book Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South. Dr. Hughes has spoken at the Center’s Music of the South Symposium in the past. Learn more about him here. Brown Bag Lectures take place …
The Delta Blues Museum and the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture will host a teacher workshop on the Mississippi Blues Trail on July 28-30, 2015. The 3-day workshop will be held at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale and is open to teachers of all subjects and all grade levels. …
Living Blues magazine, working with Dominican University in Chicago, will host a Blues and the Spirit Symposium on January 16. Visit the symposium’s website for for more information.
The 18th Southern Foodways Symposium, presented by the Southern Foodways Alliance, will take place October 15 – 18, 2015 in Oxford, Mississippi. The theme will be food and pop culture. Visit southernfoodways.org for more information.
The 23rd Oxford Conference for the Book, presented by the Center and Square Books, will take place Wednesday, March 2 – Friday, March 4. Check the OCB website for more information.
The Southern Foodways Alliance will host their annual Graduate Student Conference on September 10 – 11 on the campus of the University of Mississippi. The theme will explore food and pop culture. For more information on the conference, visit the SFA website. Presented by the Southern Foodways Alliance, the Center for the Study of Southern …
The Southern Foodways Alliance will present the 2015 Summer Symposium in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 25 – 28. Learn more about the Symposium here. Tickets to the symposium are sold out.
The Southern Foodways Alliance’s 2015 Oral History Workshop will take place July 13 – 17 in Oxford, Mississippi. The workshop, which requires an application, is open to undergraduate and graduate students as well as SFA members. For more information on how to apply, click here. The application deadline is May 25. SFA Oral Historian Sara …