There will be a Gammill Gallery opening reception on Friday, May 1 from 4pm to 6pm for “At the Habana Hilton, 1958: Photographs from the Keating Collection,” an exhibit curated by Southern Studies Master’s student Lauren Holt. The reception is free and open to the public, as is the Gallery, which has normal opening hours …
Southern Studies alumnus Jake Xerxes Fussell will perform on Sunday, June 21 at 7pm on the Grove Stage as part of the Summer Sunset Series. The concert is free and open to the public.
Kaitlyn Vogt, Southern Studies Graduate Student, will present “Doublespeak and Southern Ladies: Class and Femininity in Contemporary Southern Pop Culture.” This Brown Bag was rescheduled from March 25.
There will be a screening of The Toughest Job: William Winter’s Mississippi on Tuesday, April 14 at 6pm (Eastern) at the Annenberg Theater at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Governor Winter will be in attendance and will give remarks following the screening. Those wishing to attend should RSVP to cekalu@go.olemiss.edu. About the Film The Toughest …
Michael Twitty will present a lecture entitled “The Evolution of African Foodways in the Most Southern Place on Earth: Colonial and Antebellum Mississippi” at 7pm on Wednesday, March 8 in the Tupelo Room of Barnard Observatory. Free and open to the public. More details to come. Learn more about Michael Twitty here.
David Meek, assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama, will give a special edition Brown Bag Lecture titled “Building Critical Food Systems Education: Lessons from the Grassroots.”
The Oxford Film Festival is Feb. 26 – March 1. For a full schedule, click here. Films by the Southern Documentary Project (SouthDocs) will screen in a block on Friday at 3:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3:30 p.m. One film, The Way I See It, was directed and produced by UM Honors College students Christine …
The Oxford Film Festival is Feb. 26 – March 1. For a full schedule, click here. Films by the Southern Documentary Project (SouthDocs) will screen in a block on Friday at 3:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3:30 p.m. One film, The Way I See It, was directed and produced by UM Honors College students Christine …
Caroline Herring will play a free concert at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture’s home in Barnard Observatory on Friday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. This concert is part of the Porter Fortune History Symposium, and Caroline will be playing her show in honor of her beloved graduate professor, Dr. Charles Wilson. Fats Kaplin, …
On Wednesday, September 9 at 7pm, Theda Perdue of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present the 2015 Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern History. Her talk is entitled “Indians and Christianity in the New South.” Location TBD. Theda Perdue is Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research …