Below is the amended schedule, taking into account the University’s closure on Thursday, Feb. 26. The 2015 Porter Fortune, Jr. History Symposium will take place February 27 – 28 on the University of Mississippi campus. The symposium will honor the recent retirement of Charles Reagan Wilson with a series of talks and panel discussions on …
MPB will also host a community screening on Thursday, October 2 in the courtyard at MPB. A public reception with Governor Winter in attendance will begin at 6pm, with the premiere of the film at 7pm. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided by Hal and Mal’s and Lazy …
On Thursday, October 2 at 8pm, Mississippi Public Broadcasting will air the Southern Documentary Project’s film The Toughest Job: William Winter’s Mississippi. The film, made by Matthew Graves, tells the story of Winter’s career in politics with an emphasis on his hard-fought battle to reform education in the state, with one notable result the establishment …
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2015 Blues Today Symposium – April 9 Since 2003, Living Blues magazine has sponsored the Blues Today Symposium each spring on the University of Mississippi campus. The Symposium has featured such keynote speakers as Paul Oliver, Samuel Charters, and Bill Ferris as well as intimate musical performances by Honeyboy Edwards, Little Milton, and B.B. King. The 2015 …
The 22nd annual Oxford Conference for the Book is set for Wednesday, March 25 through Friday, March 27. The Conference brings together fiction and nonfiction writers, journalists, artists, poets, publishers, teachers, students, and literacy advocates for three days of conversation in the literary town of Oxford, Mississippi. Presented by the Center for the Study of …
Opening Reception for “Making Space, Living in Place: Physical, Cultural, and Social Landscapes from North Mississippi,” photographs from Documentary Fieldwork students. Photographs by Grant LeFever Lauren Holt Alexandria Gryder Alex Edwards Debbie Nelson Jhesset Enano Hannah Threadgill Hal Sullivan Amelia Brock Frank Kossen Lindsey Reynolds Kell Kellum
Jaime Cantrell, UM Visiting Assistant Professor of English. Thinking sex through food in hypervisible works of lesbian poetry and fiction expands the possibilities for negotiating sexuality beyond the individual body and into the social realm. If we “stand detached” from sexuality and “bracket its familiarity” within the multiple identity forming sites and fracturing spaces that …
Andy Harper, producer. Brown Bag Lectures take place each Wednesday at noon during the school year in Barnard Observatory.
Southern Studies alumna Mary Margaret White, Bureau Manager, Creative Economy and Culture, Mississippi Development Authority/Tourism Division Brown Bag Lectures take place each Wednesday at noon during the school year in Barnard Observatory.