When:April 3, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – April 5, 2024 @ 10:00 pm
The storied Oxford Conference for the Book returns to the University of Mississippi and downtown Oxford venues April 3-5 for its 30th anniversary edition. https://bit.ly/3xbUEe8
Events
SouthTalks: Continuing the Legacy of Freedom Summer
When:March 20, 2024 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
Continuing the Legacy of Freedom Summer • A Panel Discussion between Freedom Project Network, Mississippi Votes, 1964 Freedom Summer Veterans, and Faculty Fellow W. Ralph Eubanks • Wednesday, March 20 at 5 p.m. The overarching goal of the Mississippi Summer Project—known as Freedom Summer—was to empower Black Mississippians to participate in local, state, and national elections. …
SouthTalks: Unearthing Black Midwifery Stories and Traditions
When:March 6, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
Linda Janet Holmes, former director of the New Jersey Health Department Office of Minority and Multicultural Health, began recording interviews with traditional African American midwives decades ago. Her most recent book, Safe in a Midwife’s Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South, focuses on the practices of Black midwives whose holistic approaches are essential counterbalances to …
SouthTalks: “Faulkner’s Enduring Queerness”
When:May 1, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
Phillip “Pip” Gordon, UM visiting assistant professor of gender studies in the Sarah Isom Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, discusses “Faulkner’s Enduring Queerness” at noon May 1. Gordon discusses Faulkner’s relevance to broadening fields of trans and ace studies and the value such approaches have to our understanding of Faulkner and the South. SouthTalks …
Spring Documentary Showcase
When:May 3, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
Gammill Gallery and Tupelo Room Barnard Observatory Spring Documentary Showcase The Spring Documentary Showcase is a celebration of the work by our documentary students. Each artist will present their work. Attendees will have an opportunity to engage with the artists and their work during a reception.
SouthTalks: “Cold War Country: Music Row, the Pentagon, and the Sound of American Patriotism”
When:April 24, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory
“Cold War Country: Music Row, the Pentagon, and the Sound of American Patriotism” Joseph M. Thompson Country music maintains a unique, decades-long relationship to the US military, but these ties didn’t just happen. Joseph M. Thompson explores how country music’s Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences …
SouthTalks: Deep Inside the Blues
When:April 16, 2024 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Where:Barnard Obervatory
Deep Inside the Blues Margo Cooper, Joe Ayers, and Trent Ayers In this SouthTalk, photographer and author will be joined in conversation by blues musicians Joe Ayers and his son Trent Ayers. Cooper had the privilege of interviewing both Ayers men for her book Deep Inside the Blues. She describes Joe Ayers as kind, wise, …
SouthTalks: “Good Night, New Deal: The Waltons and the South’s Great Depression in American Memory”
When:April 10, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory Tupelo Room
“Good Night, New Deal: The Waltons and the South’s Great Depression in American Memory” Darren E. Grem The Waltons, a popular television show airing from 1972 to 1981, re-remembered and re-framed for millions what the Great Depression and New Deal meant, using Virginia writer Earl Hamner Jr.’s personal remembrances and novels to present southern whites as exemplars of …
SouthTalks: After Sherman
When:April 9, 2024 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Where:Overby Center Auditorium
After Sherman Jon-Sesrie Goff Returning to the coastal South Carolina land that his family purchased after Emancipation, filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff desired to explore his Gullah/Geechee roots, a journey that transformed into a poetic investigation of Black inheritance, trauma, and generational wisdom amid the violent tensions that define America’s collective history. Jon-Sesrie Goff is a multidisciplinary …
SouthTalks: “‘Ain’t I Pretty?’: Sweet Daddy Grace and the Sacred Blues of the Badman”
When:March 27, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Where:Barnard Observatory Tupelo Room
“‘Ain’t I Pretty?’: Sweet Daddy Grace and the Sacred Blues of the Badman” Xavier Sivels From the summer of 1926 until his death in 1959, Charles Manuel Grace made a name for himself as the faith-healing leader of the United House of Prayer for All People (UHOP). Establishing widespread support for his ministry in working-class …