OXFORD, Miss. – The fall Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture series begins this week at the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
Most lectures are scheduled for noon Wednesdays in the Tupelo Room of Barnard Observatory, Room 105. They are free and open to the public.
The schedule begins Wednesday (Aug. 30) with “Brotherhood and Brotherhoodism: Studying Family Problems in the Twentieth Century South,” presented by Ted Ownby, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and an Ole Miss professor of history.
Other lectures in the series are:
- Sept. 21 – “Mississippi in the Work of Sherwood Bonner,” presented by Katie McKee, McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and UM associate professor of English. Lecture will be in the Department of Archives and Special Collections of the J.D. Williams Library.
- Sept. 27 – “El Sur Latino: Migration, Identity and Incorporation,” by Simone Delerme, McMullan Assistant Professor of Southern Studies and UM assistant professor of anthropology.
- Oct. 4 – “Introducing the Do Good Fund Exhibit,” by David Wharton, UM director of documentary studies and assistant professor of Southern studies, and Brooke White, UM associate professor of art.
- Oct. 19 – “A Screening of ‘An Outrage’ and Conversation with Filmmakers,” by Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren, co-directors of Field Studio in Richmond, Virginia.
- Oct. 25 – “‘That’s for the White Folks’: Race, Culture, and (Un)Making Place in the Rural South,” by Brian Foster, UM assistant professor of sociology and Southern studies.
- Nov. 1 – “A Discussion of ‘Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition,'” by Adam Gussow, UM associate professor of English and Southern studies.
- Nov. 8 – “Bobbie Gentry’s Odes to Mississippi,” by Kristine McCusker, of the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University.
- Nov. 15 – “Politics and Poetics: Writing about the Twentieth-Century Appalachian South,” by Jessie Wilkerson, UM assistant professor of history and Southern studies.