Apr
3
Wed
6:00 pm Oxford Conference for the Book
Oxford Conference for the Book
Apr 3 @ 6:00 pm – Apr 5 @ 10:00 pm
Oxford Conference for the Book
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
Apr
9
Tue
5:00 pm SouthTalks: After Sherman @ Overby Center Auditorium
SouthTalks: After Sherman @ Overby Center Auditorium
Apr 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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
Apr
10
Wed
12:00 pm SouthTalks: “Good Night, New Dea... @ Barnard Observatory Tupelo Room
SouthTalks: “Good Night, New Dea... @ Barnard Observatory Tupelo Room
Apr 10 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
“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
Apr
16
Tue
5:00 pm SouthTalks: Deep Inside the Blue @ Barnard Obervatory
SouthTalks: Deep Inside the Blue @ Barnard Obervatory
Apr 16 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
SouthTalks: Deep Inside the Blue @ Barnard Obervatory
Deep Inside the Blue 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,
Apr
24
Wed
12:00 pm SouthTalks: “Cold War Country: M... @ Barnard Observatory
SouthTalks: “Cold War Country: M... @ Barnard Observatory
Apr 24 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
SouthTalks: “Cold War Country: Music Row, the Pentagon, and the Sound of American Patriotism” @ 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
May
1
Wed
12:00 pm SouthTalks: “Faulkner’s Enduring... @ Barnard Observatory
SouthTalks: “Faulkner’s Enduring... @ Barnard Observatory
May 1 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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