September 2024 Event List
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Canamac Productions – Just Cause: The Experience
4:00 P.M. – 6:15 P.M.
Johnson Commons Ballroom
Join the University of Mississippi Division of Diversity and Community Engagement and School of Law for Canamac Productions’ Just Cause: The Experience! Award-winning playwrights Lisa Dillman and Todd Logan wrote this interactive legal drama. You will engage with other audience members as a jury, requiring you to lean in and decide the fate of the plaintiff and defendant. This special event runs for two hours and fifteen minutes. Early arrival is suggested. The event is free and open to the campus community; however, space is limited.
This event is sponsored by the School of Law and The Center for Diversity and Community Engagement.
For more information and information assistance related to disability, please get in touch with Roger Davis Jr at rdavis7@olemiss.edu.
RSVP Form: https://uofmississippi.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dm7gpBRX6vnr6PY
Thursday, September 12, 2024
SouthTalk “The Cash Value of Racism in America—and Its Schools” with Tracie McMillan
4:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M.
204C Bondurant Hall
After journalist Tracie McMillan began reporting on the material advantages of racial privilege in America, she ended up in the public schools of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Using the story of two millennial sisters—the Becker girls—as a starting point, McMillan pieces together a seventy-year history of the school district. In this talk, McMillan will use the Becker girls’ story to explore how racism has shaped our public institutions—and ultimately weakens them for everybody.
Tracie McMillan has covered America’s multiracial working class as a journalist with publications ranging from the New York Times to Mother Jones, from National Geographic to the Village Voice. A one-time target of Rush Limbaugh, McMillan currently oversees coverage of worker organizing for the online publication Capital & Main. A graduate of New York University, McMillan grew up on a dirt road outside Flint, Michigan. She splits her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Detroit.
This event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
This event is free and open to the campus community.
For more information and assistance related to disability, please contact Afton Thomas at amthoma4@olemiss.edu.
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Our Movement Starts Here: Film Screening and Panel with Ben Chavis, Dollie Burwell, Melanie Ho, and John Rash
6:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M.
Overby Center Auditorium
Our Movement Starts Here is a feature-length documentary film by directors John Rash and Melanie Ho that chronicles the story of a rural, majority-Black community in North Carolina that made history in 1982 by fighting the state’s toxic landfill, an event that is often said to have sparked the environmental justice movement.
The film will be followed by a conversation with the filmmakers and two of the participants in the film, Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis and Mrs. Dollie Burwell. See page 14 in the Fall issue of the Southern Register for more information on the film and panel.
This event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
This event is free and open to the campus community.
For more information and assistance related to disability, please contact Afton Thomas at amthoma4@olemiss.edu.
Friday, September 20, 2024
Talk “Southern Environmental Justice” with Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis
12:00 P.M. – 1:00 P.M.
Barnard Observatory
In this SouthTalk, Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis will speak on the evolution of the environmental justice movement, which is often said to have started as a local grassroots movement in North Carolina in 1982. Today the environmental justice movement has grown into a global movement for environmental justice, equality, and equity.
Dr. Benjamin Franklin Chavis is an esteemed civil rights leader, global business leader, faith leader, and public intellectual. He was born in Oxford, North Carolina. His family has been deeply rooted in Granville County, North Carolina, as landowners, farmers, educators, theologians, physicians, and activists for more than 250 years. Chavis is the host of The Chavis Chronicles, a television broadcast that airs weekly on PBS.
See pages 14 and 15 in the Fall issue of the Southern Register for more information on Chavis and the struggle that spurred on the environmental justice movement in America.
This event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
This event is free and open to the campus community.
For more information and assistance related to disability, please contact Afton Thomas at amthoma4@olemiss.edu.
Friday, September 20, 2024
4th Annual HBCU Law Preview Day
9:30 A.M. – 2:30 P.M.
Robert C. Khayat Law Center (Law School)
We are excited to invite you to our 4th Annual HBCU Law Preview Day on Friday, September 20. To join us for our 4th Annual HBCU Law Preview Day, please register at bit.ly/2024HBCULaw. This free event is open to all students!
The University of Mississippi School of Law is committed to providing access to the legal profession. Our annual preview day, with its on-campus agenda of activities, will provide students a detailed, hands-on experience at the Law School which will increase the chance that many will seek admission and become students at our Law School.
This event is sponsored by the School of Law.
This event is free and open to all students. Registration is required. There will be free breakfast, lunch, and Law School swag.
For more information and assistance related to disability, please contact Joshua Tucker at jtucker1@olemiss.edu.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
SouthTalk “Surplussed Atlanta: The Built Environment of Homelessness” with Chuck Steffen
12:00 P.M. – 1:00 P.M.
Barnard Observatory
Downtown Atlanta is known for its glass office towers and professional sports venues. It is also known for having the densest population of unhoused persons in the metropolitan area. For nearly half a century, a succession of city governments, hotel and convention interests, real estate developers and property owners, neighborhood associations, and university administrations have pursued a campaign to relocate this population from the central business district to lower-income Black neighborhoods on the south and west sides of the city—either that or put unhoused people in jail. In his talk, Chuck Steffen will place this campaign in the context of efforts to transform the downtown built environment after the Second World War. The actors who tore down and rebuilt the heart of the “City Too Busy to Hate” created a built environment in which homelessness could and would flourish.
This event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
This event is free and open to the campus community.
For more information and assistance related to disability, please contact Afton Thomas at amthoma4@olemiss.edu.
Sunday, September 29, 2024
The Longest Table
4:30 P.M. – 6:30 P.M.
Lyceum Circle (in front of the Lyceum)
The Longest Table is a free university gathering on Sunday, September 29, with check-in and food service beginning at 4:30 P.M. The event brings together students, faculty, staff, and community members for a shared meal in The Circle in front of The Lyceum. The event also honors James Meredith Day—celebrated annually on October 2—by encouraging dialogue and community-building as we work toward an even brighter future for the University of Mississippi and the people it serves.
This event is sponsored by the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement.
Attendance is free.
Check-in and food service begin at 4:00 P.M. Vegetarian and vegan options will be available.
Opening remarks are at 5:00 P.M.
For more information on accessibility assistance, please contact the Division of Diversity & Community Engagement at 662.915.2933 or diversity@olemiss.edu.