March 2022

SouthTalks: sống ở đây

Wednesday, March 2

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Tupelo Room in Barnard Observatory

Melanie Ho is a producer-director for the Southern Documentary Project whose work deals with trauma, familial relationships, gender, displacement, and intimacy. During her SouthTalk, Ho will screen her documentary film, sống ở đây, followed by a Q&A.

Exploring the “intimacy of the mundane,” sống ở đây focuses on the lives of Vietnamese shrimpers and elderly farmers in New Orleans, Louisiana, to underscore the reverberations of the past in day-to-day labor of the present. Ho is also working to complete mẹ con, a short documentary about a Vietnamese woman, the memories of her mother, and the plants she grows.

The project is supported by a Sauce Fellowship for emerging Asian American filmmakers, presented by the Center for Asian American Media and the New Orleans Video Access Center.

A Florida native, Ho earned her MFA from the social documentation program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and much of her work centers around underrepresented voices and stories in the South.

Sponsor: Center for the Study of Southern Culture

Partner Cooking Night (Cooking Demonstration)

Wednesday, March 2

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Whitwell Kitchen in South Campus Recreation Center 

Join the William Magee Center for a night of fun as we teach you how to make a delicious meal at no cost to you! Come solo or bring a friend! All students are welcome! Free food!

Sponsor: University of Mississippi – William Magee Center

FRIES-Day Fridays

Friday, March 4

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Union Plaza

Consent is as easy as FRIES! Join the William Magee Center as we talk about consent and healthy relationships over a basket of yummy fries!

Sponsor: University of Mississippi – William Magee Center

“The Loyola Project” Film Viewing and Discussion

Monday, March 7

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Thad Cochran Research Center – Room 1000

The Loyola Project is a film about the 1963 Loyola Ramblers men’s basketball team that broke racial barriers and changed basketball forever. For more information and to view a trailer: Loyola Project. At the conclusion of the film, Dr. Charles Ross, Professor of History and African American Studies will facilitate a discussion on the film.

Sponsors: Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement and Ole Miss Athletics

Wellness Walks

Tuesday, March 8

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM

Meet at Grove Stage

Join our Wellness Walk Series as we encourage our campus community to embrace and maintain their physical wellbeing while highlighting its interconnectedness to the other dimensions of wellness. Join together with other students, faculty, staff, and community members while walking together along the University’s designated walking paths. 

Sponsor: University of Mississippi – William Magee Center

What’s Next? Gender & Sexuality in the Job Search 

Tuesday, March 8 

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

LGBTQ+ Lounge – 4th Floor of Lamar Hall

Join us for a discussion on navigating gender and sexuality in the internship and job search.

Sponsors: Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement and the Career Center

SouthTalks: Art in Barnard Lecture with Yolande van Heerden

Wednesday, March 9

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Courtyard behind Barnard Observatory

This semester, the Art in Barnard Lecture will complement the Center’s yearlong theme of “Mississippi Voices” by featuring fiber artist and art instructor Yolande van Heerden of Greenwood, Mississippi. Van Heerden teaches a wide range of art classes, including sewing, quilting, and garment/fiber art projects. A native of South Africa, van Heerden celebrates her homeland’s cultural diversity through her community outreach work, and she draws up the richness of its fabric tradition in her own creations. She works as an art teacher for groups of small children, conducts courses in sewing at ArtPlace Mississippi, and has coordinated multiple community-wide quilting projects for organizations including the Museum of the Mississippi Delta.

In her SouthTalk, van Heerden will discuss some of the projects she has led in partnership with the nonprofit ArtPlace Mississippi. Projects have included community fashion shows, featuring clothing sewn by young Greenwood students, several community quilt creations sewn by both children and adults that reflect different social or natural themes, and public art programs, including “silent wind chimes” included in the Katrina Cottage project in Greenwood’s Baptist Town neighborhood and in the Keep Greenwood Strong campaign early in the pandemic.

Sponsor: Center for the Study of Southern Culture

Women’s Leadership Program: Mentoring Luncheon

Wednesday, March 9

Start time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Virtual event via Zoom – Register: https://olemiss.zoom.us/j/95815263196 

A series of virtual luncheons held during Spring 2022 meant to foster and develop women’s leadership at the University of Mississippi.

Sponsor: Diversity and Community Engagement

Women’s Empowerment Keynote

Wednesday, March 9

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Location: Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union – Auditorium 124

Join us to celebrate Women’s History Month for an evening of conversation with University of Mississippi Assistant Professor of Law, Dr. Yvette Butler and Law Student, Hope Thompson.

Sponsor: Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement

SouthTalks: “Voces Sureñas: Case Studies of Spanish in Northern Mississippi and Eastern North Carolina” Stephen Fafulas and Matt Van Hoose

Friday, March 11

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Virtual Event via Zoom –  Register here

Although the US South has experienced a significant Latinx demographic shift in recent decades, we still know little about the sociolinguistic implications of these changes. In their talk, Stephen Fafulas and Matt Van Hoose consider how Spanish speakers’ language practices and patterns—such as code-switching and discourse markers—can be said to constitute the voice of Spanish-speaking communities in both north Mississippi and in eastern North Carolina.

Stephen Fafulas is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Mississippi. Matthew J. Van Hoose is executive director of academic engagement at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland.

Sponsor: Center for the Study of Southern Culture

Food for the Soul

Wednesday, March 16 

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM

Old Athletics Building Student Lounge

Food For The Soul is a Monthly Staff Social. Come meet other staff, enjoy a delicious meal and make new friends.  Learn to practice gratitude in your daily life! Lunch provided. RSVP: Susan Kelly smkelly2@olemiss.edu

Sponsor: Center for Intelligence and Security Studies

Student Parent Roundtable 

Monday, March 21 and Tuesday, March 22

7:00 PM

Willie Price Lab School in Kinnard Hall – Childcare is available 

Description: Are you a UM student..Who is also a parent? What do you need to succeed? Join a Student Parent Roundtable Conversation and have a voice in shaping programs and resources for student parents on our campus. Snacks available. Learn more at olemiss.edu/studentparent. Email lwilkins@olemiss.edu. For those who can’t make a meeting, there’s a link to a short survey at olemiss.edu/studentparent — we’re hoping to hear from as many of our students who care for children as possible, so please share this information with any student parents in your sphere.

Sponsor: University of Mississippi Work/Life Resources

Student Parent Roundtable 

Tuesday, March 22

12:15 PM

George Street House

Are you a UM student..Who is also a parent? What do you need to succeed? Join a Student Parent Roundtable Conversation and have a voice in shaping programs and resources for student parents on our campus. Snacks available. Learn more at olemiss.edu/studentparent. Email lwilkins@olemiss.edu. For those who can’t make a meeting, there’s a link to a short survey at olemiss.edu/studentparent — we’re hoping to hear from as many of our students who care for children as possible, so please share this information with any student parents in your sphere.

Sponsor: University of Mississippi Work/Life Resources

Native American and Indigenous Student Association (NAISA) Meeting

Monday, March 21

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union – Room 326

Get involved with the Native American and Indigenous Student Association (NAISA)! Join us on Monday, March 21, 2022 at 6pm in Room 326 of the Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union. Come learn more about the organization, meet the Executive Board and club members, and discuss future events.

Sponsor: Native American Student Association (NAISA)

Wellness Walks

Tuesday, March 22

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM

Meet at Grove Stage

Join our Wellness Walk Series as we encourage our campus community to embrace and maintain their physical wellbeing while highlighting its interconnectedness to the other dimensions of wellness. Join together with other students, faculty, staff, and community members while walking together along the University’s designated walking paths. 

Sponsor: University of Mississippi – William Magee Center

Latin American Student Organization (LASO) Monthly Meeting

Tuesday,  March 22

5:00 – 6:30 PM

Ole Miss Student Union – 323

Monthly meeting to go over past events, upcoming events, and any news relating to LASO.

Sponsor: Latin American Student Organization (LASO)

Women’s Leadership Program: Barriers to Success in Higher Ed

Tuesday, March 23

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Virtual event via Zoom – Register: https://olemiss.zoom.us/j/92621701132 

A series of virtual luncheons held during Spring 2022 meant to foster and develop women’s leadership at the University of Mississippi.

Sponsor: Diversity and Community Engagement

Art Talks: Loie Hollowell

Wednesday, March 23

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Virtual event on Zoom. Register for the event. 

Painter Loie Hollowell will discuss her large-scale geometric and quietly erotic abstract paintings. Sparking conversation that is not genderless, but gender-fluid. Hollowell artworks are available on her website.

Sponsor: Department of Art & Art History 

SouthTalks: Summer Avenue Oral History Project Annemarie Anderson, Simone Delerme, and Kelly Spivey

Thursday, March 24

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Virtual Event via Zoom – Register Here

Summer Avenue, a six-mile section of US Highway 70, one of the first paved, signed highways in the US, has been known by a number of names over the years — the Broadway of America, Bristol Highway, and most recently, Nations Highway. But for the market owners, restaurateurs, and retail owners in this oral history collection, Memphis is simply home.

During this SouthTalk, attendees will hear from the three collaborators who collected these oral histories. They will screen short documentaries, filmed by Kelly Spivey, featuring some of the restaurateurs, market owners, and retailers interviewed for this project. 

Annemarie Anderson is the oral historian for the Southern Foodways Alliance. She manages and conducts oral history work throughout the South. Simone Delerme joined the University of Mississippi’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Center for the Study of Southern Culture in the fall of 2013. She specializes in migration to the US South, with interests in race relations, integration and incorporation, community development, and social class inequalities. Kelly Spivey is a documentarian living and working in Memphis, Tennessee. She holds a BFA in photography from SCAD, and both an MA in Southern Studies and an MFA in Documentary Expression from the University of Mississippi.

Sponsors: Southern Foodways Alliance and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture

Voices of Youth: A Francophone Film Festival

Friday, March 25

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Lamar Hall – Rooms 131

The theme of our festival is “Les voix de la jeunesse”–Voices of Youth. The films were selected by our student co-organizers based on their interests, and based on which stories they thought would interest people on our campus and in our community. While four of the screenings will be held mid-week, we will have special opening night and closing night ceremonies on Friday evenings. The students see the festival as a way to raise awareness of young people’s stories in French and Francophone cinema, as well an opportunity to promote our French major and minor and our study abroad programs. 

Sponsors: Croft Institute, Modern Languages

SouthTalks: Sam Wang: Persistent Discoveries Photography Exhibition and Talk Sam Wang and John Rash

Friday, March 25

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Tupelo Room in Barnard Observatory

A discussion between Sam Wang, South Carolina-based photographer and Clemson University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts, and Southern Documentary Project producer / director John Rash concerning the retrospective exhibition of Sam’s photographs which will be on-view in the Gammill Gallery in Barnard Observatory. John Rash curated the exhibition and also produced an accompanying 25-minute documentary film about Sam Wang which has been screening as part of the traveling exhibition and is currently in the national film festival circuit.

Sponsor: Center for the Study of Southern Culture

Sites of Resistance, Sites of Healing

Friday, March 25 – Saturday, March 26 

Join us as we visit historical sites of racial injustice to reflect on its legacy and imagine new possibilities for the future. Leaving from Oxford, MS, we will travel to Sumner, MS stopping at the Emmett Till Interpretive Center. Here we will learn about the death of Emmett Till and the subsequent murder trial that brought to light the brutality of Jim Crow segregation in the South and was an early impetus of the civil rights movement. We will then travel to Montgomery, AL to visit the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Here we will investigate America’s history of racial injustice and its legacy, and learn about current work being done to challenge racial and economic injustice. This is open to all UM students, faculty, staff, and LOU community residents. A $100 non-refundable registration fee is required. The application closes on March 3rd at 11:59 PM. Apply here!

There will be a pre-departure discussion with members of the Lafayette County Remembrance Project and the Alluvial Collective on Thursday, March 24 at 6 pm-7:30 pm. Attendance is required for all participants.

Sponsors: Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, Ole Miss Athletics, The Graduate School

Spring Pride Camp featuring Quinn Gee-Edwards

Saturday, March 26

10:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Lamar Hall

Spring Pride Camp is a time for community-building for LGBTQIA+ and Allies students, staff, faculty, and community members. Spring Pride Camp will be a day filled with workshops and discussion to center and empower the LGBTQIA+ community. Quinn Gee Edwards, University of Mississippi Alum and owner of Magnolia Mental Health will be leading the program.

Registration Information Coming Soon…

Sponsor: Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement

SouthTalks: Listening to Mississippi: Displaying the Defaced Emmett Till Historical Marker at the Smithsonian

Monday, March 28

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Tupelo Room in Barnard Observatory

In 2019, two Smithsonian curators spent several weeks in Mississippi to see if they could ethically display the defaced Emmett Till marker in Washington, DC. After listening to culture workers and learning from Tallahatchie County residents, they co-curated an exhibit with their Mississippi partners titled “Reckoning With Remembrance: History, Injustice, and the Murder of Emmett Till.” During the Southtalk, Nancy Bercaw will discuss how the exhibit process reflects the ethos of the museum’s Center for Restorative History that builds on the principles of restorative justice to redress historical harms.

Sponsor: Center for the Study of Southern Culture

UM Listen Board

Wednesday, March 30

10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Union Plaza

Don’t forget to get a check-up from the neck-up! Stop by and grab a button that reflects how you’re feeling. No right answers! No judgements! Free swag!

Sponsor: University of Mississippi – William Magee Center

Are You Ready? Dialogue Series: Food Insecurity in Our City

Wednesday, March 30

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union – Auditorium 124

Sponsor: Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement

The Future of the South Lecture: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Wednesday, March 30

 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

David H.  Nutt Auditorium (542 University Avenue)

In this Southtalk, Dr. Imani Perry, author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, will reflect the beautiful and deeply complex history of Black thought, art, and imagination. Her work is informed by her background as a legal historian and her understanding of the racial inequality embedded in American law. Perry’s work is an essential odyssey through the American South and the way it defines American identity.  This lecture is a part of the Oxford Conference for the Book. For more information, visit their website.

Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and a faculty associate with the programs in law and public affairs, gender and sexuality studies, and jazz studies. She is the author of six books, including Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem, and Breathe: A Letter to My Sons. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Perry grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Chicago. She currently lives outside Philadelphia with her two sons. 

Sponsor: Center for the Study of Southern Culture

A roundtable discussion with campus and community members on food insecurity in the Oxford community.

Sponsor: Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement

Developing Ethnically Diverse Students to Become Leaders in Mississippi

Wednesday, March 30

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Garland Annex 202

This is a 3-part speaker series event addressing diversity, equity and inclusion in Athletic Training, Healthcare and Leadership.  We will discuss key components of leadership, understanding diversity and advocating for change in your community and state. This event is made possible by the generous grant support of the National Athletics Trainers Association Ethnic Diversity Advisory Committee.

Sponsors: Athletic Training, Master of Science Program, UM Athletic Training Club

The Twenty-Eighth Oxford Conference for the Book

Wednesday, March 30 – Friday, April 1

The Oxford Conference for the Book is a three-day gathering inaugurated in 1993 and held annually, except in 1997. The event takes place in Oxford and on the campus of the University of Mississippi. Since its inauguration, the conference has celebrated books, writing, and reading and has also dealt with practical concerns on which the literary arts and the humanities depend, including literacy, freedom of expression, and the book trade itself. Beginning in 1999, the conference has been open to the public without charge.

 www.oxfordconferenceforthebook.com – For information about special lectures and events

Sponsors: The Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Square Books, the Departments of English and History, the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics, the African American Studies Program, the School of Law, the Center for Inclusion and Cross-Cultural Engagement, the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, the Department of Writing and Rhetoric, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, Thacker Mountain Radio, the Lafayette County Literacy Council, and the Junior Auxiliary of Oxford. The conference is partially funded by the University of Mississippi, the Willie Morris Awards for Southern Writing, the National Book Foundation, the R&B Feder Foundation for the Beaux Arts, and a grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council. Promotional support comes from Visit Oxford.

2022 Isom Student Gender Conference

Wednesday, March 30

1:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union – Auditorium 124

The 22nd Annual Isom Student Gender Conference will be held March 30-31 and will highlight student research in Gender and Sexuality Studies. This year’s theme is “Feminist and Queer World Making.” As part of the conference, Dr. Minnie Bruce Pratt will be delivering the Lucy Somerville Howorth Lecture. For more information or to view the schedule, please visit: https://isomstudentgenderconference.org/. The conference is free and open to the public.

Sponsor: Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies 

Student Parent Roundtable 

Thursday, March 31

7:00 PM

Zoom Event – Email lwilkins@olemiss.edu for the link

Are you a UM student..Who is also a parent? What do you need to succeed? Join a Student Parent Roundtable Conversation and have a voice in shaping programs and resources for student parents on our campus. Snacks available. Learn more at olemiss.edu/studentparent. Email lwilkins@olemiss.edu. For those who can’t make a meeting, there’s a link to a short survey at olemiss.edu/studentparent — we’re hoping to hear from as many of our students who care for children as possible, so please share this information with any student parents in your sphere.

Sponsor: University of Mississippi Work/Life Resources