October 2021
The Fannie Lou Hamer Story: Activism and Singing Workshop
Tuesday, October 5
5:30 p.m.
Gertrude C. Ford Center for Performing Arts
Join us for an engaging and interactive workshop that engages with the work and activism of Fannie Lou Hamer.
The Fannie Lou Hamer Story is part of the Ford Center’s Artist Series, which is supported by the University of Mississippi and in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and The Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement.
The Fannie Lou Hamer Story
Wednesday, October 6
7:30 p.m.
Gertrude C. Ford Center for Performing Arts
In this production of The Fannie Lou Hamer Story, Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye channels Fannie Lou Hamer in a riveting sixty-minute journey of storytelling showered with eleven inspiring songs and a video montage of the civil rights movement. Aimbaye has the power of a warrior when she speaks and the voice of an angel when she sings, evoking emotions with tears of joy and pain as well as sorrow and laughter. Mrs. Hamer’s courageous spirit and determination for human dignity and freedom come alive in Aimbaye’s Fannie Lou Hamer Story.
The Fannie Lou Hamer Story is part of the Ford Center’s Artist Series, which is supported by the University of Mississippi and in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and The Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement.
Sarahtalk: Feminist and Queer World Making in North Mississippi
Thursday, October 7 – 4:00 p.m.
LGBTQ+ Lounge, Lamar Hall – 4th Floor
Jaime Harker, director of Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies and professor of English, will discuss how the Isom Center has put theory into practice to create a more feminist and queer environment in North Mississippi.
Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies
A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309 with Aaron Cometbus and Scott Satterwhite
Thursday, October 7
4:00 p.m.
Faulkner Room, Archives & Special Collections
J.D. Williams Library (50 Galtney Lott Plaza)
The house at 309 6th Avenue has long been a crossroads for punk rock, activism, veganism, and queer culture in Pensacola, a quiet Gulf Coast city at the border of Florida and Alabama. In A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309, residents of 309 narrate the colorful and often comical details of communal life in the crowded and dilapidated house over its thirty-year existence. They tell of playing in bands, operating local businesses, forming feminist support groups, and creating zines and art.
In this SouthTalk, Aaron Cometbus and Scott Satterwhite discuss this lively community that worked together to provide for their own needs while making a positive, lasting impact on their surrounding area. Together, these participants show that punk is more than music and teenage rebellion. It is about alternatives to standard narratives of living, acceptance for the marginalized in a rapidly changing world, and building a sense of family from the ground up.
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
LGBTQ Histories Brought to Life
Monday, October 11
4 p.m.
More information: https://libarts.olemiss.edu/
This forum will be an informal conversation about the Queer Mississippi oral history project and how theater can be used to creatively present research to broader audiences. Amy McDowell (sociology) and Peter Wood (theater) will discuss their collaboration to meld theater, sociology, and LGBTQ history in a classroom setting and talk about how students in one graduate seminar are using the Queer Mississippi archive to author an original script for theatrical performances. Graduate students from the class may also be joining.
College of Liberal Arts
StorySlam: Coming Out
Tuesday, October 12
6 p.m.
LGBTQ Lounge, Lamar Hall – 4th Floor
Using The Moth format, community members will have the opportunity to tell an on time, on topic, true story about their coming out experience. Anyone is able to participate and can talk about any story related to the theme.
Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement
The Southern Cultural Renaissance of the Early Twenty-First Century with Charles Reagan Wilson
Wednesday, October 13
Noon
Location: Tupelo Room in Barnard Observatory
Reflecting the dramatic changes in southern society in the last twenty years, the South’s culture has been transformed. The increasing social diversity is leading to a multicultural society in which African Americans, Latinos, Asians, the white working classes, LGBT people, and others are claiming a new, dramatically different southern identity. In this SouthTalk, Charles Reagan Wilson explores how popular magazines have become a surprising carrier of this new identity to broad regional and national audiences.
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Wellness Walk Series
Wednesday, October 13
Noon
Grove Stage
The William Magee Center is launching the Wellness Walk Series in Fall 2021 to encourage our campus community to embrace and maintain their physical wellbeing while highlighting its interconnectedness to the other dimensions of wellness. Our office envisions students, staff, faculty, and community members walking together along the University’s designated walking paths.
William Magee Center
Queer Studies Lecture
Thursday, October 14
4 p.m.
Registration for the event via this Link
Dr. Karen Tongson, Chair, Gender Studies Program, and Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, English and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, will deliver the 8th annual Queer Studies Lecture.
Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Division of Diversity, and the Isom LGBTQ Arts, Culture, and Community Development Fund
The Ladies I Love: Blake McIver Ewing and Amanda Johnston in a Club Sarahfest Cabaret
Friday, October 15
7:30 p.m.
Music Building – UM Band Hall
Award winning Producer, Director, Actor, Singer, and Songwriter Blake McIver Ewing, who will be serving as a visiting faculty artist in the Department of Music, will be performing an evening of songs from some of his favorite female voices from Barbra Streisand and Carole King to Lady Gaga and Alicia Keys, actor/singer/producer/director Blake McIver Ewing salutes his favorite women artists with a cabaret performance with pianist Amanda Johnston
Department of Music, Sarah Isom Center for Women’s and Gender Studies and Living Music Resource
Are You Ready? Dialogue Series
Monday, October 18
4:00 p.m.
Virtual: Register Here
In this Are You Ready? Dialogue Series event Dr. Mikaëla M. Adams of the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History, Associate Professor of Native American History will present on, The Influenza of 1918-1920 in Indian Country: Reflections on the Past and Present of Indigenous Health in a Colonized World.
Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement
Marsalis Moments of Mindfulness
Tuesday, October 19
Noon
South Campus Recreation Center – Marsalis Atrium
Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. Moments of Mindfulness will be performative acts accompanied by guided meditative practices designed to help us achieve this goal.
William Magee Center
Missy Literary magazine premier event on October 21 at 6pm
Issue 1 Release of Missy: writing & art by UM’s LGBTQ+ students & allies
Thursday, October 21
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
LGBTQ Lounge, Lamar Hall – 4th Floor
Come celebrate the launch of Missy’s first Issue Release with live music, art display, featured readings, and an open mic night! Missy is the only undergraduate literary magazine designed for LGBTQ+ students and allies at the University of Mississippi. All students, faculty, and community members welcome!
Department of Writing and Rhetoric (DWR), Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies
Wellness Walk Series
Wednesday, October 27
Noon
Grove Stage
The William Magee Center is launching the Wellness Walk Series in Fall 2021 to encourage our campus community to embrace and maintain their physical wellbeing while highlighting its interconnectedness to the other dimensions of wellness. Our office envisions students, staff, faculty, and community members walking together along the University’s designated walking paths.
William Magee Center
Picture a Mississippi Scientist
Thursday, October 28
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Register Here for a Discussion Panel on the film “Picture a Scientist”
Hosted by Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning
A Mississippi state wide effort to increase awareness and action on women in STEM – https://www.msdei.org/faqs
Division of Diversity and Community Engagement
“Contra Nationis Natum: Black Classicists respond to Birth of a Nation” with Jackie Murray (U. of Kentucky)
Friday, October 29
4 p.m.
Bryant Hall – 209
Jackie Murray is Associate Professor of Classics and African American and Africana Studies at University of Kentucky; this talk focuses on the responses of Black classicists to D.W. Griffith’s racist 1915 film Birth of a Nation.
Department of Classics
Club Sarahfest: An Evening with Kelly Hogan
Friday, October 29
7:30 p.m.
Music Building – UM Band Hall
Singer and Inaugural Sarahfest Artist-in-Residence Kelly Hogan, accompanied by musician Jenny Conlee and UM music students, will perform an evening of music covering different styles and decades.
Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, The Department of Music and Living Music Resource
DEEP – 2nd Annual Black Student Leadership Summit
Saturday, October 30
8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Bishop Hall – Room 103
Registration for the DEEP Summit is now open – Register HERE
The DEEP Summit is an interactive educational symposium that is dedicated to preparing current and emerging student leaders on campus for the roles in which they currently serve in or desire to obtain. The two track workshop curriculum will encompass one track for Current Student Leaders and a second track for Emerging Student Leaders. The Current Student Leader Track will provide workshops and leadership development for organization current officers to utilize for the betterment of their respective organizations, while the Emerging Student Leader Track provides the foundations, theories, and practices of effective leadership techniques.
Council for Black Student Affairs & Black Student Union, Center for Inclusion & Cross Cultural Engagement, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, UM Student Union, Associated Student Body, and UM Career Center.
LMR Live with special guests Kelly Hogan and Jenny Conlee
Saturday, October 30 – 3 p.m.
David H. Nutt Auditorium
Musicians Kelly Hogan and Jenny Conlee discuss their music, being women in the business, and much more.
Living Music Resource, Department of Music, Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies