October 2023
IMC and Journalism Networking Event
Monday, October 2, 2023
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Student Union Room 323
Description: Employers in the IMC and Journalism industry will be present to discuss their job opportunities.
Sponsored by The University of Mississippi Career Center andOle Miss PRSSA
For questions, contact Christy Wright at christy@career.olemiss.edu
James H. Meredith Lecture Series
Monday, October 2, 2023
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
The Inn at Ole Miss Ballroom
Description: The University of Mississippi is hosting the inaugural James H. Meredith Lecture Series, with Dr. Ruha Benjamin as the keynote speaker, as a continuation of the commitment made during the 60th commemoration to continue honoring Mr. Meredith’s legacy. During the ceremony, the inaugural James H. Meredith Community Transformation Award recipient will be announced. Everyone is encouraged to attend the keynote lecture, which is free and open to the public.
For more information about the the James Meredith Lecture Series, please visit the 60 Years of Integration website, click here.
For questions, contact Yamika Banks at diversity@olemiss.edu
Fall 2023 Graduate, Law, and Health Professional School Day
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Gertrude C. Ford Student Union Ballroom
Description: Students will be able to speak with representatives about their graduate and professional programs.
Sponsored by The University of Mississippi Career Center
For questions, contact Christy Wright at christy@career.olemiss.edu
Fall 2023 STEM Fair (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)
Thursday, October 5, 2023
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Gertrude C. Ford Student Union Ballroom
Description: Employers in the STEM field who actively recruiting will be present to discuss their internship/co-op and full-time job opportunities with students.
Sponsored by The University of Mississippi Career Center, School of Engineering, and College of Liberal Arts
For questions, contact Christy Wright at christy@career.olemiss.edu
Hispanic Film Festival: “Las niñas araña”
Thursday, October 5, 2023
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Turner Center Auditorium, 205
Description: Inspired by actual events, this teenage thriller is a unique social commentary on dreams, class, and unfulfilled expectations in contemporary Chile.
Three teenage girls from a Santiago shanty town set in motion a plan to climb buildings and plunder expensive apartments. All they want is to have all the cool and trendy stuff they see advertised in TV commercials and department stores. Word spreads and soon enough they became the notorious “spider thieves.”
Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages
For questions, please contact Gabriel Garrido at gagarrid@olemiss.edu
Cowboy, The Story of Bass Reeves
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Ford Center for the Performing Arts
Description: COWBOY is the powerful story of Bass Reeves, a freed slave who protected the Wild West as the first black U. S. Deputy Marshal.
For questions, please contact Kate Meacham at kmeacham@olemiss.edu.
Dalrymple Lecture: Is Math Real? by Eugenia Cheng
Thursday, October 19, 2023
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Student Union Auditorium 124
Description: Where does math come from: from rules in a textbook? From logic and deduction? Not quite. In this talk Eugenia Cheng will argue that math comes from human curiosity – most importantly, from asking questions. Dr Cheng will take us on a journey of discovery starting with questions like “Why does 2×3 = 3×2?” and “What’s the point of math?”, leading us into research-level abstract mathematics. The journey will take us via food, music, hairstyles, and other unexpected topics, revealing how profound insights can emerge from seemingly unlikely sources, and showing that being the kid who asked “But, why does 1+1=2?” could be more important than being the kid who always got the right answers.
The Dalrymple Lecture Series brings distinguished speakers to discuss mathematics and mathematics research. Lectures are aimed at the general audience—students and non-mathematicians are encouraged to attend.
This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served at 5:30pm.
Sponsored by College of Liberal Arts, the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, and the UM Lecture Series
For questions, please contact Ayla Gafni at argafni@olemiss.edu.
Hispanic Heritage Film Festival: 7 Perros
Thursday, October 19, 2023
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Turner Center Auditorium, 205
Description: A canine family becomes the catalyst for human connection in this heartwarming film about a lonely man looking for a way to keep his seven dogs in his apartment despite the neighbors’ threats.
Ernesto lives with his seven dogs in an apartment building in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. His lonely daily routine revolves around his pets’ needs, his health problems, and his money problems. Tired of the constant barking, some of his neighbors arrange a mediation hearing, urging him to take his pets out of the apartment. But Ernesto cannot envision a life without his dogs, and he cannot afford to move elsewhere.
Thanks to the empathy of people who are also lonely, but share common spaces that connect them, Ernesto finds a way to solve the conflict.
Seven Dogs is a simple and bright film on prejudice, finger-pointing, and social harassment.
Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages
For questions, please contact Gabriel Garrido at gagarrid@olemiss.edu
3rd Annual HBCU Law Preview Day
Friday, October 20, 2023
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Robert C. Khayat Law Center | Weems Auditorium | Atrium
Description: The University of Mississippi School of Law will be hosting regional students to this year’s HBCU Law Preview Day and will include a night in Oxford so students can experience our larger campus and community.
The preview day is part of an effort to strengthen relationships with HBCUs, build a more diverse and equitable campus in line with the university-wide Pathways to Equity strategic plan and help build a legal workforce more reflective of the state as a whole.
This year’s HBCU Preview Day will be held on Thursday, October 19th and Friday, October 20th. To kick-off this year’s HBCU Preview Day, please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, October 19th at 7 PM. The HBCU Preview Day will conclude on October 20th at 3 PM.
Sponsored by School of Law | Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
For questions, please contact Joshua Tucker at jtucker1@olemiss.edu
Fall 2023 All Majors Career Expo and Internship
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
12:00 PM – 3:o0 PM
Gertrude C. Ford Student Union Ballroom
Description: All students from all majors are invited to network with a variety of employers and explore internship and full-time job opportunities!
Sponsored by The University of Mississippi Career Center
For questions, contact Christy Wright at christy@career.olemiss.edu
Just Conversations
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Bryant Hall Gallery
Have some food and discuss current ethical issues in informal, facilitated small-groups.
Sponsored by The Center for Practical Ethics
For questions, contact Nathan Oakes at neoakes@olemiss.edu.
Hispanic Heritage Film Series: “Madres paralelas”
Thursday, October 26, 2023
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Turner Center Auditorium, 205
Description: Starring Penélope Cruz in what could be the best performance of her career, Pedro Almodovar’s Parallel Mothers is an unabashed story of cascading twists and turns, thickening complications, and high family drama.
The film follows two mothers who meet at the hospital ward during their pregnancy, and whose lives become intertwined from then on. Janis (Penélope Cruz), middle-aged, doesn’t regret her accidental pregnancy and she is exultant. The other, Ana (Milena Smit), an adolescent, is scared, repentant, and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in those hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and becomes complicated, changing their lives in a decisive way.
In one of his best films to date, Almodóvar revisits the legacy of his country’s political violence during the Spanish Civil War to provide a broader and richer perspective on the exploration of one’s ancestry.
Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages
For questions, please contact Gabriel Garrido at gagarrid@olemiss.edu
A Panel Discussion on Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary
Monday, October 30, 2023
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Barnard Observatory, Tupelo Room
Please join us for a panel discussion that contemplates as well as celebrates 50 years of Hip-Hop culture. Our distinguished panelists will discuss the past as well as the present state of Hip-Hop and how it has influenced music, poetry, fiction and nonfiction, visual media, politics and other spheres of art and culture.
Sponsored by the English Department, African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts, and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture
For questions, please contact Richard Purcell at repurcel@olemiss.edu.