September 2021
Native American Student Community Gathering
Wednesday, September 1
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement, Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union
A welcome event for Native American students at the University of Mississippi. We seek for this space to be a time to meet other Native American students at the University, build community, and discuss future opportunities.
Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country: The Benton County Civil Rights Movement with Roy DeBerry
Wednesday, September 8
Noon
Virtual Event – https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country is a collection of interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi—an area with a long and fascinating civil rights history. In this SouthTalk, coauthor of Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country Roy DeBerry will discuss the region’s history and the everyday struggles of African American residents of Benton County, who had been organizing since the 1930s.
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Sarahtalk: “‘Where the Girls Are:’ Riot Grrrl, Feminism, and Queer 1990s Culture”
Thursday, September 9
4 p.m.
Virtual: Register at this link
Dr. Cookie Woolner Assistant Professor of History at the University of Memphis, will deliver the first Sarahtalk of the fall semester. Her talk will focus on the intersection of music, feminism, and queer culture in the 1990’s. Admission is free and open to the public.
Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies
Guaranteed 4.0 Workshop
Thursday, September 9
5:30 p.m.
Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union – Auditorium 124
Workshop on how to get a 4.0 during your tenure in college. Event only for IMAGE and NSBE Organizations, food will be provided.
LSMAMP/IMAGE Program, NSBE – School of Engineering
Mississippi Creates: Annemarie Anderson, Kelly Spivey, and Schaefer Llana
Friday, September 10
Doors @ 7:30 p.m. and starts at 8:00 p.m.
Location: The Powerhouse (413 S. 14 St.)
The Center for the Study of Southern Culture and Yoknapatawpha Arts Council partner for the premiere of Mississippi Creates, an event that pairs musical performance with short documentary films, providing a glimpse into the creative life and environments of two local musicians: Tyler Keith and Schaefer Llana. This pair of films is part of a larger series that highlights artists and performers who have been influenced or inspired by the culture and sounds of Mississippi. The screening includes a live musical performance by Schaefer Llana and will be followed by a brief Q&A with the musician and film directors Annemarie Anderson and Kelly Spivey. This event is free to the public and open to all ages.
Mississippi Creates is made possible by Cathead, the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, and the Mississippi Humanities Council.
Living Music Resource LIVE : “Voices of Mississippi” – featuring William Ferris, Shardé Thomas, Scott Barretta, and LMR Live host Nancy Maria Balach
Monday, September 13
1 – 2 p.m.
Location and Format TBA – for event updates https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/
Join Living Music Resource for a lively discussion and interactive experience with artists featured in the September 14 “Voices of Mississippi” concert — demonstrating the range of talent and people who make up our state. Free admission
Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Living Music Resource, Department of Music, Mississippi Humanities Council
Hispanic & Latinx Student Community Gathering
Monday, September 13
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement, Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union
A welcome event for Hispanic & Latinx students at the University of Mississippi. We seek for this space to be a time to meet other Hispanic & Latinx students at the University, build community, and discuss future opportunities.
Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement
Language and Gender: How Do You Say That?
Tuesday, September 14
3:00 p.m.
LGBTQ Lounge, Lamar Hall – 4th Floor
In this program we will watch a Youtube video titled “Elles: Being Non-Binary and Latinx” and another video on the use of non-binary pronouns. As a group we will then discuss how language helps us find our place and feel most comfortable inside and outside of the community.
Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement
“Voices of Mississippi” Concert
Tuesday, September 14 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: Gertrude C. Ford Center for Performing Arts
Voices of Mississippi is a new multimedia event that celebrates the music, art, and storytelling traditions of the people of Mississippi. The traveling live show will come to the University of Mississippi’s Ford Center for the Performing Arts.
Based on the 2019 double-Grammy Award–winning Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris boxed set, the live program features musical performances integrated with film, audio recordings, and rare photographs captured by folklorist William Ferris, who will serve as host for the evening. The show will feature musicians Shardé Thomas, Cedric Burnside, and Luther and Cody Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars, all of whom are descendants of artists documented by Ferris. For more information visit this site – https://fordcenter.org/event/voices-of-mississippi/
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Wellness Walk Series
Wednesday, September 15
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
Okla Humma: I Maya Moma Hoki (The Honorable People: We Have Remained in This Place) by Tammy Greer
Wednesday, September 15 – noon
Virtual Event – Register on at https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/
As a member of the United Houma Nation and director of the Center for American Indian Research and Studies (CAIRS) at the University of Southern Mississippi, Tammy Greer has worked with Southeastern Native tribal members on numerous projects, including the formation of CAIRS and the building of a one thousand-square-foot Medicine Wheel garden on the USM campus. The focus of her Okla Achukma project is to address preventable chronic diseases in our Southeastern Native tribes in a more holistic way using the traditional teachings of the sacred Medicine Wheel. In this SouthTalk, Greer will discuss how Medicine Wheel teachings can lead us to a more inclusive, more holistic way of being with one another and with all beings on earth
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
IDEAS FORUM: The Mississippi Chinese
Wednesday, September 15 – 4pm
Register via this link: https://libarts.olemiss.edu/bamboo-and-cotton-the-mississippi-chinese/
Location: Virtual Event
Bamboo and Cotton: The Mississippi Chinese: A common perception of Mississippi, especially the Mississippi Delta, is of a place lacking in diversity and culture. However, when one looks more deeply, there are populations of diverse people who have carved out spaces for themselves within this southern landscape. One such people are the Mississippi Delta Chinese and how their story is woven into the fabric of Mississippi.
College of Liberal Arts
WE Listen Board
Thursday, September 16 – 11am
Union Plaza
This will be an opportunity for individuals to reflect on their current mental state by sharing their status anonymously on a large board using pre-made buttons. The UM Community will be able to see the current mental state of those around them. Our goal is to reduce stigma around seeking help regarding mental health.
William Magee Center
The Longest Table
Event has been Postponed
The Walk of Champions in The Grove
The Longest Table is UM’s “family table”, and our greatest asset is the rich diversity of people, experiences, skills, and perspectives that form the fabric of our university. The Longest Table creates a time, place, and format to better capture the value of these assets and envision an even stronger university. Join other students, faculty, and staff in shaping a more vibrant community by taking you seat at the Longest Table.
The Division of Diversity and Community Engagement
“I Rode to Rome at Night’: The Ancient Mediterranean World in the Early Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois.” with Mathias Hanses
Monday, September 20
5:30 p.m.
Bryant Hall – 209
Mathias Hanses of Pennsylvania State University has published several studies of pioneer sociologist, author, and civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois’ deep and complex engagement with race and the field of Classics.
Department of Classics
Marsalis Moments of Mindfulness
Tuesday, September 21
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
GILDER JORDAN LECTURE: “The Price of the Ticket: Paying for Diversity and Inclusion” by Deborah Gray White
Tuesday, September 21 – 5:30 p.m. CDT
Virtual Lecture – You can register here
Many colleges and universities have added “diversity and inclusion” to their mission statements in recent years, but these goals have financial and emotional costs and are not achieved without intentional and thoughtful effort to dismantle the structures that perpetuate exclusion and homogeneity. Rutgers University began this process in 2015 by delving into its history and exploring how and why the structures that excluded African Americans for more than two hundred years were created. For this year’s Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern Cultural History, Rutgers history professor Deborah Gray White will talk about that history and the price Rutgers paid, and is paying, to make the diversity that it advertises a reality.
Deborah Gray White is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is a specialist in the history of African American women. Author of Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South and Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894–1994, White is also editor of Telling Histories: Black Women in the Ivory Tower, a collection of personal narratives written by African American women historians that chronicle the entry of black women into the historical profession and the development of the field of Black women’s history. She currently codirects the “Scarlet and Black Project,” which investigates American Indians and African Americans in the history of Rutgers University.
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Heritage and Hate: Old South Words and Symbols at Southern Universities
Stephen Monroe and LaToya Faulk
Wednesday, September 22
Noon
Virtual Conversation – Register @https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/
In this SouthTalk, Stephen Monroe and LaToya Faulk will discuss Monroe’s new book, Heritage and Hate: Old South Words and Symbols at Southern Universities, which traces the ongoing rhetorical power of Old South words and symbols at southern universities.
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Isom Fellows Poster Session
Wednesday, September 22
3 p.m.
Butler Auditorium, Triplett Alumni Center
The 2019-2021 cohorts of Isom Fellows will be giving updates and discussing their research projects that explore the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, and their individual fields of study including education, criminal justice, law, literature, psychology, and more.
Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, Office of the Provost
Reclaim the RedZone
Wednesday, September 22
7 p.m.
Pavillion Plaza
A substance-free, late-night event for students to attend in order to learn how to socialize safely while also having a good time. There would be games, food, and music along with sexual wellness learning opportunities regarding consent and sexual violence services available on and off-campus.
William Magee Center, CICCE, FSL, Housing, VIP Services, UMatter, Title IX, UPD, OPD, Counseling Center, Athletics
Out of the Darkness Walk
September 25
11 a.m.
Grove Stage
This walk will focus on suicide awareness while memorializing those that have lost their lives to suicide.
William Magee Center, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month and LGBTQ+ History Month Celebration: Featuring Gabby Rivera: Inspiring Radical Creativity Empowering Young, Diverse Voices to Tell Their Own Stories
Monday, September 27
6:30 p.m.
Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union – Auditorium 124
Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement
Wellness Walk Series
Wednesday, September 29
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
See Us Differently
Wednesday, September 29
4 p.m.
Powerhouse Community Arts Center
See Us Differently will feature the creative works and writings by Common Good Atlanta (CGA) alumni. CGA is a nonprofit that takes the humanities into the prison system by providing college courses to the incarcerated (and formerly incarcerated). The panel discussion will include CGA alumni and organizers and participants in the University’s Prison-to-College Pipeline Program.
Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, and Yoknapatawpha Arts Council
Land of Open Graves with Jason De Leon on September 30 at 4pm
“The Land of Open Graves: Understanding the Current Politics of Migrant Life and Death along the US/Mexico Border” by Jason De Léon
Thursday, September 30
4 p.m.
Location: David H. Nutt Auditorium (542 University Ave.)
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Since the mid-1990s, the US federal government has relied on a border enforcement strategy known as Prevention through Deterrence. Using various security infrastructure and techniques of surveillance, this strategy funnels undocumented migrants toward remote and rugged terrain such as the Sonoran Desert of Arizona with the hope that mountain ranges, extreme temperatures, and other natural obstacles will deter people from unauthorized entry. Hundreds of people perish annually while undertaking this dangerous activity. Since 2009, the Undocumented Migration Project has used a combination of forensic, archaeological, and ethnographic approaches to understand the various forms of violence that characterize the social process of clandestine migration. Jason De León will present a lecture that focuses on what happens to the bodies of migrants who die in the desert. He argues that the way that bodies decompose in this environment is a form of hidden political violence that has deep ideological roots, and he demonstrates how the postmortem destruction of migrant corpses creates devastating forms of long-lasting trauma.
This lecture is part of the Movement and Migration/Future of the South Initiative, launched by Simone Delerme in 2019. An accompanying exhibit, Hostile Terrain, will be on display in Lamar Hall beginning on October 15. This lecture is tentatively taking place in-person at the Nutt Auditorium on the University of Mississippi campus. Please visit the Center website for any updates to the location or format.
Center for the Study of Southern Culture, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Honors College, the Center for Population Studies, the McLean Institute for Public Service and Community Engagement, the Center for Inclusion and Cross-Cultural Engagement, and the Croft Institute for International Studies.