Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture Series (Wednesdays)

The Brown Bag Luncheon Series takes place each Wednesday at noon in the Barnard Observatory Lecture Hall during the regular academic year. For more information, contact us.

September
9 “Strawberry Plains Audubon Center: Where History and Nature Meet”
Katie Boyle, Outreach/Education Director, Strawberry Plains Audubon Center
Holly Springs, Mississippi


16 “Oxford’s Music Scene: A Conversation with the ‘Hines Brothers’”
Jim Dees, Writer, Radio Personality
Jimmy Phillips, Songwriter
Ron Shapiro, Cultural Leader


23 “Slavery, Irish Immigration, and American Gynecology”
Deidre Cooper Owens, Assistant Professor of History


30 “The Piney Woods School and the Legacy of Dr. Laurence Jones”
John Long, Visiting Scholar at Jackson State University
Chicago, Illinois


October
7 “Primal Scenes, Preachers’ Blues: Why the Devil’s Music Comes from the Delta”
Adam Gussow, Assistant Professor of English and Southern Studies


14 “A Conversation with Beth Moreton about Wal-Mart, Evangelicals, and Extreme Capitalism”
Bethany Moreton, Assistant Professor of History and Women’s Studies, University of Georgia


21 “Studies in Documentary Fieldwork 2009—Films: Tortillas de Maiz, Honey Bee Bakery, and A Soul Reviving Feast"
Holly Acey, Caroline Graham, Miles Laseter, Ferriday Mansel McCarthy, Duvall Osteen, Alan Pike,  Sarah Simonson, Corynne Ware,  Melanie Young, Southern Studies Undergraduate and Graduate Students


28 “Voices of Mississippi Women: Selections from Oral Histories of MSCW Alumnae, 1926–1957”
Bridget Pieschel, Professor of English, Director of the Oral History Project, Mississippi University for Women,
Columbus, Mississippi


November
4 “A Sacrifice for Human Dignity: Child Activism in the Jackson Freedom Struggle”

Daphne Chamberlain, Visiting Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies


11 “Race, Place, and Space in the Urban South”
Wanda Rushing, Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of Women’s and Gender Studies,
University of Memphis


18 “No Quarks for Old Men: The Influence of Physics on Cormac McCarthy”
Mark Camarigg, Publications Manager, Living Blues Magazine