Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture Series
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.
Spring 2012
JANUARY
25 A Screening of Leaves of Greens: A Collard Opera
Written by Price Walden
Performed by the University of Mississippi Opera Theater,
Directed by Amanda Johnston
Costumed by Alabama Chanin
FEBRUARY
1 Nomad’s Land: Honing in on American Hyper-mobility
Cynthia Joyce, Assistant Professor of New Media at the
Meek School of Journalism
8 Images of a White Beast and a Black Lady: Rape Rhetoric
and the Prosecution of Charles Guerand in 1930’s New
Orleans
Michele Coffey, Visiting Assistant Professor of History
15 Perspectives on the Mississippi Delta
Josh Davis, Delta Health Alliance
Amy C. Evans, Oral Historian, Southern Foodways Alliance
John J. Green, Director, Center for Population Studies
Zandria Robinson, Assistant Professor of Sociology,
McMullan Assistant Professor of Southern Studies
22 Only Nixon Could Go to China: LQC Lamar and the Politics
of Reconciliation
Brian Wilson, Southern Studies Graduate Student
29 Music of the South: A Homecoming Celebration of the 25th
Anniversary of the Southern Studies Master of Arts
Southern Studies Master of Arts Alumni
MARCH
7 Selma to Montgomery: The Long March to Freedom
Barbara H. Combs, Assistant Professor of Sociology and
Southern Studies
21 Branding the South: Paula Deen, Colonel Sanders & Cracker
Barrel as Regional Ambassadors
Kirsten Schofield, Southern Studies Graduate Student
Susie Penman, Southern Studies Graduate Student
28 Welcome to Monkey Town: Dayton, Tennessee and the
Legacy of the Scopes Trial
Kari Edwards, Southern Studies Graduate Student
APRIL
4 Why I Do the Things I Do: One Southerner’s Return to a
Louisiana Home
Jodi Skipper, Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology
11 Outback Elvis: Antipodean Interpretations of a Southern
Music Icon
Gretchen Wood, Southern Studies Graduate Student
18 A Human Environment: Space & Place in North Mississippi
Documentary Fieldwork Students on the Gammill Gallery
Exhibit
25 “Nothing Less Than an Activist”: Marge Baroni, Catholicism
and the Natchez, Missisippi Civil Rights Movement
Eva Walton, Southern Studies Graduate Student
Fall 2011
Oct. 19
Ted Atkinson, Mississippi State University
“Images of Mississippi: The Politics of Cultural Representation”??Ted Atkinson, who teaches courses in Southern Studies and American literature and culture at Mississippi State University will discuss how cultural representations of Mississippi figure in national conversations about issues such as state sovereignty; the history, current conditions, and future of civil rights initiatives; social ills such as poverty, substandard education, and poor health; globalization and (uneven) economic development; and responsiveness to natural and human-made disasters.
Oct. 26
Jill Cooley, Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Southern Studies“The Customer is Always White: Food, Consumer Culture, and the Civil Rights Movement”Angela Jill Cooley, a Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, will present a lecture on the place of food in the American civil rights movement. She will discuss the techniques used by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in the post–World War II period to end racial discrimination in northern eating places and reveals how the StudentNonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) adopted these strategies for use in the South during the 1960s “sit-in” movement. Finally, Dr. Cooley examines the tension between committed civil rights activists and intransigent white supremacist restaurateurs as the culminating factor in successfully desegregating the nation’s public eating spaces. Dr. Cooley is currently teaching a class on “Foodways and Southern Culture” at the university.
Nov. 2
T. Dwayne Moore, History Graduate Student, University of Mississippi
“I Asked for Water, and She Gave me Gasoline: Tommy Johnson and Blues Tourism in Copiah County, Mississippi”
Nov. 9
In "A Public Relations Weapon: Football, College Presidents and the Modern University," Matthew Bailey looks at the development of big-time college football on southern campuses. From humble origins, college football has evolved into an important aspect of southern society. College presidents played a key role in this process. Seeking to transform colleges into modern universities, college presidents utilized football as a public relations weapon to secure alumni and state support. This lecture will explore how presidents used football to forward their agendas.
Matthew Bailey completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Georgia, an MA in history at Georgia College and State University, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in history at Ole Miss.
Nov. 16
Jennifer “Bingo” Gunter, MA in Southern Studies
“Images of Southern Women in Response to Feminism, 1980-2000”