JANUARY

10       “Faulkner in Russia: Attitudes, Influences, Confluences”
Nicolai Anastasiev, Professor of Philology
Moscow State University
Moscow, Russia

17      “‘The Sleep of Reason’: Mardi Gras Photographs”
Lyle Bongé, Photographer         
Biloxi, Mississippi

24      “Promoting Geography in Mississippi’s Schools: The Mississippi Geography Alliance”
Taylor E. Mack, Assistant Professor of Geosciences
Mississippi State University

31        “Covering the South from the Boston Globe”
Curtis Wilkie, Journalist
New Orleans, Louisiana

FEBRUARY

 7        “The Voting Rights Museum”
Joanne Bland, Director of the Voting Rights Museum
Selma, Alabama

14       “Delta Studies Center”
Peggy Wright, Director of the Delta Studies Center
Arkansas State University

21       “The First Reenactment: The Citadel and the Civil War”
Robin Morris, Southern Studies Graduate Student
Atlanta, Georgia

27       “Preaching the Blues: The Gospel According to Muddy Waters”
Edward Komara, Blues Archivist
The University of Mississippi

MARCH

14       “What a Bright, Educated, Witty, Lively, Snappy Young Woman Can Say on a Variety of Topics: The Writings of Sherwood Bonner”
Anne Gowdy, Assistant Professor of English
Tennessee Wesleyan College
Athens, Tennessee

21       “Southern Environmental History: What’s That All About?”
Andy Harper, Coordinator
Deep South Humanities  Initiative
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
The University of Mississippi

28       “Heritage Tourism”
John Matthews, Director
Delta Cultural Center
Helena, Arkansas

APRIL

 4         “Face, Race, and Place: A Short History of Photography in the South”
Katherine Henninger, Assistant Professor of English and Southern Studies
The University of Mississippi

11       “Poetry and Painting: ‘Saving Space’ in Art”
Claude Wilkinson, John and Renée. Grisham Southern Writer in Residence
The University of Mississippi

18      “Love Letters of ‘Bob’ and ‘Sissy’: The Courtship Correspondence of Walter Anderson and Agnes Grinstead”
Mary Anderson Pickard
Ocean Springs, Mississippi

25       “Yoknapatawpha 2000: The Changing Face of Lafayette County” 
Southern Studies Documentary Photography Students
The University of Mississippi        

The Brown Bag Luncheon Series takes place each Wednesday at noon in the Barnard Observatory Lecture Hall during the regular academic year.