The Center and the Institute for Continuing Studies will sponsor the fourth annual Southern Studies Teacher Institute on June 21-26, 1998. Elementary and secondary teachers from all over the country are invited to attend this interdisciplinary program that provides opportunities to explore the latest scholarship on Mississippi and Southern history and culture.

This year the institute will open on Sunday with a catfish fry on the grounds of the University followed by a trip to a juke joint near Oxford. Monday will be spent in a day-long Teaching Tolerance workshop with Glenda Valentine of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. Through videos, activities, group discussion, and a generous amount of laughter, the workshop provides an interactive, non-threatening environment in which educators can begin to examine their personal attitudes regarding race, culture, prejudice, and stereotyping. Tuesday's activities include a lecture on "Women in the Civil Rights Movement" and a trip to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. William Heath, author of The Children Bob Moses Led, will lecture on Wednesday following lectures on "Memory and Sense of Place" and "Mississippi Cultural History" and a tour of William Faulkner's home, Rowan Oak. Thursday includes a lecture on "Anthropology of the Blues" by Peter Aschoff and a trip to the Delta for visits to McCarty Pottery Studio, Dockery Farms, and the Delta Blues Museum. Friday's schedule includes lectures on "Native Americans in the South," "Southern Folk Art," and "Mississippi Autobiography."

The Southern Studies Teacher Institute provides an exciting and stimulating program of study that returns teachers to their classrooms with new insight into the Southern experience and new methods to convey this knowledge to their students. The institute works across the curriculum, enhancing all subject areas by providing connections to students' daily lives, their families, and their own futures. For registration information, write Charlene Dye at the Southern Studies Teacher Institute, P.O. Box 879, University, MS 38677, call her at 601-232-7282, or e-mail her at cdye@olemiss.edu.

--Charlene Dye