JANUARY
13 "Wild Things, You Make My Heart Sing"
Ed Croom, Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy
20 "Teaching Southern Politics in China"
Marvin Overby, Associate Professor of Political Science

27 "John Grisham and Manhood in the Modern South"
Ted Ownby, Associate Professor of History and Southern Studies

FEBRUARY
3 "Neither Bedecked nor Bebosomed: Ella Baker and Civil Rights"
Susan Glisson, Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and Assistant Professor of Southern Studies

10 "SEED: Students Envisioning Equality through Diversity"
SEED Members

17 "Singing a New Song: The Gospel Choir at the University of Mississippi 1974-1998"
Peter Slade, Southern Studies Graduate Student

24 "From Darkness to Light: Rhetorical Strategies in African American Women's Autobiographies"
Rochelle Smith, Assistant Professor of English

MARCH
3 "Classical Influence on Public Sculpture in the South"
Aileen Ajootian, Assistant Professor of Art and Classics

17 "South Toward Home"
Janice W. Murray, Chair, Department of Art
24 "Presentation of Traditional Culture on the Choctaw Reservation"
Deborah Boykin, Archivist and Cultural Planner Philadelphia, Mississippi

31 "Recovering the Voices of Mississippi Writers: Sherwood Bonner"
Kathryn McKee, McMullan Assistant Professor of Southern Studies and Assistant Professor of English

APRIL
7 "Connected to the Land: Southern Myth or Reality?"
Robbie Ethridge, McMullan Assistant Professor of Southern Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology

14 "Contemporary Southern Writing and the West"
Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Professor of American Literature and Southern Studies

21 "Your Biscuits Are Big Enough for Me: A Lecture/Performance on Bluesman Bo Carter"
Steve Cheseborough, Southern Studies Graduate Student

28 "A Country Music Band Lost in Academia"
Janice W. Murray, Robbie Ethridge, and Other Musically Lost Academicians
The Brown Bag Luncheon Series takes place each Wednesday at noon in the Barnard Observatory Lecture Hall during the regular academic year.