Center
for the Study of Southern Culture
25th Anniversary Year
Celebration and Remembrance
Faculty,
students, staff, and friends will join in a variety
of activities to celebrate the Center's 25th anniversary.
Some of the activities are listed below. For details,
look for announcements in the mail and consult the
Center's Web site: www.olemiss.edu/depts/south.
September
27, 2002
Center Celebration in Jackson, beginning at 6:00
p.m.: Tour the Eudora Welty exhibition at Old Capitol
Museum, with Welty friend and exhibition curator
Patti Carr Black as guide. The tour will be followed
by dinner at the Old Capitol Inn, where musician
Caroline Herring and author Julia Reed will entertain
guests and celebrate the Center’s anniversary.
September
28, 2002
Center Celebration in Yazoo City, beginning at 10:00
a.m.: Meet at the Triangle Cultural Center in Yazoo
City and take a short drive to Holly Bluff to tour
Silver Creek Cotton Gin, the largest east of the
Mississippi River. Gather for lunch hosted by Center
Advisory Committee members Byron and Cameron Seward.
Spend the afternoon visiting Willie Morris’s hometown
with the author’s friend Sam Olden as guide
September
28, 2002
Jackson, beginning at 7:30 p.m.: Thacker Mountain
Radio Show, sponsored by Square Books and the
Center and regularly broadcast live from Oxford,
will launch Millsaps College’s 2002-2003 Arts &
Lecture Series with a program taped for later broadcast
by Public Radio in Mississippi. Joining host Jim
Dees will be authors Rick Bass, Scott Brunner, and
Julia Reed, Mississippi Delta bluesman T-Model Ford,
and the Thacker House Band, with special guests
Claire Holley and Cary Hudson.
September
30, 2002
Observation of the 30th anniversary of the integration
of the University. Join Center faculty, staff, and
students at the Ellipse for a ceremonial consecration
of the site selected for a sculptural commemoration
of the struggle for equal access to education in
the state of Mississippi. A scale model of the sculpture
will be unveiled to the public.
October
17-20, 2002
5th annual Southern Foodways Symposium. John Shelton
Reed and Calvin Trillin are among the featured speakers
on the program theme “Barbecue: Smoke, Sauce, and
History.” Culinary Exhibition Two Women and Their
Cookbooks: Lena Richard and Mary Land, organized
by Tulane University’s Newcomb College, will be
on display at University Museums before, during,
and after the symposium.
October
21, 2002 - March 14, 2003
25 Years of Studying the South
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Anniversary Exhibition
Lynn & Stewart Gammill Gallery
November
2002
Silver Anniversary Month for the Center: 25 Years
of Studying the South
Friday
Afternoon, November 8
Address by former Center Director William Ferris
Commentary by Center consultants
Panel Presentation on the Southern Studies Program
Friday
Evening, November 8
Center Dinner
Saturday
Morning, November 9
Eudora Welty Celebration
Recalling that Welty’s work was the subject of the
Center’s inaugural event in November 1977, some
of the author’s long-time friends and admirers will
join literary scholars in reflecting on her life
and art.
Saturday
Afternoon, November 9
Addresses on the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
and other Center achievements during the past quarter
century.
Saturday
Evening, November 9
Southern Studies Prom (formal dress not required)
Current and former students, faculty, staff, and
friends will celebrate the Center through music
and dance.
February
2003
Scott Barretta, editor of Living Blues, and
Adam Gussow, newly appointed assistant professor
of English and Southern Studies, are organizing
“The Blues Today: A Living Blues Symposium.”
The event will have a Friday evening concert followed
by an all-day Saturday program, with three panels
and a plenary speaker.
April
10-13, 2002
10th Oxford Conference for the Book
