JANUARY
7 “On
This Grave and Wasted Land I’ll
Lay My Head”
Janisse
Rae, Grisham Writer in Residence
14 “Thunder and Grace: Racing
on American Dirt”
Photographs by Susan Bauer Lee
Commentary by Kendra Myers, Southern Studies
Graduate Student
21 “Art for the People: Post
Office Murals of the WPA”
Mary Jane Zander, Assistant Professor of
Art Education
28 “Preserving the Culinary
History of Greenwood,
Mississippi: An Oral History Project”
Amy Evans, Artist and Oral Historian
Viking Range Corporation and Southern
Foodways Alliance
FEBRUARY
4 “Mississippi in Africa: Liberia”
Alan Huffman, Author
Holly Grove, Mississippi
11 “From Puerta Vallarta
to Oxford: The U. S. South in
Global Contexts”
Kathryn McKee, McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and Professor
of English
Annette Trefzer, Assistant Professor of English
18 “Complexions: Choreographing
Racial Healing
in Dance”
Dwight Rhodes, Choreographer
Jennifer Mizenko, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
25 “Memphis Had the King,
but Jackson Held the Ace:
Johnny Vincent and Ace Records”
Ricky Stevens, History Graduate Student
MARCH
3 “The Restoration of 1119 Pinehurst: The Eudora
Welty Home and Garden”
Mary Alice Welty White, Director of the Eudora
Welty Home
Suzanne Marrs, Professor of English and Welty
Foundation Scholar in esidence at Millsaps College
Jackson, Mississippi
17 “Celebrating the Celtic
Among Us: The Windy
River Music Park and Southern Appalachian
Acoustic Instrument Culture Center”
Forrest Smith, Founder of Dulcimer Clubs in
North Mississippi
Booneville, Mississippi
Greg Johnson, Music Historian and Curator of the
Blues Archives
24 “The Delta Blues Museum at 25”
Shelley Ritter, Director
Clarksdale, Mississippi
31 “2004 Oxford Conference
for the Book and Walker
Percy”
Jamie Kornegay, Bookseller, Editor of Dear Reader
Square Books
APRIL
7 “New Poetry from the University of Mississippi’s
MFA
in Writing Program”
MFA Students
Moderated by Beth Ann Fennelly, Assistant Professor of English, and Ann Fisher-
Wirth, Professor of English
14 “Resurrecting Memories:
Exploring Cemeteries with
Susie Marshall”
Nash Molpus, Southern Studies Graduate Student
21 “Greens: A Cultural Text
of the South”
Brooke Butler, Southern Studies Graduate Student
28 “Brown Bag Lunch & Lecture Springtime Finale”
Pierce Avenue Porch Pickers
Mary Bartlett, Bookseller, Square Books
Angela Watkins, Southern Studies Graduate
Student
Robert Hawkins, Southern Studies Graduate
Student
The
Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture Series takes
place each Wednesday at noon in the
Barnard
Observatory Lecture Hall during the regular
academic year. |
