Cover Story:  
"Faulkner and the Ecology of the South"

Spring 2003 Issue
 *2003 F&Y Conference
* Director’s Column
* Southern Studies Faculty News
* First International Conference on Race
* Student Photography Exhibition
* Bertolaet Exhibion
* Gammill Gallery Exhibition Schedule
*2004 F&Y Call for Papers
* Teacher Seminars
*Brown Bag Schedule
* History Symposium
*Tennessee Williams Festival
*Mississippi Traditional Music Project
*Living Blues Symposium
*Reading the South
*Southern Foodways Alliance News
* 2003 Oxford Conference for the Book
* Tennessee Williams Tribute and Tour 
* Etta King Torrey: A Rememberance
* Regional Roundup
*Notes on Contributors
*Ensley Gives Meredith Photo to Center



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Faculty News

     The Center’s two McMullan Professors in Southern Studies who hold joint appointments in Liberal Arts–Robbie Ethridge (anthropology) and Kathryn McKee (English)–were awarded tenure this spring. Congratulations to these two outstanding teachers and scholars!
     Robbie Ethridge, McMullan assistant professor of Southern Studies and assistant professor of anthropology, is the recipient of a 2003 University of Mississippi Office of Research Faculty Research Fellowship, which will fund her research project titled "Chickasaw Slaving: Responding in a Shatter Zone." The fellowship will support two months of summer research in the Archives Nationales de France (French National Archives), examining French colonial documents for evidence of the Chickasaws’ participation in the slave trade with Europeans during the 17th and 18th centuries. She will spend three weeks in Paris and the remainder of the time in Aix-en-Provence at Le Centre des Archives d’Outre Mer (Center for the Colonial Archives).
   Adam Gussow, assistant professor of English and Southern Studies, has won Honorable Mention in the 2003 John G. Cawelti Book Award, sponsored by the American Culture Association, for "outstanding scholarly inquiry into American culture," for his book Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition. This summer Gussow will be using a College of Liberal Arts summer research grant to support a project focusing on discourses and enactments of racial healing and racial reconciliation in the American South. On Sunday, July 13, he will be tossing aside his researcher’s hat to play blues harmonica (or "blow harp," to use the vernacular) with drummer Sam Carr and the Delta Jukes at a free concert in the Grove at Ole Miss. Also on the bill will be Georgia blueswoman Precious Bryant.


Robbie Ethridge

 

First International Conference
on Race: Racial Reconciliation

 
     On October 1-4, 2003, the University’s William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation will host a four-day conference exploring racial reconciliation in international contexts. Presentations will emphasize how local action-oriented initiatives resolve conflict. 
     The event will mark the close of the Open Doors commemorative year at the University. Begun October 1, 2002, the commemoration has recognized the courage of James Meredith and all faculty, staff, students, and alumni who have worked for inclusion and greater opportunity and access. The year concludes with the international conference on racial reconciliation and the dedication of a civil rights memorial to be placed in the green space between the Lyceum and the John Davis Williams Library, in the heart of the campus. 
     The conference will begin with the memorial dedication on October 1, followed by a community dinner in the Circle. The dinner hearkens back to the successful event in the Circle on October 1, 2002, attended by 2,500 people from diverse backgrounds. On Thursday, the conference will offer panels and workshop sessions showcasing different methods for teaching about race. 
     Friday’s events will include presentations by practitioners and academics reflecting on local methods of conflict resolution from across the globe. Charlayne Hunter-Gault has been invited to make the keynote address. Hunter-Gault, one of the first black students at the University of Georgia, is an award-winning journalist who has covered race in the United States as well as reporting from postapartheid South Africa. Hunter-Gault’s work nationally and internationally reflects the themes of the conference. 
     On Saturday will be additional presentations and a plenary session with Rev. James Lawson, a noted civil rights activist and proponent of reconciliation. A special highlight of the conference will be presentations by University students on the themes of the conference. 
     "The conference helps cement the goals of the year of Open Doors," said Winter Institute director Susan M. Glisson. "The year began by noting our own unique history and will now conclude by considering our commonalities with communities around the world attempting to build inclusive, successful societies. The conference," she added, "places the University at the forefront of international dialogue on racial reconciliation." 
     For more information, visit www.olemiss.edu/opendoors/ and www.olemiss.edu/winterinstitute.

 

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