SEPTEMBER

8 “The Mississippi Delta,
Holder of My Heart: Portraits
from the Delta”
Jane Rule Burdine
Taylor, Mississippi

15“Just a Little Talk with Jesus:
Elvis Presley, Gospel Music,
and Southern Spirituality”
Charles Wilson, Director,
Center for the Study of
Southern Culture
Professor of History and
Southern Studies

22“Soda County Memories:
Growing Up in the South of
the North”
Matt Zuefle
Assistant Professor of Park
and Recreation Management

29“Food, Race, and Southern
Manners: A Preview of the
Southern Foodways
Symposium (October 7-10)
and the Porter L. Fortune
Southern History
Symposium (October 6-8)”
John T. Edge, Director,
Southern Foodways Alliance
Ted Ownby, Professor of
History and Southern
Studies

OCTOBER

6“The Nashville Lunch
Counter Sit-Ins:
Photographs from the
Tennessean”
John Egerton
Nashville, Tennessee

13“Community and Memory at
the Neshoba County Fair”
Trent Watts
Assistant Professor of
American Studies
University of Missouri-Rolla

20“Willie Morris: Ghosts of
Mississippi in His Private
Papers”
Richard Caldwell, Southern
Studies Graduate Student

27“Phantoms of Mass
Destruction: Rednecks,
White Trash, and Corporate
Cowboys in American
Politics and Film”
Allison Graham, Professor of
Film and Media Studies
Department of
Communications
University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

NOVEMBER

3 “Game and Fish through the
Lens: A Gammill Gallery
Presentation”
Wiley Prewitt
Lido, Mississippi


10 “Do You Want the Good
News or the Bad News First?:
An Update on the Teacher
Shortage Crisis in
Mississippi”
Cecily McNair, Director of
Recruitment and
Enhancement
Mississippi Teacher Center
Mississippi Department of
Education

17“Freedom Riders: A
Documentary”
April Grayson, Documentary
Filmmaker
Oxford, Mississippi
Susan Glisson, Director,
Winter Institute for Racial
Reconciliation
Andy Harper, Associate
Director, Center for Media
Production

DECEMBER

16“Encyclopedia of Southern
Culture: A Second Time
Around”
Jimmy Thomas, Managing
Editor