All Roads Lead to Holmes: Voices of Holmes County Oral History Project  Film and Panel with Al Povall, Ora Reed, Phil Cohen, and Friends of Lexington Preservation Tuesday, April 23 at 4 p.m. in Barnard Observatory All Roads Lead to Holmes: Voices of Holmes County is a documentary project directed by Ed Ellington and produced by the Friends …

“Cold War Country: Music Row, the Pentagon, and the Sound of American Patriotism” Joseph M. Thompson Country music maintains a unique, decades-long relationship to the US military, but these ties didn’t just happen. Joseph M. Thompson explores how country music’s Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences …

Phillip “Pip” Gordon, UM visiting assistant professor of gender studies in the Sarah Isom Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, discusses “Faulkner’s Enduring Queerness” at noon May 1. Gordon discusses Faulkner’s relevance to broadening fields of trans and ace studies and the value such approaches have to our understanding of Faulkner and the South. SouthTalks …

Gammill Gallery and Tupelo Room Barnard Observatory  Spring Documentary Showcase The Spring Documentary Showcase is a celebration of the work by our documentary students. Each artist will present their work. Attendees will have an opportunity to engage with the artists and their work during a reception.