Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture Series
Fall 2007September
"Oxford's Leap Frog Program: Giving Children a Hop, Skip, and a Jump Ahead"
Teresa Adams, Director
Cornelius Arther, Assistant Site Director
Krystal Stubbs, Site Director
12th "Documentary Fakelore: Unmasking the Travel Channel's Secrets of the Delta Blues"
Adam Gussow, Associate Professor English and Southern Studies
19th "Natasha Trethewey: Pulitzer Poet and Native Daughter"
Joan Wylie Hall, English Instructor
26th "Rethinking Race and Writing in Rural Schools"
Allison Movitz, English Teacher, Bruce High School, Codirector of Special Programs with the University of Mississippi Writing Project
Susan Glisson, Director, Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation
October
"Fathers, Sons, and Football: A Southern Trilogy"
Wright Thompson, Senior Writer for ESPN.com
Oxford, Mississippi
"Southern Spaces, An Internet Journal and Scholarly Forum on Real and Imagined Places of the American South"
Charles Reagan Wilson, Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair of History and Professor of Southern Studies
"The Folks Behind the Food: The Southern Foodways Alliance Oral History Initiative at Year Three"
Amy C. Evans, Oral Historian, Southern Foodways Alliance
24th "Functional Flora"
Hilary Shughart, Mississippi Native Plant Society
Oxford, Mississippi
31st "Thoughts on the New Negro in the New South"
Erin Chapman, Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies