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All Are Welcome? Southern Hospitality And The Politics Of Belonging, Betsie Garner, Andrew Harvard

Study the South

The elective affinity between southern hospitality and Christian hospitality functions as a moral framework for negotiating change and debating identity politics. An ethnographic community study conducted in Rockdale County, Georgia between 2014 and 2017 focused on the discourse and practice of southern hospitality.

Illustrations by Andrew Harvard.

Turner, Ruby: A Living Legacy, Ruby Mckie Turner

Oral Histories

[Turner has] chosen not to write an oral history of African Americans but, rather, one of Colored Americans through images. These images are those who were among the first freeborn generation of the Civil War, thereby placing them in the historical period of the country changing its course to admit freed former slaves.

Performance: All Our Names Were Freedom, Jessica Wilkerson, Kevin Cozart

About the Project

Students in Jessica Wilkerson's class, SST 560 (Oral History of Southern Social Movements), participated in a staged reading of All Our Names Were Freedom: Agency, Resiliency, and Community in Yalobusha County, a multivocal and multilayered narrative inspired by listening to the interviews recorded that semester. The event at the Spring Hill M. B. Baptist Church was attended by approximately 70 community members, UM faculty and students, and six of the interviewees.

Through The Words Of Those Who Have Experienced It: Reading The Whitney Plantation Along Neoslave Narratives, Sarah Payne

Study the South

Recent representations of slavery, however well intentioned, have provoked discussions about who should represent black pain and oppression and what purpose such representations serve. Also evoking such questions are contemporary plantation tours, most of which are white-centered, “moonlight and magnolia” recreations. There have been efforts to represent slavery more accurately at plantations such as Oak Alley, and most notably, the Whitney Plantation, which opened in 2014 in Wallace, Louisiana.

This essay asks how our understanding of the Whitney Plantation, as a representation of slavery, a public history project, and an example of dark tourism, might be affected by reading the …

Is Google's Sensorvault Database Morally Acceptable To Use In Law Enforcement Geofence Warrants?, University Of Mississippi. Ethics Bowl Team

The Great Debate

November 14, 2019 at 5:30 p.m. in Bryant Hall Room 209. Reception following in the Bryant Hall Rotunda.

Through the clear presentation of claims and civil dialogue, we hope to make headway on difficult and pressing questions in our society.

Format: Judges' questions and a Q&A will follow the debate between members of the UM Ethics Bowl, with an emphasis on how to address specific claims and arguments civilly for a productive conversation.

Sponsored by: Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hume Bryant Chair of Ethics, The Department of Philosophy and Religion, The Society for Philosophers in America (SOPHIA) dedicated to promoting …

The Landscape Of Siege, Gwyn Davies, University Of Mississippi. Department Of Classics, Archaeological Institute Of America

Lecture Series

No abstract provided.

Recording Yalobusha's Black History: Phase I Begins, Dottie Chapman Reed

About the Project

In this article from North Mississippi Herald, October 17, 2019, Reed describes meeting the graduate students in Jessica Wilkerson's class, SST 560 (Oral History of Southern Social Movements), at the University of Mississippi.

Outstanding Women Of Yalobusha County: The Project Continues, Colton Babbitt, Brittany Brown, Keon A. Burns, Cecelia Parks, Michelle Bright, Rhondalyn K. Peairs

About the Project

Statements from the graduate students in Jessica Wilkerson's class, SST 560 (Oral History of Southern Social Movements), preparing to collect the "untold stories" appeared in the North Mississippi Herald on October 17, 2019.

After Actium: Imagining Egypt In Ancient Rome, Molly Sweatnam-Burland

Lecture Series

No abstract provided.

The Isom Report - Fall 19, Jaime Harker, Theresa Starkey

Isom Report

The official newsletter of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies.

Fieldwork In Yalobusha County, Jessica Wilkerson

About the Project

A summary of the daytrip to Yalobusha County taken by graduate students in Jessica Wilkerson's class, SST 560 (Oral History of Southern Social Movements). After church services in both Water Valley and Coffeeville, the students made first connections with their interviewees.

Reception Ex Nihilo: Doubling, Improvisation, And Metatheater In The Plautine Comedy And Seinfeld, T. H. M. Gellar-Goad

Lecture Series

No abstract provided.

Unidentified Scenes From Shakespeare, Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Includes mounted prints of varying sizes; some prints have annotated cards

Woman From "Merchant Of Venice", Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Medium mounted print in color

Ophelia: I Never Gave You Aught, Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Medium print in color

Hamlet Scene, Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Small mounted print in color

Juliet And The Nurse From "Romeo And Juliet", Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Small mounted print in color

Scene From Macbeth, Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Small print in color

May Bell Synes, Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Color print

Nurse And Infant From "As You Like It", Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Small mounted print with attached card with quotation

Soldiers From "As You Like It", Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Small mounted print with attached card with quotation

Schoolboy From "As You Like It", Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Small mounted print with annotated card

Fluellen Making Pistol Eat The Leek, Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Large mounted print

Falstaff At Justice Shallow's Mustering His Recruits, Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Large mounted print

Trolius And Cressida, Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Medium mounted print

The Place Scene - Hamlet, Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Large mounted print with annotated card

Irving As Shylock, Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Medium mounted print

From The Midsummer Night's Dream, Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Large mounted print with annotated card

John Philip Kemble, As Hamlet, Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Medium mounted print

Mr. Edward Forrest As King Lear, Author Unknown

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Large mounted print