Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture Series (Wednesdays)

The 2008 Fall Brown Bag Series begins on Wednesday, September 3. Mark your calendars and don't forget to pack a lunch!

Fall 2008


September

3 "Oxford's Leap Frog Program: How We Help Children Help Themselves"

  • Teresa Adams, Director
  • Cornelius Arther, Assistant Director

 

10 "The Viking Range Lecture Series: Food as a Greater Understanding of Self, Community, Culture, and Art"

  • Katie McKee, Associate Professor of English and Southern Studies
  • Melissa Hall, Communications Director, Southern Foodways Alliance

 

17 "The Three R's--Race, Religion, and Reconciliation: The Lott Leadership Exchange Trip to Ireland, South Africa, and Mississippi"

  • Charles Reagan Wilson, Kelly Gene Cook Chair of History
  • Rebecca Batey, Southern Studies Graduate Student

 

24 "A Mississippi Politics Symposium at 10, 2, and 4"

(This Brown Bag will meet at the Overby Center in Farley Hall)

  • Sponsored by the William Winter Institute of Racial Reconciliation

 

October

1"A Southern Studies Documentary Fieldwork Presentation"

8 "Turn on Your Radio"

  • Marie Antoon, Director of Mississippi Public Broadcasting

 

15 "Labor and the Southern Bosses "

  • Joe Atkins, Author and Professor of Journalism

 

22 "Southern Foodways Alliance Film Festival"

29 "Wrestling with the Southern Past in the Crime Fiction of James Lee Burke"

  • Justin Nystrom, Visiting Professor of Southern Studies


November

5 "Southern Studies Documentary Fieldwork Film Presentation "

12 TBA

19 "The Oxonian Project Continues "

  • Joe York, Producer and Director, Media and Production


The Brown Bag Luncheon Series takes place each Wednesday at noon in the Barnard Observatory Lecture Hall during the regular academic year. For more information, contact us.