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Dr. Eugene J. Richardson and Mr. Fredrick Terna Present Final Intertwining Legacies Lecture

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The final event in the year-long lecture series, “Intertwining Legacies:  Jews and African Americans in the Deep South” is quickly approaching.  In this presentation, a Holocaust survivor and a former Tuskegee Airman will discuss antisemitism, racism, and the relationship between Jews and African-Americans during World War II.  Mr. Fred Terna is a survivor of Auschwitz who watched African-American troops liberate Jews, only to return to Jim Crow oppression back home.  Dr. Eugene Richardson, an African-American fighter pilot who trained at four military bases in the South, served at a time when many white soldiers were openly antisemitic and racist. The talk is part of the lecture series, “Intertwining Legacies: Jews and African-Americans in the South,” organized by the Critical Race Studies Group and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.The presentation will take place on Tuesday, April 30th at 5:00 pm in the Overby Center Auditorium.   A reception will follow.

 

For more information about the event, please see the official University of Mississippi press release.

For more information o on the Association for Jewish Studies-Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project, see http://www.ajsnet.org/legacy.htm

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New Director of the McLean Institute for Public Service and Community Engagement, Dr. Albert Nylander, Professor of Sociology

The Department is excited to share a recent news story regarding Dr. Albert Nylander and his work as the Director of the McLean Institute for Public Service and Community Engagement.  Dr. Nylander will lead the efforts of the newly expanded McLean Institute and the University on upcoming initiatives related to engaged community research and teaching. To read the recent news story, click here.

To learn more about the McLean Institute for Public Service and Community Engagement, click here.

 

Dr. Sander Gilman presents “How Did Anti-Semitism and Racism Become Mental Illness? From Anti-Semitic Vienna to Segregated Topeka, Kansas”

 

 

 

The University of Mississippi Critical Race Studies Group presents Dr. Sander Gilman, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University.  The title of his talk is, “How Did Anti-Semitism and Racism Become Mental Illnesses?  From Anti-Semitic Vienna to Segregated Topeka, Kansas.”
The talk will take place on Thursday, October 25, 2012, Bryant Hall 209, 5:30 pm.

The next day, Friday, October 26, students can chat informally with Dr. Gilman at a brownbag talk at noon in the Bryant Hall first floor lounge.  Bring your lunch and look forward to the chance to ask questions and hear further reflections on anti-semitism and racism.

Dr. Gilman is a cultural and literary historian and is the author or editor of over eighty books.  He focuses on medicine and how medical rhetoric echoes in social and political discourse.

 

This is the second public lecture of the year-long series entitled “Intertwining Legacies: Jews and African Americans in the Deep South.” 
For more information, please see the recent story in the College of Liberal Arts Newsletter, “View from Ventress” by clicking here.
For more information on the Association for Jewish Studies-Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project, see http://www.ajsnet.org/legacy.htm

 

Photographs from Dr. Gilman’s visit

Photo Credits: Chelsey Handley

50 Years of Integration at The University of Mississippi: Opening the Closed Society

With his admittance to the University on October 1, 1962, James Meredith became the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi.   To commemorate this event, the University is celebrating the anniversary of racial integration with a year-long event entitled “Opening the Closed Society.”  Please see a complete schedule of events below, and click here for more information about the 50 Years Celebration.

2012 Commemoration Events

*Unless noted, all events are free and open to the public.

Wednesday, Sept. 5

“Images of Minority Women in the Media, Then and Now”
11 a.m.
Panelists: Kirk Johnson, Deirdre Cooper Owens, Imani Cheers
Moderator: Mark Dolan
Cosponsored by the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies
Overby Center

Wednesday, Sept. 19

Brown Bag Lecture: “Margaret Walker Alexander and Civil Rights”
Noon
Lecturer: Robby Luckett of the Margaret Walker Alexander Center, Jackson State University
Barnard Observatory

Movie Screening: “Sing Your Song”
6:30 p.m.
Sing Your Song is a documentary about the life of Harry Belafonte.  The screening will take place at 6:30pm on September 19 in the lecture hall of Barnard Observatory.
Barnard Observatory, Room 105

Monday, Sept. 24

“’What Did We Learn? The Lessons of 1962.’”
6 p.m.
Charles Eagles, author of ‘The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss,’ will speak on his history of the crisis.
Overby Center Auditorium

Tuesday, Sept. 25

“Legacy: 50 Years of Integration at the University of Mississippi”
7 p.m.
Narrators: Andrew Harper and Matthew Graves (40-minute documentary)
Overby Center Auditorium

“Lecture: ‘Transformation and Reformation”
7 p.m.
Clifton Taulbert will discuss his Ice House Entrepreneurship program as part of the Legal Studies Lecture Series.
Farley Hall, Room 202

Wednesday, Sept. 26

Brown Bag Lecture: “Legacies from the Battle of Ole Miss: The James Meredith Incident and the 1965 Southern Literary Festival”
Noon
Lecturer: Robert W. Hamblin, professor of English, Southeast Missouri State University
Barnard Observatory
3-4 p.m.
Panel discussion with people who were on campus Sept. 30–Oct. 1, 1962
All people who were on campus during the events of fall 1962 are invited to participate.
Barnard Observatory

Thursday, Sept. 27

Speaker: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
7 p.m.
Ticketed event — tickets available at the UM Box Office, 662-915-7411
Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts

Friday, Sept. 28

Mississippi Freedom Trail Marker Ceremony
Time and location to be determined week prior to the event
Master of ceremonies: Andy Mullins

Sunday, Sept. 30

Statewide Day of Remembrance: “A Walk of Reconciliation and Redemption”
6:30 p.m.
Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts

Prayer Service on the Lyceum Steps at Ole Miss led by local religious community
7 p.m.

“REBELS: James Meredith & the Integration of Ole Miss”
8 p.m.
Narrators: Andrew Harper and Matthew Graves (52-minute documentary)
Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts

Monday, Oct. 1

“The U.S. Marshals and Oxford—A 50th Anniversary Panel”
9:30 a.m.
Panelists: John Meredith, son of James Meredith; Don Forsht, Hershel Garner, Denzil N. Bud Staple, Curt Bowden and Robert Moore, retired deputy U.S. marshals
Master of ceremonies: David Turk, U.S. Marshals Service historian
Student Union Ballroom

Black Student Union Tribute to James Meredith
11 a.m.
Student Union Lobby

“A Lawyer’s Impact: Mississippi Burning”
1:30 p.m.
Robert C. Khayat Law Center, Room 1078

“Integration at Ole Miss — from an Army Perspective”
3 p.m.
Speaker: Henry Gallagher, author of James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot
Overby Center

“Meredith and Me: The Walk”
5:30 p.m.
50 Years of Integration at the University of Mississippi
Civil Rights Monument

“50 Years of Integration, Opening the Closed Society”
6 p.m.
Keynote speaker: Harry Belafonte
Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts
Ticket required
Overflow viewing available at Nutt Auditorium

Reception
7:15 p.m.
Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts Lower Lobby

Tuesday, Oct. 2

“Finding JFK while Researching James Meredith at Ole Miss — A Collector’s Paradise”
Noon
A discussion with Judge Tyrone K. Yates
Faulkner Room, Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library

Wednesday, Oct. 3

Brown Bag Lecture: “Robert F. Kennedy in the Mississippi Delta”
Noon
Lecturer: Ellen Meacham, Meek School of Journalism and New Media
Barnard Observatory

Thursday, Oct. 4

“Ole Miss after Meredith: Progress since 1962”
11 a.m.
Speakers: David Sansing, Don Cole, Valeria Ross and Gerald Walton
Overby Center Auditorium

Wednesday, Oct. 10

Gilder Jordan Lecture in Southern History: “So the Whole World Can See: Documentary Photography and Film in the Civil Rights Era”
7:30 p.m.
Lecturer: Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia
Nutt Auditorium

Monday, Oct. 15

Dr. Joel E. Anderson, Chancellor, University of Arkansas Little Rock, “Cuffed on a Bus at Ole Miss in 1962: This Is Not the Way I Was Raised.”
Noon
Barnard Observatory, Room 105

Tuesday-Saturday, Sept. 25–Oct. 6

“A Difficult Road to Equality: Objects from Integration at Ole Miss”
10 a.m.-6 p.m.
University Museum and Historic Houses
“Segregation is about right and wrong. Every Southerner knows it is wrong. It is about wanting to change.” — William Faulkner, 1961

Change did come in fall 1962, when the University of Mississippi admitted James Meredith as the first African-American student to be enrolled at the last public university in the U.S. to abandon segregation policies. The ensuing riot, which shook Oxford and the nation, resulted in two deaths and scars, which are still visible today, on the University of Mississippi’s most venerated landmark, the Lyceum. The objects on display here were part of that historic day, when Ole Miss opened its mind and heart to a larger cause and became a place where all people could forget fear and concentrate on enriching their lives as students.

Through October 2012

Library Exhibit: “We Shall March Ahead: Mississippi and the Civil Rights Movement”
8 a.m.-5 p.m.
This exhibit contains several cases devoted to the integration of the university, including the James Meredith, Russell Barrett (former UM professor of political science) and Sidna Brower Mitchell (former editor of The Daily Mississippian) cases.
Faulkner Room, UM Libraries

 

 

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Departmental Accomplishments Featured in “View from Ventress”

Read several news stories about various departmental awards and accomplishments in A View from Ventress, the College of Liberal Arts newsletter.

 

Intertwining Legacies: Jews and African Americans in the Deep South

 

The first public lecture of the year-long series entitled “Intertwining Legacies:  Jews and African Americans in the Deep South” will take place on September 6, 2012 with a presentation by Dr. W. David Nelson of Groton School.

 

W. David Nelson, a noted scholar of the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), comes to the University of Mississippi from Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts.  In his lecture entitled “Say Again!:  Race, Religion, and Realities of Reading the Bible,” Dr. Nelson will discuss how the Bible has been used to promote racist ideologies such as the Curse of Ham.

The lecture begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Overby Center auditorium.

 

The lecture series is organized by the University of Mississippi Critical Race Studies Group, an interdisciplinary group of scholars who are working to address racial and ethnic inequalities on campus and in academia.   The series would not be possible without the generous funding from the Association for Jewish Studies-Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project (AJS-LHJSP). “Intertwining Legacies:  Jews and African Americans in the Deep South” intends to explore different aspects of Jewish and African-American history, specifically focusing on the complex relationship between the two groups in the deep South.

Co-sponsors of the lecture series include the African American Studies Program; the Center for the Study of Southern Culture; the College of Liberal Arts; the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies; the School of Law; the Trent Lott Leadership Institute; the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation; and the departments of History, Philosophy and Religion, and Sociology and Anthropology.

 

For more information, please see the official University of Mississippi press release.
For more information on the Association for Jewish Studies-Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project, see http://www.ajsnet.org/legacy.htm

 

 

Recent Departmental Promotions

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology would like to recognize the following recently promoted faculty members: Ahmet Yukleyen, Kirk Johnson, Willa Johnson, and John Sonnett.  Congratulations!

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology Welcomes Four New Faculty Members

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology would like to welcome four new faculty members! 

Dr. Albert Nylander, Professor of Sociology and Director of the McLean Institute for Partnerships and Community Engagement.

Dr. Carolyn Freiwald, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

Dr. James T. Thomas (“J.T.”), Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Southern Studies.

Dr. Sean Elias, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology.

Albert Nylander, Director of McLean Institute for Partnerships and Community Engagement

The Department is excited to welcome Dr. Albert Nylander, Director of the McLean Institute for Partnerships and Community Engagement and Professor of Sociology! Dr. Nylander comes to the University of Mississippi from Delta State University, where he served as Dean of Graduate Studies and Chair of the Division of Social Sciences.  Dr. Nylander will lead the efforts of the newly expanded McLean Institute and the University on upcoming initiatives related to engaged community research and teaching. For more information about the McLean Institute for Partnerships and Community Engagement, click here.

Dr. John Green serves as Editor-in-Chief of Community Development Journal

The University of Mississippi Center for Population Studies now houses the Editorial Office of Community Development, the official journal of the Community Development Society. This peer-reviewed scholarly publication addresses the cutting-edge of knowledge concerning community development research, practice, and policy. It is published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis, with five issues per year. Dr. John Green, Director of the Center for Population Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology, will serve as Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

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