The Radical South - Expanding Southern History
and Identity
Cultural Movements * Racial Justice * Economic Justice * Gender
and Sexuality
Week One: Cultural movements
April 3:
Creating Culture: It’s Easy to Change
Presented by Kirina Knight and Chandra Williams
Hosted by The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies
6 pm, 323 Lamar Hall
April 4:
"They Don't Even Know" Black Southern Abundance in the Age of Donald
Trump
Presented by Kiese Laymon
Introduction by Derrick Harriell
Hosted by the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies
5:30 pm, Overby Center Auditorium
April 5
"Guilty to the Charge": Southerners Stating Facts in a Lying America
Presented by Zandria Robinson
Introduction by Brian Foster
Hosted by The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies
5:30 pm, Overby Center Auditorium
April 6:
Writing Histories of Environmentalism in the US South
Presented by Ellen Spears
Hosted by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture
12 pm, Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory
Week two: Racial Justice
April 10
Political Efficacy in the South
Presented by Na Youn Lee, Drew Lefmann, and Amy Fisher
Hosted by the Department of Social Work
Noon, 200 Lyceum
Together Oxford
Presented by Tony Caldwell and Jandel Crutchfield
Description: A community workshop on the importance of dialogue around issues of
race and violence, reciprocity in getting to know one another, and working through
differences as a family.
Hosted by the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies
6 pm, 555 Lamar Hall
April 11
Creative Labor and Cooperative Art: Collectivity in the 1960s South
Presented by Elizabeth Fielder
Introduction by Jaime Harker
Hosted by the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies
5:30 pm, Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory
April 12
“Does the Confederacy Make You Sick?”
Presented by D’Andra Orey
Hosted by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture
12 pm, Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory
"Students, Teachers, Scholars, Capable": The Prison-to-College Pipeline
Program and Abolition Pedagogy
Presented by Patrick Elliot Alexander and Otis W. Pickett
Introduction and Moderated by Dr. Susan Grayzel
Hosted by the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies
4 pm, Suite A - William Winter Institute, 3rd Floor, Lamar Hall
Week three: Economic Justice
April 17
Recovering the Radical Oral History Tradition within Southern Freedom
Movements
Presented by Wesley Hogan
Hosted by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Noon, Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory
April 18
Southern Hospitality Workers Rising, a panel discussion with UNITE
HERE!
Presented by Kate O’Neill
Hosted by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Noon, 323 Lamar Hall
April 19
The Winter Institute: Creating Radical Change Using Non-Radical Methods
Presented by Jennifer Stollman
Hosted by the William Winter Institute
Noon, Suite A - William Winter Institute, 3rd Floor, Lamar Hall
Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and its War on Poverty
Presented by Thomas Ward
Hosted by the Southern Foodways Alliance
5:30 pm, Tupelo room, Barnard Observatory
April 21
Behind the Big House
Presented by Jodi Skipper
Holly Springs, Mississippi (runs April 19-23)
Week four: Gender and Sexuality
April 24
A Skype Conversation with Kevin Sessums
Presented by Kevin Sessums
Hosted by Jaime Cantrell and the South and Sexuality course
4 pm, 204C Bondurant Hall
“If Not Now, When?”
Presented by Mab Segrest
Introduction by Jay Watson
Hosted by the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies and the William
Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation
5:30 pm, 204C Bondurant Hall
April 25
Underground Publishing: Afrofuturist, Popular, Queer
Presented by Julie Enszer, editor of Sinister Wisdom, Greg Herron, writer in New
Orleans, and
Ytasha Womack from Afrofuturism
Moderated by Jaime Harker
Hosted by the MFA Program of the Department of English and the Sarah Isom Center
for Women and Gender Studies
4 pm, Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory
Reconstructing: A Life Amidst the Ruins
Presented by Stephanie McCurry
Hosted by the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History
6 pm, 202 Farley Hall
April 26
Lobbying the Heart of Dixie: LGBTQ Advocacy in the Alabama State House
Presented by Eva Walton Kendrick
Hosted by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Noon, Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory
Race, Class, and Struggle Then & Now: Lessons from the Black Radical
Tradition
Presented by Jerome Scott and Walda Katz-Fishman
Introduction by J.T. Thomas
Hosted by the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies and the Department
of Sociology and Anthropology
5:30 pm, 555 Lamar Hall
April 27:
The Great Debate: “Should the governor of the state of Mississippi declare
April ‘Confederate History Month’?”
Presented by Deborah S. Mower
Hosted by
The UM Ethics Bowl team and the Bryant Chair of Ethics
The Department of Philosophy and Religion
SOPHIA: the Society for Philosophers in America, dedicated to promoting public
discourse and civility.
6 pm, 209 Bryant Hall
7 pm Reception, Bryant Hall Gallery
May 1
The American Nuclear Cover-up in Spain: Southern Progenitors, Southern
Casualties
Presented by John Howard
Hosted by the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies
Noon, Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory