WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25
9 a.m. The OCB Children’s Book Festival: 1st Grade
Adam Rubin, author of Those Darn Squirrels
Gertrude C. Ford Center for Performing Arts
*This program is for area schoolchildren, but conference-goers are welcome to attend.
12 p.m. Welcome Lunch
Hosted by the University of Mississippi Library Archives and Special Collections
Welcome by James Thomas; Richard Forgette, Dean of Liberal Arts; and Jennifer Ford, Head of Archives and Special Collections
3rd Floor of J. D. Williams Library
Margaret Walker Exhibition Archives and Special Collections
3rd Floor of J. D. Williams Library
1:30 p.m. Keynote Lecture, Dedicated to Margaret Walker
Maryemma Graham
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
Comments and Reflections
Robby Luckett, Moderator, Maryemma Graham, Carolyn J. Brown, Jerry W. Ward
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
3:30 p.m. Reading
LaShonda Katrice Barnett, author of Jam on the Vine
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
5 p.m. Square Books Session #1
Signing and Reading
Kent Russell, author of I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son
Off Square Books
6:30 p.m. Opening Reception
Barksdale-Isom House
(Requires Purchased Ticket)
THURSDAY, MARCH 26
9 a.m. Sports and Race: How Athletics Transcended Segregation
Curtis Wilkie, Moderator
Andrew Maraniss, David Maraniss, Charles Ross, Kyle Veazey, and Jody Hill
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
9:30-11:30 a.m. Poetry Workshop
Geffrey Davis and F. Douglas Brown
Lamar Hall Conference Room 323
(Free Event, Advance Registration Required, 30 Seats Available.)
10:30 a.m. Writing with Pictures, Adventure Time and Beyond
Jack Pendarvis, moderator
Kent Osborne, Seo Kim, and Natasha Allegri
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
12 p.m. Lunch on Your Own
1:30 p.m. Cave Canem: Poetry Readings and Conversation
Chiyuma Elliot, moderator
Geffrey Davis, F. Douglas Brown, and Caroline Randall Williams
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
3 p.m. Square Books Session #2
Reading and Conversation
Phil Klay and John Renehan
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
5 p.m. Doors open for Square Books pop-up shop and book signing with Thursday authors
The Lyric Theater on the Oxford Square
6 p.m. Thacker Mountain Radio
Kent Russell, David Vann, and Preston Lauterbach
The Lyric Theater on the Oxford Square
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
“But above all, the courthouse: the center, the focus, the hub; sitting looming in the center of the county’s circumference like a single cloud in its ring of horizon…”—William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
9 a.m. Poetry Readings and Conversation
Beth Ann Fennelly, moderator
Chelsea Wagenaar, Mark Wagenaar, and Barbara Ras
Lafayette County Courthouse on the Oxford Square
10:30 a.m. Southern Foodways Alliance Session
John T. Edge
David Shields and Sean Brock
Lafayette County Courthouse on the Oxford Square
12 p.m. Poetry Talk and Lunch
Barbara Ras
Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library
Sponsored by the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library
(Advance Registration Required)
1:15 p.m. David Simon, Creator of The Wire and Tremé
Introduction by Melinda J. Sutton, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
Presented in partnership with the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies as part of the 15th Annual Isom Student Gender Conference
Lafayette County Courthouse on the Oxford Square
2:30 p.m. Square Books Session #3
Reading and Conversation
Tim Johnston, David Vann, and Skip Horack
Lafayette County Courthouse on the Oxford Square
3:45 p.m. Joel Williamson’s Elvis Presley: A Southern Life
Susan Ferber, moderator
Peter Guralnick, Preston Lauterbach, and Ted Ownby
Lafayette County Courthouse on the Oxford Square
5 p.m. Closing Reception and Book Signing
Off Square Books
To read more about the 15th Annual Sarah Isom Center Student Gender Conference, visit theDMonline.com.
