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In this session, Catarina Passidomo, Southern Foodways Alliance Associate Professor of Southern Studies and associate professor of anthropology, is in conversation with Catherine Coleman Flowers about her book, Waste: One Woman’s Fight against America’s Dirty Secret. Flowers is founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice and the rural development manager for … Continued

In 2020 the University Press of Mississippi celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, but this Oxford Conference for the Book session, “University Press of Mississippi: The Next Fifty Years,” looks to the future. This panel of UPM business office, editorial, and art department staff discusses the business of producing scholarly books in an ever-changing publishing world. Panelists … Continued

This year’s Oxford Conference for the Book includes the awards ceremonies for the Willie Morris Awards for Southern Writing, which came to the University of Mississippi in 2020 to be administered by the Department of Writing and Rhetoric in honor of Willie Morris, a UM writer-in-residence and instructor from 1980 to 1991. Awards are given … Continued

Join the celebration! The Oxford Conference for the Book begins Monday! Sessions will be available beginning March 8, and they will be highlighted throughout the week on social media. Keep an eye on the conference website and on the conference Facebook page!

Square Books and the 2021 Oxford Conference for the Book (March 8–12) are pleased to host several live online readings this year. Read on for information and links to register for each. RSVP is required for all live online events. Mississippi authors Angie Thomas and Kiese Laymon discuss Thomas’s newest book, Concrete Rose, on Monday, March … Continued