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The Schools of Nursing and Pharmacy operate on both the Oxford and Jackson campuses. The Schools of Dentistry, Health Related Professionals and Medicine, and the Health Sciences Graduate School, are based in Jackson only. (Additional healthcare programs are available through the School of Applied Sciences on the Oxford campus.) Other than these exceptions, the schools above are on the Oxford campus.

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Oxford Conference for the Book

Conferences: Oxford Conference for the Book returns as an in person event March 30, 31 and April 1. Free and open to the public.

Fri
1
Apr
Mar. 30 - Apr. 1, 2022
Various Locations
Open to the public

The Oxford Conference for the Book is returning to Oxford and the University of Mississippi campus on March 30, 31, and April 1, 2022, as an in-person event, with special partnerships with the Willie Morris Awards in Southern Writing and the National Book Foundation, the administrators of the National Book Awards.

Confirmed participants include Imani Perry (South to America), Kate Clifford Larson (Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer), Ralph Eubanks (A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape), Robert Jones Jr. (The Prophets) and Jason Mott (A Hell of a Book), poets Marcus Amaker (The Birth of All Things) and Marcella Sulak (City of Skypapers), and Raven Leilani (Luster), with readings by the Willie Morris Awards winners in Fiction and Poetry.

Keep an eye on the conference website, www.oxfordconferenceforthebook.com, for information on special events and news on authors participating in the upcoming Twenty-Eighth Oxford Conference for the Book.

For assistance related to a disability, contact Jimmy Thomas: jgthomas@olemiss.edu | 9153374

Event posted by: cssc@olemiss.edu