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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 29-31. Free and open to the public.

Thu
30
Mar
Mar. 29 - Mar. 31, 2023
Various Locations on campus and in Oxford
Open to the public
Registration Required

The Oxford Conference for the Book is returning to Oxford and the University of Mississippi campus on March 29-31, 2023, 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 Jonathan Escoffery ("If I Survive You"), Ralph Eubanks ("A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape"), Wayne Flynt ("Afternoons with Harper Lee"), Celia Naylor ("Unsilencing Slavery: Telling Truths about Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica"), S. A. Cosby ("Razorblade Tears"), Megan Abbott ("The Turnout"), Eli Cranor ("Ozark Dogs"), poets Tarfia Faizullah ("Seam"), James Hoch ("Miscreants"), and Mahogany L. Browne ("Black Girl Magic"), with readings by the Willie Morris Award winners.

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

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

Event posted by: cssc@olemiss.edu