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Summer 2026—February 2027
2026 SFA Film Residency, with multi-city in-person experiences and monthly virtual workshops ⟶ October 10–11, 2026
2026 Southern Foodways Symposium ⟶

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The Southern Foodways Alliance is an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.

2025 Southern Foodways Symposium

2025 Lifetime Achievement Award

Nicky Koikos of The Bright Star restaurant in Bessemer, Alabama, is the recipient of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is presented by Bob Carlton.

More Lectures

2025 Southern Foodways Symposium

Building a City Food Scene

Anne Quatran, LaKeela Lowe, Cheryl Morgan, March Egerton, and John T. Edge

2025 Southern Foodways Symposium

Art and Food

Roscoe Hall

2025 Southern Foodways Symposium

Birmingham in a Bun

John Archibald

2025 Southern Foodways Symposium

Recruiting for Birmingham

Coreata R. Houser

2025 Southern Foodways Symposium

Poetry

Jason McCall

2025 Southern Foodways Symposium

Good Food for Neighborhoods

Jones Valley Urban Farm

2025 Southern Foodways Symposium

State of the Southern City

Lakeisha Hood Moise

2025 Southern Foodways Symposium

Expanding the Table

Carlos Alemán

2025 Southern Foodways Symposium

Global Flavors, Southern Cities

Ann Taylor Pittman

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