| Lectures Series The Mississippi Humanities Council has assumed leadership in promoting the humanities and humanities education in the public life of Mississippi. The council perceives its role as serving as a bridge between scholars and the general public. Its basic function is to encourage a rich and vital literacy that dispels ignorance and powerlessness, and that leads to an understanding of our heritage. The Mississippi Humanities Council inaugurated the Judge William C. Keady Distinguished Lecture Series in 1990 in commemoration of Judge Keady’s legacies to Mississippi. The lectures are to explore the impact of judicial decisions on citizens’ everyday lives. The Council presented the first Governor’s Inaugural Lecture in 1996 and at each inauguration since then. The Council hopes to work with all of all of Mississippi’s governors to promote programs that will stimulate citizens’ thinking and participation with reasoned judgement in issues of public interest. The Cora Norman Lecture Series was initiated 1997 to honor Dr. Norman, who served as the founding executive director of the Mississippi Humanities council until her retirement in May of 1996. The purpose of the lecture series is to explore the impact of the humanities in Mississippi. Judge William C.
Keady Distinguished Lecture Presenters
Gov. William F.
Winter -- 1990
James Lawton
Robertson -- 1991
Oliver A. Houck --
1993
John R. Kramer --
1998
Gov. William F.
Winter -- 2000
Dr. Paul Finkelman
-- 2003
Mississippi Supreme
Court Justice James E. Graves Jr. -- 2005
Cora Norman
Lecture Series
Dr. Peggy Whitman
Prenshaw -- 1997
Dr. Samuel DuBois
Cook -- 1999
Dr. Elliott West --
2001
Dr. Jeannie Whayne
-- 2004
Dr. Marjorie J.
Spruill -- 2006
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William C. Keady
Governor Haley Barbour (left), NEH Chair Bruce Cole (center), and MHC Chair Willis Lott (right) at the Governor's Inaugural Lecture.
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Cora Norman