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  • March 2022

  • Mon 14
    February 3, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - April 23, 2022 @ 8:00 pm

    O.N. Pruitt’s Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in The American South

    Columbus Arts Council Columbus , MS

    This event is a traveling multimedia exhibition that reveals life in northeast Mississippi based on the photography of O.N. Pruitt. From 1915 to 1960, Pruitt, a white man in a […]

  • Thu 17
    March 17, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

    HTA – “Look, sir, my wounds!”: Shakespeare’s Coriolanus As a Caution Against the Catastrophic Culture of Display

    Blue Mountain College 201 W Main Street, Blue Mountain, MS

    Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Nancy Kerns (Blue Mountain College) will present her public lecture, “"Look, sir, my wounds!": Shakespeare's Coriolanus As a Caution Against the Catastrophic Culture of Display.” […]

    Free
  • Mon 21
    March 21, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

    HTA – The Old Slave: History and Memory

    University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg , MS - Mississippi

    Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Max Grivno (University of Southern Mississippi) will present his public lecture, “The Old Slave: History and Memory.” This presentation will take place in Room 108 […]

    Free
  • Tue 22
    March 22, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

    HTA – “You Press the Button, We Do the Rest”: Vernacular Photography and Memory in the Age of Algorithms

    Jackson State University 1400 J.R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS

    Jackson State University – Liberal Arts Room 166/266, Jackson, MS Borrowing its title from one of Kodak’s early advertising slogans, this lecture explores how vernacular photography has responded to the […]

    Free
  • Tue 22
    March 22, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

    HTA – Octavia E. Butler, African American Science Fiction, and Rites of Passage

    Mississippi Valley State University 14000 US-82, Itta Bena, MS

    Mississippi Valley State University – Business Education Auditorium, Itta Bena, MS This presentation will discuss aspects of Butler's life, African American patterns of: the slave narrative, "double consciousness" and Afrofuturism […]

    Free
  • Tue 22
    March 22, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

    White Privilege: Nonconscious Racism, Freud, and Neuroscience of Implicit Bias

    Millsaps College 1701 N. State Street, Jackson, Mississippi

    Millsaps College – Christian Center, Jackson, MS To what extent is white cultural domination nonconscious, and in what sense? How do neuroscience ideas of nonconscious racism, and ideas of Freud […]

    Free
  • Tue 22
    March 22, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - March 26, 2022 @ 3:00 pm

    The Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival 50th Anniversary Prologue

    Free
  • Wed 23
    March 23, 2022 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

    HTA – Stage Combat

    Hinds Community College - Raymond Campus 501 East Main Street, Raymond, United States

    Hinds Community College – Reeves 165, Raymond, MS

    Free
  • Wed 23
    March 23, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

    HTA – Jazz: The Fabric of Modern Music

    Tougaloo College 500 W County Line Rd, Tougaloo, MS, United States

    Tougaloo College – Bennie G. Thompson Academic Center, Jackson, MS It is often easy to overlook or disregard the impact that jazz has on our society.  For as long as […]

    Free
  • Wed 23
    March 23, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

    HTA – The Future is Dreamed: Organizing the Clutter of Back Then to Make a Restful, Collective Now

    Scott

    Rust College – Doxey Auditorium, Holly Springs, MS The past is always present in the now, driving communal decisions, policymaking, and stories. Perhaps that fact is nowhere near as pressing […]

    Free
  • Thu 24
    March 24, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

    SB – Rockoff – Shalom Y’all: The History of Jews in Mississippi

    In the early 19th century, Jewish immigrants from Europe began to arrive in the Magnolia State, settling initially in towns along the Mississippi River. Concentrating in retail trade, these Jews […]

    Free
  • Thu 24
    March 24, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

    HTA – What Should MC Teach? Curricular Efficacy and the Core

    Mississippi College 200 Capitol St., Clinton, MS

    Mississippi College – Leland Speed Library Discovery Room, Clinton, MS Borrowing its title from one of Kodak’s early advertising slogans, this lecture explores how vernacular photography has responded to the […]

    Free
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