• EGO TRIPPING: Celebrating Nikki Giovanni

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

    EGO TRIPPING: Celebrating Nikki Giovanni Join us for English & Modern Languages Week (March 19-26) as we honor the legendary Nikki Giovanni with panels, film screenings, workshops, and literary events! […]

    Free
  • 2025 Public Humanities Awards

    TWO MISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS 222 NORTH STREET , JACKSON, MS, United States

    The Mississippi Humanities Council recognizes this year’s incredible honorees who have made outstanding contributions to promoting and preserving the humanities in our state. Join us to celebrate these achievements at […]

  • Black Indigenous + Solidarity “We Are the Promised Land”

    FoxFire Ranch 1465 Old Oxford Road, Waterford, MS, United States

    We extend a heartfelt invitation to join us at Foxfire Ranch on March 30, 2025, to honor our Hill Country Ancestors. We invite you to share in stories, song, activations, offerings. We will […]

  • The Thirty-First Oxford Conference for the Book

    University of Mississippi

    The Oxford Conference for the Book is a three-day gathering inaugurated in 1993 and held annually, except in 1997 and 2020. The event takes place in Oxford and on the […]

  • Behind the Big House 2025

    Hugh Craft House and Property 184 South Memphis Street, Holly Springs, MS, United States

    The Rosa Foundation continues its annual public event known as Behind the Big House (BTBH), a nationally recognized program, and recipient of the 2024 Excellence in History award from the […]

    Free
  • Rust College French Film Festival

    Rust College 150 Rust Ave, Holly Springs, MS, United States

    The Rust College, Division of Humanities, French Film Festival for 'The Young Who Want to go to France' is a public program film festival combined with a real-aloud workshop of […]

    Free
  • Southern Literary Festival Lecture Series

    Blue Mountain Christian University 201 W Main St, Blue Mountain, MS

    The Southern Literary Festival is an event held yearly to encourage undergraduate writing and is open to the community. Featuring renowned author W. Ralph Eubanks and established screenwriter Chris Dowling, […]

  • The Southern Literary Festival

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

    The Southern Literary Festival is an event held yearly to encourage undergraduate writing and is open to the community, featuring established screenwriter Chris Dowling April 5. The writer will speak […]

    Free
  • “We Make,” A film about Siggers High School

    Shannon Elementary School 695 Romie Hill Ave, Shannon, MS, United States

    Announcing the premiere of "We Make," a film (with Ethan Payne) about Siggers High School, an all-Black school that served communities in Shannon, MS from roughly 1940-1970. It was originally […]

    Free
  • Writer in Residence

    Mississippi State University Campus Starkville, MS

    Chigozie Obioma, a Nigerian writer and the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia whose first two novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, will spend a […]

    Free