Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Judith Ridner (Mississippi State University) will present her public lecture, “Living in the Material Worlds of Early America.” This presentation will take place in the John Grisham room at the Mitchell Memorial Library on MSU's campus. Reception to follow. Today, we live our lives surrounded by material goods, and consumption […]
Mississippi State University is hosting award-winning author Ross Gay for an upcoming virtual writer-in-residence program, an annual campus event of the College of Arts and Sciences. Gay is author of the New York Times best-selling collection of essays “The Book of Delights” (Algonquin Books, 2019), as well as several collections of poetry, including “Catalog of […]
Keeping Up Our End of the Correspondence: Preserving Women’s Letters in the Digital Era,” is a panel and workshop discussing digitizing the letters and lives of Mississippi women at Mississippi University (MUW) for Women’s Fant Memorial Library on March 4, 2022, from 2:00 pm. – 4:00 pm. The panel will discuss the importance of letter-writing […]
Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Allen Clark (University of Mississippi) will present his public lecture, “Language as Music: What are we speaking exactly?” This presentation will take place in the Tupelo Room within Bondurant Observatory on Ole Miss' Campus. Q & A and reception to follow. Have you ever considered the similarities between language and […]
Humanities Teacher Award winner Melanie Eubanks (Jones College) will present her public lecture, “Getting to Creativity Through Ceramics.” This presentation will take place in the Fine Arts Auditorium on Jones College's campus in Ellisville. Getting to Creativity Through Ceramics will examine creativity and the ceramic arts by attempting to define what creativity is and the […]
Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Jonathan Koefoed (Belhaven University) will present his public lecture, “The "Instructor and Inspirer": Christian Romantic Contributions to Nineteenth-Century American Art and Education.” This presentation will take place on Belhaven's campus in Jackson. Reception to follow. The Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are often seen as […]
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.” This presentation will take place in the Modena Lowrey Berry Auditorium on BMC's campus in Blue Mountain. Reception to follow. The toxicity of the culture […]
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 within the Liberal Arts Building on USM's campus in Hattiesburg. Reception to follow. This lecture examines how Americans viewed the survivors of slavery from emancipation […]
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 immense technological changes in the ways images are made, distributed, and consumed. It also looks at how these changes impact the teaching of both photography […]
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 in her work. The texts of the Patternist, Xenogenesis, and Parable series are included as well as Fledgling. The texts will also be analyzed in […]
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 fit in? It seems that many white people who want to avoid racist behavior are nevertheless likely to harbor suppressed anti-black sentiment. The talk explores […]
