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  • March 2022

  • Thu 3
    March 3, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

    HTA – Living in the Material Worlds of Early America

    Mississippi State University Bost Theater, Starkville, MS

    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 […]

    Free
  • Thu 3
    March 3, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

    Ross Gay – Virtual Writing Workshop

    Online Event

    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 […]

    Free
  • Fri 4
    March 4, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Keeping Up Our End of the Correspondence: Preserving Women’s Letters in the Digital Era

    Mississippi University for Women - Fant Memorial Library 1200 5th Ave S, Columbus, MS, United States

    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 […]

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

    HTA – Language as Music: What are we speaking exactly?

    University of Mississippi

    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 […]

    Free
  • Tue 8
    March 8, 2022 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

    HTA – Getting to Creativity Through Ceramics

    Jones College 900 S Court St, Ellisville, MS, United States

    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 […]

    Free
  • Tue 8
    March 8, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

    HTA – The “Instructor and Inspirer”: Christian Romantic Contributions to Nineteenth-Century American Art and Education

    Belhaven University 1500 Peachtree Street, Jackson, MS

    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 […]

    Free
  • 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
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