BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Mississippi Humanities Council - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Mississippi Humanities Council
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.mshumanities.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Mississippi Humanities Council
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Chicago
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20210314T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20211107T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20220313T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20221106T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20230312T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20231105T070000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220328
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220515
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220405T133902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T133902Z
UID:11475-1648425600-1652572799@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:"Voices and Votes" Exhibit in Hattiesburg
DESCRIPTION:The Library of Hattiesburg\, Petal\, and Forrest County will host Voices and Votes: Democracy in America\, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition\, from March 28 through May 14. The exhibit is open to the public Monday-Thursday 9:00 am-5:30 pm\, and Friday-Saturday 9:00 am-3:00 pm. \nVoices and Votes is a traveling exhibit offered by the Museum on Main Street division of the Smithsonian Institution. It consists of six free-standing display units incorporating photographs\, text\, and numerous interactive elements. Requiring a minimum of 650 sq. ft.\, the exhibit is designed for smaller venues to achieve Museum on Main Street’s goal of bringing the Smithsonian to small town America. The exhibit is free and open to the public to visit. \nVoices and Votes: Democracy in America traces the bold American experiment of a government run by and for the people. The exhibit examines the influences that shaped the early days of American democracy and the changes that have occurred in the nearly 250 years since. \nDemocracy is a form of government that requires civic engagement and participation. It is formed by citizens’ responses to ongoing questions: What are the rights and responsibilities of citizens? What is the role of the government in American life? How do citizens participate in democracy? Beginning with the American Revolution\, this exhibition explores these questions and more. \nIn addition to hosting the exhibit\, the library will also host a series of programs that are free and open to the public. \nVoices and Votes events in Hattiesburg:\nMarch 28\, 5:30 pm: Opening reception and presentation from Hattiesburg mayor Toby Barker\, “All Politics is Local – Campaigning South Mississippi Style”\nMarch 31\, 2pm: Thursday Theater\, Lincoln\nApril 11\, 6pm: Presentation from Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson\, “Mississippi’s Initiative Process: What it was\, what it is\, what it can be”\nApril 14\, 2pm: Thursday Theater\, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington\nApril 22\, 6pm: Presentation from Hattiesburg attorney Michael Adelman\, “An Equal Opportunity to Participate: The Change in Hattiesburg Municipal Government\, 1984”\nApril 28\, 2pm: Thursday Theater\, All the King’s Men\nMay 2\, 6pm: Presentation from Voices and Votes state scholar Dr. Rebecca Tuuri\, “Democracy in Mississippi: Race\, Violence and Power in the Struggle for the Vote”
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/voices-and-votes-exhibit-in-hattiesburg/
LOCATION:Library of Hattiesburg\, Petal\, and Forrest County\, 329 Hardy Street\, Hattiesburg\, MS\, 39401
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220325T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220325T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20211215T154613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211215T154613Z
UID:11427-1648229400-1648242000@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:2022 Public Humanities Awards
DESCRIPTION:The Mississippi Humanities Council is delighted to announce recipients for its 2022 Public Humanities Awards\, which recognize outstanding work by Mississippians in bringing the insights of the humanities to public audiences. These recipients will be honored at a public ceremony and reception Friday evening\, March 25\, at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. \nDr. William Reynolds Ferris\, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities\, will receive the Cora Norman Award in recognition of his distinguished career as a scholar and national leader in the humanities. A native of Vicksburg\, Ferris is a writer\, folklorist\, and documentarian who has written or edited ten books about Mississippi culture and history. He was a founding director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. In 2018 he produced the Grammy Award-winning box set Voices of Mississippi containing his field recordings and documentary films. Ferris is currently the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as chairman of the NEH from 1997 to 2001. Jon Parrish Peede\, one of Ferris’ former students who served as NEH chairman from 2017 to 2020\, will present the Cora Norman award to Ferris. \n“In 2022 we will mark the 50th anniversary of the MHC with our year-long theme “Reflecting Mississippi\,” and we can think of no public scholar who has done more than Bill Ferris to reflect the richness and complexity of our state’s culture\, from its music\, folklife\, and history to its art and literature\,” said Stuart Rockoff executive director of the Mississippi Humanities Council. “It will be especially appropriate to honor his lifetime of leadership in the public humanities during our 50th anniversary year. We are very excited to have both Mississippians who have served as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities participating in the ceremony.” \nIn addition to honoring Ferris\, the MHC will also recognize: \nHumanities Scholar Award: Dr. Daphne Chamberlain\, associate professor of history at Tougaloo College for her commitment to bridging academic humanities and the public through her expertise as a civil rights historian. \nHumanities Partner Award: New Hope Baptist Church in Jackson for its outstanding Black History Month programs that have received MHC grant support for several years. \nHumanities Educator: Mississippi Delta Community College Prison Education Program for its work providing for-credit courses to incarcerated students at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. \nPreserver of Mississippi Culture: Fannie Lou Hamer’s America Project\, which produced a documentary film that will be broadcast nationwide over public television\, bringing the voice and story of an extraordinary Mississippian to a national audience. \nReflecting Mississippi Award:  W. Ralph Eubanks for his work as a memoirist and literary scholar that has helped revise our state’s narratives to reflect Mississippi more honestly and accurately. \nThe MHC will also recognize 30 recipients of the 2022 Humanities Teacher Awards\, which pay tribute to outstanding faculty in traditional humanities fields at each of our state’s institutions of higher learning. \nThe Council invites everyone to join them at their 2022 Public Humanities Awards ceremony and reception March 25\, 2022\, at 5:30 p.m. at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. \nTickets for the Mississippi Humanities Council Public Humanities Awards ceremony and reception are $50 each and may be purchased online here or by sending a check to the Mississippi Humanities Council\, 3825 Ridgewood Road\, Room 317\, Jackson\, MS 39211.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/2022-public-humanities-awards/
LOCATION:TWO MISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS\, 222 NORTH STREET \, JACKSON\, MS\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220324T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220324T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220314T150126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220314T150126Z
UID:11468-1648148400-1648153800@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA – What Should MC Teach? Curricular Efficacy and the Core
DESCRIPTION:Mississippi College – Leland Speed Library Discovery Room\, Clinton\, MS \nBorrowing 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 and visual literacy.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-what-should-mc-teach-curricular-efficacy-and-the-core/
LOCATION:Mississippi College\, 200 Capitol St.\, Clinton\, MS\, 39056
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220324T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220324T130000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220315T152753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220315T152753Z
UID:11472-1648123200-1648126800@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:SB – Rockoff – Shalom Y’all: The History of Jews in Mississippi
DESCRIPTION: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 became visible symbols of economic modernity and market capitalism in Mississippi. Throughout much of their history\, Mississippi Jews have worked to lessen the cultural differences between themselves and their neighbors. In recent decades\, due to region-wide economic and demographic trends\, the Jewish population of Mississippi has declined and become concentrated in the state’s population centers.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/sb-rockoff-shalom-yall-the-history-of-jews-in-mississippi/
LOCATION:MS
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220323T193000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220314T145244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220314T145244Z
UID:11466-1648058400-1648063800@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA – The Future is Dreamed: Organizing the Clutter of Back Then to Make a Restful\, Collective Now
DESCRIPTION:Rust College – Doxey Auditorium\, Holly Springs\, MS \nThe past is always present in the now\, driving communal decisions\, policymaking\, and stories. Perhaps that fact is nowhere near as pressing as it is in locales recovering from war. The City of Holly Springs boasts over 50 Antebellum sites\, inclusive of two HBCUs. We could say that the town itself is a museum. But a museum is curated\, organized around storytelling that invites the patron into an almost physical experience of the object. It is performed\, lived. This missing context is accidentally turning our beloved objects and buildings into a pile of things and making it difficult to create an inclusive future. Working with my artist collective\, Earthseed\, we can began to ask ourselves the following questions: When does a hoard become a collection? When does a hoarder become a curator? When does a real estate investment become a time capsule? When does a museum become a closet full of forgotten items? What role can performance inquiry play in stitching together routes of exchange and understanding between objects\, between silences?
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-the-future-is-dreamed-organizing-the-clutter-of-back-then-to-make-a-restful-collective-now/
LOCATION:Scott
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220323T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220323T163000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220314T145854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220314T145854Z
UID:11467-1648047600-1648053000@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA – Jazz: The Fabric of Modern Music
DESCRIPTION:Tougaloo College – Bennie G. Thompson Academic Center\, Jackson\, MS \nIt is often easy to overlook or disregard the impact that jazz has on our society.  For as long as music has existed\, it has served various roles including but not limited to provide entertainment\, celebrate\, mourn\, meditation\, etc.  This presentation will focus on establishing the connection between the stylistic and performance practice impact of jazz on modern music.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-jazz-the-fabric-of-modern-music/
LOCATION:Tougaloo College\, 500 W County Line Rd\, Tougaloo\, MS\, 39174\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220323T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220323T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220314T144411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220314T144411Z
UID:11465-1648038600-1648044000@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA – Stage Combat
DESCRIPTION:Hinds Community College – Reeves 165\, Raymond\, MS
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-stage-combat/
LOCATION:Hinds Community College – Raymond Campus\, 501 East Main Street\, Raymond\, 39154\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220322T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220326T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220315T150258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220315T150258Z
UID:11471-1647966600-1648306800@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:The Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival 50th Anniversary Prologue
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/the-phillis-wheatley-poetry-festival-50th-anniversary-prologue/
LOCATION:MS
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220322T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220322T173000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220314T143630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220314T143630Z
UID:11463-1647964800-1647970200@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:White Privilege: Nonconscious Racism\, Freud\, and Neuroscience of Implicit Bias
DESCRIPTION:Millsaps College – Christian Center\, Jackson\, MS \nTo 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 whether understanding the formation of unintentional racism might help reverse it.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/white-privilege-nonconscious-racism-freud-and-neuroscience-of-implicit-bias/
LOCATION:Millsaps College\, 1701 N. State Street\, Jackson\, Mississippi\, 39202
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220322T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220322T123000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220314T143359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220314T143359Z
UID:11462-1647946800-1647952200@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA – Octavia E. Butler\, African American Science Fiction\, and Rites of Passage
DESCRIPTION:Mississippi Valley State University – Business Education Auditorium\, Itta Bena\, MS \nThis 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 light of Victor Turner’s theories of Rites of Passage and “liminality”.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-octavia-e-butler-african-american-science-fiction-and-rites-of-passage-2/
LOCATION:Mississippi Valley State University\, 14000 US-82\, Itta Bena\, MS\, 38941
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220322T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220322T113000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220314T144055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220314T144055Z
UID:11464-1647943200-1647948600@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA – “You Press the Button\, We Do the Rest”: Vernacular Photography and Memory in the Age of Algorithms
DESCRIPTION:Jackson State University – Liberal Arts Room 166/266\, Jackson\, MS \nBorrowing 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 and visual literacy.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-you-press-the-button-we-do-the-rest-vernacular-photography-and-memory-in-the-age-of-algorithms/
LOCATION:Jackson State University\, 1400 J.R. Lynch Street\, Jackson\, MS\, 39217
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220321T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220321T193000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220215T165703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T165703Z
UID:11456-1647885600-1647891000@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA - The Old Slave: History and Memory
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis lecture examines how Americans viewed the survivors of slavery from emancipation through the 1970s.  Drawing upon a range of source—popular songs\, children’s books and novels\, and postcards—it shows how Americans made these old men and women into blank canvases\, upon which they projected their own ideas about the nation’s history of race and slavery.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-the-old-slave-history-and-memory/
LOCATION:University of Southern Mississippi\, Hattiesburg \, MS - Mississippi\, 39406
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220317T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220317T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220215T170647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T170647Z
UID:11457-1647543600-1647549000@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA - "Look\, sir\, my wounds!": Shakespeare's Coriolanus As a Caution Against the Catastrophic Culture of Display
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe toxicity of the culture of display is not a new revelation. Shakespeare deals with it in Coriolanus. He shows how displaying oneself in a performative manner encourages duplicity and distortion\, whereas casting off one’s need to be seen allows one to live truthfully. His message reaches across time to encompass the dangers of some current social media trends.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-look-sir-my-wounds-shakespeares-coriolanus-as-a-caution-against-the-catastrophic-culture-of-display/
LOCATION:Blue Mountain College\, 201 W Main Street\, Blue Mountain\, MS\, 38610
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220308T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220308T153000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220215T164250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T164250Z
UID:11454-1646748000-1646753400@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA - The "Instructor and Inspirer": Christian Romantic Contributions to Nineteenth-Century American Art and Education
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are often seen as the torchbearers for Romanticism in nineteenth-century America. This talk will highlight an alternative discourse\, American Christian Romanticism\, and explain how certain nineteenth-century American artists and intellectuals self-consciously fused Romantic ideals with Trinitarian Christianity. While contributing much to the dissemination of Romantic ideas in America\, these professors\, writers\, and artists also provided timeless reflections on the nature and purpose of art and education. These latter contributions will be explored with a view toward a wide and multi-disciplinary university audience.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-the-instructor-and-inspirer-christian-romantic-contributions-to-nineteenth-century-american-art-and-education/
LOCATION:Belhaven University\, 1500 Peachtree Street\, Jackson\, MS\, 39202
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220308T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220308T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220215T165351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T165351Z
UID:11455-1646735400-1646740800@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA - Getting to Creativity Through Ceramics
DESCRIPTION: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. \nGetting to Creativity Through Ceramics will examine creativity and the ceramic arts by attempting to define what creativity is and the conditions that are necessary to encourage the invention of new ideas.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-getting-to-creativity-through-ceramics/
LOCATION:Jones College\, 900 S Court St\, Ellisville\, MS\, 39437\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220307T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220307T193000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220215T163801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T163801Z
UID:11453-1646676000-1646681400@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA - Language as Music: What are we speaking exactly?
DESCRIPTION: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. \nHave you ever considered the similarities between language and music? Come join us for an evening where we embark on a journey exploring both the commonalities and the differences between these two forms of human communication. From Darwinian notions of evolutionary linguistic and musical expression found in our past\, to neuroscience’s recent discoveries about shared areas in the brain that process and store linguistic and musical data\, to questioning the very nature of how we learn languages and how the way we learn them differs quite substantially from the way we learn music.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-language-as-music-what-are-we-speaking-exactly/
LOCATION:University of Mississippi\, P.O. Box 1848\, University\, MS\, 38677\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220304T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220304T160000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220118T172938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220118T172938Z
UID:11434-1646402400-1646409600@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:Keeping Up Our End of the Correspondence: Preserving Women’s Letters in the Digital Era
DESCRIPTION: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 as a medium for documenting and researching women’s lives\, featuring three scholars who have studied\, written\, and researched the letters of Mississippi women: Dr. Suzanne Marrs\, Dr. Bridget Pieschel\, and Ms. Angela Stewart. Following the panel will be a brief workshop on the process of digitizing personal collections\, where we’ll demonstrate the process of digitization for and exhibit the Smith Papers Collection online. Both the panel and the workshop will be available to attend in-person or stream online.For more information\, contact contact deepsouthdh@gmail.com.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/keeping-up-our-end-of-the-correspondence-preserving-womens-letters-in-the-digital-era/
LOCATION:Mississippi University for Women – Fant Memorial Library\, 1200 5th Ave S\, Columbus\, MS\, 39701\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220303T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220303T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220301T161807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T161807Z
UID:11461-1646335800-1646341200@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:Ross Gay - Virtual Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION: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. \nGay 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 Unabashed Gratitude” (2015)\, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He also is an English professor at Indiana University Bloomington. \nThe second of a two event series\, this workshop with feature both author Ross Gay and Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce.  They will field questions from the audience as part of an interactive\, virtual writing session.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/ross-gay-virtual-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Online Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220303T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220303T153000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220215T162720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T162720Z
UID:11452-1646316000-1646321400@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA - Living in the Material Worlds of Early America
DESCRIPTION: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. \nToday\, we live our lives surrounded by material goods\, and consumption drives much of our economy. Early America was much the same. Although early Americans’ daily lives were different than our own and the range of goods available to them was more limited\, they\, like us\, routinely made choices about what items to purchase\, display in their homes\, or to wear. My lecture will focus how the consumer choices early Americans made reflected their ethnic\, religious\, or class backgrounds. It will also discuss how material goods—particularly clothing–were often used to measure one’s worth as a colonial subject or an American citizen.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-living-in-the-material-worlds-of-early-america/
LOCATION:Mississippi State University\, Bost Theater\, Starkville\, MS
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220301T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220301T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220301T160328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T160328Z
UID:11460-1646163000-1646168400@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:Ross Gay - Public Reading with Q&A
DESCRIPTION: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. \nGay 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 Unabashed Gratitude” (2015)\, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He also is an English professor at Indiana University Bloomington. \nGay will read selections from his poetry and answer questions during the March 1\, 7:30 p.m. event\, which is free and open to the public\, on the Institute’s Facebook page\, https://www.facebook.com/msu.humanities.institute.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/ross-gay-public-reading-with-qa/
LOCATION:Online Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220301T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220301T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220216T163002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220216T163002Z
UID:11459-1646157600-1646164800@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:"Fannie Lou Hamer's America" Screening
DESCRIPTION:This screening of Fannie Lou Hamer’s America is a collaboration of The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and MHC. Director Joy Davenport will be in attendance and field questions in a Q&A session following the screening.  Fannie Lou Hamer’s America was the recipient of an MHC Reflecting Mississippi Grant\, being truly reflective of the challenging and heroic part’s of Mississippi’s story.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/fannie-lou-hamers-america-screening/
LOCATION:Mississippi Civil Rights Museum\, 222 North Street\, Jackson\, MS\, 39201
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220301T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220301T160000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220215T162224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T162224Z
UID:11451-1646145000-1646150400@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA - The Nocturne: Listening to Music Through Imagery and Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Humanities Teacher Award winner Justin Sharp (East Central Community College) will present his public lecture\, “The Nocturne: Listening to Music Through Imagery and Imagination.” This presentation will take place at the Ovid S. Vickers Fine Arts Building on ECCC’s Decatur campus. Reception to follow. \nWhen we listen to music\, we constantly make mental associations\, form images in our minds\, and develop those images within our imagination. By examining the nocturne\, a 19th-century genre of piano music\, we will discover insight into the role of imagery and imagination in our music listening experience.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-the-nocturne-listening-to-music-through-imagery-and-imagination/
LOCATION:East Central Community College\, 275 W Broad Street\, Decatur\, MS\, 39327
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220228T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220228T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220215T161459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T161459Z
UID:11450-1646051400-1646056800@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA - Stitching Cultures
DESCRIPTION:Humanities Teacher Award winner DeLisa Brand (East Mississippi Community College) will present her public lecture\, “Stitching Cultures” This presentation will take place at the F.R. Young Student Union Building on EMCC’s Scooba campus. Reception to follow.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-stitching-cultures/
LOCATION:East Mississippi Community College – Scooba Campus\, 1512 Kemper Street\, Scooba\, MS\, 39358
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220225T133000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220215T160315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T160315Z
UID:11449-1645790400-1645795800@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA - Perfectly Queer
DESCRIPTION:Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Brandy Wilson (Mississippi University for Women) will present her public lecture\, “Perfectly Queer.” This presentation will take place on MUW’s campus in Columbus. Reception to follow. \nFor decades surrounding the 1950s\, queer characters were portrayed as sick\, murderous\, alcoholic\, and dangerous–and those were the most sympathetic characters. Since the Stonewall Uprising\, audiences have demanded more for queer characters\, but has there been an over-correction\, resulting in more admirable but equally flat\, “perfectly queer\,” characters? Dr. Wilson will discuss queer characters and characterization in literature from a scholarly and craft perspective\, emphasizing the necessity for fully humanized queer characters for both acceptance and representation. She will explore various works of literature as well as read from her own work in progress.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-perfectly-queer/
LOCATION:Mississippi University for Women\, 1100 College Street\, Columbus\, MS\, 39701
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220224T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220224T193000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220118T172100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220118T172100Z
UID:11432-1645727400-1645731000@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:Outkast and the Hip-Hop South
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Black History Month Lecture Series presented by The Mississippi University for Women. \nZoom Details located on the flyer.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/outkast-and-the-hip-hop-south/
LOCATION:Online Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220224T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220224T153000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220215T155502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T155502Z
UID:11448-1645711200-1645716600@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA - Beauty and Poise: Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
DESCRIPTION:Humanities Teacher Award winner Lashonda Levy (Holmes Community College) will present her public lecture\, “Beauty and Poise: Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance.” This presentation will take place at the McMorrough Library on Holmes’ Goodman Campus. Reception to follow. \nThe toxicity of the culture of display is not a new revelation. Shakespeare deals with it in Coriolanus. He shows how displaying oneself in a performative manner encourages duplicity and distortion\, whereas casting off one’s need to be seen allows one to live truthfully. His message reaches across time to encompass the dangers of some current social media trends.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-beauty-and-poise-women-writers-of-the-harlem-renaissance/
LOCATION:Holmes Community College\, 1 Hill Street\, Goodman\, MS\, 39079\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220223T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220223T193000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220215T192431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T192431Z
UID:11458-1645641000-1645644600@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:Ideas on Tap - Reflecting Mississippi in Monuments
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this Ideas on Tap program titled “Reflecting Mississippi in Monuments”. This program will discuss in a broader sense: who has been represented in Mississippi’s monuments? Who hasn’t been? How can we use monuments to tell a fuller\, more accurate history of our state?\nSue Mobley of Monument Lab\, Kathleen Bond of the National Parks Service\, and Dennis Dahmer (son of Civil Rights Veteran Vernon Dahmer)\, will add new perspective to this ongoing conversation.\nThis program will be virtual and streamed from the MHC Facebook page on February 23 at 6:30pm
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/ideas-on-tap-reflecting-mississippi-in-monuments/
LOCATION:Online Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220223T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220223T133000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220214T230846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220214T230846Z
UID:11446-1645617600-1645623000@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA - Effective Communication Amongst the College Campus Community by Generational Breakdown: A How-To Guide
DESCRIPTION:Humanities Teacher Award winner Shanelle Frazier (Coahoma Community College) will present her public lecture\, “Effective Communication Amongst the College Campus Community by Generational Breakdown: A How-To Guide.” This presentation will take place at the Whiteside Hall Lecture Room on Coahoma’s Clarksdale campus. Reception to follow. \n 
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-effective-communication-amongst-the-college-campus-community-by-generational-breakdown-a-how-to-guide/
LOCATION:Coahoma Community College\, 3240 Friars Point Road\, Clarksdale\, MS\, 38614\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220222T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220222T193000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220110T222855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220110T222855Z
UID:11428-1645552800-1645558200@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA - Controlling the Message: How Historical Narratives Affect Our Perceptions
DESCRIPTION:Humanities Teacher Award winner Will Bowlin (Northeast MS Community College) will present his public lecture\, “Controlling the Message: How Historical Narratives Affect Our Perceptions.” This presentation will take place at the Anderson Auditorium on NEMCC’s Booneville campus. Reception to follow. \nThis presentation will discuss how framing affects the interpretation of historical events.  It will use instances from the Revolutionary and World War II eras as context\, then transition to controversies in Mississippi education.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-controlling-the-message-how-historical-narratives-affect-our-perceptions/
LOCATION:Northeast Mississippi Community College\, 101 Cunningham Blvd.\, Booneville\, MS\, 38829
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220222T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220222T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T233758
CREATED:20220214T225922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220214T225922Z
UID:11445-1645536600-1645542000@www.mshumanities.org
SUMMARY:HTA - Unvexed to the Sea: The Impact of the Siege of Vicksburg on the Civil War and Mississippi
DESCRIPTION:Humanities Teacher Award winner Chris Tingle (Northwest Mississippi Community College) will present his public lecture\, “Unvexed to the Sea: The Impact of the Siege of Vicksburg on the Civil War and Mississippi.” This presentation will take place at the Haraway Center on the NWMCC Senatobia Campus and also be streamed via Zoom. Reception to follow. \nOne of the most critical episodes of the Civil War was the Vicksburg campaign. When Confederate troops surrendered the city of Vicksburg on July 4\, 1863\, the South lost its last stronghold on the Mississippi River. The action around Vicksburg is not only a fascinating study in military history\, but also a harrowing look at the effects that siege tactics have on a civilian population. The Vicksburg campaign is an important focal point in both Civil War and Mississippi history.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-unvexed-to-the-sea-the-impact-of-the-siege-of-vicksburg-on-the-civil-war-and-mississippi/
LOCATION:Northwest Mississippi Community College\, 4975 Hwy 51 N\, Senatobia\, 38668
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR