2026 Public Humanities Awards

The 2026 Public Humanities Awards will be held on March 20th at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson.

Tickets and Awards Sponsor opportunities may be purchased through the MHC website or by sending a check to the Mississippi Humanities Council, 3825 Ridgewood Road, Room 317, Jackson, MS 39211.

We hope you can join us for a night celebrating these achievements.

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  • Tue 8

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

    March 8, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
    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 […]

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  • Thu 17

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

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

    HTA – The Old Slave: History and Memory

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    The Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival 50th Anniversary Prologue

    March 22, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - March 26, 2022 @ 3:00 pm
    Free
  • Wed 23

    HTA – Stage Combat

    March 23, 2022 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
    Hinds Community College - Raymond Campus 501 East Main Street, Raymond, United States

    Hinds Community College – Reeves 165, Raymond, MS

    Free
  • Wed 23

    HTA – Jazz: The Fabric of Modern Music

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

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

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

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

    March 24, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

    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

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

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