Diane Williams presents: "Parallels of Southern Storytelling and Folktales from Around the World." Diane uses the art of storytelling to uncover folktales from the south, oral history from Mississippi, often […]
Janie Covarrubias is William Carey University’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Covarrubias’s lecture, Gloria Anzaldua as a Feminist Revolution and Vindication of the Myth of "La Llorona, will be presented […]
William Moorer is Holmes Community College's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Moorer's lecture, Traditional Poetry: I'm Not Dead Yet, will be presented 3/4/25 at 2:00 pm on the college’s […]
Jill Drouillard is Mississippi University for Women’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Drouillard’s lecture, The Ice Age of Making Babies and (Pro)creating Meaning in the 21st Century, will be presented […]
Hey book community! It’s that time again! Join us for our next Reading the Room event on Wednesday, February 12th at 6:00 pm, at Urban Foxes! Bring any book and […]
When it was first published in hardback in 1994 (with paperback published in 1995), John Dittmer's _Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi_ made a tremendous impact in […]
Join us for a free screening of "My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is" on Sunday, March 9, at 2 p.m. in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two […]
In conjunction with the screening of the Television Academy award-winning documentary, Dirt and Deeds in Mississippi, the University of Southern Mississippi is inviting a veteran of the civil rights movement […]
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! […]
About Community Read Community Read, sponsored by Mississippi University for Women, is a community-wide shared reading experience that: draws on the university and community’s rich literary heritage and The W's […]
Free screening alert! Join the Mississippi Film Society on Thursday night, March 20, at 7 pm at the @capritheatre (where the new garage is now open for convenient parking) for […]
Come to Foxfire Ranch for two ultra-special community days honoring the legacies of the Mississippi Hill Country! March 23rd: To kick it off, we invite you to breathe with us […]
