The Southern Literary Festival is an event held yearly to encourage undergraduate writing and is open to the community. Featuring renowned author W. Ralph Eubanks and established screenwriter Chris Dowling, […]
The Southern Literary Festival is an event held yearly to encourage undergraduate writing and is open to the community, featuring established screenwriter Chris Dowling April 5. The writer will speak […]
Announcing the premiere of "We Make," a film (with Ethan Payne) about Siggers High School, an all-Black school that served communities in Shannon, MS from roughly 1940-1970. It was originally […]
Chigozie Obioma, a Nigerian writer and the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia whose first two novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, will spend a […]
Lecture by speaker Tracy Carr: A monkey named Jocko who lived at the Great Southern Hotel in Gulfport, the biggest cabbage in Coahoma County, and lots and lots of crime: […]
James Giesen presents "No One Writes Songs about Polyester: Re-making Cotton’s Image in the Late Twentieth Century." Mississippi has long reigned as the capital of cotton country, but by the […]
Thursday, April 10 7:30-8:30 Reading/Q&A in Old Main 1030 8:30 – 9pm Book Signing Chigozie Obioma, a Nigerian writer and the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of […]
The Rust College, Division of Humanities, French Film Festival for 'The Young Who Want to go to France' is a public program film festival combined with a real-aloud workshop of […]
Join us for a special edition of Sunday Screening of "Eudora" during the Stranger the Fiction Film Festival hosted by the Mississippi Film Society. Please note the showing is at […]
Known as the sister of famous composer Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel composed over 450 works despite being discouraged by family members and 19th-century society. Hear stories of her life […]
Christian Pinnen presents: "Spanish Dons in Colonial Mississippi: The Spanish roots of Mississippi’s Cotton Kingdom" Spain has a short, but important part in Mississippi’s history. Between 1779 and 1798, Spanish […]
The 2024-2025 season is an annual program of the Natchez Historical Society, consisting of 8 regular monthly presentations by expert speakers on humanities topics pertinent to the history of the […]
