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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 […]

    Free
  • 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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