Events

Reenactment of an enslaved African named Abdul-Rahman ibn Ibrahim Sori, of his life as a free African and as an enslaved man in Natchez, MS. Art exhibit and discussion panel.

Diane uses the art of storytelling to uncover folktales from the south, oral history from Mississippi, often paralleling these story motifs with folktales from around the world. Presentation will take place in the Lorena Smith building. Speakers Expertise: Diane Williams is a neo-griot, along the lines of the story­tellers from times gone by when oral […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Morgan Boothe presents her public lecture, "Coffee Spoons and Cell Phones: Isolation and Loneliness in T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Boothe will be discussing Prufrock's lack of social interaction as a means of control. In trying to control his life, he has lost all means of communication, and […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Kyle Britt (Copiah-Lincoln Community College) will present his public lecture, "History of Wesson and Copiah-Lincoln Community College." Reception to follow. This presentation will be on the history of Wesson, Mississippi and Copiah-Lincoln Community College from mills to modern times. It will examine the boom times of the late 1800’s Mississippi Mills […]

The Sunflower County Freedom Project youth drama will present Baltimore, a play by Kirsten Greenridge. Baltimore focuses on a group of college students whose lvies are shaken when someone draws an offensive picture of the wall of their residence hall. The play shines light on issues of equality, racism, community, and the question of who gets to belong […]

This event will feature three key parts: An activism workshop, panels featuring guest speakers, and a film screening.   3:00-3:35 PM  "Social Justice Writing and Activism in the Arts" featuring Clinnesha D. Sibley 3:40-4:20PM   Speaker Dr. Daphne Chamberlain Freedom Riders Q&A Panel Discussion: "George Raymond: Thirst for Freedom." 4:30-6:00PM Film screening of "Respect Our […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Phoenix Savage (Tougaloo College) will present her public lecture titled, "Making as a Revolutionary Act: Black women Artist and the Forging of New Societies." Reception to follow. The lecture will look at the lives and works of Edmonia Lewis, Augusta Savage, and Clementine Hunter. Each woman in her own right selected the […]

The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Park Campus premieres its spring 2019 Cultural Arts Series, "Representing the Experiences of Women, From the English Renaissance to Right Now." On February 25th, Atlanta-based Resurgens Theatre Company returns to the Gulf Park campus to present Rowley and Middleton’s The Changeling, an English Renaissance tragedy of profound contemporary relevance.  

With the flexibility to address multiple basin areas (including the Yazoo, Tennessee-Tombigbee, Big Black, Pearl, South Independent Streams, Pascagoula, and Coastal Streams), this presentation can be tailored to the particular interests of the audience. The talk will give a brief introduction on the past and current governance of water resources in the state and the […]

Former Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank Williams will present "Ulysses S. Grant, Reconstruction, and Civil Rights" at the Old Capitol Museum. Williams is the longtime president of the Ulysses S. Grant Association and was instrumental in the creation of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University. In 2017, Williams and his […]

This presentation will give the listener a glimpse of the Mande Culture of West Africa. In the tradition of the Mande, the history and culture is orally preserved in the minds and through the music of the Djeli (oral librarian/mandenka hereditary professional musicians). The establishment of the Mali Empire can be recalled and retold in […]

The 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi resulted in an expansion of nursing care and the recognition of the importance of nurses in disaster care. Much nursing care was provided by family members, but those victims who did not have the advantage of home care often received nursing care from others. Many of the nurses […]