Fannie Lou Hamer's America: Meet the Makers
2022-02-15 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Online Event
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Volunteer MUW Student Panel
2022-02-16 18:30 - 19:30 | Online Event
Part of the Black History Month Lecture Series presented by The Mississippi University for Women.
Zoom Details located on the flyer.

HTA - The Case for Code-Meshing in the Community College Classroom
2022-02-17 11:00 - 12:00 | Mississippi Delta Community College, Hwy 3 & Cherry St., Moorhead, MS, 38761, United States
Humanities Teacher Award winner Jenni Hargett (Mississippi Delta Community College) will present her public lecture, “The Case for Code-Meshing in the Community College Classroom.” This Presentation will be held on the MDCC Moorhead Campus, Fine Arts Auditorium. Reception to follow.

SB - Baughn - Separate But Equal?: African American Schools in Mississippi
2022-02-17 12:00 - 13:30 | School of Health Related Professions Building, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States
Mississippi’s African American school buildings still occupy the center of their communities, recalling the struggles of segregation but also the attempts to overcome it. African American attempts to gain parity with white schools in the 1920s with assistance from the Julius Rosenwald Fund gave way to stagnation during the Great Depression, when many consolidated white schools were built with federal grants. By the 1950s, threats from the Civil Rights movement forced the Mississippi Legislature to fund a massive “Equalization Program” that built sprawling consolidated campuses in every county in the state in an effort to create a segregated system that was truly “separate but equal.”

HTA - Unvexed to the Sea: The Impact of the Siege of Vicksburg on the Civil War and Mississippi
2022-02-22 13:30 - 15:00 | Northwest Mississippi Community College, 4975 Hwy 51 N, Senatobia, 38668
Humanities Teacher Award winner Chris Tingle (Northwest Mississippi Community College) will present his public lecture, “Unvexed to the Sea: The Impact of the Siege of Vicksburg on the Civil War and Mississippi.” This presentation will take place at the Haraway Center on the NWMCC Senatobia Campus and also be streamed via Zoom. Reception to follow.
One of the most critical episodes of the Civil War was the Vicksburg campaign. When Confederate troops surrendered the city of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863, the South lost its last stronghold on the Mississippi River. The action around Vicksburg is not only a fascinating study in military history, but also a harrowing look at the effects that siege tactics have on a civilian population. The Vicksburg campaign is an important focal point in both Civil War and Mississippi history.

HTA - Controlling the Message: How Historical Narratives Affect Our Perceptions
2022-02-22 18:00 - 19:30 | Northeast Mississippi Community College, 101 Cunningham Blvd., Booneville, MS, 38829
Humanities Teacher Award winner Will Bowlin (Northeast MS Community College) will present his public lecture, “Controlling the Message: How Historical Narratives Affect Our Perceptions.” This presentation will take place at the Anderson Auditorium on NEMCC’s Booneville campus. Reception to follow.
This presentation will discuss how framing affects the interpretation of historical events. It will use instances from the Revolutionary and World War II eras as context, then transition to controversies in Mississippi education.

HTA - Effective Communication Amongst the College Campus Community by Generational Breakdown: A How-To Guide
2022-02-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Coahoma Community College, 3240 Friars Point Road, Clarksdale, MS, 38614, United States
Humanities Teacher Award winner Shanelle Frazier (Coahoma Community College) will present her public lecture, “Effective Communication Amongst the College Campus Community by Generational Breakdown: A How-To Guide.” This presentation will take place at the Whiteside Hall Lecture Room on Coahoma’s Clarksdale campus. Reception to follow.

Ideas on Tap - Reflecting Mississippi in Monuments
2022-02-23 18:30 - 19:30 | Online Event
Join us for this Ideas on Tap program titled “Reflecting Mississippi in Monuments”. This program will discuss in a broader sense: who has been represented in Mississippi’s monuments? Who hasn’t been? How can we use monuments to tell a fuller, more accurate history of our state?
Sue Mobley of Monument Lab, Kathleen Bond of the National Parks Service, and Dennis Dahmer (son of Civil Rights Veteran Vernon Dahmer), will add new perspective to this ongoing conversation.
This program will be virtual and streamed from the MHC Facebook page on February 23 at 6:30pm

HTA - Beauty and Poise: Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
2022-02-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Holmes Community College, 1 Hill Street, Goodman, MS, 39079, United States
Humanities Teacher Award winner Lashonda Levy (Holmes Community College) will present her public lecture, “Beauty and Poise: Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance.” This presentation will take place at the McMorrough Library on Holmes’ Goodman Campus. Reception to follow.
The toxicity of the culture of display is not a new revelation. Shakespeare deals with it in Coriolanus. He shows how displaying oneself in a performative manner encourages duplicity and distortion, whereas casting off one’s need to be seen allows one to live truthfully. His message reaches across time to encompass the dangers of some current social media trends.

Outkast and the Hip-Hop South
2022-02-24 18:30 - 19:30 | Online Event

HTA - Perfectly Queer
2022-02-25 12:00 - 13:30 | Mississippi University for Women, 1100 College Street, Columbus, MS, 39701
Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Brandy Wilson (Mississippi University for Women) will present her public lecture, “Perfectly Queer.” This presentation will take place on MUW’s campus in Columbus. Reception to follow.
For decades surrounding the 1950s, queer characters were portrayed as sick, murderous, alcoholic, and dangerous–and those were the most sympathetic characters. Since the Stonewall Uprising, audiences have demanded more for queer characters, but has there been an over-correction, resulting in more admirable but equally flat, “perfectly queer,” characters? Dr. Wilson will discuss queer characters and characterization in literature from a scholarly and craft perspective, emphasizing the necessity for fully humanized queer characters for both acceptance and representation. She will explore various works of literature as well as read from her own work in progress.

HTA - Stitching Cultures
2022-02-28 12:30 - 14:00 | East Mississippi Community College – Scooba Campus, 1512 Kemper Street, Scooba, MS, 39358
Humanities Teacher Award winner DeLisa Brand (East Mississippi Community College) will present her public lecture, “Stitching Cultures” This presentation will take place at the F.R. Young Student Union Building on EMCC’s Scooba campus. Reception to follow.

HTA - The Nocturne: Listening to Music Through Imagery and Imagination
2022-03-01 14:30 - 16:00 | East Central Community College, 275 W Broad Street, Decatur, MS, 39327
Humanities Teacher Award winner Justin Sharp (East Central Community College) will present his public lecture, “The Nocturne: Listening to Music Through Imagery and Imagination.” This presentation will take place at the Ovid S. Vickers Fine Arts Building on ECCC’s Decatur campus. Reception to follow.
When we listen to music, we constantly make mental associations, form images in our minds, and develop those images within our imagination. By examining the nocturne, a 19th-century genre of piano music, we will discover insight into the role of imagery and imagination in our music listening experience.

"Fannie Lou Hamer's America" Screening
2022-03-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, 222 North Street, Jackson, MS, 39201
This screening of Fannie Lou Hamer’s America is a collaboration of The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and MHC. Director Joy Davenport will be in attendance and field questions in a Q&A session following the screening. Fannie Lou Hamer’s America was the recipient of an MHC Reflecting Mississippi Grant, being truly reflective of the challenging and heroic part’s of Mississippi’s story.

Ross Gay - Public Reading with Q&A
2022-03-01 19:30 - 21:00 | Online Event
Mississippi State University is hosting award-winning author Ross Gay for an upcoming virtual writer-in-residence program, an annual campus event of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Gay is author of the New York Times best-selling collection of essays “The Book of Delights” (Algonquin Books, 2019), as well as several collections of poetry, including “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude” (2015), winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He also is an English professor at Indiana University Bloomington.
Gay will read selections from his poetry and answer questions during the March 1, 7:30 p.m. event, which is free and open to the public, on the Institute’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/msu.humanities.institute.

HTA - Living in the Material Worlds of Early America
2022-03-03 14:00 - 15:30 | Mississippi State University, Bost Theater, Starkville, MS
Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Judith Ridner (Mississippi State University) will present her public lecture, “Living in the Material Worlds of Early America.” This presentation will take place in the John Grisham room at the Mitchell Memorial Library on MSU’s campus. Reception to follow.
Today, we live our lives surrounded by material goods, and consumption drives much of our economy. Early America was much the same. Although early Americans’ daily lives were different than our own and the range of goods available to them was more limited, they, like us, routinely made choices about what items to purchase, display in their homes, or to wear. My lecture will focus how the consumer choices early Americans made reflected their ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds. It will also discuss how material goods—particularly clothing–were often used to measure one’s worth as a colonial subject or an American citizen.

Ross Gay - Virtual Writing Workshop
2022-03-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Online Event
Mississippi State University is hosting award-winning author Ross Gay for an upcoming virtual writer-in-residence program, an annual campus event of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Gay is author of the New York Times best-selling collection of essays “The Book of Delights” (Algonquin Books, 2019), as well as several collections of poetry, including “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude” (2015), winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He also is an English professor at Indiana University Bloomington.
The second of a two event series, this workshop with feature both author Ross Gay and Poet Laureate Catherine Pierce. They will field questions from the audience as part of an interactive, virtual writing session.

Keeping Up Our End of the Correspondence: Preserving Women’s Letters in the Digital Era
2022-03-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Mississippi University for Women – Fant Memorial Library, 1200 5th Ave S, Columbus, MS, 39701, United States
Keeping Up Our End of the Correspondence: Preserving Women’s Letters in the Digital Era,” is a panel and workshop discussing digitizing the letters and lives of Mississippi women at Mississippi University (MUW) for Women’s Fant Memorial Library on March 4, 2022, from 2:00 pm. – 4:00 pm. The panel will discuss the importance of letter-writing as a medium for documenting and researching women’s lives, featuring three scholars who have studied, written, and researched the letters of Mississippi women: Dr. Suzanne Marrs, Dr. Bridget Pieschel, and Ms. Angela Stewart. Following the panel will be a brief workshop on the process of digitizing personal collections, where we’ll demonstrate the process of digitization for and exhibit the Smith Papers Collection online. Both the panel and the workshop will be available to attend in-person or stream online.For more information, contact contact deepsouthdh@gmail.com.

HTA - Language as Music: What are we speaking exactly?
2022-03-07 18:00 - 19:30 | University of Mississippi, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS, 38677, United States
Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Allen Clark (University of Mississippi) will present his public lecture, “Language as Music: What are we speaking exactly?” This presentation will take place in the Tupelo Room within Bondurant Observatory on Ole Miss’ Campus. Q & A and reception to follow.
Have you ever considered the similarities between language and music? Come join us for an evening where we embark on a journey exploring both the commonalities and the differences between these two forms of human communication. From Darwinian notions of evolutionary linguistic and musical expression found in our past, to neuroscience’s recent discoveries about shared areas in the brain that process and store linguistic and musical data, to questioning the very nature of how we learn languages and how the way we learn them differs quite substantially from the way we learn music.

HTA - Getting to Creativity Through Ceramics
2022-03-08 10:30 - 12:00 | Jones College, 900 S Court St, Ellisville, MS, 39437, United States
Humanities Teacher Award winner Melanie Eubanks (Jones College) will present her public lecture, “Getting to Creativity Through Ceramics.” This presentation will take place in the Fine Arts Auditorium on Jones College’s campus in Ellisville.
Getting to Creativity Through Ceramics will examine creativity and the ceramic arts by attempting to define what creativity is and the conditions that are necessary to encourage the invention of new ideas.

HTA - The "Instructor and Inspirer": Christian Romantic Contributions to Nineteenth-Century American Art and Education
2022-03-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Belhaven University, 1500 Peachtree Street, Jackson, MS, 39202
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 take place on Belhaven’s campus in Jackson. Reception to follow.
The Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are often seen as the torchbearers for Romanticism in nineteenth-century America. This talk will highlight an alternative discourse, American Christian Romanticism, and explain how certain nineteenth-century American artists and intellectuals self-consciously fused Romantic ideals with Trinitarian Christianity. While contributing much to the dissemination of Romantic ideas in America, these professors, writers, and artists also provided timeless reflections on the nature and purpose of art and education. These latter contributions will be explored with a view toward a wide and multi-disciplinary university audience.

HTA - "Look, sir, my wounds!": Shakespeare's Coriolanus As a Caution Against the Catastrophic Culture of Display
2022-03-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Blue Mountain College, 201 W Main Street, Blue Mountain, MS, 38610
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.” This presentation will take place in the Modena Lowrey Berry Auditorium on BMC’s campus in Blue Mountain. Reception to follow.
The toxicity of the culture of display is not a new revelation. Shakespeare deals with it in Coriolanus. He shows how displaying oneself in a performative manner encourages duplicity and distortion, whereas casting off one’s need to be seen allows one to live truthfully. His message reaches across time to encompass the dangers of some current social media trends.

HTA - The Old Slave: History and Memory
2022-03-21 18:00 - 19:30 | University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg , MS - Mississippi, 39406
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 within the Liberal Arts Building on USM’s campus in Hattiesburg. Reception to follow.
This lecture examines how Americans viewed the survivors of slavery from emancipation through the 1970s. Drawing upon a range of source—popular songs, children’s books and novels, and postcards—it shows how Americans made these old men and women into blank canvases, upon which they projected their own ideas about the nation’s history of race and slavery.

HTA – “You Press the Button, We Do the Rest”: Vernacular Photography and Memory in the Age of Algorithms
2022-03-22 10:00 - 11:30 | Jackson State University, 1400 J.R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS, 39217
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 immense technological changes in the ways images are made, distributed, and consumed. It also looks at how these changes impact the teaching of both photography and visual literacy.

HTA – Octavia E. Butler, African American Science Fiction, and Rites of Passage
2022-03-22 11:00 - 12:30 | Mississippi Valley State University, 14000 US-82, Itta Bena, MS, 38941
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 in her work. The texts of the Patternist, Xenogenesis, and Parable series are included as well as Fledgling. The texts will also be analyzed in light of Victor Turner’s theories of Rites of Passage and “liminality”.

White Privilege: Nonconscious Racism, Freud, and Neuroscience of Implicit Bias
2022-03-22 16:00 - 17:30 | Millsaps College, 1701 N. State Street, Jackson, Mississippi, 39202
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 fit in? It seems that many white people who want to avoid racist behavior are nevertheless likely to harbor suppressed anti-black sentiment. The talk explores whether understanding the formation of unintentional racism might help reverse it.

The Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival 50th Anniversary Prologue
2022-03-22 16:30 - 2022-03-26 15:00

HTA – Stage Combat
2022-03-23 12:30 - 14:00 | Hinds Community College – Raymond Campus, 501 East Main Street, Raymond, 39154, United States
Hinds Community College – Reeves 165, Raymond, MS

HTA – Jazz: The Fabric of Modern Music
2022-03-23 15:00 - 16:30 | Tougaloo College, 500 W County Line Rd, Tougaloo, MS, 39174, 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 music has existed, it has served various roles including but not limited to provide entertainment, celebrate, mourn, meditation, etc. This presentation will focus on establishing the connection between the stylistic and performance practice impact of jazz on modern music.

HTA – The Future is Dreamed: Organizing the Clutter of Back Then to Make a Restful, Collective Now
2022-03-23 18:00 - 19:30 | 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 as it is in locales recovering from war. The City of Holly Springs boasts over 50 Antebellum sites, inclusive of two HBCUs. We could say that the town itself is a museum. But a museum is curated, organized around storytelling that invites the patron into an almost physical experience of the object. It is performed, lived. This missing context is accidentally turning our beloved objects and buildings into a pile of things and making it difficult to create an inclusive future. Working with my artist collective, Earthseed, we can began to ask ourselves the following questions: When does a hoard become a collection? When does a hoarder become a curator? When does a real estate investment become a time capsule? When does a museum become a closet full of forgotten items? What role can performance inquiry play in stitching together routes of exchange and understanding between objects, between silences?
