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 […]
Annual ecumenical Black History Celebration. 2019 event features Dr. Darius D. Prier of Duquesne University, presenting "Who Got Next: Holding Hostage Hope in the Imagination of Next Generation Leadership."
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 […]
Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Lindsay Keay (Jones County Junior College) will present her public lecture, "Flow and Music." The term flow can be described as a state of heightened concentration and arousal where a balance of skill and challenge cause someone to be so absorbed in a task that everything else seems to disappear. The result […]
Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Jamie Dahman (Delta State University) will present a public lecture, "Bulgarian Art Song: History, Development, and Performance" Bulgarian Art Song, largely unexplored and unperformed in the United States, has a rich tradition and history and deserves a place among the standard repertoires of Classical Art Song. On Tuesday, March 5, […]
Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Kristin Boyce (Mississippi State University) will present her public lecture titled, ""Conversation" in Philosophy and Art." Reception to follow. This presentation will explore the importance of the “art” of conversation (as distinguished from argument or debate) for teaching in the Humanities. It will explore the special ways in which the […]
