If you think the cakewalk is just a musical chairs game to win a cake, think again. Step back into the ’90s to recapture ragtime when the African American “cakewalk” dance was popular. Speaker Barbara J Clark allows you to meet the famous African American song and dance duo, Williams and Walker, who took the […]
Geoffrey Latham is Coahoma Community College ‘s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year.Latham’s lecture, Stone Tools to Social Media: The Ubiquity and Relevance of the Visual Arts from Prehistory to the Forseeable Future, will be presented 2/12/25 at 12:00 pm on the college’s campus. Latham will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards […]
Willam P. Arinder presents a living history program about the early pioneer settlers in Mississippi. Discussion centers around how they dressed, built their homes, produced and cooked their food, the use of flintlock rifles for hunting and protection of their homesteads, building fire using flint-and-steel, grinding corn in hollow stumps, children’s homemade toys and music […]
Michael Gleason is Millsaps College’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Gleason’s lecture, Epic Ideas, Lyric Insights: Homer, Virgil, Ovid, will be presented 2/13/25 at 4:00 pm on the college’s campus in the McMullen Lecture Hall Room 122. Gleason will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, 2025 at the Two […]
We will co-host a screening of the unique documentary and animation film This World is Not My Own, which tells the life story of the self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe. Stay afterwards for a panel discussion and Q + A with the filmmakers and to learn more about works on view by other self-taught artists […]
Willam P. Arinder presents a living history program about the early pioneer settlers in Mississippi. Discussion centers around how they dressed, built their homes, produced and cooked their food, the use of flintlock rifles for hunting and protection of their homesteads, building fire using flint-and-steel, grinding corn in hollow stumps, children’s homemade toys and music […]
The University of Southern Mississippi is hosting the 2025 annual conference of the Mississippi Philosophical Association (MPA). The MPA is the premier venue for philosophical work in the state of Mississippi and aims to provide space for faculty and students to present rigorous academic work with other philosophers in the state and the broader community. […]
At 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 16, the MHC will present a free showcase of “Hotaru,” “(I'm Not) Your Negroni,” and “Our Rebellious Hearts.” All three short films explore themes of identity, change, and resilience. Following the screening will be a panel featuring filmmakers from each film. This program is in partnership with the Mississippi […]
Brandi Pillow is Mississippi Delta Community College's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Pillow's lecture, Building A Community of Learners: Fostering Community, will be presented 2/18/25 at 11:00 am on the college’s Moorhead campus in the Fine Arts Auditorium. Pillow will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, 2025 […]
C Sade Turnipseed presents a lecture: "Ida B. Wells: The Mother of the American Human Rights Movement." Ida B. Wells’s life has intriguing ties to Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, President William McKinley, Booker T. Washington, Duke of Argyll and Sir John Gorst. She was a journalist who wrote about human […]
Since 1920 the number of farmers in America has been dropping, yet the place of farming — and of rural life generally — in the American mind is stronger than ever. The images we encounter in country songs, labels at the grocery store and in country-fried restaurants tell us that to live the rural life […]
This presentation, by Malcolm White, offers observations by a longtime connoisseur of Southern food and culture on topics ranging from the history of Comeback Dressing to how the tamale came to Mississippi to the evolution of dining out in Mississippi.
