Charles Edward Williams: FORWARD Live Performance
2022-01-01 | Muddy Springs Church, Muddy Springs Rd, Magnolia, MS, 39652, United States
Artist Charles Williams will visit McComb to present a live performance of his project FORWARD.
Details TBA
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HTA - "What Are You Looking At?"
2022-01-21 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Chicago) | Smith Hall, Room 109
Humanities Teacher Award winner Ashley Dugas (Copiah-Lincoln Community College) will present her public lecture, “What Are You Looking At?”. This presentation will be held in Smith Hall, Room 109. Refreshments to be served.

Remembering Emmett Till in the Mississippi Delta: Documenting Till Commemoration through Oral Histories
2022-01-27 13:30 - 14:30 | Online Event
Join the Emmett Till Interpretive Center to discuss the importance of documenting Civil Rights stories in the Mississippi Delta, specifically around Emmett Till and how his life and memory have been commemorated.

The event will include clips from oral history interviews gathered as part of a MS Humanities Council oral history grant-funded project, an excerpt from a documentary on local leader Jerome Little, and a panel discussion with the filmmakers and Dr. Dave Tell, author of Remembering Emmett Till.

HTA - The Journey Home: Literary Narratives and PTSD
2022-01-28 11:00 - 13:00 | Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, 2226 Switzer Road, Gulfport, MS, 39507, United States
Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Tammy Townsend (Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College) will present her public lecture, “The Journey Home: Literary Narratives and PTSD”. This presentation will be held on the Harrison County campus in Building U, Room 202.
The presentation will cover how cognitive therapy exists in psychoanalysis sessions and in English classes. According to new research, reading literary narratives makes us better people. Through the study of classic literary narratives, we share the hero’s journey and learn how to order our own experiences into a coherent narrative that helps us put ourselves into the context of our lives.

HTA - Health and Social Wellbeing: The Benefits of Bookreading
2022-02-01 12:15 - 13:15 | Pearl River Community College – Forrest County Campus, 5448 US 49, Hattiesburg, MS, 39401, United States
Humanities Teacher Award winner Heather Peerboom (Pearl River Community College) will present her public lecture, “Health and Social Wellbeing: The Benefits of Bookreading”. This presentation will be held in the PRCC Forrest County Center. Reception to follow.
The average time Americans spend reading has been in steady decline. At the same time, many administrators are making the argument for removing literature from the list of required core curricula. This presentation responds to that argument by exploring the personal and social benefits of reading literature.

HTA - The Sound: Analog Vs Digital Audio and How Microphones Work for Broadcast Journalists
2022-02-02 14:30 - 15:30 | JD Boyd Library, 1000 ASU Drive, Lorman, MS, 39096
Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Eric Dogini (Alcorn State University) will present his public lecture, “The Sound: Analog Vs Digital Audio and How Microphones Work for Broadcast Journalists.” This presentation will be held in the JD Boyd Library Auditorium. Reception to follow.
Sound is the most fundamental building block of music, radio, television, and film and begins when something vibrates. Analog signal is an electrical copy of the original vibration incited into a microphone. Analog signal fluctuates like the original vibration, and it is continuous and rarely skips any part of the signal. Digital signal is discontinuous and does not process the total original signal incited into microphone, it skips from one point of the signal to the next, selecting a great number of successive points that represents the original signal. The microphones transduce (transform) sound waves into electric energy – the audio signal/sound we hear on radio, television, movies, and music, paging in public place and a two-way communication via phone. To understand how microphones work broadcast journalist from the physical and engineering points of view, we must understand the basics of sound transmission.

O.N. Pruitt's Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in The American South
2022-02-03 17:00 - 2022-04-23 20:00 | Columbus Arts Council, Columbus , MS
This event is a traveling multimedia exhibition that reveals life in northeast Mississippi based on the photography of O.N. Pruitt. From 1915 to 1960, Pruitt, a white man in a racially segregated society, recorded community celebrations as well as troubling violence. His work is distinguished from others of his time by his diligent and prolific depictions of the joys and sorrows of everyday people—both Black and white—in his hometown of Columbus, locally referred to as “Possum Town.”

Toni Morrison and Resurrections of Blackness and the Literary Imagination
2022-02-03 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 flyer.

HTA - From Handprints on Cave Walls to Posting on Social Media; Seeking Validation Through our Personal Narratives
2022-02-04 10:00 - 11:00 | Meridian Community College, 910 Hwy 19 N, Meridian, MS, 39307
Humanities Teacher Award winner Anne Lacy Johnson (Meridian Community College) will present her public lecture, “From Handprints on Cave Walls to Posting on Social Media; Seeking Validation Through our Personal Narratives.” This presentation will be held in the McCain Theater. Reception to follow.
Our personal narratives inspire art, music, and prose. The theme of my presentation is; “From Handprints on cave walls, to posting on Social Media; seeking validation through our personal narrative.” I’ll take you on a journey through life, how our personal stores inspire, distract, influence, lead and guide our life. Come see what your handprint tells others about you!

Isabella and the Prince: Overcoming Struggle through Courage and Faith
2022-02-04 19:00 - 20:30 | Prince Ibrahim

Octavia E. Butler’s Vision for Communal Healing
2022-02-07 18:00 - 19:00 | 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 Internet - Past, Present, and Future
2022-02-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Southwest Mississippi Community College, 1156 College Drive, Summit, MS, 39666
Humanities Teacher Award winner Ron Wilson (Southwest Mississippi Community College) will present his public lecture, “The Internet – Past, Present, and Future.” Presentation will be held in the Horace C. Holmes Student Union Auditorium. Reception to follow.
This presentation will consist of an overview of the history and development of the Internet from the 1960’s to present day, a look at the infrastructure that makes up the internet, a discussion of some of the cultural impacts of the internet, and some considerations of what the future of the internet might hold.

Honoring the Unsung Heroes and Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement in Natchez, MS
2022-02-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church, 607 Madison St., Natchez, MS, 39120, United States
This annual public event will honor civil rights activists who played a vital role in the movement but did not receive the attention or recognition that was given to other more prominent participants. The activists will be honored with a plaque that lists each of their names. During the program, the activists will be asked to share their memories of the movement. This event will include a guest speaker, Ms. Dora P. Hawkins, Trustee Emeritus of Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church.

Fannie Lou Hamer's America: Meet the Makers
2022-02-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Event
Register here: https://wgbh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oSy06GrLShO4G27IqhAoyg?fbclid=IwAR0M6_1yd5QfI738qdU5Dh02OfuDmujrPBiVM7F5PnVLoSJKLKb5IO2P634

Volunteer MUW Student Panel
2022-02-16 18:30 - 19:30 | Online Event

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.
