HTA Lecture: “Yes, You CAN Sing Classical Music!”

Shelly Garlotte will present the 2025 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Mississippi Valley State University: Yes, You CAN Sing Classical Music!" Experience a voice lesson as a classical music singer! The presentation will include an introduction to basic singing anatomy, music reading, and singing in a foreign language. By the end of the 'lesson,' participants […]

Surviving Southampton: A Story in Three Grandmothers

Mississippi College 200 Capitol St., Clinton, MS

Dr. Vanessa Holden from the University of Kentucky will speak at Mississippi College as part of MC's continued effort to bring lived and scholarly expertise of the African American experience to the Mississippi College campus and the larger metro Jackson community. She is an associate professor of History, the Director of African American and Africana […]

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HTA Lecture: This is a Beast. The Beast is Us.

Delta State University 1003 W Sunflower Rd, Cleveland, MS, United States

Jesse Brown is Delta State University's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Brown’s lecture, This is a Beast. The Beast is Us., will be presented 2/6/25 at 7:00 pm on the college’s campus. Brown will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, 2025 at the Two Mississippi Museums in […]

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HTA Lecture: Ancient Foes, Modern Narratives: Framing the Ottomans as Trojans in Venetian Humanism

Belhaven University 1500 Peachtree Street, Jackson, MS

Seth Parry is Belhaven University’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Parry’s lecture, Ancient Foes, Modern Narratives: Framing the Ottomans as Trojans in Venetian Humanism, will be presented 2/7/25 at 3:00 pm on the college’s campus in the Student Center Theatre. The presentation will look at a linguistic construct used by Venetian Renaissance humanists in respect […]

Speakers Bureau: “Savoring African American History through Stories and Poetry”

Walls Public Library 7181 Delta Bluffs Pkwy, Walls, MS, United States

Take a story walk through the eyes and feelings of African Americans from slavery to the mid-seventies with Barbara J. Clark. Using award-winning literature via stories and poetry, the audience will experience plantation life and escape, life view of a 110-year-old supercentenarian, living with Jim Crow during a motor trip down south, death of Emmitt […]

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Speakers Bureau: “The Cakewalk”

M.R. Davis Public Library 8554 Northwest Dr, Southaven, MS, United States

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 […]

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HTA Lecture: Stone Tools to Social Media: The Ubiquity and Relevance of the Visual Arts from Prehistory to the Forseeable Future

Coahoma Community College 3240 Friars Point Road, Clarksdale, MS, United States

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 […]

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Speakers Bureau: “The Early Pioneer Settlers 1790 to 1840”

Hatley Elementary School 60286 Hatley RD, Amory, MS

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 […]

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HTA Lecture: Epic Ideas, Lyric Insights: Homer, Virgil, Ovid

Millsaps College 1701 N. State Street, Jackson, Mississippi

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 […]

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Film Screening: This World Is Not My Own

Mississippi Museum of Art 380 South Lamar Street, Jackson, MS

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 […]

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Speakers Bureau: “The Early Pioneer Settlers 1790 to 1840”

Hatley Elementary School 60286 Hatley RD, Amory, MS

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 […]

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Mississippi Philosophical Association 2025: Keynote: ‘AI, Art, and Artists: What They Are, What They Could Be, What They Should Be’

Gonzales Auditorium 1999 Pearl St, Hattiesburg, MS, United States

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. […]

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