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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]