HTA – Language as Music: What are we speaking exactly?

University of Mississippi

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 […]

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HTA – Getting to Creativity Through Ceramics

Jones College 900 S Court St, Ellisville, MS, United States

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 […]

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HTA – The “Instructor and Inspirer”: Christian Romantic Contributions to Nineteenth-Century American Art and Education

Belhaven University 1500 Peachtree Street, Jackson, MS

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 […]

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HTA – “Look, sir, my wounds!”: Shakespeare’s Coriolanus As a Caution Against the Catastrophic Culture of Display

Blue Mountain College 201 W Main Street, Blue Mountain, MS

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 […]

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HTA – The Old Slave: History and Memory

University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg , MS - Mississippi

Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Max Grivno (University of Southern Mississippi) will present his public lecture, “The Old Slave: History and Memory.” This presentation will take place in Room 108 within the Liberal Arts Building on USM's campus in Hattiesburg. Reception to follow. This lecture examines how Americans viewed the survivors of slavery from emancipation […]

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HTA – “You Press the Button, We Do the Rest”: Vernacular Photography and Memory in the Age of Algorithms

Jackson State University 1400 J.R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS

Jackson State University – Liberal Arts Room 166/266, Jackson, MS Borrowing its title from one of Kodak’s early advertising slogans, this lecture explores how vernacular photography has responded to the immense technological changes in the ways images are made, distributed, and consumed. It also looks at how these changes impact the teaching of both photography […]

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HTA – Octavia E. Butler, African American Science Fiction, and Rites of Passage

Mississippi Valley State University 14000 US-82, Itta Bena, MS

Mississippi Valley State University – Business Education Auditorium, Itta Bena, MS This presentation will discuss aspects of Butler's life, African American patterns of: the slave narrative, "double consciousness" and Afrofuturism in her work. The texts of the Patternist, Xenogenesis, and Parable series are included as well as Fledgling.  The texts will also be analyzed in […]

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White Privilege: Nonconscious Racism, Freud, and Neuroscience of Implicit Bias

Millsaps College 1701 N. State Street, Jackson, Mississippi

Millsaps College – Christian Center, Jackson, MS To what extent is white cultural domination nonconscious, and in what sense? How do neuroscience ideas of nonconscious racism, and ideas of Freud fit in? It seems that many white people who want to avoid racist behavior are nevertheless likely to harbor suppressed anti-black sentiment. The talk explores […]

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HTA – Stage Combat

Hinds Community College - Raymond Campus 501 East Main Street, Raymond, United States

Hinds Community College – Reeves 165, Raymond, MS

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HTA – Jazz: The Fabric of Modern Music

Tougaloo College 500 W County Line Rd, Tougaloo, MS, United States

Tougaloo College – Bennie G. Thompson Academic Center, Jackson, MS It is often easy to overlook or disregard the impact that jazz has on our society.  For as long as music has existed, it has served various roles including but not limited to provide entertainment, celebrate, mourn, meditation, etc.  This presentation will focus on establishing the […]

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