The honors college is launching a new program beginning the 2018-2019 school year entitled The Orators. The program's focus is to invite speakers, representing various academic disciplines, to engage and enrich the campus and local communities, faculty, staff, students, and citizens, through public forums, panel discussions, seminars, course work, research and public lectures. Since the […]

As part of our Creative Empowerment Series in partnership with Visit Jackson, we are thrilled to present RACIAL LITERACY FOR THE 21st CENTURY, a special keynote lecture from RUHA BENJAMIN, a Princeton University African-American Studies professor. In this signature talk, Ruha will put academic scholarship in conversation with the latest headlines to explore how racism distorts our relationships, […]

The Eudora Welty House and Garden, the Mississippi Region of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA), and Crossroads Film Society are partnering to present a third and final mini-film series featuring the cinematic adaptation of Jane Austen's work or screening strongly linked with Austen or her work. Welt scholars are aware that Austen […]

In 1967, while visiting Mississippi as part of the Senate subcommittee on poverty, Robert Kennedy cradled hungry children, talked with mothers about how they fed their families and examined empty refrigerators. Although he was only in the Delta for a day, Kennedy, the people he encountered, Mississippi and the nation felt the impact of that […]

The 26th Annual Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams festival's events will build on last year's new and successful format: A keynote speech and choir performance followed by a tour of historic and Williams-related sites in Clarksdale; site-specific scenes from our featured play, "ORPHEUS DESCENDING," introduced by scholars; A slideshow and scholars panel: "Clarksdale, Cotton, and the […]

Mississippi Yearning: Beyond Finding Cleveland is a documentary film that explores the seldom-told history of the early Chinese living in the Delta during the late 1800s to mid-1900s. The film is told through the eyes of a Chinese-American man from California who comes to Mississippi to find answers about his grandfather and great-grandfather, who are buried […]