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.” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hinds Community College – Reeves 165, Raymond, MS
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 […]
Rust College – Doxey Auditorium, Holly Springs, MS The past is always present in the now, driving communal decisions, policymaking, and stories. Perhaps that fact is nowhere near as pressing […]
In the early 19th century, Jewish immigrants from Europe began to arrive in the Magnolia State, settling initially in towns along the Mississippi River. Concentrating in retail trade, these Jews […]
Mississippi College – Leland Speed Library Discovery Room, Clinton, MS Borrowing its title from one of Kodak’s early advertising slogans, this lecture explores how vernacular photography has responded to the […]
The Mississippi Humanities Council is delighted to announce recipients for its 2022 Public Humanities Awards, which recognize outstanding work by Mississippians in bringing the insights of the humanities to public […]
