Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Shanna Louise Smith (Jackson State University) will present her public lecture titled, "Violence, Victory, and Voice: Millennials and Social Justice in Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give." Reception to follow Violence, Voice, & Victory: Millennials and Social Justice in Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give interrogates how millennials come to […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Kira Arthurs (Pearl River Community College) will present her public lecture, "Gender Stereotypes: Raising Children in the 21st Century." Reception to follow.  

Humanities Teacher Award winner Ryan Schilling (Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College) will present his public lecture "The Dangers of Informing: The Suppression of Journalism from a Historical and Contemporary Perspective." An independent press is essential to a free and open society.  With this in mind, the presentation will explore the ways that authoritarian regimes have […]

Do Drink the Brown Water: Literary Series was started June 2018 as a Summer trio of events to focus on and celebrate the rich literary history of Washington County, MS and the surrounding Delta. These programs are free and open to the public. The February 7th event will feature Julian Rankin, executive director of the Walter […]

Body and Soul: An American Bridge Rating: All Ages Director: Robert Philipson TRT: 58 min. Sunday February 10 2019, 3 pm Oxford Commons Malco Screen 1 Logline: Out of all the cross-cultural encounters that have resulted in the richness of American popular music, none has been so prominent or so fraught with fraternity and conflict as the […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Brad L. Cook (University of Mississippi) will present his public lecture, "Documenting Freedom in Ancient Greece, and a Bronze Inscription in Oxford, MS." Freedom in the ancient Mediterranean could be tenuous. In some parts of the Greek world, you could find people setting up public declarations of the freeing of […]

The Sunflower County Freedom Project youth drama will present Baltimore, a play by Kirsten Greenridge. Baltimore focuses on a group of college students whose lvies are shaken when someone draws an offensive picture of the wall of their residence hall. The play shines light on issues of equality, racism, community, and the question of who gets to belong […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. John Meadors (Mississippi College) presents his public lecture titled, "On Behaving Honestly When the Crowd is Untruth." Reception to follow.

Humanities Teacher Award winner Renee Moore (Mississippi Delta Community College) presents her public lecture, "The Humanity of Teaching (and Learning) English." Reception to follow. Language study represents the heart of the humanities. Any English classroom, face-to-face or digital, knowingly or unwittingly generates powerful interactions of human emotion and intellect. For over two decades, I have […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Sandra M. Dembly-Davis (Alcorn State University) will present "Global Perspective on Social Work Practice" Global Social Work Practice with individuals, families, and communities around the world that have been impacted after a disaster requires social workers to have a specific set of skills and knowledge to help these individuals, families and communities face many […]

The Sunflower County Freedom Project youth drama will present Baltimore, a play by Kirsten Greenridge. Baltimore focuses on a group of college students whose lives are shaken when someone draws an offensive picture of the wall of their residence hall. The play shines light on issues of equality, racism, community, and the question of who gets to belong […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Alisea McLeod (Rust College) will present her public lecture titled, "Sharp Bargainers: John Eaton, Jr's 63rd VSCT." Reception to follow.