Dr. Emily Pollard is Northeast Mississippi Community College's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Pollard's lecture, The Heart of Humanities: Fostering Understanding, Culture, and Connection, will be presented 2/4/25 at 6:00 pm on the college’s campus. Dr. Pollard explores how the humanities cultivate empathy, celebrate diverse cultures, and build meaningful connections. From insights in social psychology […]

In 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette visited Natchez on his farewell tour of America. Learn more from William "Brother" Rogers about who he was and why this historic event was significant.

Shelly Garlotte will present the 2025 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Mississippi Valley State University: Yes, You CAN Sing Classical Music!" Experience a voice lesson as a classical music singer! The presentation will include an introduction to basic singing anatomy, music reading, and singing in a foreign language. By the end of the 'lesson,' participants […]

Dr. Vanessa Holden from the University of Kentucky will speak at Mississippi College as part of MC's continued effort to bring lived and scholarly expertise of the African American experience to the Mississippi College campus and the larger metro Jackson community. She is an associate professor of History, the Director of African American and Africana […]

Jesse Brown is Delta State University's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Brown’s lecture, This is a Beast. The Beast is Us., will be presented 2/6/25 at 7:00 pm on the college’s campus. Brown will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, 2025 at the Two Mississippi Museums in […]

Seth Parry is Belhaven University’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Parry’s lecture, Ancient Foes, Modern Narratives: Framing the Ottomans as Trojans in Venetian Humanism, will be presented 2/7/25 at 3:00 pm on the college’s campus in the Student Center Theatre. The presentation will look at a linguistic construct used by Venetian Renaissance humanists in respect […]

Take a story walk through the eyes and feelings of African Americans from slavery to the mid-seventies with Barbara J. Clark. Using award-winning literature via stories and poetry, the audience will experience plantation life and escape, life view of a 110-year-old supercentenarian, living with Jim Crow during a motor trip down south, death of Emmitt […]

Willam P. Arinder presents a living history program about the early pioneer settlers in Mississippi. Discussion centers around how they dressed, built their homes, produced and cooked their food, the use of flintlock rifles for hunting and protection of their homesteads, building fire using flint-and-steel, grinding corn in hollow stumps, children’s homemade toys and music […]

Michael Gleason is Millsaps College’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Gleason’s lecture, Epic Ideas, Lyric Insights: Homer, Virgil, Ovid, will be presented 2/13/25 at 4:00 pm on the college’s campus in the McMullen Lecture Hall Room 122. Gleason will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, 2025 at the Two […]