Humanities Teacher Award winner Justin Sharp (East Central Community College) will present his public lecture, “The Nocturne: Listening to Music Through Imagery and Imagination.” This presentation will take place at the Ovid S. Vickers Fine Arts Building on ECCC's Decatur campus. Reception to follow. When we listen to music, we constantly make mental associations, form […]

This screening of Fannie Lou Hamer's America is a collaboration of The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and MHC. Director Joy Davenport will be in attendance and field questions in a Q&A session following the screening.  Fannie Lou Hamer's America was the recipient of an MHC Reflecting Mississippi Grant, being truly reflective of the challenging and […]

Mississippi State University is hosting award-winning author Ross Gay for an upcoming virtual writer-in-residence program, an annual campus event of the College of Arts and Sciences. Gay is author of the New York Times best-selling collection of essays “The Book of Delights” (Algonquin Books, 2019), as well as several collections of poetry, including “Catalog of […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Judith Ridner (Mississippi State University) will present her public lecture, “Living in the Material Worlds of Early America.” This presentation will take place in the John Grisham room at the Mitchell Memorial Library on MSU's campus. Reception to follow. Today, we live our lives surrounded by material goods, and consumption […]

Mississippi State University is hosting award-winning author Ross Gay for an upcoming virtual writer-in-residence program, an annual campus event of the College of Arts and Sciences. Gay is author of the New York Times best-selling collection of essays “The Book of Delights” (Algonquin Books, 2019), as well as several collections of poetry, including “Catalog of […]

Keeping Up Our End of the Correspondence: Preserving Women’s Letters in the Digital Era,” is a panel and workshop discussing digitizing the letters and lives of Mississippi women at Mississippi University (MUW) for Women’s Fant Memorial Library on March 4, 2022, from 2:00 pm. – 4:00 pm. The panel will discuss the importance of letter-writing […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 as it is in locales recovering from war. The City of Holly Springs boasts over 50 Antebellum sites, inclusive of two HBCUs. We could say […]

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 became visible symbols of economic modernity and market capitalism in Mississippi. Throughout much of their history, Mississippi Jews have worked to lessen the cultural differences […]

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 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 […]

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 audiences. These recipients will be honored at a public ceremony and reception Friday evening, March 25, at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. Dr. William […]

Itawamba Community College – Fine Arts Center, Fulton, MS Mr. Morris will focus on the importance of finding purpose in creating.

Meridian Community College – McCain Theater, Hattiesburg, MS Our personal narratives inspire art, music, and prose.  The theme of my presentation is; "From Handprints on cave walls, to posting on Social Media; seeking validation through our personal narrative."  I'll take you on a journey through life, how our personal stores inspire, distract, influence, lead and […]

The marker names the seven men known to have been lynched in our county between 1877 and 1950, along with information about that era of racial terror. The memorial will remember the victims, create greater awareness and understanding of the history of racial terror lynching and its impacts, and promote racial reconciliation in our community. […]