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David Mills will be offering his one-man show, “David Mills: An Evening With Langston Hughes.” Feb. 18th, at 7p.m. Meek Auditorium
On Wednesday, February 18th at 7 PM, Brooklyn-based writer/performer David Mills will be offering his one-man show, “David Mills: An Evening With Langston Hughes,” at the Meek Auditorium on the campus of the University of Mississippi. The event is free and open to the public. At the conclusion of his one-hour presentation, Mills will break […]
Dr. Heather Stur (U. Southern Mississippi) will be delivering a special guest lecture entitled “Women in the Vietnam War.” Thursday, February 12th at 7p.m. Bryant 209
On Thursday, February 12th at 7pm, gender and Vietnam War historian Dr. Heather Stur (U. Southern Mississippi) will be delivering a special guest lecture talk on warfront images and portrayals of American and Vietnamese women who were on the front lines of the Vietnam War (1956-1975). Dr. Stur is the author of Beyond Combat: Women […]
Works-in-Progress Seminar Series presents: Caroline Wigginton, Wednesday, November 19th 1:30-2:30pm.
Assistant Professor Caroline Wigginton will present “Katherine Tekakwitha’s ‘Very Delicate Work’: Concealment, Display, and Communication in New France,” in the Hannah-Ford Room (Bondurant Hall 2nd Fl.) as part of the Fall 2014 Works-in-Progress Seminar Series. The Works-in-Progress Seminar Series is open to all. The seminars consist of a twenty to thirty minute presentation followed by a Q & A […]
Jack Pendarvis will discuss writing for the Cartoon Network show “Adventures with Adventure Time.” Nov. 11th, at 7p.m. Overby Auditorium.
Jack Pendarvis: Adventures with Adventure Time. Tues. Nov. 11, 7pm, Overby Auditorium. Pendarvis, a writer for the Cartoon Network animated show Adventure Time, will show clips of episodes and discuss writing for the show. The evening will be moderated by Bill Griffith, and is co-sponsored by Cinema and The Southern Documentary Project.
Dr. Jay Watson will deliver annual Humanities Lecture entitled “William Faulkner on Speed: What the Humanities Can Teach Us about the Velocity and Tempo of Modern Life.” Nov. 3rd, at 7p.m. Bondurant Auditorium.
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Dr. Sharon Aronofsky Weltman will be giving a talk entitled “Performing Drood: Melodrama, Music Hall, and the Opium Dream Ballet.” Thursday, November 6th, at 3:30, in Bondurant Auditorium
Dr. Sharon Aronofsky Weltman (Department of English, LSU) will be giving a talk entitled “PerformingDrood: Melodrama, Music Hall, and the Opium Dream Ballet.” The talk anticipates the production of the Musical Mystery of Edwin Drood (based on Charles Dickens’s unfinished novel) by our own Theatre Department at U of M. Directed by Professor Amanda Wansa Morgan, […]
Works-in-Progress Seminar Series presents: Erin Drew, Friday, October 31st 12-1p.m.
Due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict, Friday’s Works in Progress Seminar will feature Erin Drew reading from her current project entitled “‘Tis Prudence to prevent th’entire decay’: Usufruct, Sustainability, and Intergenerational Justice in the Eighteenth Century” in the Hannah-Ford Room (Bondurant Hall 2nd Fl.) as part of the Fall 2014 Works-in-Progress Seminar Series. The Works-in-Progress Seminar Series […]
Dr. Allan Hepburn of McGill University will present a lecture entitled “Facing the Future: Children in Postwar Britain.” October 23, 4:00 p.m. Bondurant Auditorium.
On Thursday, October 23rd, at 4pm, in the Bondurant Auditorium, Dr. Allan Hepburn of McGill University will present a lecture entitled “Facing the Future: Children in Postwar Britain.” This talk will concentrate on British representations of children between 1945 and 1960 in relation to the discourse of the future that predominates in this period, and […]
Professor Christopher Ricks of Boston University to give a paper entitled “T. S. Eliot and the South.” October 13, 6:00 p.m. Bondurant Auditorium.
Christopher Ricks is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, having formerly been professor of English at Bristol and at Cambridge. He is a member of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, of which he was president (2007-2008). He has edited and also teaches in the Core […]
