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All Forum events are free.
Ford Academic Complex, Room 215 at 12:30 p.m.
Unless otherwise noted.
For more information about the Forums, please contact Dr. Steve Kistulentz via email at Steve.Kistulentz@millsaps.edu, or 601-974-1305.
JANUARY
20 - "Composing Selves: Southern Women and Autobiography"
Peggy Prenshaw
In Composing Selves, award-winning author and Millsaps Humanities Scholar in Residence Peggy Whitman Prenshaw provides the most comprehensive treatment yet of autobiographies by women in the American South. This long-anticipated addition to Prenshaw's study of southern literature spans the twentieth century as she provides an in-depth look at the life-writing of eighteen women authors. She writes about "life stories" of Belle Kearney, Helen Keller, Sissy Anderson (Walter Anderson's wife), Mary Craig, Kimbrough Sinclair, Virginia Foster Durr, Lindy Boggs, Lylah Barber, Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlijgs, Zora Neale Hurston, Bernice Kelly Harris, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, and Eudora Welty.
27 - Tri-Beta Research Symposium
Held in Olin Hall, room 100.
Millsaps undergraduates present the results of scientific research projects at the 21st Annual Millsaps Research Symposium, sponsored by Beta Beta Beta, the Biological Honor Society. Posters summarizing the projects will be on exhibited in the atrium of Olin Hall, and oral presentations will be held in Olin 100.
FEBRUARY
3 - "Archaeological Conquests in Mexico and Peru," Latin American Studies Symposium
Dr. George Bey, Chris Heaney (ABD, UT Austin)
The Inca retreat of Machu Picchu in the Andes and the Maya city states of the Yucatán are among the most famous ancient sites in the Americas. What happened to the treasures they once contained? The 3rd annual Latin American Studies mini-symposium, featuring author Christopher Heaney and Millsaps' own George Bey, looks at the plunder of priceless artifacts, by conquistadors, collectors, and archaeologists.
Christopher Heaney is author of Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu, which he researched on a Fulbright Fellowship to Peru. A former journalist, he is now completing a PhD in history at University of Texas at Austin. George Bey is an archaeologist who has worked in Mexico for over three decades. The author of numerous articles on the ancient Maya, his excavation of Kaxil Kiuic will soon be profiled by National Geographic on the upcoming PBS special Quest for the Lost Maya.
10 - Honors Conference
The 2011-2012 Honors Conference opens with three students discussing their Honors research. Phillip Boyette will give us insight into the impact of American culture in the Yucatan; Kelly Brignac will discuss "Les Deux Versailles: An Inquiry into the Influences of French Absolutism on Louisiana Plantations," and Travis Banta will provide an overview of his work, "Examination of the Effects of SNXA Mutation on ANKA and NIMEcyclinB." The conference will continue into the afternoon with selections from student projects in biology, creative writing, and studio art.
24- Mississippi's Hanging Bridge and the Racial Politics of World War II
Jason Ward
On October 12, 1942, vigilantes lynched two fourteen-year-old boys from a rusty river bridge near Shubuta, Mississippi. Twenty-four years earlier, a mob lynched four black youth, including two pregnant women, from the same bridge. In 1942, African American journalists branded Mississippi's Hanging Bridge "a monument to Judge Lynch" and compared southern white supremacists to Nazis. Historian Jason Ward will examine the pre-civil rights years in Mississippi as the point of origin for both black activism and white resistance. Ward is an assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University. He is author of the recently published Defending Segregation: The Making of the Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965 (University of North Carolina Press, 2011).
MARCH
2 - Student Activism in the Two Souths: Jim Crow Mississippi and Apartheid South Africa
Rico Chapman
For decades, students have served as the spark for mass movements throughout the world. The issues which may motivate student activism range from poor quality of food to police intimidation, from expulsions of fellow students to support for liberation organizations. 'Student Activism in the Two Souths: Jim Crow Mississippi and Apartheid South Africa', will discuss student activism at two historically black institutions - the University of Fort Hare in South Africa and Jackson State University in Mississippi - where students fought for the end of racially exclusive systems of control.
Dr. Rico Chapman is a faculty member in the Department of History and Philosophy at Jackson State University and holds a Ph.D. in African Studies from Howard University. He is a previous Fulbright-Hayes Fellow and has lived and taught in South Africa. His research interests are student activism in South Africa and throughout the African Diaspora and African American material culture.
23 - The Rabbi Perry Nussbaum Lecture Series
Rabbi Philip M. Posner
A congregational rabbi for nearly forty years, Philip M. Posner has been active in social action and interfaith activities his entire adult life. In 1961 he joined the Freedom Rides, helping to integrate transportation facilities, and served 39 days in Mississippi's infamous Parchman Penitentiary. He also participated in social action missions to El Salvador and Ethiopia and is the cofounder, with his friend Jane Fellman, of the Rabbinic Network for Ethiopian Jewry. During the Vietnamese war, he created and led Riverside Cares, an organization that helped Vietnamese refugees. He has a degree in history from UCLA, was ordained in 1968 and holds a Doctorate in Hebrew Letters in ethics from his seminary, The Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of
Religion. He now lives in Ajijic, a village next to Lake Chapala near Guadalajara in Mexico. The Nussbaum Lecture is endowed by John D. Bower, M.D.
30 - They Start From the Back of the Neck
Michael Reinhard
Assistant Professor of Political Science Michael Reinhard reports on the results of his four year study of higher education in Afghanistan and the explosion of interest in higher education and the spread of private institutes of higher education. He shows his film interviews with normal Afghan students and government officials who talk about what it is like to face the constant threat of being pulled over by a Taleban road block where they are searched for any scrap of paper with writing on it which, to the illiterate Taleban is sufficient proof of association with the government to lead to execution. He speaks with people that face the prospect of beheading by knife, a process which, in order to prolong the victim's suffering, the Taleban start from the back of the neck.
APRIL
13 - The Transgender Experience
Duncan McCullough
How do issues facing the transgender experience reflect our current cultural climate with regard to human rights, discrimination, and religion? What are the psychological sources of gender identity? Duncan McCullough, a Millsaps alumni who attended college under the name Roxanne, will speak on his experiences as a transgendered man. Duncan is a registered medical technologist whose activism is primarily centered on LGBTQ rights. A graduate of Millsaps College, he is the co-founder of central Mississippi's only transgender support group, a former president of Jackson PFLAG, a member of Beth Israel Congregation, and a recent participant in the 10th annual Trans Health Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
20 - Saving a Piece of the South
Drew A. Swanson
Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without restraint? Part of our desire to conserve and exhibit cultural and natural resources comes from our conceptions of history and nature; ideas that often have little to do with reality. Drew Swanson will discuss these impulses and what they have meant for a southern park that is one of the most significant examples of colonial history and coastal wetlands in the South - Wormsloe Plantation. Drew A. Swanson, the Mellon Fellow in Environmental History, is author of Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape (Georgia, 2012).
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