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All Forum events are free and are held in the Ford Academic Complex, Room 215 at 12:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Campus map.
For more information about Millsaps Forum events, contact Dr. Steven G. Smith at 601-974-1334.
September 3
Works on Paper
Nicole Hand and Jim Bryant (Art Department, Murray State University)
Hand and Bryant offer a body of work that is visually intriguing and full of personal narrative. Objects are used as markers denoting specific instances from each of their pasts, and the pictorial atmosphere is rendered in such a way that a heightened sense of space is apparent. An artist talk and reception is scheduled at 12:30 p.m. on September 3 in Academic Complex Room 215. For more information on the Lewis Art Gallery, contact Jonathan Webb, gallery director, at 601-974-1200.
September 10
"Film and Social Change"
Paige Williams (Porch Productions)
Millsaps alum Paige Williams (B.A. Philosophy 1999), an independent filmmaker now based in Missoula, Montana, was in Jackson recently for the 2010 Crossroads Film Festival screening of her multi-award-winning feature Mississippi Queen. She will discuss her work and show clips from her films From Place to Place (on America's "broken" foster care system), Step by Step (on reforestation in Haiti), and Mississippi Queen (on being gay amongst Mississippi Christians).
September 17
Constitution Day Program
Millsaps Political Science Department
A panel of local leaders and experts discuss the implications of immigration law for the Jackson community and beyond.
September 24
"Lehman Engel, the American Musical Theatre, and Millsaps"
Raphael Crystal (Musical Theatre, U. of Alabama)
Jackson native Lehman Engel (1910-82) influenced many aspects of the American musical theatre as the musical director of many Broadway shows in the 1940s, '50s and '60s and then founder of the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, the matrix of such shows as A Chorus Line, Little Shop of Horrors, Nine, Avenue Q, and Ragtime. Engel donated his library and many of his manuscripts, letters, and memorabilia to the Millsaps library. Raphael Crystal, founder and director of the University of Alabama Musical Theatre program and an alumnus of Engel's Workshop, will discuss Engel's contributions to American musical theatre and how these are illustrated by materials in the Lehman Engel Collection.
October 1
"Exploring the World at Large through Service"
McNair Recipients
The McNair Fund for Christian Missions assists students, faculty and staff toward resourcing service trips to many different countries, including India, Rwanda, Malawi, South Africa, and Sierra Leone. Featuring McNair recipients who have participated in these trips over the past year, and some who are currently planning them, this forum will address how students, faculty, and staff can create their own international service trips and apply for the McNair stipend.
October 8
The Summers Lecture: "Time and History in Ancient Israel"
Jack Sasson (Vanderbilt University)
A leader in ancient Near East studies will discuss how biblical Israel differed from its neighbors not so much in the notions of an almighty god, worship, and kingship as in the organization of time (inventing a seven-day unit to implicate its god in the construction of a strange institution it called the Sabbath) and in shaping a history that is closed rather than open, with sharply drawn beginnings and (eventually) sharply shaped ends.
October 22
"The Chickasaw Nation Today"
Brad Lieb (Division of History and Culture, The Chickasaw Nation)
The Chickasaw Nation has a deep history in Northeast Mississippi and the Midsouth. Chickasaw people today are increasingly engaged in rediscovering and revitalizing the heritage that was torn away from them in the 1830s by the cruel Removal of Indian peoples to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. Documentary and archaeological research continue to enrich our understanding of Chickasaw cultural history as well as the sociopolitical and economic struggles they underwent in adapting to several centuries of contact and interaction with intrusive European cultures prior to Removal.
October 29
"New Voices: The Role of the Individual in Social Change"
Millsaps College Class of 2014
Prize-winning perspectives on the 2010 Common Reading, Voices in Our Blood, written and read by members of the Class of 2014. Nick Brown (History) will moderate.
November 5
"Principles of Ecological Design in Yucatan"
Stan Galicki (Geology)
Solar power, rainwater harvesting, indigenous architecture: Dr. Galicki will discuss the principles of ecological design and how they are applied at the Millsaps Kaxil Kuiic reserve in Yucatan, where students can take an Applied Ecological Design course.
November 12
"Skeletons from My Southern Closet: Confessions of a Great-Grandson of the Confederacy"
Dean David C. Davis (History)
After exploring the records of his great-grandfather's service in the Civil War and tragic death in 1916, Dean Davis reflects on how his family's silence about this incident reflects the South's ambivalence about the War and its legacy.
November 19
Arts & Letters Student Research Symposium
Millsaps Humanities Students
The year's best student essays in the Humanities presented by their authors. Sponsored by the Division of Arts and Letters.
