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Sunday, February 1
Masterclass: Nelita True, pianist
3:p.m.
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Free
Contact the Office of Performing Arts: 601-974-1422 or nixls@millsaps.edu
Monday, February 2
Departmental Recital: Music Students
3 p.m
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
A variety of vocal, piano and instrumental music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free
Contact the Office of Performing Arts: 601-974-1422 or nixls@millsaps.edu
Monday, February 2
Bell Piano Series Concert III: Nelita True, pianist
6:45 p.m. Pre-Concert Lecture by Dr. Lynn Raley - Ford Academic Complex Room AC 215
7:30 p.m. Concert - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Since age 17 when she made her debut with the Chicago Symphony, Nelita True has had a career that has taken her to 49 states and to major cities in Europe, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Mexico, Iceland, New Zealand, Brazil, Australia, Canada and the Far East. She was a visiting professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (Russia) and has been to China 12 times for recitals and master classes. Her most recent recital in Boston was cited as one of the “Ten Best Classical Performances of the Year.”
$15 general admission, $5 for students
Tickets available at the door, or call the Office of Performing Arts: 601-974-1422 (paying with credit card)
Wednesday, February 4
Lunchtime Lecture: The Defenstration of Pluto
Noon
Olin Hall 240
Millsaps professor Shadow Robinson will present an astronomy lecture over the lunch hour. The topic will be the story of how Pluto gained and eventually lost its planet-hood.
Free
Contact Shadow Robinson for more information: 601- 974-1348 or robins1@millsaps.edu
Thursday, February 5
Moreton Lecture: Professor Angelique Corthals
Lecture at 7 pm in AC 215 with reception to follow in Lindsey Suite of the Leggett Center
Professor Angelique Corthals, a biomedical Egyptologist, will present a lecture.
Free
Contact Tim Ward, 601- 974-1405 or wardtj@millsaps.edu
Friday, February 6
Friday Forum: The Future of Nuclear Power
12:30 p.m.
Academic Complex Room 215
What is nuclear energy’s role in the pursuit of alternative energy sources for the future? Dillon Allen of Entergy Nuclear will address the state of the science, safety and pollution issues, and the political and economic environment.
Free
Contact Steven G. Smith, 601-974-1334, or smithsg@millsaps.edu
Sunday, February 8
Arts & Lecture Series
Behind the Magic of PBS’s Between the Lions — Chris Cerf and Friends
2 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Aimed at the very young and all who love them, Between the Lions - the winner of the Television Critics’ Award as the nation’s outstanding television program and a multi-Emmy Award winning PBS television series for 4 to 7 year olds - helps children learn to read. This hugely popular series is named for a family of lions - Theo, Cleo, Lionel, and Leona - who run a library like no other. Chris Cerf, executive producer, and music and audio producer, has a career that includes creation and work in every facet of Sesame Street, winning two Grammy Awards and three Emmy Awards for songwriting and music production. Since 2004, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WGBH Boston and Sirius Thinking Ltd. have collaborated to produce episodes of Between the Lions in the MPB studios in Jackson. Chris and “friends” will offer a fun afternoon for all ages.
$10 general admission, $5 for students.
Contact Luran Buchanan, 601-974-1043 or buchall@millsaps.edu
Tuesday, February 10
The 2009 Summers Lecture
“How the Bible is True”
Beginning at 10 a.m. Full Schedule
Dr. Luke Timothy Johnson, R. W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, will be the guest lecturer. The day’s schedule will include a keynote lecture, a lunch panel presentation, and time for open conversation with Dr. Johnson. Persons are welcome to participate in as many of the activities as their schedules allow. Those seeking ½ CEU must attend all activities to receive certification. Reservations for a box lunch ($5) will be taken in advance or participants may bring a lunch. There is no registration fee.
Contact the Religious Studies Department at 601-974-1334 or e-mail Steve Smith at smithsg@millsaps.edu.
Tuesday, February 10
Howorth Visiting Artist: Jane Hammond
5 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex Room 215
Jane Hammond is a contemporary artist who works in a great variety of media: printmaking, sculpture, painting, drawing and photography. In all of her works she combines and collages found imagery to create new worlds of meaning and association. She will present a slide show on her work; followed by a reception with the artist at 6 p.m. Hammond’s work is regularly exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. For more information contact Sandra Murchison at 601-974-1431 or smiths@millsaps.edu
Free
Wednesday, February 11
2008-2009 Southern Circuit Film Series
Tru Loved, with Antonio Brown, producer and Stewart Wade, director
7 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
Tru Loved is a fictional film that deals with high school students and gay intolerance. It follows the story of a high school daughter of a lesbian couple as she deals with adjusting to gay intolerance at a new school.
Free
Contact Melissa A. Lea, 601-974-1755 or leama@millsaps.edu
Thursday, February 12
Faculty Recital: Lynn Raley & Rachel Heard, pianists
7:30 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Faculty artists Lynn Raley and Rachel Heard perform Mozart, Schubert and Bolcom’s “The Garden of Eden” rags for two pianos.
Free
Contact the Office of Performing Arts: 601-974-1422 or nixls@millsaps.edu
Friday, February 13
19th Annual Millsaps Student Research Symposium
12:00 p.m.
Olin Atrium
Millsaps undergraduates present the results of their scientific research in this annual symposium sponsored by Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society. Katelyn Ullmer, Lauren Vucovich, Erica Douglas, Menton McGinnis, Anh Giang, Hayley Barber, Ashley Pittman, Kristen Massey, and Brittney Tate will exhibit posters, and Emily Stewart, Molly Bohlke, Mark Herndon, Bradley Winton, David Butler, Sam Herman, Hanna Olivier, Neha Solanki, Diantha Williamson, Edgar Meyer, Katia Kotcherguina, and Ashley Jefcoat will give oral presentations on their work. Posters will be exhibited in the Olin Atrium beginning at noon, with oral presentations scheduled at 12:30 p.m. in Olin 100. A special birthday cake will be served in honor of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday.
Free
Contact Debora Mann at manndl@millsaps.edu
Monday, February 16
“It’s Time to Get Serious about Nonviolence in a Violent World: A Gandhian Perspective”
7 p.m.
AC Recital Hall
Dr. Sushil Mittal is Associate Professor of Religion at Virginia’s James Madison University, as well as founder and director of the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence. Trained in cultural anthropology, Mittal teaches courses in Hindusim and Gandhian thought. Dr. Mittal will be sharing his insights on Gandhi’s methods for alleviating the problems of violence that confront our world today.
Free
Contact: Dr. Lola Williamson at 601-974-1333 or willill@millsaps.edu
Tuesday, February 17
“Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement”
7 p.m.
AC Recital Hall
Post-screening discussion with award-winning filmmaker, Judy Richardson, associate producer of the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary “Eyes.” In addition to working on the “Eyes” series, Ms. Richardson has produced the Emmy Award-winning film, “Malcolm X: Make it Plain,” and most recently, she served as senior producer for the film, “Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968,” about the murders by police of three black students at South Carolina State. Ms. Richardson was stationed at SNCC’s Greenwood, Mississippi, office during Freedom Summer in 1964, and she currently works as a senior producer for Northern Light Productions in Boston, Massachusetts.
Free
For more information about the film, visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/index.html
Thursday, February 19 – Sunday, February 22
Players Production: The Sound of Music (book by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse,
music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II)
Thursday – Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday matinee at 2 p.m.
Christian Center Auditorium
Director Jeannie-Marie Brown and music director Timothy Coker present this popular musical based on The Story of the Trapp Family Singers with a cast of Millsaps College students and children from the community.
$10 general admission, $8 seniors & students (Millsaps discount and group rates for churches and schools available).
Tickets may now be purchased in advance by calling 601-974-1422. Discover, Visa, Mastercard and American Express accepted.
Tickets available in the CC box office one hour prior to each show.
Contact the Office of Performing Arts: 601-974-1422 or nixls@millsaps.edu
Friday, February 20
Admissions Event: Makeup Fine Arts Audition Day
Millsaps Campus
For more information about your visit, please contact the Admissions office at 1-800-352-1050 or via email at admissions@millsaps.edu. Or contact the Office of Performing Arts: 601-974-1422.
Friday, February 20
Friday Forum: “The Eagle Has Landed: Hot News Perfects and the Grammar of Time and Emotion"
12:30 p.m.
Academic Complex
Actions speak louder than words, but sometimes our words say more than we realize. The English Present Perfect (and its Spanish and French counterparts), are often used in journalism and everyday speech to convey the emotional importance in the present of a past event or situation. Using a few historical quotes and examples culled from various newspapers and real life, I demonstrate how human beings internalize and verbalize their existence in time and their experience of the world.
Free
Contact Steven G. Smith, 601-974-1334, or smithsg@millsaps.edu
Friday, February 20—Thursday, March 19
2009 Annual Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday
Lewis Art Gallery, Ford Academic Complex
A statewide competition for college students with more than 600 entries narrowed down to 100 entries. Juror is Professor of Painting and Drawing at Louisiana State University Michael Crespo.
Awards reception will be Saturday, February 21 from 2-4 pm.
Contact Emmie King for more information: 601-212-9622 or kingel@millsaps.edu.
Saturday, February 21
Hot Topics Seminar: The Israel/Palestine Issue
8 a.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
Faculty participating are Dr. James E. Bowley, associate professor of religious studies at Millsaps, and Dr. David Davis, associate professor of history and associate dean for Arts & Letters at Millsaps.
$30 general admission
Contact 601-964-1130
Tuesday, February 24
Millsaps Arts & Lecture Series
The Bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s Birth — Dr. Ronald C. White
7 p.m.
Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln by hearing acclaimed Lincoln scholar, Dr. Ronald C. White. His new biography of Lincoln, A. Lincoln: A Biography, follows his books, Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural and The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, and a Book-of-the-Month and History Book Club selection.
$10 general admission, $5 for students.
Contact Luran Buchanan, 601-974-1043 or buchall@millsaps.edu
Thursday, February 26
Continuing Education History Lecture: Military Medicine during the Civil War
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
This one hour history lecture will outline the development of military medical care during the Civil War. Topics will include weapons and tactics and their effects on casualties, changes in medical administration, sanitation, and surgical care, and the Medical Department’s responses to political and public pressure. Questions and discussion will follow the lecture. Dr. William Hanigan will deliver this lecture. (William Hanigan, M.D., Ph.D., is professor of neurosurgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He is a medical and military historian who has delivered many lectures before the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.)
$20 admission
Contact Nola Gibson by e-mailing or calling 601-974-1132
Friday, February 27
Honors Project Symposium
12:30 a.m.
Academic Complex Room 215
Students in diverse fields share highlights of their recently defended Honors work in this annual symposium sponsored by the Honors Program.
Free
Contact Steven G. Smith, 601-974-1334, or smithsg@millsaps.edu
February 20 – March 19, 2008 (Exhibition)
Saturday, February 21 from 2 – 4 p.m. (Awards Reception)
Millsaps Hosts the Annual Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition
Check back for details.
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