All
Forum events are free and are held in the Ford Academic Complex, Room 215 at 12:30 p.m.
unless
otherwise noted. For more information about Millsaps
Forum events, contact Dr. Steven G. Smith at 601-974-1334.
September 4, 2009
“The Prospects for Jackson”
Harvey Johnson, Mayor of Jackson
Jackson’s newly elected mayor shares his perspective on some of the challenges and opportunities our city faces in 2009.
September 11, 2009
“Sarah Greene Reed: Survey”
Austin-based artist Sarah Greene Reed introduces her exhibit in the Lewis Gallery, which features vibrant, patterned digital collages. Her engaging collages—created by scanning materials as diverse as doughnuts and dog leashes into her Macintosh computer, then manipulating them in Photoshop—might best be called intuitive studies of material culture.
September 18, 2009
“The New Normal: Obama and Other Third Culture Kids Using the Gifts of Their Global Childhoods”
Paulette Bethel
Like an increasing number of people, both major 2008 presidential candidates grew up as “Third Culture Kids” outside their parents’ culture, relating to both cultures without a sense of full ownership of either, feeling most akin to others with the same type of early experience. Accelerating globalization makes understanding TCKs important for everyone. Dr. Bethel is a licensed psychotherapist, researcher, consultant, trainer, and certified global executive coach specializing in cross-cultural management and global transition impacts.
September 25, 2009
Watch with Greg Miller”
Greg Miller, Department of English
Dr. Miller reads from his forthcoming book of poems, Watch. From the book description by the University of Chicago Press: “Artfully combining the religious and secular worldviews in his own sense of human culture, Miller complicates our understanding of all three. The poems in Watch sift layers of natural and human history across several continents, observing paintings, archeological digs, cityscapes, seascapes, landscapes—all in an attempt to envision a clear, grounded spiritual life.”
October 2, 2009
“Preventing Catastrophes with Emerging ‘Smart Structures’ Technology”
Charles Farrar, Los Alamos National Laboratory
The director of the Engineering Institute at Los Alamos discusses research and educational challenges in implementing new technologies to prevent extremely bad consequences, including improper detonation of high explosives, bridges collapsing, and body parts breaking during surgery.
October 9, 2009
“The Fight for Immigrant Rights”
Bill Chandler, Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance
The executive director of Mississippi’s leading immigrant rights organization addresses the hottest issues of immigration policy, current immigration law, and other challenges faced by immigrant workers in Mississippi.
October 23, 2009
"On the Verge: The Jackson Music Scene"
Carey Miller (’00), producer of jackson.metromix.com for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger
Music writer Carey Miller discusses the bands, players, creators, venues, and audiences of Jackson, with an eye on recent trends and the significance of the Farish Street project.
October 30, 2009
“Preachers and Misfits, Prophets and Thieves: The Minister in Southern Fiction”
G. Lee Ramsey, Jr., Memphis Theological Seminary
If you think ministry is boring the notion did not come from fiction, at least not Southern fiction. Lee Ramsey, a seminary professor and ordained Methodist minister, is also the author of a thoughtful new book on the sometimes zany, frequently disturbing, and always entertaining ministers of Southern fiction. The book explores clergy characters in the work of a wide range of Southern writers including Zorah Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Will Campbell, Clyde Edgerton, and Lee Smith.
November 6, 2009
“What Is Going On in Iran? Everything You Wanted to Know about Iran, Khomeini, Shi’ism, and U.S. Policy but Were Afraid to Ask”
Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi
Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi is an Iranian-born writer and political activist who in 1993 produced a series of documentary films about the Iranian secret police and the assassinations of Iranian writers and activists. Her father has been a political prisoner in Iran for several years. In 2007, she was part of the Secular Islam Summit, which released a declaration calling on governments to reject Sharia law and fatwa courts, among other elements of theocratic rule. Zand-Bonazzi is a sought-after analyst of Iranian politics and radical Islam.
November 13, 2009
“Inside the Mississippi Legislature”
David Blount, Mississippi Senate
A state senator representing Jackson looks ahead to preparation for the 2010 Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature.
November 20, 2009
“Step by Step: The Staircase as Metaphor across Film Genres”
Brit Katz, Vice President for Student Life
Film directors have always used staircases to affect mood, emotion, or reaction to a story arc or outcome. In horror (The Exorcist, Spiral Staircase), suspense/thriller (Vertigo, Notorious), musical comedy (The Little Colonel, Hello Dolly), drama (Gone with the Wind, The Heiress, Sunset Boulevard), or action/adventure (Titanic), a staircase winds its way into the audience's appreciation for the film.
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