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.
Firday, January 23
Loose Lips
Melissa Sterns, artist
New York artist Stern’s installation at Millsaps will be made up of 13 short stories told in small, mixed-media drawings. For each story there is a choice of three endings. Viewers are asked to vote on the ending that they prefer. The resulting “winners” will be made into a master book and donated by the artist to Millsaps. In her Forum, Sterns will present the history and rationale of this project (previously exhibited at Wesleyan University in 2006) and challenge us to find the narrative voice in our own lives.
Friday, January 30
While We Sleep: The Work of the Sleep Lab
Andrew Westphal
The diseases of sleep are insidious and horrific. They tear lives apart in the very place we go to rest and recover. Worse still, they destroy the lives not just of those whose sleep is disrupted but of their family and perhaps of someone who just happened to be driving near them when they fell asleep. Andrew Westphal, coordinator of the University of Mississippi Sleep Lab in Jackson, will explain how sleep technologists (some from Millsaps) use little-known tools to fight sleep disorders.
Friday, February 6
The Future of Nuclear Power
Dillon Allen, New Plant Deployment, Entergy Nuclear
What is nuclear energy’s role in the pursuit of alternative energy sources for the future? Dillon Allen of Entergy will address the state of the science, safety and pollution issues, and the political and economic environment.
Friday, February 13 ***
19th Annual Millsaps Student
Research Symposium
*** in Olin Atrium
Millsaps undergraduates present the results of their scientific research in this annual symposium sponsored by Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society. Posters will be exhibited in the Olin Atrium, with oral presentations scheduled for 12:30 in Olin 100.
Friday, February 20
“The Eagle Has Landed”: Hot News Perfects and the Grammar of Time and Emotion
Gloria Surber
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, Surber (M.A. Romance Languages, University of Georgia) will demonstrate how human beings internalize and verbalize their existence in time and their experience of the world.
Friday, February 27
Honors Project Symposium
Students in diverse fields share highlights of their recently defended Honors work in this annual symposium sponsored by the Honors Program.
Friday, March 6
Facilitating “Development” Through Education and Culture
in Southern Tanzania: A Look
at Building a NGO from the
Beginning
Julian Murchison
Drawing on his work and collaboration in Tanzania, Julian Murchison (Department of Sociology-Anthropology, Millsaps) will examine the design and development of a NGO dedicated to education and culture. We will see what practical experiences with one NGO imply about local vs. foreign leadership, “development from below,” and collaborative “engaged anthropology.”
Friday, March 27
The Nussbaum Lecture
Robert McElvaine
This commemorative lecture series is dedicated to the men and women who stood their ground against racial bigotry and religious prejudice in the South during the Civil Rights Era. It was established in honor of Rabbi Perry Nussbaum, whose courage and vision epitomize the continuing vigil for freedom and justice. Robert McElvaine (Department of History, Millsaps) will discuss the history of the Civil Rights Era drawing on his current research.
Friday, April 3
40 Years of Heritage
A panel of former and current Heritage faculty and students will reflect on their experiences in Millsaps’ unique humanities course invented in 1968—first called Heritage of the West, now Heritage of the West in World Perspective.
Friday, April 17
“Writing Miss Daisy”
Alfred Uhry
Sponsored by the Southern Literary Festival
Alfred Uhry, the only writer ever to have won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award and Academy Award, will discuss writing Driving Miss Daisy both for the stage and the screen and the differences between writing plays and writing movies.
Friday, April 24
“‘In the Compartment’: Women’s Travels by Railroad in Victorian
Fiction and Art”
Laura Franey
Beginning in the 1840s, train travel offered a fast, relatively cheap mode of transportation for Victorian Britons. Trains gave women, especially, more freedom of movement, yet newspapers and other cultural products hinted at dangers for women traveling alone. Laura Franey (Department of English, Millsaps) will examine women’s railroad travels in novels ranging from M. E. Braddon’s hugely popular sensation novel Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) to Thomas Hardy’s final novel, Jude the Obscure (1895) in the context of some fascinating Victorian paintings that feature women on trains (especially paintings in the recent international exhibition “Art in the Age of Steam,” such as Augustus Egg’s The Traveling Companions and Charles Rossiter’s To Brighton and Back for 3s 6d).
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