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Sunday, September 21 through October 15
April Flanders: Infectious
Lewis Art Gallery, Ford Academic Complex, third floor.
Works by April Flanders, a professor at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C.Through a variety of mediums, this work critiques modern consumerism by juxtaposing it with images of parasitic organisms.
www.aprilflanders.com
Gallery is open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Contact Amanda Rainey, gallery director, at akrainey@gmail.com.
Friday, October 2
Friday Forum
“Preventing Catastrophes with Emerging ‘Smart Structures’ Technology” - Charles Farrar, Los Alamos National Laboratory
12:30 p.m. Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
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.
Free
Contact Steven G. Smith at 601-974-1334 or smithsg@millsaps.edu
Monday, October 5
Departmental Recital: Music Students
3p.m. - Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
A variety of vocal, piano and instrumental music from baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary periods.
Free (Open to the public)
Contact the Office of Performing Arts: 601-974-1422 or nixls@millsaps.edu
Tuesday, October 6
Fall 2009 Else School of Business Forum
8 a.m. (buffet breakfast opens); 8:30 a.m. (panel discussion)
Leggett Center
Ben Allen, president of Downtown Partners; Tom Cunningham, vice president and associate director of research for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; and John H. Turner, director of economic development for Entergy Mississippi, discuss “What Does Our Economic Future Hold?”
Admission is $15.
For more information, call 601-974-1250.
Wednesday, October 7
Arts & Lecture Series
Clyde Edgerton: The Bible Salesman
7 p.m. Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Noted author and humorist Clyde Edgerton will present a musical interpretation of his latest novel, The Bible Salesman, narrating and performing most of the character parts himself. Musician Mike Craver will appear with Edgerton. The duo will present songs and commentary that reveal the hilarious, and sometimes scary, adventures of a bible salesman who needs a ride and a car thief who needs an assistant. Edgerton was co-director of the Eudora Welty Chair of Southern Studies at Millsaps in 1995 and is currently professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. A rare film of Eudora Welty reading “Why I Live at the P.O.” will also be shown. Edgerton attributes his interest in writing to a public television program featuring Welty reading this story. The concert is sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation as part of the year-long Welty Centennial celebration
Free for Season Subscribers
Contact the Millsaps Continuing Education Office at 601-974-1130
Thursday, October 8
"Welty and Three Writers: On Reading and Their Craft" symposium for college students
9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Leggett Center, Boyd Campbell Student Center
Noted authors Clyde Edgerton, Elizabeth Spencer, and Al Young join Dr. Suzanne Marrs to discuss the fiction of Eudora Welty and their own work. A rare film of Welty reading "Petrified Man" will be shown and discussed. Sponsored, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mississippi Arts Commission, and the Eudora Welty Foundation.
Free, open to the public
For more information, call 601-353-7762 or email contact@eudorawelty.org.
Thursday, October 8
Clyde Edgerton, Elizabeth Spencer, and Al Young read and discuss their work and Eudora Welty
4 p.m., Leggett Center, Boyd Campbell Student Center
Clyde Edgerton, Elizabeth Spencer, and Al Young will read and discuss their work and Eudora Welty. A reception and book signing will follow. Sponsored, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mississippi Arts Commission, and the Eudora Welty Foundation.
Free, open to the public.
For more information, call 601-353-7762 or email contact@eudorawelty.org
Friday, October 9
Friday Forum
“The Fight for Immigrant Rights” - Bill Chandler, Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance
12:30 p.m. Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
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.
Free
Contact Steven G. Smith at 601-974-1334 or smithsg@millsaps.edu
Monday, October 12
“International Health Care Systems: What the US Can Learn” - Dr. Susan Taylor
7:00 p.m. Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
Are you as tired as we are of all the yelling about Health Care? Are you as confused as ever about Health Care systems and the proposed changes? Can anyone bring some non-partisan clarity to the discussion? YES!
Free
Contact Neha Bhatnagar Pres., Symposium or bhatnn@millsaps.edu
Tuesday, October 13
2009-2010 Summers Lecture
“Race and the Cosmos” -
Barbara A. Holmes, dean and professor of ethics and African American religious studies at Memphis Theological Seminary
11:30 a.m. Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
The author of Race and the Cosmos finds in the intersection of theology, cosmology, physics and culture a view of human life as united by wonder and uncertainty.
Free
Contact Steven G. Smith, 601-974-1334, smithsg@millsaps.edu
Wednesday, October 14
Public Lecture
"Space Oddities: A Tour of the solar system" - Dr. Shadow Robison"
12:00 p.m. Sullivan Harrell Hall, Room 263
The topic will be the odd characters that make up the local neighborhood of our humble planet. Enormous volcanoes on Mars, massive repavings of the surface of Venus, the Great Red spot on Jupiter, the hopes for life in the solar system and the recently announced enormous ring around Saturn. All of these and more will be discussed. Feel free to bring your lunch or bring a friend for fifty minutes of astronomical fun!
Contact Shadow Robison, 601-974-1348, robins1@millsaps.edu
Wednesday, October 21
Public Lecture
“Living by Fragments” - Dr. James Bowley
4:00 p.m. Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
As the Humanities Teacher Award recipient, Dr. James Bowley will lecture on “Living by Fragments.” A reception will be held in the first floor lobby of the Academic Complex after the lecture.
Free
Contact Louise Hetrick at 601-974-1309.
Thursday, October 22
Public Lecture
“The New Atheism: What Science Can Now Say About God” - Dr. Victor Stenger
7 - 8:30 p.m. Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
Dr. Victor Stenger, author of God: The Failed Hypothesis, Has Science Found God?, and most recently Quantum Gods: Creation, Chaos, and the Search for Cosmic Consciousness will give a talk on “The New Atheism: What Science Can Now Say About God.”
Free
Contact Patrick Hopkins, 601-974-1293, hopkipd@millsaps.edu
Friday, October 23
Friday Forum
Carey Miller: “On the Verge: The Jackson Music Scene”
12:30 p.m. Ford Academic Complex, Room 215
Carey Miller (’00), producer of 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.
Free.
Contact Steven G. Smith at 601-974-1334 or smithsg@millsaps.edu
Friday, October 23
Bell Piano Series
North Texas Jazz – The Jiri Levicek Trio
7:30 p.m. Ford Academic Complex, Recital Hall
Three top members of the One O’Clock Lab Band of the University of North Texas make up the Jiri Levicek Trio, led by pianist Jiri Levicek, recent winner of the Phillips Jazz Piano Competition. The world renowned One O’Clock Lab Band has performed in Finland, France, Germany, Portugal, Russia, Mexico, Australia and Thailand. Levicek counts among his influences Bill Evans, McCoy Tyner, Keith Jarrett and Brad Mehldau. Jeffry Eckels will be playing bass and Ross Pederson will be on drums.
$15 General Admission; $5 Students (with ID from any school)
Contact the Office of Performing Arts to order with credit card: 601-974-1422
Friday, October 23
Public Lecture
"The Road Less Traveled: From Millsaps to the Peace Corps" - Rebecca Hedges, Class of 2007
1:30 p.m. Murrah Hall, room 204
Becca Hedges is returning to speak about the two years she spent in the Peace Corps in the African country of Burkina Faso.
Free
Contact Raymond Clothier at 601 974 1470 or clothrs@millsaps.edu
Saturday, October 24
Jazz Masterclass – The Jiri Levicek Trio
10:00 a.m. Ford Academic Complex, Recital Hall
Open to the public
Contact Lynn Raley at 601-974-1423 or raleyhl@millsaps.edu
Friday, October 23 through Thursday, November 19
Benjamin Rinehart: Accepted
Lewis Art Gallery, Ford Academic Complex, third floor.
An exhibition of prints, paintings, books, and paper engineered objects inspired by a passion for problem solving and artistic exploration by Benjamin D. Rinehart, professor at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc. "Accepted" explores what happens when comfortable or predictable ideologies are questioned. See www.benrinehart.com.
Gallery Talk on Friday, October 23 at 2 p.m.
Contact Amanda Rainey, gallery director, at akrainey@gmail.com.
Tuesday, October 27
Arts & Lecture Series
J. Fred Knobloch: If “It Feels Like Mississippi” It Must Be Fred Knobloch
7 p.m. Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall
Jackson’s own Fred Knobloch tells his story in words and music, from growing up in Jackson and garage bands of the 60s and early 70s, to going pro and touring and a #1 Billboard hit in 1980. He’ll talk about living in LA in the early 80s and in Nashville ever since and the differences in the music business in those two cities. He’ll have many experiences and songs to share from his other recordings since then, the artists with whom he has worked, and the others who have “covered” his songs. As a successful songwriter of “It Feels Like Mississippi” and many other songs, Fred will give an update on copyrighting issues and technology changes that challenge the music industry today
Individual tickets, $10
Contact the Millsaps Continuing Education Office at 601-974-1130
Tuesday, October 27
Southern Circuit Film Series
The Way We Get By with Gita Pullapilly producer and Aron Gaudet, director
7 p.m. Ford Academic Complex Room 215
The Way We Get By is a seemingly idiosyncratic story about troop greeters — a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a small airport to thank American soldiers departing and returning from Iraq, but the film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality. The film carefully builds stories of heartbreak and redemption, reminding us how our culture casts our elders, and too often our soldiers, aside. More important, regardless of your politics, The Way We Get By celebrates three unsung heroes who share their love with strangers who need and deserve it.
Free
Contact Melissa A. Lea at 601-974-1755 or leama@millsaps.edu
Friday, October 30
Arts & Lecture Series
“Preachers and Misfits, Prophets and Thieves: The Minister in Southern Fiction” -
G. Lee Ramsey, Jr., Memphis Theological Seminary
12:30 p.m. Ford Academic Complex Room 215
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.
Free
Contact the Millsaps Continuing Education Office at 601-974-1130
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