Dr. Jaime Harker, Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi and owner of Violet Valley Bookstore, the only feminist queer bookstore in Mississippi, will speak about her forthcoming book, Sapphfic: Queer Reading and Writing in the 21st Century. This event is part of the Women's College […]
Mississippi University for Women presents "The Soul of All America," the fifth episode from the new Ken Burns documentary, The American Revolution, but this time, we're dressing up for Halloween! Come in your most authentic Revolutionary garb; the best-dressed patriot will win a prize! The fifth episode covers the period from December 1777 through May […]
Learn about the mental and physical impact music brings to life by hearing from our Music Therapy majors! This event takes place in Poindexter Hall, is free and open to the public.
The annual Eudora Welty Writer's Symposium begins its 2026 sessions with a keynote by W. Ralph Eubanks, author of When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land. Eubanks has written three other non-fiction books and has contributed articles to the Washington Post, WIRED, The New Yorker, National Public Radio, […]
Featuring: Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Of Women and Water, Eudora Welty Prize Marcus Wicker, Dear Mothership Kwoya Fagin Maples, Long Eye Amelia Franz, The Longest Man-Made Beach in the World Live on www.youtube.com/@weltysymposium/live
Featuring Meghana Mysore — Let All Our Ghosts Depart Whitney Rio-Ross, thunder makes us Justin Wymer, Let the Forest Go Ephemera Prize Winners: James Cancellare, Ananya Mantri, Tulasi Pizzolato, Lela Reed, and Makayla Wrenn Live on www.youtube.com/@weltysymposium/live
Featuring Ellen Morris Prewitt, When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women Angela Ball, Steeplechase John T. Edge, House of Smoke David Armand, Walk the Night Live on www.youtube.com/@weltysymposium/live
The Mississippi School for Math & Science and The W's Department of History, Political Science, & Geography are excited to welcome filmmaker Becca Finley to campus for a screening of her newest film, Citizens Revival. The film screening will begin just after 6:00 pm in Nissan Auditorium and will be followed by a half hour […]
1884 Fellow Lessa Harvey's Feminist Book Club will meet for a conversation about Audre Lorde's collection of essays and speeches in Sister Outsider.
Diwali, is a festival of light celebrated mostly in India and across the world as a victory of ‘good’ over the ‘evil’. The event will take place at the Columbus-Lowndes County Public Library on Monday, November 9 from 11 am to -1 pm. Come experience the event with the delicious Indian snacks. Dr. Heda (a […]
In this interactive financial literacy workshop, Dr. Cecilia Brooks, Associate Professor of Family Science at MUW, will demonstrate how contextual factors influence family financial and consumption practices. Her research interests include financial decision-making and family financial socialization. This event is part of the Women's College Colloquium Series. For more information, contact womenscollege@muw.edu, or call 662.370.0758.