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2025 Music by Women Festival

Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)

The Mississippi University for Women’s ninth annual Music by Women Festival will be held in the historic Poindexter Hall on the campus of the Mississippi University for Women. The festival will include papers, presentations, lecture recitals, and performances all relating to the subject of music composed, taught and performed by women. The festival will feature […]

International Music by Women Festival

The W Campus 1100 College Street, Columbus, United States

The ninth annual international Music by Women Festival will be held March 6-8, 2025 on the campus of the Mississippi University for Women. The festival will feature concerts of new and historic music written by women composers historically as well as in the present day. For more details please visit https://www.muw.edu/musicbywomen/

For (Colored) Girls Who Considered Maverick Feminism/When Respectability Is Not Enuf

Nissan Auditorium, Parkinson Hall

(photo by Jonah Holland) Research presentation by Dr. Kemeshia Swanson, Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at MSU. Dr. Swanson will discuss respectability politics and how its limitations are challenged in the work of resilient authors like Mississippi native Jesmyn Ward. Hosted by the Martha Swain Speaker Series and the Ina E. Gordy […]

Women’s College Colloquium Series: Dr. Lindsey Stewart

Gail P. Gunter Room, Fant Library

Presentation by Dr. Lindsey Stewart, author of The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism. Her research focuses on black feminist conceptions of political agency.

History and Legacy of the Pink Tax

GPG Multi-Purpose Room - MUW Library

Join WCFR to discuss the history of gender-based pricing and ongoing efforts to reduce that gap. In 1994, consumers were made aware of price discrepancies among clothing items (ladies' blouses vs. men’s dress shirts) based on gender. We will review efforts to reduce the pricing gap and discuss why, thirty years later, we continue to […]

Community Read Author Talk: Alejandra Campoverdi

Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)

Presentation and discussion with Alejandra Campoverdi, author of First Gen:  A Memoir, about navigating college and social mobility as a first-generation Latina. Sponsored by the MS Humanities Council and The Columbus Community Read Partners.

Meet the Author – Melanie R. Anderson

Gail P. Gunter Multi-Purpose Room

Melanie R. Anderson, co-author of Monster She Wrote, will be joining us for a discussion of Women in Horror.

Spring Book Talk: Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts

Gail P. Gunter Room, Fant Library

Join Fant Memorial Library for another installment of their Spring Book Talk. This year’s book is Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson, and this month’s discussion will focus on chapters 8-11.