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 […]
(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 Honors […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
Melanie R. Anderson, co-author of Monster She Wrote, will be joining us for a discussion of Women in Horror.
Melanie R. Anderson, co-author of Monster She Wrote, will be joining us for a discussion of Women in Horror.
Presented by the Residence Hall Association and Housing, this two-hours-long documentary and drama will focus on the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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.
At the club’s first session, members will discuss Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me. Lessa Harvey, an 1884 Fellow in the Women’s College, created this feminist book club after working at Friendly City Books as a Nancy Yates Community Engagement Fellow in the summer of 2025.
Catherine Simone Gray–also called “Unsilenced Woman” and author of Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure–gathers women, mothers, and caregivers to explore how writing can be an ally in our living and loving. Part of the Women’s College Colloquium Speaker Series. All are welcome.