ON CAMPUS
ON CAMPUS Campus Visitors: Scholars,
authors, and musicians were among visitors on campus during the spring semester.
The Millsaps Arts & Lecture Series hosted a discussion by Jeff Seabold, a local architect, and Todd Sanders, an architectural historian for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, in January. They spoke about the historic architecture of Jackson and how city planning is impacted by current movements of sustainability and smart growth.
Dr. Tamar Gendler
The Millsaps Visiting Writers Series presented in February Robert Olen Butler, dubbed by one critic as the “best living American writer,” and Tyrone Jaeger, assistant professor of English/creative writing at Hendrix College, along with writers Alan Michael Parker and Sheryl St. Germain. Dr. Tamar Gendler, professor of philosophy at Yale University, presented the annual Dunbar Lecture in Philosophy, given in honor of Dr. Robert Bergmark in March. She spoke about “The Costs of Unintentional Racial Bias”. Using empirical studies from moral psychology, Gendler examined the unacknowledged evaluations human brains make about people from other racial backgrounds. She also considered the costs of these assessments, which happen almost automatically and which often disagree with what one consciously believes. Three actors from Stanford University, Courtney Walsh, Angela Farr Schiller, and Rush Rehm, presented staged readings of three Eudora Welty stories in March. The program was presented by the Eudora Welty Foundation and the College. Printmaker and performance artist Kara Dunne displayed her work in April at the Lewis Art Gallery. Dunne, an installation artist from Providence, R.I., gave a gallery talk and also conducted a performance workshop in March.
Dr. Nicholas Buccola
Public management students brought Dr. Nicholas Buccola, assistant professor at Linfield College, in April to speak about his book, The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty, and to be in a panel discussion. Dr. John Kaltner, professor of Muslim-Christian relations at Rhodes College in Memphis, spoke about “Biblical Characters in the Qur’an,” in April. He appeared as part of the annual Summers Lecture, which is endowed by a gift from the Rev. Lemuel C. Summers and the Reiff-Lewis Endowment Fund. The Arts & Lecture Series hosted gardening expert Felder Rushing and Robin Mather, a former Clarion-Ledger food editor who is now senior associate editor at Mother Earth News, in April. They discussed the topic, “You Say You Want a (Food) Revolution?”
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