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Date: January 21
Event:Reception for Eugenia Summer Art Exhibit (January 13 – 29)
Time: 5-7 PM
Place: Gallery of the Art and Design Building
Date:January 30:
Event:Campus reception and book-signing for Golden Days, a collection of oral histories honoring alumnae
Time: 5:00-7:00 PM
Place: Puckett House
All month: Celebration of African-American History Month
Date:February 6
Event: Freshman Scholars’ Day
Date:February 17
Event: "Edwina Dakin Williams: Tennessee Williams' Mother - Reliable Source, Unreliable Narrator."
Lecture by Stephen Robert Pieschel.
Time: 2:30-3:30 PM
Place: Carrier Chapel
Date:February 26
Event: Opening night of Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Production by MUW’s Theatre Department
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Cromwell Theatre
Other performances: February 27 (7:30), February 28 (7:30), and March 1 (2 PM).
March 12th, 1884: The Mississippi Legislature approved The Martin Bill creating the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College.
All month: Celebration of Women’s History Month
Date:March 9
Event: “The Literary Influence of the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College.”
Lecture by Dr. Sheldon Kohn.
Cosponsored with the Southern Literary Trails Tri-State Committee and
The Mississippi Humanities Council
Time: 2:30-3:30 PM
Place: Carrier Chapel.
Date:March 11
Event: Reception for Veda Reed Art Exhibit (March 2 – April 2)
Time: : 5-7 PM
Place: Gallery of the Art and Design Building
Date: March 12
Event: Jo Sundman, "Lighting the Pathway to Reading Success"
Time: 9-11 AM
Place: Carrier Chapel
Date:March 12
Event:Campus birthday party Sponsored by the MUW Alumni Association
Time: 1:00 PM
Place: Gazebo
Date:March 12
Event:Symposium on Women’s History and Politics Cosponsored by the Department of History, Political Science, and Geography and the Mississippi Humanities Council: speaker, Ms. Mona K. Vance (Archivist, Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, 2002 MUW Alumna), "Fighting the Wave of Change: Cultural Transformation and Coeducation at the Mississippi University for Women, 1884-1982"; keynote speaker, Dr. Amy T. McCandless (Dean of the Graduate School, Associate Provost for Research, Professor of History, College of Charleston),
"'What's in a Name?': Women's Colleges, Past, Present, and Future"
Time: 2:00 PM or immediately after the Campus Birthday Party
Place: Nissan Auditorium
Date:March 12
Event:Cora Norman Lecture by Dr. Gemma Beckley: "Feminism and the Status of Women: An Evolving Paradigm in China, India, South Africa and the U. S. South"
Time:6:00 PM
Place: Nissan Auditorium
Date:March 24
Event:Performance of Eudora Welty's "Why I Live at the P.O." by Jo Ann Robinson
For more information and tickets, please contact the Department of Theater at 662-329-7260
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Cromwell
Date:March 25
Event:Grand Re-opening of the Fine Arts & Design Building
Time:3-5 PM tours and demonstrations. 5PM Ribbon Cutting & Reception with tours following.
Place:Fine Arts & Design Building
Date:March 26
Event:Women's Center for Entrepreneurship Open House
Time: 7:30-9:00 AM
Place: Shattuck Hall
Date:March 27
Event:McDevitt Scholars’ Day
Date:March 30
Event: “Tennessee Williams’ World, Symbolic Flowers, and Floral Design.”
Southern Literary Trails Kickoff Month Lecture and
Floral Design Demonstration by Jim Del Prince
Time: 6:00 PM
Place: Carrier Chapel
Date:March 30
Event: Nursing Research Day
Time: 1-5 PM
Place: Nissan Auditorium
April 13th, 1909: Birth of Author and Alumna Eudora Welty
Date:April 1
Event:The Health and Kinesiology Miller Lecture Featuring Dot Murphy
Time: 12:30 PM
Place: Pohl 206
Date:April 1 – 4
Event: One Acts
Production by MUW’s Department of Theatre
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Cromwell Second Stage
Date:April 2
Event: Research Symposium of the Ina E. Gordy Honors College
Time: 6 PM
Place: Nissan Auditorium
Date:April 7
Event: Hearin Leadership Mentor Dinner
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: Pope Banquet Room
Date:April 14
Event: MUW Chorale, MUW Madrigals, and University Chorus Spring Concert
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: TBA
Date:April 16
Event: Research Symposium of the Ina E. Gordy Honors College
Time: 6 PM
Place:Nissan Auditorium
Date: Friday, April 17, 2009
Time: 2:00 - 2:45 p.m.
Event:Historic Building Tour with Monologues Presented by Residential Students from the Ina E
Place: Gordy Honors College
Visit the front entrance of nine historic buildings for 2-3 minute presentations on each building’s history and
the person for whom each building is named. You may visit the buildings in any order to hear the
monologues.
Callaway Hall
Hastings-Simmons Hall
Orr Chapel
Peyton Hall
Pohl Physical Education Building (North Campus)
Poindexter Hall
Reneau Hall
Welty Hall
Whitfield Hall
Date:April 17
Event: Reception for Homecoming Alumni Art Exhibit (April 7 – 20)
Time: 4-7 PM
Place: Gallery of the Art and Design Building
Date:April 17
Event: Homecoming 125th Anniversary Celebration
Cosponsored by the Culinary Arts Institute
Time: 7 PM
Place: Pope Banquet Room
Date:April 17
Event: Walking Tours of Historic Buildings
Cosponsored by the Ina E. Gordy Honors College
Time: TBA
Place: TBA
Date:April 30
Event: Research Symposium of the Ina E. Gordy Honors College
Time: 6 PM
Place:Nissan Auditorium
Date:May 9
Event:Magnolia Chain
Time: TBA
Place: TBA
Date:May 9
Event:Commencement
Time: TBA
Place: Whitfield Hall
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