2024 Music by Women Festival

Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)

The Mississippi University for Women’s eighth 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 […]

Nissan Auditorium, Parkinson Hall

The 2024 Martha Swain Speaker’s Series Lecture will be held at 6 pm on Thursday, March 7 in Parkinson Hall’s Nissan Auditorium. This year, we will welcome Dr. Cassie Turnipseed to campus for a lively and engaging discussion of the life and legacy of Mississippi’s fearless daughter, Ida B. Wells-Barnett. The event is free and […]

Commencement

Rent Auditorium

College of Arts & Sciences Bill & Jo-Ann Vandergriff College of Nursing & Health Sciences (Associate of Nursing, Bachelor of Nursing, Doctorate of Nursing) Ceremony begins at 1 p.m. Doors open at noon.   Bill & Jo-Ann Vandergriff College of Nursing & Health Sciences (Kinesiology, Public Health, Speech-Language Pathology) College of Business & Professional Studies […]

Mississippi on the Mall Weekend Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

Cocktails with W AlumniFriday, June 7, 2024Join us for cocktails Friday, June 7, 2024, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Hotel Hive’s rooftop bar located at 2224 F Street NW in Washington, D.C. Please register for this event in advance. For assistance, please call 662-329-7148.   Mississippi on the MallSaturday, June 8, 2024The Mississippi […]

International Music by Women Festival

The W Campus 1100 College St, Columbus, MS, 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/

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 […]

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 Honors […]