In celebration of Girls’s Historical past Month, the Committee on Companies and Assets for Girls (CSRW) at The College of Southern Mississippi is sponsoring and co-sponsoring occasions and actions on the Hattiesburg campus that commemorate the position of ladies in historical past, tradition and society.
As designated by the Nationwide Girls’s Historical past Alliance (NWHA), the yearly theme for Girls’s Historical past Month is “Offering Therapeutic, Selling Hope.”
The NWHA announcement states that, it’s “each a tribute to the ceaseless work of caregivers and frontline staff throughout this ongoing pandemic and likewise a recognition of the 1000’s of ways in which ladies of all cultures have supplied each therapeutic and hope all through historical past, in our group.”
Candice Salyers, chair of CSRW and professor of dance, mentioned, “USM’s programming honors the contributions of ladies artists, healers, historians, activists and entrepreneurs to the well being and wellbeing of society. This month affords us a possibility to come back collectively throughout disciplines to acknowledge and mirror upon problems with significance within the lives of ladies.”
Kick-Off Occasions
Girls’s Historical past Month occasions will occur all through March. This system kicked off on March 3 on the Liberal Arts Constructing with a panel dialogue titled, “Girls Healers By means of the Ages: Medieval Midwives to Mississippi Nurses.”
The panel included Courtney Luckhardt, affiliate professor of medieval historical past; Deanne Stephens, professor of historical past and Jamie Stanfield, well being librarian. The occasion was co-sponsored by the Historical past Girls’s Caucus and the Heart for the Examine of the Gulf South.
On March 4, Aisha Johnson, assistant professor and program director of archives and information administration at North Carolina Central College, gave a digital lecture titled, “Relentless Advocacy as Goal.” USM hosted an in-person viewing of the presentation on the Prepare dinner Library.
Johnson is the writer of “The African American Wrestle for Library Equality: The Untold Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund Library Program,” which unveils the virtually forgotten philanthropic efforts of Julius Rosenwald, former president of Sears, Roebuck, Co. and an elite enterprise man.
On March 8 within the Gonzales Auditorium, Gabrielle Walker gave her 2021-22 Baird Fellowship Lecture titled, “When We Have been Freshmen: Judson School and the Rise of the New Baptist Girl.”
Walker, who’s finding out post-reconstruction southern ladies, is engaged on a dissertation titled, “If These Partitions Might Communicate: Judson School and the New Baptist Girl, 1890-1930.” It explores the methods during which progressive period ideology made a long-lasting impression on Southern Baptist white ladies attending a Southern Baptist faculty. Walker mentioned the ladies’s collegiate experiences led to their questioning conventional Southern Baptist thought patterns and expansively decoding faith to suit a contemporary, scientific worldview.
Upcoming Occasions
Girls’s Historical past Month programming occasions will proceed as follows:
• March 11 (9:00 a.m. on the Historic Eureka College Museum): Annual Assembly of the Mississippi Historic Society, which is open to the general public at no cost due to a grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council.
• March 21 (12—1 p.m. within the Heart for College Improvement, Worldwide Constructing, Room 319): Peggy Jean Connor Grant shows: that includes the analysis of Nicole Caulfield, Ava Ferguson and Hsiaopei Lee.
• March 29 (1—2 p.m. within the Liberal Arts Constructing, Room 204): Historian and writer Carol Lipscomb presents, “The Girl Makes Boots: Enid Justin and the Nocona Boot Firm.”
• March 30 (12:30—1:00 p.m. on the Theatre and Dance Constructing outside stage): Girls’s Historical past Month Dance Live performance.
Go to https://bit.ly/3tL4LBk to see this 12 months’s scheduled occasions.