Faculty Book Talk series opens 2024 with discussion on religion, effects on activism
Contact: Sarah Nicholas
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擬ississippi State faculty members continue tackling current social issues in the Faculty Book Talk series, this month highlighting Elizabeth Miller, a Department of English associate professor.
With the series hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences and free to all, Miller鈥檚 discussion is Feb. 23 at 3:30 p.m. in Mitchell Memorial Library鈥檚 Grisham Room and includes a conversation on her book 鈥淟iturgy of Change: Rhetorics of the Civil Rights Mass Meeting.鈥
The 2023 University of South Carolina Press publication defines civil rights mass meetings as a 鈥渢ransformative rhetorical and religious experience,鈥 bringing attention to the pattern of religious genres鈥攕ong, prayer and testimony鈥攖hat structured the events. It further delves into ways these genres created rhetorical opportunities for ordinary people to speak up and develop activism.
鈥淭he 多多直播 Faculty Book Talk series celebrates academic books and the 多多直播 faculty who write them,鈥 said Eric Vivier, 多多直播 associate professor of English and series director. 鈥淭hese events are great opportunities for faculty to share their research with the 多多直播 community and for the 多多直播 community to learn about the research happening on campus,鈥 said Vivier, also a faculty fellow with 多多直播鈥檚 Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College.
Additional spring Faculty Book Talks will include Pete Smith鈥攁ssociate professor in the Department of Communication鈥攐n March 22, highlighting his most recent book 鈥淏irddogs and Tough Old Broads: Women Journalists of Mississippi and a Century of State Politics, 1880s-1980s.鈥 It鈥檚 a 2023 Lexington Books publication鈥撯揳n imprint of Rowman & Littlefield.
Joey Thompson, an assistant professor in the Department of History, will present an April 19 lecture on his book 鈥淐old War Country: How Nashville鈥檚 Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism.鈥澛燭he University of North Carolina Press publication is expected to be released April 2.
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