Upcoming Events: March
Stay up-to-date on current internship opportunities with our partner organizations, register for a poetry workshop, and submit to our CASE Festival before the deadline passes!
Last chance: 2025 CASE Festival Call for Proposals
The Margaret Walker Center invites proposals for papers, presentations, and panels for the 19th Annual Creative Arts & Scholarly Engagement (CASE) Festival, scheduled for Friday and Saturday, April 4 & 5, 2025. The CASE Festival will feature a keynote address by Natasha Trethewey, a Mississippian, former U.S. Poet Laureate, and Pulitzer Prize-winner.
The 2025 CASE Festival will highlight the life and legacy of Emmett Till and will open with a plenary conversation featuring the staff of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center. While the focus will be on the 70th anniversary of Till’s tragic death, the organizers welcome proposals from high school, undergraduate, and graduate students on any topic.
Proposals must be submitted by Saturday, March 8, 2025.
Read the full call for proposals on our website. Contact mwa@jsums.edu for questions or to submit your proposal. OR, you may submit your proposal using this Google Form.
Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation
Are you interested in preserving art and cultural heritage? Learn about conservation with this exciting upcoming summer program! The Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation introduces students and recent graduates from historically underrepresented communities to cultural heritage conservation, a field that engages with artistic and scientific understanding of materials and their meanings to preserve human expressions.
Program includes:
A weeklong summer workshop in Los Angeles hosted at UCLA
Transportation to and around L.A., shared housing at UCLA, all meals during the week
Eligibility for a 10-week paid conservation internship in 2026 (by application, after successful completion of the 2025 workshop)
Applications are due Friday, March 7, 2025 at 5 p.m. PST. Learn more by visiting this site.
Liberation as a Poetic Form: Poetry Workshop
Sign up for an exciting and insightful poetry workshop with C. T. Salazar, "Liberation as a Poetic Form," happening every Sunday in March!
Register now for free.
About the workshop: Nearly every decade saw a galvanized group of poets using community to turn poetic impulse into democratic exercise. Through weekly Sunday meetings in March we’ll read the poetries of these poets and explore how we belong to this tradition of craft and action in Mississippi. This generative workshop will be discussion-driven, with all materials scanned for access. all experience levels welcome. Folks who joined for the first one back in September are welcome and encouraged to join as the curriculum is wholly different week-to-week.
Free Movie Screening: Albany Road
Mark your calendars for this upcoming free screening of Albany Road, a Christine Swanson film nominated for two NAACP Image Awards! The screening will take place on Thursday, March 13th at 7:00 p.m. at 1221 Grandview Blvd, Madison, MS. There also will be a talk with writer and director Christine Swanson, AHF Southern Bureau Chief Tracy L. Jones, and CEO/Co-Founder of Touch Ricky Fairley.
Ego Tripping: Celebrating Nikki Giovanni
The Jackson State University History Department is hosting their annual English and Modern Languages Week events from Wednesday, March 19th through Wednesday, March 26th. Highlights include a conversation with Black Arts Movement poet Haki Madhubuti and Kelly Ellis (JSU visiting associate professor of English and creative writing), a Creative Writing & Visual Arts Showcase, & film screenings “Below the Belt” and “Going to Mars: the Nikki Giovanni Project.” Scan the flyer for a detailed schedule of their events!
Build Up Technical Internship Program: Project Management Member
The NPS Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is looking for their Build Up Technical: Project Management Member would assist in facilitating current projects and plan future projects, focusing on the next five years of park projects, particularly youth initiatives. This work will entail research, information gathering, and project development. The member will be paid and receive professional development opportunities. The start date is May 2025, with the expectation that the member will work at least 12 weeks. Learn more and apply now.
This position is in conjunction with the American Conservation Experience, a non-profit conservation corps that partners with federal agencies to provide paid professional development opportunities for young people in the field of conservation. The Build Up Technical Internship Program is facilitated by the Historic Preservation Training Center and works to expand and diversify the National Park Service workforce while addressing critical maintenance needs by providing professional experiences in technical fields to students and recent graduates.
Yale EHS Student Internship Opportunities
Attention undergraduate and graduate students! Do you have a background in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM)? Are you interested in examining the field of environmental health and safety as a potential career option? Yale Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) is partnering with nine HBCUs that are part of the Yale ASCEND program to offer two summer internships in occupational and environmental health and safety. These internships provide a 10 week immersive opportunity to learn more about these fields, are paid, include room and board over the summer, and offer hands-on experience with Yale EHS experts. More information about the 2025 EHS Summer Internship program can be found at this site.
Catch up on past editions of the HBCU Radio Preservation Project!
COFO Closed March 6-7
We’re sorry for the inconvenience, but the COFO Civil Rights Education Center will be closed March 6-7 while we attend the annual convening of the Mississippi Historical Society. Thanks for your understanding!
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