Past Conferences
2008
~"Ending the International Slave Trade: A Bicentenary Inquiry"
March 26 - 29, 2008
This conference, held in association with the marking of the Bicentennial of the abolition of the International Slave trade in the United States and the British Empire, focused on the trade, and its effects on the Lowcountry and the American South as a whole.
2007
~ The Irish in the Atlantic World, February 27 - March 2, 2007
This conference examined the experience of Irish of all denominations and traditions around the Atlantic as well as the Irish impact on the Atlantic World as a whole, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries; from the United States and Canada, to the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa. In particular, it assessed the impact Irishmen and women had on the Carolina lowcountry and American South. The conference sponsors include the Humanities Council of South Carolina.
2005
~ Haiti 201: Slavery, Struggle, and Survival (January 20-21)
2004
~ Saints and Pilgrimage Around the Atlantic
~ Southern Intellectual History Circle Meeting
~ The Fruits of Exile: Central European Intellectual Emigration to America in the Age of Fascism (November 11-13)
2003
~ Conference on Carolina Lowcountry & Caribbean Cuisines
2002
~ The Material World of Tidewater, the Lowcountry, and the Caribbean
2000
~ From Slavery to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World
2000
~ Plantations of the Mind: Marketing Myths and Memories in the Heritage Tourism Industry
1999
~ The Emergence of the Atlantic Economy
1998
~ The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World
1997
~ Out of New Babylon: The Huguenots and Their Diaspora
1996
1995
~ New Directions in Colonial South Carolina Studies
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