Past Seminars
For a copy of past papers, please contact Dr. Simon Lewis at Lewiss@cofc.edu.
Fall 2009
October 9: Dr. James Walvin (University of York, UK) author of The Trader, the Owner, the Slave
Walvin will present a discussion on 'Slavery and Public Memory' on October 9 at 3:15 pm, Addlestone Library, Room 227, 205 Calhoun Street (corner of Calhoun and Coming Streets)
September 25: Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black (Carnegie Mellon University) author of Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora
3:15 pm, Levin Library, Jewish Studies Center, 2nd floor, 96 Wentworth Street
Spring 2009
April 24: Dr. T.J. Desch-Obi, Baruch College, "Fighting for Honor," Blacklock House, 18 Bull Street, 3:15 pm. Canceled
March 20: Dr. John P. Walsh III, College of Charleston, "Toussaint's Correspondence: A Revolution Hidden in the Archives," Blacklock House, 18 Bull Street, 3:15 pm.
February 20: "Was Abraham Lincoln a Southerner?," Dr. Orville Vernon Burton, Coastal Carolina University, Blacklock House, 18 Bull Street, 4:00 pm.
January 30: Lisa Randle, TST Coordinator, College of Charleston, "(Over)looking the African American Landscape on the East Branch of the Cooper River, Berkeley County, South Carolina, 1783-1820," Levin Library, Jewish Studies Building, 3:15 pm.
Fall 2008
September 26: Dr. Robert Crout, Department of History, College of Charleston--“Lafayette and Gender Issues in the Revolutionary Atlantic,” Blacklock House, 18 Bull Street, 3:15 pm.
November 7: Dr. Lee Drago, Department of History, College of Charleston--“‘Something for the Girls’: Marriage Customs in Confederate South Carolina,” Blacklock House, 18 Bull Street, 3:15 pm.
Spring 2007
Friday, January 12: Dr. David Cecelski, (Ph.D., Harvard) is an independent historian and writer who has taught at Duke University, UNC at Chapel Hill, and East Carolina University. "The Fires of Freedom: Abraham Galloway's Civil War." Levin Library at the Jewish Studies Center.
Friday, March 30: Dr. John Rashford, Department of Anthropology, College of Charleston, "Anthropology and the Making of Our Modern World System."
Fall 2006
Wednesday, August 30: Dr. Brian Kelly, Senior Lecturer in History, Queen's University Belfast. "Black Laborers, the Republican Party, and the Crisis of Reconstruction in Lowcountry South Carolina.
Friday, September 29: Dr. James A. McMillin, Associate Director of Bridwell Library and Associate Professor of American Religious History, Southern Methodist University, "The 'Nabobs' and 'Bashaws' of South Carolina Go to Philadelphia: The South Carolina Delegates and the 1787 Constitutional Convention," Levin Library, Jewish Studies, 96 Wentworth Street.
Friday, October 6: Dr. Kimberly E. Simmons, Assistant Professor, Dual Position with Department of Anthropology and African American Studies, University of South Carolina, title to be announced. She will discuss issues of race and gender in the Dominican Republic. Levin Library, Jewish Studies Center.
Spring 2006
Wednesday, January 25: Dr. Marcus Rediker, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh. He will be presenting his paper on the slave ship Brooks, sketches of the layout of which became the icon of the brutality of the transatlantic transportation of slaves.
Friday, March 31: Dr. Christophe J. Boucher, Department of History, College of Charleston, Dr. Boucher will discuss the relationship between Huguenots and Native Americans in Florida. Due to a faculty senate, this event has been canceled.
Fall 2005
Friday, September 9: Dr. Nicholas M. Butler, Archivist of Special Collections, Charleston County Library, "A Mortifying but Honorable Expedient: The Role of Music in the Relief and Recovery of Saint-Domingue Refugees in Charleston." Dr. Butler is the 2005 winner of the Hines prize, given by the CLAW program in recognition for the best, first manuscript in Atlantic and Lowcountry studies.
Friday, October 7: Dr. Hollis France, Department of Political Science, College of Charleston, "The Politics of Race and Economic Restructing: the Case of Guyana - The Hotye and Jagan Years 1989 - 1997."
Friday, November 11: Dr. Stephanie E. Yuhl, Department of History, College of Holy Cross, "Radicalism and the American Memorial Landscape."
Spring 2005
Friday, January 28: Dr. Rosemary Brana-Shute, Department of History, College of Charleston, “‘Daughters of the Regiment:’ Entrepreneurial Free and Enslaved Women and the Eighteenth-Century British Army in the Caribbean.”
Friday, February 11: Dr. E. Moore Quinn, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, College of Charleston, “Toasting King William and ‘Cusha Moi Croi’: Irish-American Verbal Art in America Before the Great Famine.”
Tuesday, March 15: Dr. David Brown, Department of History, University of Sheffield, “Race Relations from the Bottom Up in the Antebellum South: A Critique of the Herrenvolk Democracy and the Informal Economy.”
Fall 2004
Friday, October 29: Dr. Richard Bodek, Department of History, College of Charleston, "Moses, Opera, and the Reinvention of German Judaism."
Friday, November 19: Dr. Peter McCandless, Distinguished Professor, Department of History, College of Charleston, "'Pox Britannia:' James Kilpatrick and Smallpox Inoculation."
Spring 2004
Friday, January 30: Dr. Edward J. Blum, Departments of Sociology and Anthropology, Baylor University, "The Soul of W.E.B. Du Bois."
Friday, March 26: Reverend Clinton Chisholm, "The Rasta-Selassie-Ethiopian Connections."
Fall 2003
September 26: Dr. Alpha Bah, Director of African Studies, Department of History, College of Charleston, offered a program on the Lowcountry’s connections to Liberia: past, present, and future. He is currently working on a history of Charleston-West African connections.
November 14: Dr. Douglas Friedman, Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, Department of Political Science, College of Charleston, “Human Rights and Cuba-U.S. Relations.” Friedman is the author of The State and Underdevelopment in Spanish America: The Political Roots of Dependency in Peru and Argentina.
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