Please check this website for updates and additions to the schedule. Are you interesting in knowing whom we've hosted for past faculty seminars.
Our interdisciplinary faculty seminar meets regularly during the academic year to discuss previously circulated papers by local faculty and visiting scholars.
Faculty seminars have spanned an array of interdisciplinary topics including Jamaican agro-ecology, Chinese immigrants in Charleston, the cultural and musical roots of Porgy and Bess, and the environmental history of plantation settlement.
Over the past five years, noted scholars such as African American historian Peter Wood (Duke University), literary critic David S. Shields (University of South Carolina), anthropologist Sidney Mintz (Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University), and historical archaeologist Kathleen Deagan (Distinguished Research Curator of Archaeology, Florida Museum of Natural History) have presented papers.
The following seminars will take place in the Blacklock House at 3:15 PM unless otherwise noted.
Current & Upcoming
Fall 2009
- November 19: Dr. Barry L. Stiefel (visiting professor College of Charleston), 2009 Hines Prize Winner, Jewish Sancturary in the Atlantic World: A Social and Architectural History
7:00 pm, Levin Library, Jewish Studies Center, 2nd floor, 96 Wentworth Street
Barry received his Ph.D. from Tulane University in 2008. His dissertation about the forty plus synagogues erected by the Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English-American Jewish communities of the Atlantic basin from the 17th through 19th centuries will be published as Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World: A Social and Architectural History by the University of South Carolina Press.
Check back for additions to our 2009-2010 schedule.
