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Past
~ Wachovia Lecture Series
October 8, 2009 - Dr. James Walvin (University of York, UK) author of The Trader, the Owner, the Slave, 7:00 pm, Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Center, 96 Wentworth Street. James Walvin, who taught for many years at the University of York (UK), is one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of slavery and the slave trade. He has a prolific publishing record, including the 2007 book The Trader, the Owner, the Slave and the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize-winning book Black and White. Professor Walvin’s lecture will be on the notorious Zong massacre, an event in 1781 when 133 slaves were thrown, alive, from a slave ship as a storm approached. The case is the topic of Professor Walvin’s most recently completely manuscript and allows him to consider what the incident and the public response to it tells us about the slave trade in general and the changing sensibility about slavery itself towards the end of the eighteenth century.
September 17, 2009 - The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina. 6:00 pm, Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Center, 96 Wentworth Street. Drs. Jack Bass and W. Scott Poole (College of Charleston) co-authors. Dr. Poole spoke about the writing of this new book and its implications for understanding the history of this state.
March 24, 2009 - "A Storm Beyond Control: Freed Slaves and Political Mobilization in Reconstruction South Carolina." 7:00 pm, Charleston Museum.
Dr. Brian Kelly of Queen's University, Belfast, talked on the widespread political activism of African Americans during the tumultuous period ater the Civil War in South Carolina.
February 19, 2009 - Abraham Lincoln Lecture. 7:30 pm, Alumni Hall
On this the bicentenary of Lincoln's birth our executive director, Dr. O. Vernon Burton, Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History, Coastal Carolina University, will give a lecture on our 16th president. His recent book The Age of Lincoln won the 2007 Heartland Prize for Non-Fiction and is earning rave reviews, typified by this opening paragraph by John David Smith for bookpage.com: "If the Civil War era was America's Iliad, then historian Orville Vernon Burton is our latest Homer. Burton, a distinguished scholar at the University of Illinois, is best known for his widely acclaimed In My Father's House Are Many Mansions (1985), a brilliantly nuanced social history of Edgefield County, South Carolina. With The Age of Lincoln, Burton has significantly widened his lens, ratcheted up his analysis and produced a magisterial narrative history of American social and intellectural life from the age of slavery up to the age of Jim Crow. New details, fresh insights and sparkling interpretations punctuate nearly every page of Burton's fast-paced and elegantly written new book."
Regulated Wild: The Impact of Human & Natural Forces on the Lowcountry Landscape Thursday Lecture Series
- April 2, 2009, 6:00 pm
Topic: Longleaf Pines - Speaker: Dr. Jean Everett (College of Charleston)
Avery Research Center - March 12, 2009, 7:30 pm
Topic: Fish - Speaker: Edwin Gardner
Avery Research Center - February 5, 2009, 7:30 pm
Topic: Grapes - Speaker: Dr. David Shields (University of South Carolina)
Avery Research Center - January 15, 2009, 7:30 pm
Topic: Indigo - Speaker: Arianne King-Comer
Avery Research Center - December 4, 2008, 7:30 pm
Topic: Sea Island Cotton - Speaker: Dr. Richard Porcher (The Citadel)
Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Center, 96 Wentworth Street - November 13, 2008, 7:30 pm
Topic: Ecology of Rice - Speaker: Dr. Richard Porcher (The Citadel)
Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Center, 96 Wentworth Street - October 2, 2008, 7:30 pm
Topic: Sweetgrass - Speakers: Dr. Danny J. Gustafson (The Citadel), Karl Ohlandt (Spring Island Trust),Dr. Dale Rosengarten (College of Charleston), Thomasena Stokes (Sweetgrass Festival), and Nakia Wigfall (Six Mile Community in Mt. Pleasant)
College of Charleston, Avery Research Center, 125 Bull Street - September 18, 2008, 7:30 pm
Topic: Rice (cultural) - Speaker: Dr. Daniel Littlefield (University of South Carolina)
Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Center, 96 Wentworth Street
Thursday, January 11, 2006, 7:00 pm
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 Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in the Maritime South."
College of Charleston, Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Center, 96 Wentworth Street
Thursday, January 26, 2006, 7:00 pm
Marcus Rediker, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, "Life and Death among the Pirates; Or, the Real Pirates of the Caribbean"
College of Charleston, Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Center, 96 Wentworth Street
Link to WGBH Forum Network online to hear his lecture.
Thursday, November 10, 2005, 7:00 pm
Stephanie Yuhl, Department of History, College of Holy Cross, "Through a Glass Darkly: Race and Memory in Historic Charleston"
College of Charleston, Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Center, 96 Wentworth Street
~ Symposia
November 3-4, 2006
“Hallowed Ground”
Over the last few years renowned Southern documentary-maker Stan Woodward has been filming a number of camp meetings in the Lowcountry, whose origins date back to the late 18th century and the traditions of early Methodist evangelism. Interested in details?
February 17-18, 2006
Fifth Annual Carolina-Caribbean Symposium
A celebration of our Caribbean roots, featuring lectures, tours, exhibits, music, and Caribbean food.
Charlestowne Landing, Hwy 171. (843) 852-4200
August 18 - 20, 2005
Carolina Gold Rice
Trident Technical College, The Charleston Museum, and Middleton Place
Thursday February 17, 2005
Carolina Gold Rice Roundtable
The program held a lively and wide-ranging roundtable discussion of the past, present, and future of Carolina Gold Rice in the Lowcountry. Spearheaded by representatives of the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation—including academics, historians, and rice growers—we discussed this grain’s place in shaping our past as well as the re-introduction and current production of Carolina Gold Rice in the Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry.
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture,
125 Bull Street
January 20-21, 2005
“Haiti 201: Slavery, Struggle, Survival”
The symposium was held in collaboration with the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, the John Rivers Communications Museum, and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program at the College. The entire event was free and open to the public. Are you interested in a summary of the program?
~ Special Events
Monday, January 30, 2006, 6:00 pm
A pre-broadcast screening of clips from the new WNET-produced PBS documentary African American Lives, a remarkable project which uses cutting-edge scientific research techniques to trace previously untraceable genealogies of a number of contemporary African Americans, including such celebrities as Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones. The films will be broadcast nationwide on ETV from 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm on Wednesday, February 1st and Wednesday, February 8th, 2006.
Charleston County Public Library, 68 Calhoun Street
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Monday, January 31, 2005, 6:00 pm
Preview: “Slavery and the Making of America”
Charleston County Public Library, 68 Calhoun Street
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Thursday, September 30,2004, 7:30 pm
Requiem
Poetry by Kwame Dawes with music by John Carpenter. This event is part of the annual Moja Festival.
College of Charleston, Physicians Auditorium
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~ The Hines Prize Lectures
The best book relating to the history and life
of the Carolina Lowcountry and/or Atlantic World
April 23, 2009 - "Fighting for Honor" Wachovia Distinguished Speakers Series, 7:00 pm, Arnold Hall, 96 Wentworth Street, College of Charleston.
T.J. Desch-Obi, Baruch College, winner of the 2007 Hines Prize, will speak on his book Fighting for Honor which sets ou the rich history of the arrival and dissemination of African martial arts in the Atlantic world and furthers our understanding of the powerful influence of enslaved populations on our general culture. Grounded in historical and cultural anthropological method, Desch-Obi traces the influence of well-delineated African traditions on long-observed but misunderstood African and African American cultural activities in North America, Brazil, and the Caribbean. He links the Brazilian martial art capoeira to reports of slave activities recorded in colonial and antebellum North America, and images of kalenda African stick-fighting techniques to the Haitian Revolution.
Friday, September 9, 2005, 3:15 pm
Lecture and Presentation
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-Domingan Refugees in Charleston." (in manuscript)
College of Charleston, Blacklock House
Friday, August 27, 2004, 7:00 pm
Lecture and Presentation
Dr. Brad Wood, Assistant Professor of History, Eastern Kentucky University, received the inaugural Hines Prize for his book This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725-1775.
College of Charleston, Alumni Hall of Randolph Hall.
