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Spring 2024 Events

Academic Talks and Speakers

Faculty Spotlight: Agnes Mueller

Portrait of Agnes MuellerHolocaust Migration: the Future of Memory

Date and Time: October 1 at 3:00 pm

Location: Close-Hipp 401

Join us in celebrating distinguished faculty at the University of South Carolina. Agnes Mueller, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, is an expert on recent and contemporary German literature with a focus on German-American relations, multicultural studies, gender issues in contemporary literature, German Jewish studies, and Holocaust studies. Mueller is a Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy for Spring, 2025.

Faculty Book Launch: Qiana Whitted and Pat Sullivan

Book cover for Justice Rising

Date and Time: October 11 at 6:00 pmBook cover for Desegregating Comics

Location: All Good Books

Join us in celebrating recent publications by University of South Carolina faculty, Qiana Whitted and Pat Sullivan. Qiana Whitted is the author of Desegregating Comics:Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics (Rutgers University Press, 2023) and Pat Sullivan is the author of Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White (Harvard University Press,2021).

Direct Democracy and the Use of Referendums: What the UK can show the US

(Mellon Seminar)

Portrait of Stephen TierneyDate and Time: October 24 at 5:00 - 6:30 pm

Location:  Kendall Room, Caroliniana

Stephen Tierney is Professor of Constitutional Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Tierney’s research involves the constitutional law of the United Kingdom, comparative constitutional law and the constitutional theory of the state, direct democracy and federalism.

Founding Documents Teaching Symposium

Date and Time: October 28 at 9:00 am - 4:30 pm

Location: TBD

Indigenous People and the Founding Documents

(Mellon Seminar)

Portrait of Nicole EustaceDate and Time: November 20 at 5:00 - 6:30 pm

Location: Kendall Room, Caroliniana

Nicole Eustace is Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of History at New York University. Eustace's research involves Eighteenth-century North America in the Atlantic world, and topics related to gender, culture, politics, and the history of emotion.

Co-sponsored Events

Filmmaking, Creative Practice, and the South: Discussion with Jan Millsapps 

(Co-sponsored with SVAD, FAMS, and MIRC)

Date and Time: September 16 at 2:30 pm

Location: Currell 107

Join us for a discussion with Jan Millsapps, a groundbreaking filmmaker with deep South Carolina roots. This extraordinary artist, a former faculty member at USC and professor of cinema at San Francisco State University, has infused independent cinema with her daring, female-centered work throughout her career. In this informal discussion, she will talk to students about how she got started as a young artist and her experiences as an artist at UofSC and in the South, as well as give advice for students pursuing a career in the arts. 

Caroline Grego Visit

(Co-sponsored with the History Center and the Center for Southern Studies)

Book cover for Hurricane Jim CrowBook Talk and Signing with Caroline Grego: Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South

Date and Time: September 23 at 5:00 pm

Location: Kendall Room, Caroliniana

Caroline Grego, (Queens University, Charlotte) will discuss her book, Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South. Books will be available for sale. A reception and book signing will follow the talk.

Roundtable with Caroline Grego, Wright Kennedy, and D. Andrew Johnson

Date and Time: September 24 at 12:00 - 1:30 pm

Location: Gambrell 245B

Join us for the roundtable on Southern environmental history and the environmental history of slavery with Carolin Grego, Wright Kennedy, and D. Andrew Johnson, moderated by Tom Lekan. Discussion will begin by exploring themes from Dr. Grego’s AHR article, “The Search for the Kayendo: Recovering the Lowcountry Rice Toolkit.” Lunch will be provided. 

Research Group Events

The Muslim South Launch Event: East African Indian Muslim Community Foodways & Storytelling in Southern US

(The Muslim South)

Date and Time: October 9 at 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Location: Gambrell 428/429

SouthernGauge Screening

(SouthernGauge)

Date and Time: October 10 at TBD

Location: TBD

ABR Brown Bag: Coffee and Coding

(Arts-Based Research Collaborative)

Date and Time: September 16 at 9:30 am

Location: Gambrell 202

Discussion of current or future ABR projects.

ABR Brown Bag: Lunch and Lit

(Arts-Based Research Collaborative)

Date and Time: October 7 at 1:00 - 2:00 pm

Location: Gambrell 202

Share your favorite ABR resources.

ABR Brown Bag: Lunch and Sharing Day

(Arts-Based Research Collaborative)

Date and Time: November 4 at 9:30 - 10:30 am

Location: Gambrell 202

ABR Brown Bag

(Arts-Based Research Collaborative)

Date and Time: December 6 at 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Location: Gambrell 202

This event gives participants the opportunity to engage discussions on the latest in arts-based research and foster networking opportunities with fellow researchers and artists. Refreshments provided.

 

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