Fall 2024
Thursday, September 5, 12-1 pm, Gambrell 245b
Work in Progress: Andrew Kettler, (USC) “Remembrance of the Bicameral Mind: Sensory Worlds at the Interface.” The article explores how we can use history to think critically about the rise of Artificial Intelligence.
Friday, Sept 13, 4:00, Gambrell 217
Dr. Natalya Tshuikina, an Erazmus fellow and professor at the Tallinn University will discuss
“Russians in Estonia: International Tensions and Linguistic Policy”
Monday, September 23, 5 pm, Kendall Room, Caroliniana
Caroline Grego, (Queens University, Charlotte), Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry, book talk and signing
Tuesday, September 24, 12-1:30pm, Gambrell 245B
Roundtable discussion on Southern environmental history and environmental history of slavery, with Caroline Grego, (Queens University, Charlotte), Wright Kennedy, (USC), and D. Andrew Johnson, (South Carolina Department of Archives and History). Moderated by Tom Lekan, (USC). 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
October 7-9 (specific dates/times TBA)
Herman Eberhardt, Supervisory Museum Curator, FDR Presidential Library and Museum Lecture/presentation on “Black Americans, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelts” the current exhibit at the FDR Library.
Roundtable discussion: presidential museums and public history
Monday, October 28-29
Dana Logan, (UNC-Greensboro), will visit campus, sponsored by Religious Studies and the History Center. Dr. Logan is a scholar of American religion and ritual who works on the history of evangelicalism, civil society in the nineteenth-century United States, and the experience of ritual in everyday life. She is the author of Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America.
Monday, Oct. 28: 1:00-2:15, Panel discussion with Dana Logan, organized by Adam Schor Tuesday, Oct. 29, 5:45-7:00, Kendall Room, Caroliniana
Dana Logan discusses her book Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America
November (specific date to be determined):
Nicole Eustace (NYU), author of Covered with the Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Humanities Collaborative; History Center, co-sponsor
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