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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 2008
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 2008
Spring series will include presentations by Dr. John P. Walsh, III (College of Charleston) on Haiti, Dr. O. Vernon Burton (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) on Abraham Lincoln, Lisa Randle (College of Charleston) on Guinea, West Africa, and Dr. T.J. Desch-Obi (Baruch College) on Capoeira.
