Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World

Past

~ Wachovia Lecture Series

Regulated Wilds: The Mutual Impact of Human & Natural Forces on the Lowcountry Landscape Thursday Lecture Series 2008-2009

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)
College of Charleston, Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Center, 96 Wentworth Street

 

Thursday, January 11, 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?

~ Transatlantic Slave Trade Teacher Workshop

Saturday, September 30, 2006, 10:00 am - 4:30 pm, Ft. Moultrie
Dr. James A. McMillin, Associate Director of Bridwell Library and Associate Professor of American Religious History, Southern Methodist University, The Final Victims - Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783 - 1810.

Saturday, May 13, 2006, 9:30 am - 1:00 pm, College of Charleston.
UNESCO Sites of Memory Website Project, African Passages: The Ashley River Corridor. Teachers, project participants, education specialists, scholars previewed and gathered feedback for the UNESCO Paris Office.

Saturday, 15 October, 2005, 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Dr. Jerome S. Handler, Senior Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, "Survivors of the Middle Passage: Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in British America." Workshop included a tour of Transatlantic Slave Trade-related sites in Charleston by Gullah Tours.
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, 125 Bull Street

~ 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
The best book relating to the history and life
of the Carolina Lowcountry and/or Atlantic World

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.