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The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program
at the
College of Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina

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Upcoming Conferences:

The Green Atlantic--Importing and Exporting Irish Nationalism, 2007

Tthe 'End' of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Bicentenary Inquiry, 2008

Our conferences draw together a national and international group of both established and beginning scholars to explore the histories, cultures and dynamics that reveal the Lowcountry and the Atlantic World to be regions of constant interaction and complex connection. At the heart of these highly successful events is a shared commitment across disciplinary boundaries to depict, on the one hand, the distinctive textures of lives lived within specific places, and, on the other, to build conceptual bridges that link several such locales together as connected parts of a world characterized by a pervasive Atlantic dimension. These conferences have been funded by grants from the NEH, the South Carolina Humanities Council, and corporate donors.

Past Conferences:

New Directions in Colonial South Carolina Studies (1995)

Out of New Babylon: The Huguenots and Their Diaspora (1997)

The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (1998)

The Emergence of the Atlantic Economy (1999)

Plantations of the Mind: Marketing Myths and Memories in the Heritage Tourism Industry (2000)

From Slavery to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World (2001)

The Material World of Tidewater, the Lowcountry, and the Caribbean (2002)

Conference on Carolina Lowcountry & Carribbean Cuisines (2003)

Saints and Pilgrimage Around the Atlantic (2004)

Southern Intellectual History Circle Meeting (2004)

The Fruits of Exile: Central European Intellectual Emigration to America in the Age of Fascism, November 11-13, 2004