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Fall 2005
Calendar Symposium:
Carolina Gold Rice Trident Technical College, The Charleston Museum, and Middleton Place Teachers'
Tour of Transatlantic Slave Trade-related sites in Charleston Application
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Previous Events (Spring 2005) Thursday February 17, 2005: Avery
Research Center for African American History and Culture 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. The mission of the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation is to advance the sustainable restoration and preservation of Carolina Gold rice and other heirloom grains and raise public awareness of the importance of historic ricelands and heirloom agriculture. The foundation encourages, supports and promotes educational and research activities focused on heirloom grains and serves as an information resource center to provide authentic documentation on heirloom grain culture and heritage. Haiti
Symposium In recognition
of the 200th anniversary of Haiti’s emergence as an independent
state the CLAW program hosted a two-day symposium entitled “Haiti
201: Slavery, Struggle, Survival” on January 20-21, 2005.
Following on from a series of films and discussions about Haiti in the
early Fall and a visit from novelist Madison Smartt Bell in November,
the symposium was designed as a kind of capstone event in the program’s
efforts to give some context for recent events in Haiti such as the
expulsion of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the response to hurricane
Jeanne. 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 participation of the featured speakers,
Nadine Dominique and Christine Cynn, was made possible by a generous
grant from the Humanities Council, SC. Additional support came
from the Women's Studies program and the Political Science department
at the College of Charleston. The program is summarized below. Thursday, January 20th, 6pm: The symposium opened with a public reception. 7pm:
Screening of Christine Cynn’s Pote Mak Sonje, a documentary
about the historic Raboteau trial in 2000. Film-maker Christine Cynn
introduced the film and fielded questions after the screening. Friday,
January 21st 11am-1pm:
Participants in the symposium attended the opening of a small exhibition
of Haitian art and artifacts, followed by lunch at the Avery Research
Center for African American History and Culture. 1:30-5:00
pm: In the afternoon we held two formal panel discussions, the first
on aspects of Haitian culture, the second on Haitian politics and history
. Invited panelists include sociologist Carolle Charles from
Baruch College, literary scholar Jean Jonassaint from Duke University,
Nadine Dominique representing the Eko Vwa Jean Dominique foundation,
political scientists Percy Hintzen from Berkeley, Robert Fatton
from the University of Virginia, and Michelle Karshan, former
Press Secretary for Jean-Bertrand Aristide. We also invited representatives
of local businesses, organizations, churches, and charities that have
links with Haiti. The panel discussions were moderated by College of
Charleston professors John Rashford (Sociology and Anthropology) and
Hollis France (Political Science). Friday Evening (Arnold Hall) 6pm: The evening's events opened with a public reception. 7 pm:
The symposium wrapped up with a special screening of Jonathan Demme’s
The Agronomist. Nadine Dominique, daughter of the
assassinated Jean Dominique—the subject of the documentary—introduced
the film and fielded questions after the showing. The entire event was free and open to the public.
Special Event: Preview:
“Slavery in the Making of America” The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program, in partnership with the International Museum of African American History, the Old Slave Mart Museum and South Carolina ETV, announces the screening of the ETV project “Slavery in the Making of America.” Monday,
January 31, 2005, 6:00 pm, Charleston County Public Library February
2-9, PBS will air the four part film series that examines the history
of slavery in America from its earliest origins in South Carolina and
Virginia to its dissolution and aftermath in the civil war era. We will
be given a “sneak preview” of this important event
with 30-45 minutes of clips from the series. Following the screening
of these excerpts, a panel of scholars, all of whom participated in
the making of the film, will be on hand to answer questions and discuss
the significance of this project. Panelists include Professor Bernard
Powers of the College of Charleston, Please join us in February for this exciting event! You will receive a reminder of this event in your mailbox soon!
Previous Events Fall 2004 Lecture
and Presentation of the Inaugural Hines Prize After the presentation, Professor Wood will give a talk about the book and a reception will follow. The Program biennially awards the Hines Prize for the best first book relating to any aspect of the history and life of the Carolina Lowcountry and/or the Atlantic World. Friday, August 27th at 7 pm in Alumni Hall of Randolph Hall.
Requiem is a multi-dimensional, multi-genre collaboration between musicians, writers and artists to create a work that celebrates the resilience of those people who suffered the brutal mercantilistic trade called the Middle Passage. Monuments commemorating this horrible holocaust have found expression in art. The late Tom Feelings African America artist and pan-Africanist philosopher spent twenty years creating one of the most stunning and amazing requiems to this period in history in his book The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo (Dial 1995) and Kwame Dawes has responded to that work with a series of poems that dialogue with the art and tell his own journey as a Ghanaian-born, Jamaican poet, musician and scholar. John Carpenter, an Orlando native and a scholar and musician of the highest order has responded to the same subject with a musical score that resonates with the blues, reggae, African rhythms, rock and jazz in what is a powerful anthem for the Middle Passage. These elements come together in this dynamic performance which explores the troubled history of the Middle Passage through image and sound, and that ultimately constitutes a moving requiem to those who made the journey and those who did not make it across the Atlantic. Thursday,
September 30th at 7:30 pm in Physicians Auditorium.
last update: February 3, 2005 |
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