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Spring 2024 Events
| Academic Talks and Speakers |
Stephen Tierney(Mellon Seminar) |
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Date and Time: October 24 at 5:00 pm Location: TBD Stephen Tierney is Professor of Constitutional Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Tierney’s research involves the constitutional law of the United Kingdom, comparative constitutional law and the constitutional theory of the state, direct democracy and federalism. |
Nicole Eustace(Mellon Seminar) |
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Date and Time: November 20 at TBD Location: TBD Nicole Eustace is Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of History at New York University. Eustace's research involves Eighteenth-century North America in the Atlantic world, and topics related to gender, culture, politics, and the history of emotion. |
Faculty Spotlight: Agnes Mueller
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Date and Time: October 1 at 3:00 pm Location: TBD Join us in celebrating distinguished faculty at the University of South Carolina. Agnes Mueller, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, is an expert on recent and contemporary German literature with a focus on German-American relations, multicultural studies, gender issues in contemporary literature, German Jewish studies, and Holocaust studies. Mueller is a Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy for Spring, 2025. |
Faculty Book Launch: Qiana Whitted and Pat Sullivan |
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Date and Time: October 11 at 6:00 pm Location: All Good Books Join us in celebrating recent publications by University of South Carolina faculty, Qiana Whitted and Pat Sullivan. |
Teaching Symposium
(Founding Documents) |
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Date and Time: October 28 at 9:00 am - 4:30 pm Location: TBD |
Roundtable with Carolin Grego, Wright Kennedy, and D. Andrew Johnson |
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Date and Time: TBD at TBD Location: TBD Join us for the roundtable on Southern environmental history and the environmental history of slavery with Carolin Grego, Wright Kennedy, and D. Andrew Johnson, moderated by Tom Lekan. 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. |
| Co-sponsored Events |
Filmmaking, Creative Practice, and the South: Discussion with Jan Millsapps(Co-sponsored with SVAD, FAMS, and MIRC) |
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Date and Time: September 16 at 2:30 pm Location: Currell 107 Join us for a discussion with Jan Millsapps, a groundbreaking filmmaker with deep South Carolina roots. This extraordinary artist, a former faculty member at USC and professor of cinema at San Francisco State University, has infused independent cinema with her daring, female-centered work throughout her career. In this informal discussion, she will talk to students about how she got started as a young artist and her experiences as an artist at UofSC and in the South, as well as give advice for students pursuing a career in the arts. |
Book Talk and Signing with Caroline Grego(Co-sponsored with the History Center and the Center for Southern Studies) |
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Date and Time: September 23 at 5:00 pm Location: Kendall Room, South Caroliniana Library Caroline Grego, a historian at Queens University of Charlotte, will discuss her recent work Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South. This book is winnder of the 2024 Deep South Book Prize. |
| Research Group Events |
SouthernGuage Screening(SouthernGauge) |
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Date and Time: October 10 at TBD Location: TBD |
The Muslim South Launch Event: East African Indian Muslim Community Foodways & Storytelling in Southern US(The Muslim South) |
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Date and Time: September 26 at TBD Location: TBD |
ABR Brown Bag: Coffee and Coding(Arts-Based Research Collaborative) |
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Date and Time: September 16 at 9:30 am Location: TBD Discussion of current or future ABR projects. |
ABR Brown Bag: Lunch and Lit(Arts-Based Research Collaborative) |
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Date and Time: October 7 at 1:00 - 2:00 pm Location: TBD Share your favorite ABR resources. |
ABR Brown Bag: Lunch and Sharing Day(Arts-Based Research Collaborative) |
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Date and Time: November 4 at 9:30 - 10:30 am Location: TBD |
ABR Brown Bag(Arts-Based Research Collaborative) |
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Date and Time: December 6 at 12:00 - 1:00 pm Location: TBD This event gives participants the opportunity to engage discussions on the latest in arts-based research and foster networking opportunities with fellow researchers and artists. Refreshments provided. |
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