Past Lectures, Events, and Book Talks
2022
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"Swimming Back to Trout River: A Conversation with Novelist Linda Rui Feng." (co-ponsored with The Center of Asian Studies in the Walker Institute at USC, and The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures).
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Southern Guage Series presents: Jason Livingston An evening of 16mm film projection, videos, and in process slide projections.
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Woody Holton (Allen University), in conversation with Bakari Sellers (co-sponsored with the History Center).
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Prasenjit Duara, “Oceans, Gardens, and Jungles: Worldviews and the Planet” (Twentieth-Century Transpacific Intercultural Collaboration Research Group).
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Thavolia Glymph, "Conversations on the American South" The Inaugural Conversation: Race, Cender and the Civil War Era."
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Discussion between Judge Richard Gergel and Patricia Sullivan on Sullivan's book Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy's America in Black and White.
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Daniel Everett, "Language and Conflict in Amazonia."
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Systemic Inequality in South Carolina Schools - Buffet Dinner and Panel Discussion.
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Conversation with actor and director Clark Johnson (The Wire).
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Nitasha Kaul, "Kashmir: The Personal is Political."
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"On These Grounds" Film Screening followed by Q&A with activist Vivian Anderson.
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Gregg Hecimovich (Furman University), "The Life and Times of Zealy daguerrotypes."
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Talk by anthropologist Jessica Smith: "Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility"
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Carolina's Conflict Consortium.
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Roger Beebe film performance at If Art Gallery.
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Imani Perry, Discussion of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.
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Barbara Phillips, Discussion of Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court.
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Briallen Hopper, "Easy to Live: An Alternative Valentine's Day Event", Reading and Discussion of Hard to Love.
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Phil Klay, Literature in a Time of Crisis.
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Mia Bay, Discussion of Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance (co-sponsored with the History Center).
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Katina Rogers, Book Talk for Putting the Humanities PhD to Work.
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SC Black Press Institute Symposium (Allen University).
November 7 - Jason Mott (co-sponsored with Southern Studies)
October 25 - Boubacar Ndiaye (co-sponsored with the Francophone Studies program and LLC), CMA Theatre, 7 p.m.
October 19 - in)Visibility: Aesthetic Dimensions of Perception. Poster/artmaking session, sponsored by the (In)visibility Research Group, Humanities Collaborative, Russell House Ballroom (section B), 12-4 p.m (drop in at any time).
April 22 - Book talk by Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan on The Teaching Archive :A New History for Literary Study.
April 1- Presentation on NEH and NEA grants for the Humanities.