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Fall 2024 Events
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Faculty Spotlight: Agnes Mueller |
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Faculty Book Launch: Qiana Whitted and Patricia 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 Patricia Sullivan. Qiana Whitted is the author of Desegregating Comics:Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics (Rutgers University Press, 2023) and Pat Sullivan is the author of Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White (Harvard University Press,2021). |
Stephen Tierney(Mellon Seminar) |
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Stephen Tierney is Professor of Constitutional Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Referendem Democracy: The Very Idea
Date and Time: October 24 at 5:00 - 6:30 pm Location: Kendall Room, South Caroliniana Library We live in an age of direct democracy, but also one of political polarisation in which deep-rooted political conflict increasingly affects even traditionally stable and consensual liberal democracies. The referendum is an unpredictable democratic tool at any time, but its proliferation in the context of pluralised and antagonistic identities and attitudes makes it potentially dangerous. The United Kingdom has lived through two significant referendums in the past 10 years, on Scottish independence and Brexit. In this public lecture, Stephen Tierney will reflect upon these two referendums, asking: is referendum democracy inherently dangerous? If so, why? Or, do the problems we associate with direct democracy arise from bad practice, and are they remediable by good process? “The Most Subtle Organism Which Has Proceeded From Progressive History”? Comparing the Constitutional Tradition of the United Kingdom With That of the United StatesDate and Time: October 23 at 12:20 - 1:30 pm Location: Karen Williams Courtroom, Joseph F. Rice Law School Tierney will offer reflections about the nature of the British Constitution, contrasting its nature and form with that of the United States. For many, the US Constitution is the prime model of what a constitution is, and thus, highly influential in discussions surrounding constitutions around the world. The notion of codification, of one definitive and authoritative text, was a significant innovation of Philadelphia and an influential precedent for constitutions emerging afterwards. The United Kingdom has an uncodified constitution, but are the two systems really so different? |
AGB Book Talk with Stephen Tierney |
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Date and Time: October 25 at 12:30-2:00 pm Location: All Good Books Stephen Tierney will lead a follow-up discussion surrounding the topics of the seminar and his work at All Good Books. The public, faculty, and students are invited to ask questions and participate in discussion. |
A Forgotten Founding Document from 1722: The Great Treaty of Albany and Indigenous Theories of Justice(Mellon Seminar) |
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Location: Kendall Room, South Caroliniana Library 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. Her talk is an exercise in creative nonfiction on the topic of settler colonialism. |
AGB Book Talk with Nicole Eustace |
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Date and Time: November 20 12:30-2:00 pm Location: All Good Books Nicole Eustace will lead a follow-up discussion surrounding the topics of the seminar and her work at All Good Books. The public, faculty, and students are invited to ask questions and participate in discussion. The lunch discussion will draw on chapters from her Pulitzer-prize winning book, Covered with Night: The Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in America, which we will circulate in advance, but will also be an opportunity to discuss some new ideas from her new project with the theme “Dark Nights and Great Falls: Writing Dramatic Historical Narratives of Settler Colonialism for General Readers. Please contact Holly Crocker to attend and to receive a copy of the book. |
Holocaust Migration: the Future of Memory
Date and Time: November 20 at 5:00 - 6:30 pm| 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. |
Caroline Grego Visit(Co-sponsored with the History Center and the Center for Southern Studies) |
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Founding Documents Teaching Symposium
(Co-sponsored by the USC College of Arts and Sciences, the Clemson University College of Arts and Humanities and the Humanities Hub) |
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Date and Time: October 28 at 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Location: University Conference Center (Close-Hipp Building 8th floor, USC Columbia Campus) Register: Here This symposium centers discussions about the REACH Act, or the Founding Documents courses, as these are taught at universities across the state. Intended for faculty, graduate students, and staff at public institutions of higher education throughout South Carolina. |
Book Talk and Signing with Caroline Grego: Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South| Research Group Events |
The Muslim South Launch Event: East African Asian Muslim Community Foodways & Storytelling in Southern US(The Muslim South) |
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Location: Gambrell 428/429 Join us for an evening of delicious East African Asian food catered from Atlanta and to hear from Omme-Salma Rahemtullah. Omme-Salma Rahemtullah is the Community Liaison for “The Muslim South”, the Executive Director of FoodShare South Carolina, a community organizer, policy researcher, and an advocate for food justice. As a member of the South Asian diaspora of East Africa and an Ismaili Muslim who grew up in Toronto, Canada, Rahemtullah will discuss her passion for food justice and her global background. She will discuss the historical and cultural links between East Africa, South Asia, and Islam across the Indian Ocean world and its connections to present-day American South. She will discuss her experience, archival research, and oral history work about the Ismaili community in South Carolina, which was published by South Asian American Digital Archive. |
SouthernGauge Screening(SouthernGauge) |
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Date and Time: November 21 at 6:00 pm Location: The Art Bar |
ABR Brown Bag: Coffee and Coding(Arts-Based Research Collaborative) |
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Date and Time: September 16 at 9:30 am Location: Gambrell 202 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: Gambrell 202 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: Gambrell 202 |
ABR Brown Bag(Arts-Based Research Collaborative) |
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Date and Time: December 6 at 12:00 - 1:00 pm Location: Gambrell 202 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. |
Date and Time: October 9 at 6:00 - 8:00 pm
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