OCTOBER 2012-2013 EVENTS

  • Oct 3-4, 2012, Wed-Thur, Todd Gitlin, Columbia University Visit (Co-sponsored with Jewish Studies)

    - Oct 3, 2012, Wednesday, 6-8 PM, Rutledge Chapel
    Public Lecture on the Occupy Movement from his new book. 
    - Here is a link to a PDF flyer for this event.

    - Oct 4, 2012, Thursday, 8 PM, Campus Room at USC Capstone House
    Solomon Tenenbaum Lecture in Jewish Studies. "The Chosen Peoples:  America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election." 


  • October 10-11, 2012, Wed-Thur, Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University with Southern Studies Sproat Lecture

    - Oct 10, 2012, Wednesday, 7 PM, GAMB 153
    Public Lecture: "Planetary Power?  The United States and the History of Around-the-World Travel."
    - Here is a link to a PDF flyer for this event.

    - Oct 11, 2012, Thursday, 3:30-5 PM, GAMB 431
    Works in Progress Seminar with Joyce Chaplin. Paper Title: "Earthsickness: Circumnavigation and the Terrestrial Human Body, 1520–1800".
    - Here is a link to a PDF flyer for this event.
    - Here is a link to a password protected PDF paper for this seminar.


  • October 16, 2012, Tues, 3-5 PM, GAMB 431, History Center at USC Seminar: Family and Gender Relations in the African Diaspora
    - Here is a link to a PDF flyer for this event.

    - James Sweet, University of Wisconsin Madison
    Paper Title: Defying Social Death: The Multiple Configurations of African Slave Family in the Atlantic World (Forthcoming in a special issue on “Centering Families in the Atlantic World,” William and Mary Quarterly, April 2013)

    Send an email     the History Center for the password to open the paper
    - Here is a link to a PDF paper for this seminar.

    - Matt Childs, University of South Carolina
    Paper Title: "Gendering the African Diaspora in the Iberian Atlantic: Religious Brotherhoods and the Cabildos de Nación." In Women of the Iberian Atlantic, edited by Sarah E. Owens and Jane E. Mangan, eds. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming Dec. 2012.

    Send an email the History Center for the password to open the paper
    - Here is a link to a PDF paper for this seminar.

    Commentators
    - Terry Weik, University of South Carolina, Department of Anthropology
    - Martine Jean, University of South Carolina, Department of History

  • Oct 25, 2012, Thursday, 2-4 PM, Gambrell 431, Dave Roediger, University of Illinois
    Works in Progress Seminar with Dave Roediger, Past History Center Distinguished Visiting Professor and the Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Illinois

    Paper: “Emancipation from Whiteness:Disability, the Impossible Jubilee of Slaves, and New Possibilities of Freedom for All. ”

    - Here is a link to a PDF flyer for this event.

    Send an email the History Center for the password to open the paper
    - Here is a link to a PDF paper for this seminar.

  • October 26, 2012, Friday, 2:30-4 PM, GAMB 431
    Will Hustwit, visiting professor University of Mississippi
    Winner of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication Farrar Award for the best journal article or chapter in an edited book on the historical relationship between media and civil rights for his article in the Journal of Southern History.  Sponsored by School of Journalism and Mass Communication. For more information, email Kathy Forde.

    MCRHS: http://jour.sc.edu/mcrhs
    Hustwit-Farrar Award: http://jour.sc.edu/mcrhs/hustwit.html




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