August 2012 - April 2013

Lectures

• September 6, 2012, Thursday, BA 363, 4-5:30 PM
  Sarah Gardner, Mercer University
  Public Lecture on Southern History through Literature: "Away Down South in the Land of Problems:  Jonathan Daniels, Literary Criticism, and the South during the Great Depression."
  
  - Here is a link to a PDF flyer for this event.
  
  
• September 18, 2012, Tuesday, Hollings Library, TCL. Philip Grose Lecture, 6:30 PM
  Joseph Crespino, Emory University
  Public Lecture on Strom Thurmond  from new Book.  Co-sponsored with Southern Studies, and South Carolina Political Collections. 
  
  
• September 24, 2012, Monday, GAMB 201, 4 PM
  Tiziano Bonazzi, Professor of Politics and History, U of Bolgona, Italy
  Public Lecture titled: "1861 and After: Italy, the US and the Pangs of the Liberal Nation."
  - Here is a link to a PDF flyer for this event.
  
  
• September 27, 2012, Thursday, BA 008, 7 PM
  Dr. Randal Maurice Jelks, Associate Professor of American Studies and African American Studies, University of Kansas
  Public Lecture titled: "Benjamin Elijah Mays, Mobilizing the Mind of the Black Church for Freedom."
  - PDF Flyer for this event
  - Book signing to follow lecture
  - For more info email Lindsay Arave
  
  
• October 3-4, 2012, Wed-Thu, 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.
  
  - Thursday, Campus Room at USC Capstone House, 8 PM
  Solomon Tenenbaum Lecture in Jewish Studies. "The Chosen Peoples:  America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election."
  
  
• October 10, 2012, Wednesday, GAMB 153, 7 PM
  Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University with Southern Studies Sproat Lecture
  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.
  
  
• December 6, 2012, Thursday, 5:30 PM, S.C. Political Collections Hollings Program Room of the Thomas Cooper Library
  The History Center will co-sponsor a book talk/signing on Thursday, December 6 at 5:30 at the Hollings Program Room of the Thomas Cooper Library. The book being launched is South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Vol 3, edited by USC Professors Marjorie J. Spruill and Valinda Littlefield (who is also Director of USC’s African American Studies program), and Joan Marie Johnson of Northeastern Illinois University. The event is also to celebrate the completion of the entire three-volume anthology, South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times. Volumes 1 and 2 appeared in 2009 and 2010. The anthology is published by the University of Georgia Press.
  
  - Here is a link to a PDF flyer for this event.
  
  
• February 12, 2013, Tuesday, 4-5 PM, GAMBRELL 124
  Miguel Centellas, University of Mississippi
  Lecture: "The Politics of Identity: Regionalism in Bolivia under Evo Morales"
  - Here is a link to a PDF flyer for this event.
  
  
• February 14, 2013, Thursday, 4-5:30pm, Williams-Brice Building (Nursing), Room 125
  Kevin Kenny, Boston College
  - Lecture: "Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration"
  - Here is a link to a PDF flyer for this event.
  
  
• To Be Rescheduled February 21-22, 2013, Thurs-Fri, Peter Wood, Duke University, Professor Emeritus
  - Lecture
  
  
• March 1, 2013, Friday, TBA
  Jane Landers, Gertude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
  Lecture on the Greater Caribbean and Slavery in the 18th and 19th century
  
  
• March 7, 2013, Thursday, 7 PM, Graniteville Room, Thomas Cooper Library, Organized by the IARR, Co-sponsored by the History Center
  Tomiko Brown-Nagin
  Author of Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, which won the 2012 Bancroft Prize.
  
  
• March 18, 2013, Monday, 6:30 PM, Tentative
  Ted Widmer, Director John Carter Brown Library visit
  Lecture on Lincoln Train Trip to Washington DC in February 1861
  
  
• March 21, 2013, Thursday, 5:30-7:00PM
  Ladson Presbyterian Church, 1720 Sumter Street, Columbia SC
  "Upon This Rock: Religion, Reconstruction & African American Churches"
  
  A symposium hosted to explore the early development of African American churches organized in Columbia during the Reconstruction era.
  
  Speakers:
  - Dr. Bobby Donaldson, USC
  - Dr. Hildebrand, University of North Carolina
  - Hemphill P. Pride, II, local arrorney and Elder at Ladson Presbyterian Church
  - Reverend John A. Middleton, Associate Minister at New Light Beulah Baptist Church, Hopkins, SC
  
  - Link to the PDF flyer for this event
  - Link to details of event on Historic Columbia website
  
  
• March 28, 2013, Thursday, 3:30-4:45 PM, Gambrell 431
  Joao Reis, Professor, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
  Lecture on Brazilian Slavery and Emancipation
  
  Go HERE for an interview in English discussing his work in recognition of receiving an American Historical Association Award.
  
  - Link to the PDF flyer for this event
  - Link to CV of Professor Joao Reis
  
  
• April 8, 2013, Monday, 1-3 PM, Gambrell 431
  Josh Rothman, Professor, University of Alabama
  Lecture: "Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson"
  
  - Link to the PDF flyer for this event
  
  
• April 17, 2013, Wednesday, 2:30-3:45 PM, Gambrell Hall, Room 431
  Leslie M. Harris, Winship Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Department of History, Emory University
  Lecture: Writing a Personal Urban History of New Orleans
  
  - Link to the PDF flyer for this event