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History Center

The History Center nurtures scholarship, promotes scholarly communication, engages local communities, and raises the visibility of the University of South Carolina Department of History, enhancing its reputation in the historical profession.

Fall 2024

Thursday, September 5, 12-1 pm, Gambrell 245b

Work in Progress: Andrew Kettler, (USC) “Remembrance of the Bicameral Mind: Sensory Worlds at the Interface.” The article explores how we can use history to think critically about the rise of Artificial Intelligence.

Friday, Sept 13, 4:00, Gambrell 217

Dr. Natalya Tshuikina, an Erazmus fellow and professor at the Tallinn University will discuss

“Russians in Estonia: International Tensions and Linguistic Policy”

Monday, September 23, 5 pm, Kendall Room, Caroliniana

Caroline Grego, (Queens University, Charlotte), Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry, book talk and signing

Tuesday, September 24, 12-1:30 pm, Gambrell 245B

Roundtable discussion on Southern environmental history and environmental history of slavery, with Caroline Grego, (Queens University, Charlotte), Wright Kennedy, (USC), and D. Andrew Johnson, (South Carolina Department of Archives and History). Moderated by Tom Lekan, (USC). 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

Thursday, October 10, 5 p.m., Capstone Campus Room

Herman Eberhardt, Supervisory Museum Curator at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, will deliver a lecture on “Black Americans, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelts” the current exhibit at the FDR Library.

Friday, October 11, 11:30-12:30, Gambrell 245B

Herman Eberhardt will participate in an open-ended discussion with faculty and graduate students to respond to address questions about the creation of the exhibit, about presidential museums and public history, and other topics that may be of interest. Professors Melissa Stuckey and Patricia Sullivan will moderate. Lunch will be provided.

Monday, October 28-29

Dana Logan, (UNC-Greensboro), will visit campus, sponsored by Religious Studies and the History Center. Dr. Logan is a scholar of American religion and ritual who works on the history of evangelicalism, civil society in the nineteenth-century United States, and the experience of ritual in everyday life. She is the author of Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America.  

Monday, Oct. 28: 1:00-2:15, Panel discussion with Dana Logan, organized by Adam Schor Tuesday, Oct. 29, 5:45-7:00, Kendall Room, Caroliniana 

Dana Logan discusses her book Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America

November (specific date to be determined): 

Nicole Eustace (NYU), author of Covered with the Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America 

Humanities Collaborative; History Center, co-sponsor  


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