Studying the South

Check our Spring 2020 course offerings. Students can study abroad, complete the First-Year Experience requirement and other Gen Ed requirements, make progress towards a major or the Honors College program, or enjoy an elective course, all while studying the South. If you haven’t taken Intro to Southern Studies (SOST 200), this Spring might be a good time to do so.  Students in this semester’s SOST 200 are enjoying visits from faculty and community members who study the South and contribute to its well-being. They’ve examined archival documents in Special Collections and enjoyed a walking tour of the neighborhood with Dr. Annette Watson/

We also heard old-time music played by the Pluff Mud String Band. Fisher Wilson, one of the members of the band, earned a C of C Music degree in 2019 after having taken SOST 200 in his senior year. Go here to see and hear them play!

Ian Gleason, fiddle, and Fisher Wilson, Banjo.

This week four more faculty visited the SOST 200 class.  Students had read articles by Dale Rosengarten on sweetgrass basket artists and on Jews in South Carolina, and heard her talk about her work in person. Students had also read work on Charleston architecture by Nathaniel Walker, and they heard him talk about his research on the development of “modern” Charleston in the early 20th century.

We also read the introduction to Gibbs Knotts’s book The Resilience of Southern Identity: Why the South Still Matters in the Minds of Its People. Dr. Knotts talked to students about his work, and then we heard from Dr. Jordan Ragusa, who co-authored a new book with Gibbs Knotts, First in the South, on the South Carolina primary.

Dr. Jordan Ragusa

Still to come: visits from an environmental historian (Dr. Hayden Ros Smith) who’s written a book on rice cultivation, and from cultural anthropologist Brian Walter who’s researching the way people in our area are responding to flooding and rising sea levels. Finally we’re looking forward to learning to sing spirituals from the distinguished and talented Ann Caldwell.

Oh, and students are beginning to conduct research for their final projects, each on a topic they have chosen. Topics due by Monday, students! I’ll see y’all Tuesday in the library.

Dr. Watson discusses prisoners who were held in the City Jail.

Aiken-Rhett House

Dr. Dale Rosengarten is proud to share students’ work from the first-year seminar she taught in Spring 2019, “Charleston as a Classroom.”  Designed to introduce first-year students to the historical resources housed on every street in the city, the syllabus reserved Tuesday class meetings for lectures, guest speakers, document study, and discussions; on Thursdays, students took field trips to historic sites, archives, museums, cemeteries, churches, synagogues, and fellowship halls.

Class members were Bella Arcoria, Emma Baker, Jade Benson, Lauren M. Coggins, Alec Cohen, Molly S. Dougherty, Izzy (Taro) Floyd, Valentina Granada, McKenzie Heaton, Vance Lupton, Anna Martin, Madison T. McNamara, Danyel E. Meahan, Katie Nazaridis, Lauren O’Steen, Mallory Poston, Kendall Tally, Amy Vella, Asia C. Williams.

Dr. Rosengarten has created a booklet of highlights from field trip logs these students kept throughout the semester, along with some of their photographs. Click here to open and download the booklet in PDF.

January 10: Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, St. Philip and Calhoun Streets

January 17: The Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon, 122 E. Bay Street

January 24: The Old Slave Mart Museum, 6 Chalmers Street

Old Slave Mart

January 31: Historic Charleston Foundation, Captain James Misroon House, 40 East Bay St

February 7: Aiken-Rhett House, 48 Elizabeth Street

February 12: An Evening With Nikky Finney, City Gallery, Waterfront Park, 34 Prioleau St

February 13: The Charleston Museum, 360 Meeting Street

February 21: Grimke Sisters Tour with Carol Ezell Gilson

Drayton Hall

February 28: Drayton Hall, 3380 Ashley Hall Road

March 7: French Protestant (Huguenot) Church, Church & Queen Streets, and Huguenot Society Library, 138 Logan Street

March 14: Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE), 90 Hasell Street

March 28: Coming Street Cemetery, 189 Coming Street

35 Chapel Street

April 2: 35 Chapel Street (ca. 1835-40), Built By Sylvia (Silvi) Miles, a Free Woman of Color, on Land Leased by William H. Holmes, A Planter who lived on Charlotte Street. Renovated by Drs. Louis and Andrea Weinstein

April 11: Catholic Diocese Archive & Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, 114 & 120 Broad Street

Dr. Susanna Ashton, Clemson University

The English Department is proud to bring Dr. Susanna Ashton to campus as our Visiting Scholar Sept 9-11. Susanna is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Clemson University and an expert on slave narratives. On Sept 9 she will lecture on Samuel Williams, the subject of her Lowcountry Digital History Initiative exhibit (5:30 pm Addlestone 227, please register via Eventbrite.) On Sept 10 she’ll talk about John Andrew Jackson, another slave narrative author who will be the subject of a biography she is writing (5:30 pm in the EHHP Alumni Center). On Sept 11 she will conduct a faculty workshop on finding support for humanities research in archives and rare book libraries. Space limited to 20–please preregister here.

Many thanks to LDHI and Addlestone Friends of the Library and to History, African American Studies, and CLAW for their support of this event. Southern Studies is delighted to be among the co-sponsors.

Susanna’s books include I Belong to South Carolina: SC Slave Narratives, 2010; The South Carolina Roots of African American Thought, co-edited with Rhondda Thomas, and most recently, an award-winning MLA collection,  Approaches to Teaching the Works of Charles Chesnutt, co-edited with Bill Hardwig.

This post is by Melissa R. Klapper, Professor of History and Director of Women’s & Gender Studies, Rowan University.

During my visit to Charleston last March as research fellow at the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture, I made a sort of pilgrimage to 5 Pitt Street, the house where sisters Anita, Carrie, and Mabel Pollitzer grew up. I was delighted not only to see a historical marker on the site, but also to see that Carrie and Mabel got their due as well as their more famous (outside Charleston, at least) younger sister Anita. Anita (1894–1975), who left Charleston for college after graduating from Memminger High School and never really returned to the city to live, gained national and even international renown for her work with the National Woman’s Party, the more militant wing of the suffrage movement.  After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, she continued to work on feminist issues, most notably as a longtime advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment, which was first brought before Congress in 1923.  Her sisters Mabel and Carrie also ardently worked for women’s enfranchisement and were charter members of the Charleston Equal Suffrage League. Carrie (1881–1974) served as the assistant principal of Memminger, directed the South Carolina Kindergarten Training School, and became active in the Charleston City Federation of Women’s Clubs.  Mabel (1885–1979) graduated from Teachers College at Columbia University in New York and then returned home to teach at Memminger.  She was president of the Charleston County Teachers’ Association and helped establish the Charleston County Library.  Both Carrie and Mabel lived to a ripe old age and became beloved figures in the city.  But that didn’t mean they never left Charleston.

Carrie Pollitzer

I came to Addlestone Library, home of the College of Charleston’s Special Collections and the South Carolina Historical Society’s archives, to conduct research for my current book project on American Jewish women who traveled abroad between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War II.  These decades saw foreign travel become more accessible to a growing number of Americans thanks to the development of less expensive tourist-class travel and accommodation and the growing popularity of the idea of vacations.  All three Pollitzer sisters traveled with some frequency.  And in 1926 Carrie set out on what turned into an epic journey of nearly two years abroad, keeping a travel journal all the while (Anita Pollitzer Family Papers, SCHS 1210.00, Box 24/29/1).  That travel journal is the very stuff of history, and in its pages Carrie’s comments on her adventures shed valuable light on the way that American, gender, and Jewish identity interplayed in all American Jewish women’s travels abroad.

The travel journal covers a lot of ground, but there are three elements I will emphasize here.  The first is Jewish identity.  The Pollitzer family was involved with KKBE, but none of the sisters were traditionally observant and Jewishness rarely shaped their life choices.  Still, while abroad, like many other American Jewish women, they found themselves attending synagogue services, marking Jewish holidays in their diaries, socializing with other Jews, and visiting Jewish homelands, memorials, and cemeteries.  Carrie ate at a kosher lunchroom in Paris (August 2, 1926), remarked on the Arch of Titus in Rome, which was erected to commemorate the destruction of Jerusalem (December 26, 1926), and visited her maternal family’s synagogue in Vienna.  Of this last experience she wrote, “This morning I went to services in the old synagogue where my grandparents worshipped.  I feel it a great privilege to be able to do this.  The synagogue is small but very fine.  The chanting was beautiful” (June 18, 1927).

The second noteworthy element of the journal is Carrie’s reaction to the standard sightseeing she did.  She benefited from the new tourist industry that had developed over the previous few decades, which sprang up to serve adventurous but not necessarily wealthy travelers, a mass of people who depended on affordable guidebooks, maps, and markers to ease their journeys and tell them where to go and what to do.  Like so many others, Carrie dutifully admired the art at the Louvre (July 28, 1926) and went to see “The Last Supper” in Milan (October 21, 1926).  She was not always so impressed by the standard sights, however.  After touring St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, she drily noted that “The most flattering comment I can truthfully make:  It is big, its pictures are big, its sculpture is big.  The whole thing is big and glitters with gold” (December 12, 1926).

The last element of the journal worthy of comment here is the displacement that accompanied even the most exciting extended trips abroad.  While Anita joined her for segments of her trip, Carrie traveled alone for much of the time.  Though she interacted with all kinds of people, she began to feel sad and tired of being so much on her own.  Marking Thanksgiving in her journal in 1927, she wrote disconsolately, “I feel so lonely.  I wish I were in  Bft. [Beaufort] with bright faces around me” (November 25, 1927).  Soon afterward she decided to go home to Charleston.

Nov. 25, 1927 journal

As these (hopefully tantalizing) references to Carrie Pollitzer’s travel journal make clear, American Jewish women’s travel experiences reflected, both literally and metaphorically, the opening up of the world to women.  Looking at Jewish women in particular allows for analysis of the ways in which travel disrupted and complicated identity for a group whose religious and cultural traditions emphasized conventionally gendered notions of female domesticity, even though such notions were often honored in the breach by economically active and activist American Jewish women of all class backgrounds.  Southern Jewish women like the Pollitzer sisters were just as likely to take advantage of new opportunities for travel as any others, bringing their experiences home with them to enrich their families and communities.

2018-19 was crammed full of exciting events and activities put on by the Southern Studies program and the many College faculty and academic programs who study the South. The volume of things to report has necessitated six separate posts, people! Certainly no human being could have attended all these events, so click the links below if you would like to review just how much was going on.

Fall 2018 included over a dozen events including lectures on Yiddish politics, Anson Street burials, Southern photography, and a performance by Cary Ann Hearst.

Spring 2019 was even more overflowing with events that included two academic conferences, lectures and symposia on foodways and memory and memorialization, an unforgettable procession down George Street for the ancestors’ reinterment, and an evening with Henry Louis Gates.

The College saw several important developments related to Southern Studies, from the formation of the Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston to our first 5 students completing the Southern Studies minor. Faculty continue to publish academic work related to the south,  and students and faculty continue to share their knowledge of the region with the public and with community partners, as this summary indicates. And next year’s line-up of upcoming events and future publications also looks very promising.

Please enjoy this round-up and be proud of the many important and productive ways that C of C faculty, students, and staff are studying the South. As I noted when I started this blog back in late 2016, “studying”  is what you do when you care about the region. You pay close attention; you strive to understand people and phenomena in greater depth. You share your knowledge with others who seek to make our region a better place for all. I’m very proud to be in the company of so many people doing this great work. Much more work is still needed, more urgently than ever. Bravo, and onward.

Julia Eichelberger

Here are a few events and programs being planned for 2019-20, as well as a list of publications expected in the coming year. Further details will be featured on the blog and via our faculty listserv.  Stay tuned!

A new special topics course in Arts Management for Fall 2019:  ARTM 360-04: ST: Managing and Documenting the Charleston Jazz Initiative – M – 4:00-6:45 – 316 Simons Center for the Arts

Fall 2019: Halsey Gallery will exhibit works by New Orleans printmaker Katrina Andry and by Charleston artist Colin Quashie.

The College’s Bully Pulpit Series will be hosting a number of presidential candidates in the coming months. The organizers will share details as soon as they know them.

Sept 7-14 Pride Week at C of C

Sept 9-11 Susanna Ashton, Clemson English professor and author of works on slave narratives and African American writers as well as an LDHI exhibit, on campus English Department’s Visiting Scholar. Public lectures and workshops TBA.

Sept 12  4-6 Pm AAST Film Screening, Traces of the Trade

Sept 25 Presentation by Eric Crawford/Brigitta Johnson (music/ethnomusicology scholars who will discuss music in relation to Race, Religion, Resistance)

October 2-6   Association for the Study of African American Life & History ASALAH Conference (Embassy Suites Hilton, N Chas)

October 3    Charleston Museum/Gullah Geechee Meal with Chef Kevin Mitchell

Oct 21-25, times TBA: Events related to Daniel Black’s novel The Coming

October 21-23  Southeastern Museums Conference

Oct 25 WGST’s Yes! I’m a Feminist

October 24-26 2019 Conference The Architectures of Slavery: Ruins and Reconstructions at C of C, hosted by ARTH/HPCP (Nathaniel Walker, Barry Stiefel)

Nov 12 AAST’S Consuela Francis Lecture: Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh, speaking on religious culture, religious consciousness, and resistance among enslaved Black women in the South.  

Spring 2020: Halsey will feature Southern artists Butch Anthony and Coulter Fussell.

Jan 30 (Founders Day): launch of College’s 250th anniversary; lecture by John McCurdy, author of Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution.

May 14-17      Port Cities in the Atlantic Conference (CLAW)

Some Forthcoming Publications

Vince Benigni will be lead author of an invited chapter for the Handbook for Sports Fans and Fandom (Routledge), which will be published in 2020,  tentatively titled “Emotions in Motion: Twitter and the SEC Coaching Carousel.”

Knotts, H. Gibbs, and Jordan M. Ragusa’s  First in the South: Why South Carolina’s Presidential Primary Matters, is forthcoming from the University of South Carolina Press.

Bourne, Henry James, Christopher A. Cooper, and H. Gibbs Knotts.  “When the Personal Vote Isn’t Enough: Voter Mobilization and the Failed Effort to Change the Form of Government in Columbia, South Carolina.” Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, forthcoming.

Harriet Pollack’s  collection New Essays on Welty, Class, and Race will be published by UP of Mississippi, the first in a series of books on Welty that she is editing. Another essay, “Evolving Secrets: Eudora Welty and the Mystery Genre” will appear in Detecting The South in Fiction, Film, and Television. 

Nathaniel Walker will be publishing “Designing the Diaspora: Expressing African Heritage in Historic Charleston,” a talk delivered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at an international conference Through Local Eyes: Place-Based Approaches to Emerging Architectural, Urban Design and Planning Challenges in Africa and the Global South.  That conference is producing a book that will include his talk.

New C of C Programs, Curricula, and Other Developments in 2018-19

A huge array of great courses were offered for the Southern Studies minor in Fall 18 and Spring 19.  Additionally, these developments:

Sept 24 2018 C of C announces new Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston, directed by Bernard Powers.  Representatives of CSSC attended Fall Symposium of Universities Studying Slavery Oct 24-26  2018 Tougaloo College, Jackson, MS, co-hosted by University of Mississippi.

Nov 2018 Presidential Search Committee and Board of Trustees choose Dr. Andrew T. Hsu as C of C’s 23rd president.

Feb-March 2019 –A public mini-course on “Southern Jewish History” by Shari Rabi attracted around 50 people at each of the three meetings

Julia Eichelberger with Marti Stegall, Jake Anders, Patty Ploehn, Stella Rounsefell, Mary Scott Gilbert

Spring 2019 First 5 Students Complete Interdisciplinary Minor in Southern Studies

March 8 Student walkout and rally in protest of racist video posted on social media by C of C students on class field trip   

April 15 College announces that its property along the Stono River formerly called Dixie Plantation, will now be called Stono Preserve.  

“Hidden Hands” garden at Stono Preserve

April 28 Groundbreaking ceremony for new Teaching Garden, “Hidden Hands that Worked this Soil” at Stono Preserve, sponsored by MS in Environmental and Sustainability Studies

May 26-June 7 2019 Center for Southern Jewish Culture’s NEH Institute (jewishsouthsummer.cofc.edu)

June 2019: Voices of Southern Hospitality Oral History Project enters its second year

Finally, in Summer 2019 we regretfully congratulate these valued colleagues on new opportunities that are taking them away from C of C. We’ll miss you! Wishing you all the best in this next chapter: 

Shari Rabin (JWST) will begin teaching at Oberlin; Patricia Williams Lessane (DIrector of the Avery) will become Associate VP for Academic Affairs at Morgan State University; Rebecca Shumway (HIST) will begin teaching at U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee); Jerry Hale, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, who along with the rest of HSS has been a big supporter of the Southern Studies program, will become Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the U of Tennessee-Chattanooga.

Chandler, Karen A.  “Bin Yah (Been Here).  Africanisms and Jazz Influences in Gullah Culture.”  Jazz @ 100: An Alternative to a Story of Heroes, edited by Wolfram Knauer, Wolke Verlag, 2018, pp. 227-245.

Hughes, Melissa, and Whitney L. Heuring. “It takes two: Seasonal variation in sexually dimorphic weaponry results from divergent changes in males and females.” Ecology and Evolution, 16 April 2019.

Amira, Karyn, Christopher A. Cooper, H. Gibbs Knotts, and Claire B. Wofford.  2018. “The Southern Accent as a Heuristic in American Campaigns and Elections.” American Politics Research, 46(6): 1065-1093.

Kelly, Joseph. Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwrecks, and a New History of America’s Origins. Bloomsbury, 2018.

LeVasseur, Todd. Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place: From Values to Practice in Sustainable Agriculture. SUNY Press, 2018.

Peeples, Scott. The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe. Co-edited with J. Gerald Kennedy. 2019.

Rosengarten, Dale “Babylon is Falling: The State of the Art of Sweetgrass Basketry,” Southern Cultures Summer 2018

Walker, Nathaniel. “The Promise of Pluralism” in Victor Deupi, ed., Transformations in Classical Architecture: New Directions in Research and Practice (Philadelphia: Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 2018), 178-187.  

Selected Interviews, Op-Eds, Public Lectures, Events, Service by C of C Faculty/Students, 2018-19

Summer 2018: Grant Gilmore works with HPCP students to analyze and document the wooden schoolhouse from the Jim Crow era in the Snowden community of Mt Pleasant. Fundraising has begun to preserve the structure.

August 24 2018 History professor Adam Domby interviewed for several newspapers on student protests & toppling of statue of Confederate soldier “Silent Sam” at University of North Carolina

Sept 24, 2018  Post & Courier op-ed on why we should study slavery, “Charleston Must Own Its Slavery Wrongs If It Hopes to Right Them,” by SOST program director Julia Eichelberger

Nov 9 Coming to Monuments, choreographed by C of C dance professor Erin Leigh, featuring the music and poetry of Marcus Amaker: an original evening length work that blends contemporary dance, theater, and storytelling to unpack the history behind the display of Confederate memorials and the conflicted legacy their presence bestows.  Performed in Nov 2018 and then on May 26 for Piccolo Spoleto.

Nov 2018:  Joseph Kelly’s lecture at the Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, DC appears on C-SPAN2. On Nov. 21, his op-ed in New York Times appears, also based on his book Marooned.

Dec 2018  Ade Ofuniyyin, Joanna Gilmore, and the Gullah Society are featured in a National Geographic newsletter article about the Anson Street burial ground and the research that was supported by a National Geographic Society grant. C of C biology major Adeyemi Oduwole was also awarded a National Geographic grant to work with University of Pennsylvania researchers to analyze DNA of the individuals excavated at Anson Street.

Feb 5 2019  C of C senior, HPCP & ARTH major and SOST minor Patty Ploehn is interviewed on The Metropole, the Urban History Association’s blog

Feb 16 2019 Bernard Powers speaks at Akron-Summit County Public Library on his book (co-authored with Herb Frazier & Marjory Wentworth) We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel  

February 2019 Nathaniel Walker’s lecture, “Recognizing the Enslaved Laborers Who Built Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim” delivered at KKBE.

Feb 26 Egungun Tunji: Ancestors Rise Again! City of Charleston & the Gullah Society (C of C faculty Ade Ofuniyyin and Karen Gilmore), co-sponsored by CSSC, including presentations on DNA research, memorialization of African burial grounds in New York, and delivering of DNA analysis to dozens of Charleston residents eager to receive the information.

March 2019: After a wonderful and much-lauded residence in Charleston (notices in major newspapers and magazines and extensive discussion in the photography blog Lenscratch), the Southbound photography exhibit sets off on its tour, starting in NC and moving to TN and beyond.  

March 29 The City Luminous: Architectures of Hope in an Age of Fear opens at City Gallery, curated by ARTH faculty Nathaniel Walker and Jessica Streit

April 3 2019 City Paper op-ed by Adam Domby, “Let’s Be Honest About the Roots of Confederate Monuments”

April 5 2019 Dale Rosengarten receives South Carolina Folk Heritage Award for “Advocacy, African-American Lowcountry Basketry & Southern Jewish Heritage.”

April 10 2019 Political Science Professor Gibbs Knotts is frequently interviewed on Southern politics, as in this article on Kamala Harris’s teacher pay proposal in the State (Columbia, SC) newspaper.

April 23 2019 Biology professor Melissa Hughes publishes a blog post about a southern crustacean, the snapping shrimp, on the Ecology and Evolution blog

May 3 2019 History professor Hayden Smith is keynote speaker at the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation’s spring meeting.

May 3 2019 op-ed on the reinterment of individuals buried on Anson Street“Honoring Charleston’s Ancestors,” by Julia Eichelberger

Ancestors’ Reburial on Anson Street and the grounds of Gailard Auditorium attended by numerous C of C faculty; Dr. Kameelah Martin (AAST) delivered remarks on behalf of the College’s Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston and African American Studies program. President Steve Osborne was among those who wrote messages that were buried with the ancestors.

May 10 2019 “Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy”, by Adam Domby, published on African American Intellectual History Society’s blog

May 18 2019 Dale Rosengarten is awarded the Order of the Jewish Palmetto from the Jewish Historical Society of SC

Spring 2019: HPCP’s chair, Grant Gilmore, serves on an advisory panel for the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site regarding the reinterpretation of the site for the 21st century, and is appointed to the Advisory Board for Reconstruction Beaufort by Mayor Billy Keyserling.

May 26 2019 Dr. Scott Peeples discusses “The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe” at the Sullivan’s Island Public Library

May 27-June 7 Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture conducts NEH Summer Seminar, “Privilege and Prejudice: Jewish History in the American South”

So many great events on campus throughout Spring 2019, we just had to list them all here:

Dec 2018-Spring 2019 Rise That We May Feel Your Light: Exhibition of student designs for monument honoring the individuals in the Anson St burial ground. Addlestone Library Rotunda

Jan 11-12 Public Memory in the New South Symposium featuring numerous photographers and scholars including C of C’s Adam Domby, (Halsey Gallery, Southbound)

February 5-6, 2019 Bridging the Divide: Placemaking for Communities of Color in the South Carolina Lowcountry, with Bernard Powers, Grant Gilmore, and Wayne Smith among the panelists [Avery, African American Studies, Office of Institutional Diversity]

Feb 7 Voices of Southern Hospitality research presentation (Project directed by Mary Jo Fairchild and Blake Scott; reception cosponsored by SOST program)

Feb 8-10 The Vesey Conspiracy at 100: Black Anti-Slavery in the Atlantic World Conference sponsored by CLAW, co-organized by James Spady and C of C faculty Simon Keith Lewis, Joseph P. Kelly, and Rebecca Shumway.

Feb 12 Nikky Finney reads poetry at City Gallery; she discusses poetry inspired by her childhood and by Southbound photographs

Feb 14 SOST 400 Capstone Students’ research presentations and reception  (SOST)

Feb 19 “Women at the College of Charleston Between the Wars” with History Professor Emerita Amy McCandless, part of the Year of Women series

Feb 19 Marjory Wentworth “Breaking the Silence: The Writer in Community” Friends of the Library/Honors College lecture

February 20, 2019 Hate Crime Forum sponsored by the CHS Police Department and the Anti-Defamation League. Mr. Daron-Lee Calhoun II, Race and Social Justice Initiative Coordinator here at the Avery Research Center participated in the Panel Discussion Q&A.   [RSJI

Feb 21-24 Eudora Welty Society Conference, “The Continuous Thread of Revelation” co-sponsored by Welty Society and SOST, HSS, ENGL, WGST)

Feb 21 Welty Society Conference, “Charleston Writers Discuss Their Beginnings” Harlan Greene, Marcus Amaker, Michele Moore, Josephine Humphreys, moderated by Julia Eichelberger

Feb 28 “Building Social Justice in the Heart of the City” Dr. Wiliam WestfallI (ARTH, HPCP)

March 8-May 1, 2019 Avery: The Spirit That Would Not Die, first floor of the rotunda of Addlestone Library

March 12 “Eudora Welty and the Art of Letter Writing” Julia Eichelberger, Friends of the Library/Honors College

March 27 “The Long Afterlife of Brown v. Board,” Co-sponsored by numerous departments including Southern Studies; discussion facilitated by Shannon Eaves,History

April 4, 2019 Black Lives Matter Charleston organized by Student Leadership Award recipient Allie Stern  

April 8 2019 “Land and Labor Acknowledgment” Sustainability Literacy Initiative

April 9 noon “The End is Redemption: Memory and Design in the Making of a More Beloved Charleston”—Nathaniel Walker, Friends of the Library lecture

April 9 5:30 pm  “Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War,”  David Silkenat (History)

April 9 7 pm “My Food is My Flag: A Conversation About Jewish African American and Southern Foodways” Michael Twitty and Marcie Ferris (collaboration with LCWA, Pearlestine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture) 

April 12, 2019 “Monumental: It was Never about a Statue” with Dr. Wes Bellamy  

April 13, 2019 1969 Charleston Hospital Workers Strike March and Rally 

April 16 “Holding Space in Charlottesville: Showing Up Against White Supremacy,” Dr. Jalane Schmidt (Sponsored by Religious Studies)  

May 4 Ancestors’ Reburial, sponsored by the Gullah Society. Procession down George Street began at College of Charleston, hosted by the Social Justice Working Group of the Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston 

May 7 Southern Studies End-of-Semester Happy Hour

May 9 Conversation/Booksigning with Henry Louis Gates and IAAM Curator Joy Bivins, co-sponsored by Halsey Gallery, C of C Rita Hollings Auditorium