Spring 2022
Wednesday, February 9, 3:45 - 5:00 p.m.
Gambrell 245B
Work In Progress by Jeffery Williams entitled, "Elisha Scott: Creating a Legend."
Wednesday, February 16, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Karen J. Williams Courtroom, UofSC School of Law
Barbara Phillips, formerly an attorney with Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law, will interview attorney Armand Derfner and Dr. Vernon Burton about their recently published book, Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court. This event is part of the Founding Documents series. Reception and Book Signing to Follow.
Monday, February 28, 2022, 3:45 - 5:00 p.m.
Gambrell 217
Work in Progress by Dr. Myisha Eatmon entitled, “Legal Networking: Vernacular Legal Education and Black Legal Networks.”
Monday, March 21, 2022, 6 p.m.
Location: Karen J. Williams Courtroom, UofSC School of Law
Dr. Nicholas Buccola, Elizabeth and Morris Chair in Political Science at Linfield
University will discuss his book, The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley and the Debate over Race in America.
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Southern Studies
Monday, April 4, noon
Gambrell 217
Roundtable discussion with Dr. Michael Woods, Associate Professor of History and director
of The Papers of Andrew Jackson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Monday, April 4 at 5 p.m
Petigru 108
Dr. Michael Woods will present a lecture on "The Grass Roots Slave Power: Tracing
Pro-Slavery Influence in the Papers of Andrew Jackson"
Monday, April 4, 7 p.m.
Sloan 122
Film screening of "Boycott," a docudrama about the Montgomery bus boycotts during
the civil rights movement, with actor and director Clark Johnson
Monday - Tuesday, April 4 and 5, 2022
April 4 at 6 p.m. in Petigru 108
April 5 time and location TBA
Dr. Michael Woods, Associate Professor and Director of the Andrew Jackson Papers at the University of Tennessee will present the Charles O. Jackson Lecture on the Andrew Jackson Papers. Dr. Woods will also be available for a roundtable discussion with faculty and graduate students.
Tuesday, April 5, noon
Gambrell 245B
A Conversation with Clark Johnson, a director and cast member of "The Wire," and director
of HBO's Peabody award winning film, "Boycott," moderated by Dr. Todd Shaw.
Thursday, April 14 at 3:45 p.m.
Gambrell #245B
"Light and Lines: A photographer and a historian interpret Ovid's Metamorphoses."
A talk with photographer Kate Joyce and historian Andrew Berns
Tuesday, April 19, 6:00 p.m.
Karen J. Williams Courtroom, UofSC School of Law
Dr. Patricia Sullivan and Judge Richard Gergel will hold a conversation on Sullivan's recently published book Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy's America in Black and White. Reception & book signing to follow. Co-sponsored by the UofSC School of Law and Historic Columbia.
Friday, April 25, 2022, 6:00 p.m.
Spigner House
Dr. Lacy Ford will discuss his new book, Empowering Communities: How Electric Cooperatives Transformed Rural South Carolina. Reception and book signing to follow Co-sponsored by Institute for Southern Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, UofSC Press.
Please note: If you are a Department of History student or faculty member, contact Jeff Williams at jefferyw@email.sc.edu for more information about registering for events.
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