Writing the South in Fact, Fiction, and Poetry

February 17-19, 2011

Conference:

Writing the South in Fact, Fiction, and Poetry

Coastal Carolina University will host an international conference of distinguished writers from the worlds of literature and of scholarship February 17-19.

The conference, “Writing the South in Fact, Fiction, and Poetry,” has been organized as a tribute to the career of Charles Joyner, Coastal Professor from 1980 to 2006, former President of the Southern Historical Association, and author of Down by the Riverside.

Joyner was the inaugural Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture and Director of the Waccamaw Center at Coastal Carolina University. The Humanities Council conferred its Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities on Charles Joyner for his contributions to public understanding of southern history and culture.

The featured writers include three Pulitzer Prize winners and an Emmy winner. In sessions at the Wall Auditorium, they will reflect on their own efforts to understand and portray the American South.

The conference is supported by the Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, the History Department, and the Waccamaw Center for Historical and Cultural Studies, the Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal, and by a grant from the South Carolina Humanities Council. The conference is organized by Vernon Burton, former Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal and now of Clemson University.

The conference is open to students, teachers, and the general public free of charge.

This program is sponsored by The Humanities CouncilSC, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities; inspiring, engaging and enriching South Carolinians with programs on literature, history, culture and heritage.

Conference Schedule

Public Lecture

The Market Preparation of Carolina Rice

Thursday January 27, 2011
6 PM
Avery Research Center, 125 Bull Street
Dr. Richard Porcher, emeritus, The Citadel

Rice was introduced into South Carolina in 1685 and spread to Georgia and North Carolina. The industry ended in 1911. The production of Carolina rice for market reached its zenith in the antebellum period, made possible by the invention of advanced machines for threshing and milling. Richard Porcher will focus on how he and co-author William Robert Judd used artifacts from the field and archives to diagram how these machines were constructed and operated. Four sources of power were used to drive the threshing and milling machines: manual, animal, water and steam. The evolution of each of these power systems will be outlined.

Public Lecture

African Nations & Ethnic Identity in the Mina Coast & in Brazil: An Atlantic Comparative Approach

Thursday January 20, 2011
6 PM
Avery Research Center, 125 Bull Street, Charleston, SC 29401

Dr. Luis Nicolau Pares, a visiting professor from Universidade Federal da Bahia and National Humanities Center Fellow, will present his research on the origin of some African ethnic groups currently living in Brazil and the Americas, and draw similarities in their methods of worship and way of life. Luis Nicolau Parés has a Ph.D. in Afro-Brazilian Religion from the University of London.

Faculty Seminar – Harlan Greene

The Holloways: Legacy of an American Family

Faculty Seminar Series: Harlan Greene, Archivist, Special Collections

Friday, January 21, 2011
3:15 PM
Addlestone Library, Room 227, 205 Calhoun Street

“The Holloways: Legacy of an American Family.” Free people of color have always occupied an intriguing place in Southern and Charleston history. Locally, the Holloway family was one of the most pre-eminent free people of color clans. Although the brick and stone memorials they erected to their family and their class have been destroyed, a fragile paper scrapbook survives. Housed at the Avery Research Center and recently restored, the volume created in the early 20th century not only documents their social, legal, cultural and slave owning activities before the civil war, but dramatically shows how the family’s status declined in the Jim Crow era. The scrapbook, an attempt to shape historical memory, is not only a memorial but a plea sent out to future historians to not erase the Holloways and their class from history, something they saw happening – and which inspired the scrapbook’s creation. Harlan Greene, former Director of Archival and Reference services at Avery, now Senior Manuscript and Reference Archivist at Addlestone Library, will share his observations regarding the scrapbook and the article based on it in a forthcoming in the Posted in Faculty Seminar Series | Leave a reply