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.