Over the next month Jubilee Project-related events are happening thick and fast at the College, around town, and throughout the state. Please check the Project’s blog-site at http://jubileeprojectsc.wordpress.com/ for news, a Google calendar, and a pdf listing of events. Here’s a very brief summary of some of the events:

Starting today (Jan 31st and running through Saturday, February 2nd, the Southern American Studies Association holds its annual conference with the theme “They All Declare for Liberty” (http://sasa.cci.fsu.edu/).  Keynote lecturers are professors Eric Foner and Tiya Miles, and there’s a spinoff teachers’ workshop on “Teaching the New History of Emancipation” on Friday, February 1st, for which the CLAW program has just won a mini-grant from the Humanities Council SC (http://blogs.cofc.edu/claw/files/2013/01/Charleston-Workshop-Program.pdf).

On Saturday February 2nd, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. the Charleston Area Friends of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History holds its 17th Annual Carter G. Woodson Luncheon at Magnolia Plantation.  The luncheon features a panel discussion titled “At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington.” Tickets for the luncheon cost $35. For tickets or further information please email Emily M Phillips at emp1216@gmail.com.

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On Tuesday February 12th at 3:15 in Addlestone 227 the School of Business and the African American Studies program are hosting a discussion entitled “Bridge Builders: Faces of Black Professionals in Charleston” featuring a panel of Charleston’s young, African American entrepreneurs. Panelists include Marlon Kimpson, Partner at Motley Rice Law Firm; Ken Canty, President and CEO, Freeland Construction; Lamar Bonaparte, Owner and Promoter, 26 Industries; Ayoka Lucas, Creator, Charleston Fashion Week.

At 6pm on Wednesday February 13th will be holding a panel discussion entitled “Entrepreneurship in the South: Then and Now” featuring local entrepreneurs, city officials and students. The panel discussion will be held in Tate Center 202 and will be followed by a light reception.

At noon on Saturday February 16th, Clemson University history professor Vernon Burton will be speaking on “The Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, and Abraham Lincoln” at this year’s Annual Meeting of the South Carolina Historical Society.  The event will be held at the Carolina Yacht Club in Charleston.  Tickets are $65.00 and include lunch, Dr. Burton’s address, and a house tour. To purchase tickets, go to www.schsonline.org and click on “events.”

On Wednesday February 20th and Thursday February 21st, the department of Teacher Education and the College of Charleston is pleased to welcome Dr. James Anderson and Dr. Christopher Span from the University of Illinois for a series of workshops and lectures, entitled “The History of Education and the Black Freedom Struggle:Resistance, Desegregation, and the Continued Struggle for Quality Education.”

“Understanding Educational Inequality in American Education,” the first part of this series, on February 20th from 4:00-6:00 pm, is a workshop and student-panel led by Dr. Christopher Span that addresses the history of the Achievement Gap and its implication for schools today. The second event in the series takes place on February 21, between 11:00 am-12:30 pm: “Fifty Years of Desegregation in Charleston: A Panel Discussion with the First Students to Desegregate South Carolina Schools”  is a community panel discussion with Millicent Brown and the other students who were the first to desegregate South Carolina schools in 1963. The panel discussion and Dr. Span’s workshop will both be held in the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance Alumni Center at 86 Wentworth Street. The closing event in this series  “Affirmative Action and the New Color Line: Fisher v. University of Texas and Public Discourse about Race in Educational Policy” will take place on February 21 from 6:00-7:30 pm at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture (125 Bull Street). This lecture by Dr. James Anderson will address the history of Affirmative Action, how this policy continues to promote diversity in American society, and the ongoing threat this policy faces today.

On Tuesday February 26th at 7 p.m. in the Sottile Theatre the College’s Office of Multicultural Student Programs and Services,  Office of Institutional Diversity, Friends of the School of the Arts, and the Department of Music proudly present a joint concert featuring the Gospel Choirs of Claflin University and the College of Charleston (free admission).

These are only a few of the events associated with the Jubilee Project this month. Other events off-campus include the ongoing exhibition of spectacular African art at the I.P. Stanback Museum at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, the current exhibitions at the Gibbes Museum of Art of photography by Civil Rights-era photographer James Karales and of work from the collection of Jonathan Green, and, from February 15th on, a production of A Woman Called Truth at the Dock Street Theatre. On Friday February 22nd, Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission will be holding its annual “African American Heritage Days” event with a variety of performances, workshops, re-enactments, etc. at the North Charleston Wannamaker County Park from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.