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Date: May 30, 2013

Time: 7pm

Location: Physician’s Auditorium, College of Charleston

Event info: free and open to the public.  They will be giving a free concert entitled, “Dance the Seasons Round:  A Celebration of Traditional English Dance and Song,” which will trace through the performance the 500 years of the England’s oldest surviving dance tradition.  The will also be performing at the opening of the exhibition “England, the English, and English Culture in North America” on May 28 @ 6pm at the Addlestone Library as well as in the Piccolo Spoleto Arts festival.

Date: May 28, 2013

Time: 6pm

Location: 3rd Floor Addlestone Library (corner of Calhoun and Coming streets)

 The exhibition runs to June 10 but will be available permanently through the Lowcountry Digitial Library. The opening will feature a performance by the Hexham Morris troupe, a group of 32 folk dancers and musicians from the Northeast of England.

The forces of His Majesty’s Government left Charleston in 1782 at the end of the American Revolution, never to return.  Yet, the city retained a lot of its English character and culture including, among many other things, its King and Queen Streets. It also retained the oldest St. George’s Society in North America (founded in 1733) which is still active today.  In light of its continued Anglo affinities, the Locating the Hidden Diaspora Project at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in conjunction with the Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World at the College of Charleston, the South Carolina Historical Society, and the Charleston Library Society, have organized a number of English cultural events to coincide with the 2013 Spoleto fortnight (or in American English two weeks!). 

For more information please see the English Diaspora Facebook page, English Diaspora, Hexham Morris, and Events and Programs at the Charleston Library Society. Or contact David Gleeson by email at david.gleeson@northumbria.ac.uk  or @englishdiaspora on twitter  If you plan to come to the exhibition opening please rsvp to David Gleeson by email or twitter @dgleesonhistory

Date: May 28th, 2013

Time: 3pm

Location: Charleston Library Society, 164 King Street, Charleston, SC

 Ticket info:  please visit Piccolo Spoleto for tickets

At the 2013 Awards Ceremony on May 10 for the School of Languages, Cultures and World Affairs, the following graduating seniors of the Department of Hispanic Studies were recognized for their various academic distinctions in Spanish and Portuguese studies:

Distinguished Spanish Majors
Jeffrey Tyler Brooks
Stacy Michelle Calhoun
Stephanie Renee Ferrell
Emily Louise Gooding
Julie King
Mary Emily Lee
Varleria Scotto Di Luzio

Outstanding Spanish Major
Stephanie Renee Ferrell

Most Accomplished Spanish Major
Jeffrey Tyler Brooks

Outstanding Student of Portuguese
Priya Schlenzka

On May 10, 2013 at the Awards Ceremony of the School of Languages, Cultures and World Affairs, Professor Emily Beck, Assistant Professor of Spanish, was granted the Dean’s Recognition Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Professor Silvia Rodríguez Sabater’s article “Service learning and intercultural competence in the Spanish as a second language classroom” has been accepted for publication in The Southern Journal of Linguistics.

Thanks to the efforts of Dr. Benjamin Fraser, Editor, and Professors Karen Berg, Carmen Grace and Claudia Moran, Associate Editors, the spring 2013 issue of HispaNews has been published: Click here to download.

Professor Zane Segle, Adjunct Professor of Spanish, was awarded the James A. Grimsley Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at The Citadel: http://www.citadel.edu/root/grimsley-teaching-award2013.

Check out graduating senior, Mel Boyd, discussing the African American Studies minor, his favorite course at CofC and his final words of advice regarding student life at College of Charleston.

The Baccalaureate Service for this year’s graduating class is tonight at 6:30p in Recital Hall, Simons Center for the Arts.

This evening’s speaker is Judge Arthur C. McFarland. Judge McFarland served as the Municipal Court Judge for the city of Charleston for 33 years and served as the city’s chief judge for 28 years. A native of Charleston, he began his career as an Earl Warren Fellow with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York.

Judge McFarland was among nine black students who desegregated Bishop England High School in 1964. As an undergraduate at Notre Dame University he founded the Afro-American Society of students organized to promote the interests of black students.  He received his JD from the University of Virginia Law School and was admitted to practice law in South Carolina and the Federal and US Supreme Courts. He continues in private practice today, having retired from service to the city of Charleston.

We are honored to have Judge McFarland on campus this evening.  His message will center on the intersection of faith and service in daily living.

I hope you will join us at 6:30 in Recital Hall.  Academic faculty and staff are invited to wear Regalia to this evening’s service.