South Carolina Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America

AIA’s South Carolina Society proudly presents a lecture by our members James Newhard and Scott Harris and colleague Grant Gilmore, who will speak on “Excavations at 63 1/2 Coming St.: Exploring an evolving urban African-American landscape in Charleston.” The excavations on the campus of the College of Charleston produced one of Archaeology magazine’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2021, the slave tag found at 63 ½ Coming St. in Charleston. Please join us to learn more about this important site and what it tells us about African-American life in 19th c. Charleston.

In accordance with current CofC COVID protocols, this lecture will take place via Zoom on Feb. 24 at 7 pm EST. Please register in advance using the qr code in the image above, or click here.

Join the South Carolina Society in Charleston for a free public lecture by Dr. A. Asa Eger on “The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier”.

A. Asa Eger is Associate Professor of the Islamic World with the Department of History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and holds his degrees from the University of Chicago (Ph.D.) and Rutgers College. (Find about more about Dr. Eger and his research here and here.)

Dr. Eger’s lecture is free and open to the public. Bring your friends!

Thursday, 2 February, at 7 pm.

Simons Center for the Arts, Room 309 (54 St. Philip Street, between Calhoun and George Streets, on the campus of the College of Charleston).

Parking is easiest in two public parking garages on St. Philip Street.

Please join the South Carolina Society for our first event of this fall, College of Charleston Faculty Field Reports. C. of C. archaeologists Maureen Hays, James Newhard, Allison Sterrett-Krause, Scott Harris, and Alvaro Ibarra will give brief talks on their recent research in regions across the world, from the Lowcountry to Romania, Italy, and Greece.

Come learn about exciting new finds and research questions and see how members of your local society are contributing to the development of archaeological knowledge.

Thursday, 8 September, 2016; 7pm

College of Charleston Simons Center for the Arts, Room 309

Free and open to the public. Bring a friend!

Please join the Archaeological Institute of America, South Carolina Society, for a lecture by Dr. Cynthia Finlayson on March 17, 7 pm, Simons Center for the Arts at the College of Charleston (Room 309).

“New Perspectives Concerning the Ad-Deir Monument and Plateau via Drone Imagery and Excavations at Petra, Jordan”

Reception to follow lecture.

AIA lectures are free and open to the public.

This year’s Classical Charleston colloquium, part of the Theodore B. Guérard Lecture Series, examines the role of Classics in the movement for equal education for African-American citizens in the South in the period after the Civil War.

The Classical Charleston colloquium is March 23-24, 2015, in the Alumni Center, School of Education, Health, and Human Performance, on the campus of the College of Charleston. Lectures begin at 4:00 pm each day and will conclude around 6:30 pm.

By 1877, the official end of Reconstruction, twenty-five black colleges and universities had been established, mostly in the South. These institutions were created on the classical New England model, with the teaching of Greek and Latin at their core. Over the next four decades, however, there would be a concerted effort by the white educational establishment, philanthropic organizations, and black conservatives to halt the teaching of Greek and Latin. This colloquium will explore the reasons why the opponents of these institutions felt it dangerous for black students to learn Greek and Latin and the measures they took to eradicate these courses. More broadly, the colloquium will explore the tactics of defiance, resistance (both physical and mental), and dissemblance employed by black teachers, parents, and students to maintain the quality of their curriculum. Indeed, the lessons learned at black colleges and universities were not simply academic. They were life lessons of social uplift and civic empowerment.

Lectures in this year’s colloquium are presented in cooperation with the College of Charleston Program of African American Studies.

Dr. Kenneth Goings (Ohio State University) specializes in 19th-20th century African American History. His The NAACP Comes of Age and Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping both won the Gustavus Myer’s Center’s Outstanding Book Award. Title: Creating a “Culture of Dissemblance”: African American Resistance to the Suppression of the Classics at Black College and Universities, Monday, March 23, 4:00PM [Alumni Center, School of Education, Health, and Human Performance]

Dr. Patrice Rankine is the Dean for Arts and Humanities at Hope College. His interests include how modern authors, in particular African-American Literature, employ classical themes. His recent books include Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Disobedience. Title: “Performing Classics: The Black Body,” Monday, March 23, 5:30PM [Alumni Center, School of Education, Health, and Human Performance]

Dr. Eugene O’Connor is a managing and acquiring editor at The Ohio State University Press. His interests include Greek and Roman elegy and the reception of classics. He and Dr. Goings are at work on a book on African Americans and the classics from the 1870s to 1940s. Title: “Tell Them We are Rising”: The Formative and Subversive Role of the Classics at Historically Black Colleges and Universities,” Tuesday, March 24, 4:00PM [Alumni Center, School of Education, Health, and Human Performance]

Dr. Michele Valerie Ronnick (Wayne State University), an award winning educator, is one of the leading biographers for 19th century African-American educators. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on the subject, including “Virgil in the Black American Experience.” Title: “Black Carolinians and Classical Education- A Look at the Lives of Five Native Sons:       Daniel Payne (1811-1893), Francis Cardozo (1837-1903), Cornelius Scott (1855-1922), William Bulkley (1861-1933) and Kelly Miller (1863-1939),” Tuesday, March 24, 5:30PM [Alumni Center, School of Education, Health, and Human Performance]

Please join the SC AIA for a fascinating lecture:

Alexander Mazarakis Ainian,

University of Thessaly, will speak on the topic of

‘”Sacred Houses” in Early Iron Age Greece?’

Thursday, 22 January, 2015

7:00 pm

Simons Center for the Performing Arts, Room 309

54 St. Philip Street, on the campus of the College of Charleston

This and all AIA lectures are free and open to the public.