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Dear colleagues,
During the 53rd Congress of the French Association for American Studies (AFEA) to be held in Dijon, Burgundy, next Spring (May 23/26, 2023) and whose theme will be "Voices, Sounds, Noises and Silences"
I propose the following panel which could be of interest to some of you...
Songs and Music during the Civil Rights Movement
Simon Grivet (Université de Lille)
I am grateful for the replies both in and out of H-South. Most comments share a common focus on Enslaved.org and the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation as outlets for database file(s) once completed. I do, however, like what Stephen Berry and others have done with the digital history projects in making the raw files available but also providing extremely useful graphical interfaces, GIS displays, and traditional research write-ups on stand-alone websites.
Thank you for all that contacted me. This panel is now full.
I have some similar databases being developed in my current project, and I think the best places for them are the newish Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation which publishes peer reviewed data sets https://jsdp.enslaved.org/ and maybe a connection to freedomonthemove.org.
Best,
Adam
Adam Arenson (he/him)
Professor of History
Manhattan College
adam.arenson@manhattan.edu
718-862-7317
The short answer is YES, a database -- particularly a relational database with data focusing on the enslaved drawn from myriad sources -- will be enormously valuable. It will be valuable in ways you can and cannot conceive of now, and that's okay. Simply making information available for other scholars to use is enormously helpful to our shared project of understanding the past more fully and accurately.
I’m seeking a bit of guidance. For the past year or so, I have been working on a project that needs a bit of direction. For the past year or so, I have combed through newspapers and court records in southern Georgia between 1845 and 1865 to extract information on the region’s enslaved population. This began as a side-project/hobby as I worked on other projects. I am a Civil War historian, not a historian of slavery per se.
Hello,
I am a 5th year PhD Candidate at Mississippi State University working on 20th century labor in the Sunbelt South. I am seeking other scholars for a panel focused on 20th century southern labor, unionization, recreation/theme parks, and/or political realignment.
My paper will examine narratives of labor at the Walt Disney parks and contrast them with the work done by cast members and explore thier unionization efforts.
Hi Isaiah (and to everyone who has reached out to me via email as well about the panel)
I want to thank everyone for their interest in the topic of the panel I would like to put together. I haven’t even checked back with this post because within just a day or so of the original post we had a full panel!
As a grad student putting together my first conference panel I wasn’t sure what to expect but I am blown away by how quickly it took off!
Greetings from the Southern Historical Association’s Junior Scholars Workshop! We cordially invite you to attend the next workshop installment featuring Dr. Aubrey Lauersdorf. The Junior Scholars Workshop is designed to encourage advanced graduate student and recent graduates in the field of southern history by providing an opportunity to share their work with and receive constructive feedback from senior historians.
"Finding the Grimkes in Charleston: Using Feminist Historiographic and Archival Research Methods to Build Public Memory"
Presented by Dr. Amy Gerald, USC Lancaster Assistant Professor of English
Friday, March 24, Noon-1 p.m.
Sport and Festivity (Guest Edited by Laurent S. Fournier)
A copy of the full Call for Submissions is available here in PDF format.
The Journal of Festive Studies, a peer-reviewed journal published on H-Net, invites submissions for its sixth issue, scheduled for publication in June 2024. This issue will include a guest-edited thematic section on “Sport and Festivity”.
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC), part of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, invites applications for its 2023-2024 Fellowship Program. The Center seeks to promote a better understanding of all aspects of the institution of slavery from the earliest times to the present.
The Southern Jewish Historical Society (SJHS) offers grants for projects relevant to southern Jewish History (broadly conceived). Categories include project completion grants, research grants, and archival grants. Deadline for applications is March 15, 2023. For more information and application guidelines, see www.jewishsouth.org/sjhs-grants-applications.
2023 Conference on the Civil War/Porter Fortune Symposium:
The Passage of the Armies: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Enslaved in the Civil War and Reconstruction
The Center for Civil War Research and the History Department at the University of Mississippi seek papers for the 2023 Conference on the Civil War, to be held October 12-14, 2023 in Oxford, MS.
The Allen Morris Forum on the Native South invites interested parties to join a collegial exhibition of new research on Native Americans in the American South via Zoom. The February 2023 session welcomes the work of Dr. Jason Herbert.
41st ANNUAL GULF SOUTH
“Rice Culture in South Carolina, Past and Present"
Presented by Amanda McNulty, Producer/Host of SCETV’s “Making It Grow”
Friday, Feb. 24, Noon-1 p.m.
Rice culture shaped the society and health of freed and enslaved South Carolinians. Today, breeding has brought back the original "Carolina Gold" rice which at one time gave SC the highest per capita income in the world; further crosses have introduced even more choices based on the historic standouts.
The lecture will be held both in person and via Zoom.
