CFP DEADLINE EXTENSION: College of Charleston's "Transforming Public History from Charleston to the Atlantic Word" Conference Proposals due December 15, 2016

Mary Battle Announcement
Announcement Type
Call for Papers
Location
United States
Subject Fields
Atlantic History / Studies, Black History / Studies, Public History, Slavery, American History / Studies

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: "Transforming Public History from Charleston to the Atlantic Word" Call for Proposals DEADLINE EXTENSION to December 15, 2016

Conference website: http://claw.cofc.edu/conferences/2017-conference/

"Transforming Public History from Charleston to the Atlantic World" will be hosted by the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program, and the Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston on June 14-17, 2017. Conference planners are seeking proposals for workshops, roundtable discussions, panels, and individual papers from public history professionals, scholars, educators, librarians, archivists, and artists that address issues surrounding the interpretation, preservation, memorialization, commemoration, and public application of major themes in local, regional, and Atlantic World history. Based on the United Nation’s declaration of 2015-2024 as the International Decade for People of African Descent, and the conference location in Charleston, South Carolina, on the second anniversary of the tragic shooting at the Mother Emanuel Church, the conference will particularly highlight speakers and topics relevant to transforming practices of interpreting the history of slavery and its race and class legacies in Charleston and historically interconnected local, regional, and international sites.

Featured Speakers include:
Keynote Lecture: Dr. Lonnie Bunch, Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum for African American History and Culture
Mr. Michael Allen, National Park Service
Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University
Dr. Richard Benjamin, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool
Ms. Alissandra Cummins, Barbados Museum & Historical Society
Dr. Rex Ellis, Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture
Ms. Makiba Foster, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Dr. Bayo Holsey, Rutgers University
Dr. Ned Kaufman, Kaufman Heritage Conservation
Mr. Caryl Phillips, Author and Playwright
Ms. Fath Davis Ruffins, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

For more information about how to submit a proposal, please see: http://claw.cofc.edu/2017-conference-submit-a-proposal/

For questions or concerns contact Dr. Mary Battle at averyconferences@gmail.com

Contact Information

Mary Battle, PhD
Public Historian
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
College of Charleston
battlemp@cofc.edu

Contact Email
battlemp@cofc.edu