Palmetto Connections Symposium
Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity in the South
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, Political Science & Philosophy at the University of
South Carolina Aiken and the Department of Humanities and Fine Arts at USC Beaufort
Convocation Center, USC Aiken
Saturday, 9 April 2016
All sessions will be held in the VIP room on the second floor, 209A and 209B
8:30
Registration
Mezzanine
9:00
Breakfast
9:30
SESSION A
Panel 1
Public Memory v. Historical Records
209A
Chair: Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan, University of South Carolina Aiken
Marcia G. Synnott, University of South Carolina, “Interpreting History on University
Campuses and at the South Carolina State House”
Fritz Hamer, Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, “Reexamining Public
Memorials: National and International Perspectives on Revising Old Public Perspectives”
10:50
BREAK
11:00
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
209A
Janet G. Hudson, University of South Carolina-Extended University
“Why Didn’t World War I Change the South? A Centennial Examination of Black
Carolinians’ Expectations of the Great War”
12:00
LUNCH
12:50
BREAK
Practice Gym
1:00
SESSION B
Panel 2
Ethnicity, Religion, and Southern Identity
209A
Chair: Elizabeth Georgian, University of South Carolina Aiken
Patrick McGrath, Rutgers University, “The Other ‘Immigrant Church’: The FrancoAmerican Catholic Elite and the Shaping of Antebellum Catholicism
William Horne, George Washington University, “Freedmen and Fenians: Visions of the
Laboring Body in South Louisiana after Emancipation”
Sarah Bowman, Columbus State University, “Anglo-Saxonism as a Language of Regional
Difference” White Southerners and Reconciliation at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Panel 3
Perspectives on the Viking Age
209B
Chair: Tom Wood, University of South Carolina Aiken
Dylan Timmerman, University of South Carolina Aiken, “The Foundation of Denmark”
Ajay Krishnakumar, University of South Carolina Aiken, “Viking Architecture in
Transition”
Jason Hadden, University of South Carolina Aiken, “Anglo-Danish Interaction: Beginnings
of the Danelaw”
2:20
BREAK
2:30
SESSION C
Panel 4
African Americans in the Civil War—A SC Perspective 209A
Chair & Commentator: James Farmer, University of South Carolina Aiken
Elizabeth Laney, Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site, “Exercising the Rights of
Freedmen: Black Votes, the Republican Party and the 1878 Election in Colleton County,
South Carolina”
Alexia Jones Helsley, University of South Carolina Aiken, “Fight or Flight: South
Carolinians after Secession”
Panel 5
Differing Views of Community
209B
Chair: Matt Thornburg, University of South Carolina Aiken
Andrew T. Quirk, University of South Carolina Aiken, “The Thatcher Years: The Defining
Moment for Identity in the United Kingdom”
Luntadila Paulo, University of South Carolina Aiken, “Manifesto of Foreign Exchange
Students in the South”
Mike Rosier, Aiken County Public School District, “Clearwater Finishing Plant: An Oral
History of Life in a S.C. Textile Mill (1941-1986)”
3:50
BREAK
4:00
RECEPTION
Mezzanine