HISTORY – Professor Vernon Burton was interviewed on the Phoenix Riot and quoted in the Greenwood Index-Journal on November 8. He is participating in a documentary being filmed on the race riot. On November 3, Burton keynoted the conference honoring the retirement of Dr. Kenneth Noe, the Draughon Professor of Southern History at Auburn University. On November 11, he responded to the Southern Historical Association annual meeting plenary panel featuring his co-authored book, “Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court.” On November 15, Burton taught a Liberty Fund seminar over Zoom titled “Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War: the Gettysburg Address.” On November 17, he gave a lecture on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address at the University of Illinois.
ENGLISH – Director of First Year Composition Sarah E.S. Carter presented “Post-Pandemic Adjusted Pedagogies: Flexible Peer Discussion and Other Low Stakes Assignments” at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference on November 11. She also published “Inviting Literacy Narratives for National Day on Writing” for the National Council of Teachers of English on October 18.
HISTORY – Associate Professor Caroline Dunn presented “Erudite Elite Women: The Education, Devotional Practices and Literary Culture of Medieval English Ladies-in-Waiting” at the annual meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies in Baltimore from November 9-12.
ENGLISH – Associate Professor Jonathan Beecher Field appeared on the Thanksgiving episode of the “Hand in the Dirt” podcast to talk about gravy and sausage dressing in the context of his Substack, “Sausage Season.”
PERFORMING ARTS – Brooks Center Director Emerita Lillian Utsey Harder, artistic director of the Utsey Chamber Music Series, secured three broadcasts on America Public Media’s “Performance Today” during November. This included a broadcast on November 24 of Michael Dudley’s “Prayer for our Times” by Sphinx Virtuosi from their concert on March 30; a broadcast on November 7,of Robert Schumann’s “Fantasiestucke” by pianist Alon Goldstein and clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein from their concert on February 9; and broadcast on November 16 of Henry Purcell’s Chacony in G minor for String Quartet, performed by members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (violinist Stella Chen, violinist Cho-Liang Lin, violist Matthew Lipman and cellist Sihao) from their concert on October 18, 2021.
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Associate Professor Elizabeth Jemison was a keynote speaker at Facing History and Ourselves 2023 Southeast Benefit on November 30. Facing History works with secondary education teachers and students to explore histories of intolerance, bigotry and stories of courageous upstanders who created change. She spoke on the importance of teaching robust accounts of the past, connecting her teaching at Clemson to her experiences as a Facing History student years ago.
PERFORMING ARTS – Assistant Professor Lisa Sain Odom authored a cover article, “Trauma-Informed Voice Care,” published in the November/December 2023 issue of “Classical Singer” magazine. She interviewed leading researchers in the field of trauma-informed voice care and shared with readers how they can incorporate these practices into their own voice studios to create a learning environment that feels safer for all students.
LANGUAGES – Professor Salvador Oropesa published the book chapter “El Tánger internacional en la novela española. Dos visiones olvidadas, Salvador González Anaya y Tomás Salvador” in “Marruecos y América Latina en la cartografía transhispánica: abordjaes y desvelos actuales,” 2023, 153-76. The book is a collaboration between the Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi in Tangier, Morocco, and the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Mexicali Mexico. It was also written by Mehdi Mesmoudi, Marta Piña Zentella y Randa Jebrouni, coords.
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Assistant Professor John Thames delivered a talk titled “Ritual, Textualization and the Festivals from Emar” at the national meeting of Biblical Literature in San Antonio, which was held November 18-21.