HISTORY – Professor Rod Andrew gave an invited lecture to the Upcountry History Museum in Greenville for the Museum’s Lunchbox Learning Series. The topic was “Operation Starlite,” the first regimental-sized action, or major battle, between US ground troops (mainly Marines) and communist forces in Vietnam. He noted that the battle was a tactical victory for US forces but had strategic implications for the rest of the Vietnam War, for better and for worse.
ENGLISH – Professor Susanna Ashton travelled to Mandarin Florida to speak with the Mandarin Museum and Historical Society as well as the Mandarin Community Club to give a research lecture on her book, A Plausible Man.
HISTORY – Professor Vernon Burton spoke on the impact of World War II at the South Carolina Statehouse as part of the “South Carolina Remembers: The 80th Anniversary of the End of World War II” and informed legislators and the audience about the Clemson University Veterans Project on Sept. 2. On Sept. 3, Burton was part of a panel at the premier screening of “Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect” at SC State University alongside Cecilia Marshall (Thurgood Marshall’s grandchild) and Cecil Williams, chronicler of the SC Civil Rights Movement, and the panel was moderated by SCSU President Alexander Conyers. At the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s annual meeting this year in Atlanta, Burton discussed two documentaries that premiered there. On Sept. 25-26, Burton served on two panels at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History meeting in Atlanta to discuss a documentary film on the life of Dr. Benjamin E. Mays as well as “Becoming Thurgood.”
HISTORY – Assistant Professor Kathryn A. Langenfeld, had two articles published. One, ‘Fraud and Forgery in the Reign of Constantius II: The Silvanus Affair of 355 CE,’ reinvestigates a fourth-century forged-letter conspiracy and forestalled coup in the late Roman Empire. It appears in the latest volume of Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschicte, a premier international journal of ancient history. The other, ‘Firmus and the Crocodiles Revisited: Paradoxography and the Historia Augusta’s Life of the Four Tyrants,’ appeared in Histos, an online journal of ancient historiography.
ENGLISH – Lecturer Chelsea McKelvey published a chaper titled, “Closet Catholicism, Private Entertainments, and Shakespeare in Seventeenth-Century Yorkshire” in Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage.
LANGUAGES – Professor Johannes Schmidt presented a paper entitled “Herder’s Spacio-Poetics” at the bi-annual meeting of the International Herder Society in Toronto.
