December 22, 2017
Although he retired just as I was starting at Clemson, Roger Rollins was a generous colleague and a forceful presence to me, before I even started teaching here. When I was a graduate student at Columbia, I came to Clemson on a campus visit, as part of the interview process for the job. It was Roger […]
November 14, 2017
Frédéric Neyrat, author of Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism, will be speaking at Clemson on Wednesday evening at 5 PM in the Class of 41 Studio in Daniel Hall. Atopias has just been published in English by Fordham university Press in Lit Z, a series co-edited by Clemson English colleague Brian McGrath, and translated […]
October 26, 2017
In 1517, it is said, Martin Luther nailed 95 Theses to the door of a Church, signaling the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Oh, sure, there’s some debate about whether he did actually nail anything to that door; and, oh sure, it overstates the case if that story creates the impression that there was something magical […]
October 26, 2017
A video of University of Wisconsin History Professor Stephen Kantrowitz’s lecture on Ben Tillman can be found here.
October 14, 2017
On Friday, October 20th, Clemson will host a symposium on Plantation Modernity, the topic of a recent special issue of a journal, _Global South_ (https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/391). Clemson English colleague Jonathan Beecher Field seems to know nearly everyone who contributed to the volume. (NB: it’s been my experience that he will deny this. Hint: Don’t believe him!) […]
February 4, 2017
In today’s divided political climate, it is easy to forget that South Carolina was committed to religious tolerance from its very origins. South Carolina began in 1670 as part of a land grant Charles the Second presumptuously made to a group of English men called the Lords Proprietors. At the time, Carolina spread from the […]
January 21, 2017
Over twenty years ago now, your Hum Hub correspondent was on a committee that brought Pulitzer-Prize-winning Clemson alum Harry Ashmore back to speak at Clemson. Ashmore’s newspaper, The Arkansas Gazette won a Pulitzer for Public Service and Ashmore himself had won a Pulitzer for Editorial Writing, both in 1958, for his newspaper’s stance and his editorials against the […]
