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Louis Venters

Francis Marion University
Associate Professor of History
Florence, SC
Websitelouisventers.com
Louis Venters, Ph.D., teaches African American history and public history at Francis Marion University. His first book, No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina’s Bahá’í Community (University Press of Florida, 2015), was recently released in paperback.
Thursday, June 15
 

8:30am EDT

Morning Welcome Stern Center

9:00am EDT

Plenary Session: Transforming Public History in the Atlantic World Stern Center BallroomBernard Powers • Ana Lucia Araujo • Richard Benjamin • Alissandra Cummins • Rex Ellis • Bayo Holsey

5:00pm EDT

Keynote Address featuring Dr. Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture Mother Emanuel A.M.E. ChurchKaren Chandler • Lonnie Bunch III, PhD
 
Friday, June 16
 

8:00am EDT

Session 1B: Material Legacies of Enslavement and Interracial Unity Stern Center 409Ayla Amon • Alonzo Nesmith • Louis Venters

1:00pm EDT

Session 3D: The Thin Neck in the Hourglass: New Public History Perspectives on Early Charleston and the Afro-Atlantic World Stern Center Room 201Thavolia Glymph • Jane Landers • Henry Lovejoy • Amy Potter • Peter Wood

2:45pm EDT

Session 4C: Collaboration: Abbeville Stern Center Room 205Mary Barr • Kiara Boone • Iva Carruthers • Ronnie Galvin • Francis Gourrier • Doria Johnson • Thee Smith