Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program, College of Charleston

09/14/2026

✨ Guest Speaker Spotlight: Sara Makeba Daise ✨
We are thrilled to welcome alumna Sara Makeba Daise ('12) back to campus for the Consuela Francis Emerging Scholar Lecture! 👑
Sara will present a powerful lecture titled "What the South Asks of Us." Join us for a thoughtful and inspiring discussion on history, culture, and community.
📍 Where: Septima Clark Auditorium (Room 118, Thaddeus Street, Jr. Education Center, 25 Philip St)
🗓️ When: Tuesday, September 22, 2026 @ 5:30 PM
Mark your calendars and save the date! We can’t wait to see you there! 👇💛

✨ Guest Speaker Spotlight: Sara Makeba Daise ✨

We are thrilled to welcome alumna Sara Makeba Daise ('12) back to campus for the Consuela Francis Emerging Scholar Lecture! 👑

Sara will present a powerful lecture titled "What the South Asks of Us." Join us for a thoughtful and inspiring discussion on history, culture, and community.

📍 Where: Septima Clark Auditorium (Room 118, Thaddeus Street, Jr. Education Center, 25 Philip St)

🗓️ When: Tuesday, September 22, 2026 @ 5:30 PM

Mark your calendars and save the date! We can’t wait to see you there! 👇💛

09/14/2026

The Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians and the South Carolina State Park Service have signed a historic agreement intended to preserve, research and interpret Edisto Indian history at several state park properties along South Carolina's coast.

09/07/2026

Coming up Thursday, Sept. 10 at 4:00: "The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas"

Guest speaker Dr. Brooke N. Newman will be in conversation with CofC History professor Dr. Shannon Eaves to discuss her recent book.

FREE and open to the public. No registration required.

Date & Time: Thursday, Sept. 10 at 4:00 pm

Location: Auerbach Auditorium, School of Natural & Environmental Sciences building, Room 129 (202 Calhoun St).

08/27/2026

Join us for a screening of "Legacy: Apartheid's Shadow" on September 14th at 5:00 pm.

This award-winning documentary examines the social landscape of South Africa under apartheid and how the legacy continues to shape the nation today.

08/18/2026

https://halsey.charleston.edu/main-events/opening-reception-grounded-in-grain-washed-in-the-water/

08/06/2026

07/28/2026

The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program (CLAW) at the College of Charleston is pleased to announce that Dr. Grant Kleiser received the O. Vernon Burton prize for the best paper presented at a CLAW conference.

Dr. Kleiser’s presented his winning paper, “Monte Cristi and the Massacre River in an Era of Franco-Spanish Peace,” at the May 2026 conference, which was hosted in collaboration with the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era.

Dr. Kleiser’s work focuses on the local violence along the borderlands between Spanish Santo Domingo and French Saint-Domingue plagued the colonial history of the island of Hispaniola throughout much of the eighteenth century. Particularly intriguing about these conflicts was the fact that Bourbon monarchs sat on both Spanish and French thrones, and these cousins signed several so-called “family pacts” that ostensibly made them allies, including during the War of the Austrian Succession that subsumed the War of Jenkins’ Ear during the 1740s.

His work argues that this understudied local fissure in the Bourbon alliance had several significant knock-on effects. In part to help stem the tide of French borderland invasions, Spanish authorities permitted the port of Monte Cristi to engage in foreign trade to supply a local loyal buffer population.

British North-American merchants, in particular, flocked to this port and its vibrant commercial opportunities with Spanish and French settlers. Even though Spanish officials shut down this “free port” when Spain entered the Seven Years War in 1762, these Anglo-Americans would not forget such a lucrative entrepôt.

Indeed, the memory of Monte Cristi lingered in many of their minds after the British Parliament created its own, much more restricted, Caribbean free ports in 1766. Such disappointment over Britain’s failed replacement of Monte Cristi would only intensify as 1776 approached.

Grant Kleiser is a Ph.D. History Graduate from Columbia University studying the early modern Atlantic world. His areas of research include contraband, political economy, commercial reforms, intellectual history, the history of slavery, the American Revolution, and inter-imperial relations.

06/08/2026

06/02/2026

https://today.charleston.edu/2026/06/02/a-replica-of-the-original-oval-office-comes-to-charleston/

A replica of General George Washington's Revolutionary War tent, which served as the country's first oval office, will be on the College of Charleston's Rivers Green, June 12 - 14. A ticketed evening reception and sneak preview will be held Friday, June 12 and tours of the tent and other interactive...