Richland Library Main
Just Sharing: Building Community through Stories of Our Past
Thursday, June 6, 2024 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
We invite participants to engage with us in an honest discussion of our history.
Join us to hear from historians Dr. Vernon Burton of Clemson University, Dr. Lydia Brandt of the University of South Carolina, and Kat Allen of Historic Columbia who will each discuss their work and how it touches on our community and our remembrance of the past. The panel will be moderated by Columbia historian Dr. Ramon Jackson.
Orville Vernon Burton, Ph.D., is Judge Matthew J. Perry Distinguished Chair of History and Professor of Global Black Studies, Sociology and Anthropology, and Computer Science at Clemson University. His current research focuses on American race relations and community. Burton’s co-authored Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court (2021) was deemed “authoritative and highly readable” by The Nation. In 2022 he received the Southern Historical Association’s John Hope Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award.
Lydia Brandt, Ph.D., is a Professor of Art History in the School of Visual Art and Design at the University of South Carolina. Her scholarship asks questions about the ways in which American buildings and landscapes shape and respond to popular ideas about the past. She is an active historic preservationist and advocate for community history.
Kat Allen, MA, MLIS, is Director of Outreach & Engagement at Historic Columbia and oversees the organization’s research, programs, and visitor experiences. Her recent projects include the reinterpretation of the Modjeska Monteith Simkins House, as a contributing researcher for the books 101 Women Who Shaped South Carolina and Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina.
Ramon Jackson, PhD, a historian in Columbia, will moderate the discussion. Dr. Jackson was a researcher for the Columbia SC 63: Our Story Matters public history initiative and has served in numerous other capacities in the state.