March 21-23, 2013

The School of Journalism and Mass Communications will host the second biennial Media & Civil Rights History Symposium on March 21-23, 2013. This event brings together civil rights and media historians to share scholarly knowledge on the vital relationships between civil rights movements and issues and various types of public communication in the modern world. We welcome scholars from various disciplines, and we invite work that approaches civil rights and media history from a range of contexts, perspectives, and periods.

Symposium Program

Download 2013 Official Symposium Program > (pdf)

Register for the Symposium

Online Registration > (credit card payment)
Mail-in Registration > (pdf, payment by check)

What to do Now

Outline of registration procedures, travel information and final paper/presentation preparation > (pdf)

Keynote Luncheon

Katherine Mellen Charron, author of "Freedom’s Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark >

The University of South Carolina-Columbia is located less than 8 miles from the Columbia Metropolitan Airport and approximately 95 miles from the Charlotte/ Douglas International Airport (in Charlotte, N.C.).

Hotel rooms are reserved at a special conference rate at the Inn at USC on the University of South Carolina campus. To make room reservations, contact the Inn (innatusc.com) at 803-779-7779 and mention the symposium using the code MCRHS.

Contact:
Kathy Roberts Forde
803.777.3321
E-mail: fordekr@sc.edu.

Farrar Media and Civil Rights History Award Lecture

Saturday, March 23
Carole A. Stabile, author of “The Typhoid Marys of the Left: Gender, Race and the Broadcast Blacklist” More info >

2011 Symposium Program (pdf)

2011 Colloquium Recap with
Keynote Speaker, Isabel Wilkerson