GREENWOOD—The community is invited to join the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Lander University for a Constitution Day discussion featuring Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. This event will take place on Monday, Sept. 18, at 5:30 p.m. in the Abney Cultural Center Auditorium, and is free and open to the public.
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Constitution Day Discussion, Featuring Judge Trevor N. McFadden |
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Monday, Sept. 18 |
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5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. |
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Abney Cultural Center Auditorium Lander University |
About the Speaker:
The Honorable Trevor N. McFadden is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Nominated by former President Donald J. Trump, he was confirmed by the Senate in 2017.
Judge McFadden earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College in Illinois, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law. He clerked for Judge Steven Colloton, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and then joined the United States Department of Justice, where he served as Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General and as Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia. Judge McFadden became a partner at Baker & McKenzie in Washington, D.C., where he focused on white collar investigations. After four years in private practice, he returned to the Justice Department, where he was Deputy Assistant Attorney General and acted as the second-in-command of the Criminal Division. Judge McFadden also has extensive experience in law enforcement as an officer with the Fairfax County, Virginia, Police Department and as a deputy sheriff in Madison County, Virginia.
Please visit www.lander.edu/events for updates and to confirm event times and venues. For questions, please contact Dr. Ashley Woodiwiss, professor of political science and chair of the Department of Government, Criminology and Sociology, at 864-388-8136.
Support for this event comes in part from South Carolina Humanities. For more information, please visit www.schumanities.org.
GREEWOOD—The community is invited to join the Lander University College of Behavioral and Social Sciences for a lively conversation with Dr. Vernon Burton, who currently serves as the Judge Matthew J. Perry Distinguished Chair of History at Clemson University. This event will take place Thursday, Sept. 28, at 6 p.m. in the Abney Cultural Center Auditorium. Burton will discuss his life and work as a historian, reflect upon his most important books and share his thoughts about the culture and politics of the South. The event is free and open to the public.
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A Celebration of Vernon Burton |
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Thursday, Sept. 28 |
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6 p.m. |
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Abney Cultural Center Auditorium |
More about the Speaker:
Orville Vernon Burton is the inaugural Judge Matthew J. Perry Distinguished Chair of History, and is a professor of global Black studies, sociology and anthropology, and computer science at Clemson University. He directed the Clemson CyberInstitute from 2010 to 2016. In 2022, Burton received the Clemson University Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievements in Research. In 2018, he was part of the initial University Research, Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Award group of scholars. In 2016, he received the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities Dean’s Award for “Excellence in Research.” He received the college’s award for “Outstanding Achievement in Service” in 2019.
Burton is a prolific author and scholar, with more than twenty authored or edited books, nearly three hundred articles and numerous digital humanities projects. His book, “Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court” (Harvard University Press, 2021), which was co-authored with Armand Derfner, has been featured at numerous regional and national academic conferences related to the social sciences. Meanwhile, “The Age of Lincoln” (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007) won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Literary Award for Nonfiction. One reviewer proclaimed, “If the Civil War era was America's ‘Iliad,’ then historian Orville Vernon Burton is our latest Homer.” His book, “In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina” (University of North Carolina Press, 1985), was featured at sessions of the Southern Historical Association and the Social Science History Association annual meetings.
In addition to Burton, the event will also include presentations by Dr. Bobby J. Donaldson, director of the Center for Civil Rights History and Research, and Christopher B. Thomas, director of the Benjamin Mays Historical Preservation Site.
A reception will follow. Burton’s books will be available for sale prior to and after the event.
Please visit www.lander.edu/events for updates and to confirm event times and venues. For questions regarding this event, please contact Dr. Daniel Harrison, professor of sociology at Lander, at 864-388-8779.
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