Date and Time: April 17 at 4:00 pm Location: Gambrell 217 Kendall Deas is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African American Studies at the University
of South Carolina. Deas' research interests include education policy, law and politics
with a focus on the politics of pre-k-12 education reform and eradicating the achievement
gap. Deas has published “EPSCOR: State Science and Technology-Based Economic Development
Policies and the Role of Higher Education Institutions" in the International Journal of Humanities and Science (Vol. 11 No. 8) and "Legal Implications of Race-Based School Funding Policies to Close
Racial Achievement Gaps in Education" in the Journal of Education & Social Policy ( Vol. 9, No. 1).
Sir Walter Scott Conference
(Co-sponsored with The Department of English Language and Literature)
According to Mark Twain, writing in 1883, most of the world had by then outlived the
“harms” associated with Walter Scott’s “Middle-Age sham civilization.” But in “our
south,” he continued, “they flourish pretty forcefully still.” Twain was referring
to the US south, and at the Thirteenth International Walter Scott Conference, to be
held in person at the University of South Carolina, in May 2024, Scott’s impact and
influence on the US, both south and north, will be a major point of focus. This conference
invites participants also to think more broadly about the categories of north and
south as they apply to, intersect with, and inform Scott’s life, work, reputation,
and reinterpretation, including the norths and souths of Scotland, the United Kingdom,
Europe and Africa, the Americas, and the global north and south more generally.
