About CLAW

Explore & Engage

• Conferences

  CLAW regularly hosts or co-sponsors conferences and symposia. Topics may range from discussing port cities to transforming public history to transatlantic diasporas. The topics are all connected to the overarching subject of the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World. 

  View Upcoming CLAW Conference
• Publications

  Collaborating with the University of South Carolina Press, CLAW continues to publish a series of exceptional works centering on the circulation of people, goods, and ideas throughout the Atlantic World.

  The research views the land and people who bordered the Atlantic as forming an integrated system, with the ocean between them serving as a means of movement and connection — sometimes forced —rather than distance and division.

  CLAW/Univ. S.C. Press Publications
• Wells Fargo Lecture Series

  Many of these lectures involve collaboration with other entities at the College of Charleston, including:

  • the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture.
  • the Friends of the Library.
  • African Studies.
  • African American Studies.
  • Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

  Thanks to the generous support of Wells Fargo, CLAW has been able to host these lectures since the series' inception in 1997. 

  View the Wells Fargo Lecture Series
• Indigenous Voices Lecture Series

  CLAW is working with a variety of campus and community partners and SC Indigenous nations to organize a year of programming designed to highlight the history and complexities of Indigeneity and Afro-Indigeneity in America, but especially in the Lowcountry. 

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