Abbeville Institute Events

past conferences

2008 Jefferson Seminar on the Confederate Constitution: for academics and those in the legal profession on the Confederate Constitution, Athens, Georgia at the newly restored T.R.R. Cobb house where the Constitution was written, August 14 - 17, 2008

2008 Summer School hosted by Lindenwood University: " The American Decentralist Tradition" Lindenwood University, St. Louis, MO, July 10 - 15, 2008.

The Sixth Annual Abbeville Institute Summer School: "Northern Anit-Slavery Rhetoric," Camp St. Christopher, Seabrook Island, South Carolina, June 10-15, 2008.

The 2008 Scholars' Conference: "Northern Anit-Slavery Rhetoric," University of Virginia, April 3 - 6, 2008.

2007 Summer School: "The Origin of Southern Identity and the Culture of the Old South" June 11 - 15, 2007, Seabrook Island South Carolina.

2007 Scholars' Conference: "The Origin of Southern Identity and the Culture of the Old South," University of Virginia, February 1-4, 2007.

2006 Summer School: "The Southern Agrarian Tradition," The Young Sanders Center, Franklin, Louisiana , June 18 - 22, 2006.

2006 Scholars' Conference: "The Meaning of the Southern Tradition," Crowne Plaza Atlanta Airport Hotel Atlanta, Georgia, February 17 - 19, 2006, including a special tribute to Clyde Wilson.

2005 Summer School: "Re-thinking Lincoln: The Man, The Myth, The Symbol, The Legacy," The Young-Sanders Center, Franklin, Louisiana, July 7 - 15, 2005.

2004 Summer School: "The Southern Critique of Centralization and Nationalism," Seabrook Island, South Carolina, July 9 - 14, 2004