Saint Leo hosting Florida Conference of Historians, community invited
Calling all history buffs! Faculty, staff, and students are invited by the Florida Conference of Historians to attend the group’s 2022 annual meeting which will be held Friday, February 25, through Sunday, February 27, at University Campus. The event is open to the public.
Early registration is open until February 18, with advance fees ranging from $40 for college students to $125 for full-time, employed professionals. An opening reception is slated for Friday evening at the Hilton Garden Inn-Tampa Wesley Chapel, which is about 20 minutes from campus.
On Saturday and for part of Sunday, historians who research and teach at Florida colleges and universities along with other scholars will participate in panel discussions and share individual research findings from a wide variety of topics from state, national, and international history.
A sampling of subjects from the conference program includes:
- Panel discussions on various parts of Florida history including Civil War legacy, the Civil War battle of Olustee in North Florida;
- Teaching history and the current Florida Civic Literacy Exam;
- The life of Florida author Zora Neale Hurston;
- Food topics and agriculture;
- New studies on slavery in the antebellum South and various works about race, ethnicity, social groups and gender topics over time;
- Urban development/transportation, the environment; and more.
Dr. Daniel DuBois | J. Michael Butler
According to Dr. Daniel DuBois, the 2022-2023 president of the historians’ group and an assistant professor at Saint Leo University, a highlight of the weekend will be a keynote address Saturday evening from the prominent author-teacher J. Michael Butler of Flagler College in St. Augustine. Butler is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at Flagler, and his areas of expertise include civil rights history, U.S. Southern history and cultural history.
Those interested will find more program details and registration information at the website for the Florida Conference of Historians here.
For more information, contact: Megan Case, events and special programs administrator at Saint Leo University’s College of Arts and Sciences, at (352) 588-8401 or megan.case@saintleo.edu.
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