All Events at the Stern Ballroom, College of Charleston, unless otherwise noted
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
3:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Registration and Hospitality Centre
Francis Marion Hotel, Lobby Mezzanine
Thursday, March 24, 2011
9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Registration and Hospitality Centre
Francis Marion Hotel, Lobby Mezzanine
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Hobcaw Barony and Low Country Boil
Meet in Hotel Lobby to board buses.
5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
First Time Attendees Reception
Francis Marion Hotel, Pinckney Room, Mezzanine Level
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Welcome Reception - Cash Bar
Francis Marion Hotel, Gold Room
Greetings from Mayor Joseph P. Riley
Meet with speakers, panelists and friends.
Dinner on your own.
Friday, March 25, 2011
(business casual attire for all sessions)
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Registration
Stern Ballroom Foyer
9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Opening Session
Kenneth L. Childs, Chairman of the Day Welcome:
Randolph Churchill
Dr. Brian McGee, Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the President, College of Charleston
Charleston Sesquicentennial:
Robert Rosen, Attorney
9:45 a.m. - 10:05 a.m.
Second Session - University of South Carolina
Judith Kambestad, Chairman
E. Conyers O'Bryan Churchill Collection: The Teaching Potential of a Churchill Collection
Speaker - Patrick Scott, Director, Irvin Dept. of Rare Books & Special Collections and Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus
10:05 a.m. - 10:35 a.m.
Coffee Break - Sales & Book signing
10:35 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC): The Making and Use of Newsreels Then and Now
Speaker - Greg Wilsbacher, Curator, USC/MIRC
11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Third Session - Defender of the Realm
Speaker - Paul Reid
12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
Stern Ballroom Foyer
A casual lunch. Showing of unseen newsreel footage archived at USC/MIRC
1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Fourth Session - Hardball Panel
Chris Matthews, Chairman
Panelists:
Randolph Churchill
Warren Kimball
Lynne Olson
Allen Packwood
2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Coffee Break - Sales & Book signing
2:45 - 4:30 p.m.
Fifth Session - Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Lee Pollock, Chairman
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Optional Reception - Cash Bar
Francis Marion Hotel, Carolina Ballroom Foyer
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Optional Dinner (Business Attire)
Carolina Ballroom
Daniel N. Myers, Chairman
Speaker: Lynne Olson, Reports from London
Saturday, March 26, 2011
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Registration
Stern Ballroom Foyer
9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
D. Craig Horn, Chairman of the Day
Sixth Session - Churchill and Baruch
Kenneth L. Childs, Chairman
Speaker: Prof. Joseph Stukes
9:45 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
Seventh Session - WSC, FDR, and Uncle Joe:
How the Big Three Managed the Media
Speaker: Warren F. Kimball
10:20 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Churchill Tours
Celia Sandys
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break - Sales & Book signing
11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Eighth Session - Making the News: How Young Winston Churchill Used the Media to Make His Name
Speaker: Allen Packwood, Curator, Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Ninth Session - The State of Churchill's Reputation
Speaker - Andrew Roberts
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch
Stern Center Foyer
A casual lunch
2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
On to London
London Churchill Conference, October 2011
Speaker: Allen Packwood
2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Eleventh Session - Keeper of the Churchill Flame
Speaker - Lee Pollock
2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
The Havengore
Chris Ryland's triptych composed from newsreels of The Havengore carrying Churchill's casket up the Thames.
Optional Gala Dinner (Black Tie)
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Optional Reception (Cash Bar)
Francis Marion Hotel Lobby
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Dinner
Colonial Ballroom
Lee Pollock, Chairman
Speaker: Celia Sandys, Living in the Churchill Spotlight
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Optional Tours:
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Middleton Plantation Tour
9:30 a.m. - 12 noon Walking Tour of Charleston
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The International Churchill Society of Canada is delighted that our dinner speaker this year will be Sir Winston's great-grandson, Randolph Churchill.
The hospital is hosting a special evening with Nicholas Soames MP, grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, on 8th April to raise funds for its charity. Mr Soames will be giving a talk entitled "Winston Churchill: The Judgement of History". Nicholas Soames, MP for Mid Sussex and grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, is to give an enlightening talk about his Grandfather to raise funds for the 
Also on display will be autographed copies of Churchill's book "A History of the English Speaking Peoples" that General Clark received from Lord Mountbatten on behalf of Churchill. 
