This month, Woodruff Library features four exhibits that explore the works of women who have made significant societal contributions. The exhibits draw from and showcase materials from the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library.
Wed Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2016
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As Emory hosts the First Folio, English professor Sheila Cavanagh's students are exploring the implications of different approaches to performing the Bard's plays. A symposium this week also examines Shakespeare and accessibility.
Tue Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2016
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The campus of Oxford College is small, but for the past two years it has been a large stage where Willis Hao has demonstrated the remarkable range of his talents as an actor, dancer, scholar and leader.
Tue May 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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February is the shortest month of the year, but there is still plenty to do on campus. From inspiring exhibits and literary readings to free films and sports events, check out these 10 things to do.
Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Record producer, manager and artist Kosmo Vinyl will join Randy Gue, curator of modern political and historical collections at Emory's Rose Library, for a conversation Sept. 26 about the intersection of punk, DIY culture and art.
Thu Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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The 2017-2018 Candler Concert Series kicks off its 15th year in Emory's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts on Saturday, Oct. 7, with the pairing of pianist Alessio Bax and violinist Chee-Yun.
Tue Sep 26 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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The papers of Barbara Chase-Riboud, a sculptor, printmaker, novelist and poet, have been acquired by MARBL. The collection, open to researchers, joins a growing archive at MARBL dedicated to art, art history and literature.
Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Anjulet Tucker, chief of operations in the office of the president, is also a cultural sociologist, stepper and Emory alumna. On Thursday, she moderates an evening of dance and conversation exploring Chicago Steppin in Atlanta.
Tue Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Students in professor Christina Crawford's course "The Architect and the City" explore how cities are shaped by the decisions of those in power, and the impact on business, the environment, public health and more.
Thu Apr 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library has launched a concerted effort to expand its collection of historically significant lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender materials, particularly as they relate to Atlanta, its history and its response to the AIDS crisis.
Mon Jun 10 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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An exhibit of artists' books and other archival material from the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, and Nexus Press collection opens Aug. 20 at Robert W. Woodruff Library.
Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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The Vega String Quartet will join poets including Natasha Trethewey, Kevin Young, Tracy K. Smith and more Oct. 2 for an evening of poetry and song celebrating the late Irish poet's legacy.
Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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The latest video of the Emory Looks at Hollywood series looks at the promise of science to improve health in the context of "Iron Man 3."
Mon May 06 10:00:00 EDT 2013
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Pitts Theology Library at Emory's Candler School of Theology has acquired the archives of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), the oldest and largest learned society devoted to the critical investigation of the Bible.
Thu May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Ethics Center's Carlton Mackey is spearheading a multi-media art project that has become a signature empowerment campaign.
Tue Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Current students and alumni unite on stage Nov. 8 as Emory's popular men's a cappella group holds its 20th anniversary concert.
Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2014
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"A Feast of Words," the annual literary celebration recognizing Emory faculty authors and editors of books published in the last year, takes place Feb. 6 to honor the diverse scholarship of 113 faculty members.
Tue Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Now and then, if we¿re lucky, we get the chance to travel to the beautiful, far-off places we¿ve always longed to see. For Emory art history professor Sarah McPhee, who wanted to walk the streets of 17th-century Rome depicted in a map on her office wall, things obviously weren¿t that simple.
Fri Aug 23 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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A former banker turned Hollywood executive, MBA graduate Greg Feo learned to merge his love of entertainment with his finance and marketing background while at Goizueta.
Thu Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library continues to celebrate the launch of the Battle of Atlanta mobile tour website and commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle with a presentation and exhibit of materials on Thursday, July 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the Jones Room at the library.
Tue Jun 24 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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A reception on Thursday, Sept. 15, marked the debut of Woodruff Library's new exhibit showcasing materials from one of the most important collections related to 20th-century African American artists, theater and art history.
Tue Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Growing up, Davion Ziere Colbert ¿ AKA ¿Zai Air,¿ was always discouraged from entering the music profession seriously. But one night his freshman year, Air purchased a keyboard, and the rest is, well¿ history.
Thu Feb 20 00:00:00 EST 2014
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From a lively arrangement of Hanukkah songs to reflective renditions of Christmas carols, December means the return of cherished campus traditions and the debut of new concerts filled with holiday cheer.
Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 EST 2015
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There's plenty to do at Emory in the final weeks leading up to Commencement: volunteer to help in campus gardens, catch a student musical performance, celebrate Shakespeare and more.
Mon Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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A 60-year-old letter that is credited by American Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac as the inspiration for his novel "On the Road" has been acquired by Emory's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library.
Wed Sep 27 15:00:00 EDT 2017
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Emory individuals and institutions helped shape the new Atlanta landmark that aims to connect the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement with ongoing struggles for human rights around the world.
Mon Jun 23 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Professor Clifton Crais employed his academic training to explore his own childhood in "History Lessons," honored as best memoir. Emory alumni also took top honors for poetry and mystery writing.
Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Emory University film & media studies professors put together their list of the top 10 movies of 2013.
Fri Dec 20 00:00:00 EST 2013
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The annual jazz fest also includes Big Band music, original music and special public events.
Thu Feb 07 03:00:00 EST 2013
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U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will give a free reading at Emory's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19. Tickets are not required, but seating will be limited.
Wed Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Acclaimed Irish author Colm Tóibín visited Emory to deliver the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature, where he addressed the theme of "Writers and Their Fathers: Wilde, Yeats and Joyce."
Tue Nov 21 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Vocalists, ensembles and stars offer an array of musical performances throughout the month of March.
Thu Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Students in the Spanish class "Evolution of Revolution" recently visited Cuba to learn about the country's history and culture directly from its citizens.
Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Four speakers -- all members of an interdisciplinary, art-theory group, Argus -- plus Todd Cronan, associate professor in art history, will present some of their ongoing research.
Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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The world-renowned Trisha Brown Dance Company presents "In Plain Site," a site-specific work performed at various locations across Emory's campus. Performances are April 7-8.
Wed Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Atlanta-based photographer Stephanie Dowda is the opening guest in the 2014-15 "Atlanta Intersections" speaker series at the Woodruff Library on Wednesday, Oct. 8 at 6:30 p.m.
Thu Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Chris Carlos, son of the late Michael C. Carlos, for whom Emory's Carlos Museum is named, has committed $3 million to name the museum's education center in honor of his mother, Thalia N. Carlos.
Wed Nov 02 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Civil rights icon Andrew Young and renowned portrait artist Ross Rossin, Emory's Schwartz Artist-in-Residence, will meet for a public conversation, titled "Ultimately Human," on March 27 at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Mon Mar 19 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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"In Her Image," the new film by Emory alumnus Nikoloz Kevkhishvili, premieres Friday with a score composed by Richard Prior, director of performance studies; conducted by Paul Bhasin, director of wind studies; and performed live by students in the Emory Wind Ensemble.
Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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An exhibition of rare materials celebrating the contributions of the Beat Generation of writers, poets and artists will open Sept. 28 at Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library.
Fri Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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In this latest installment of "Emory Looks at Hollywood," neurologist Krish Sathian debunks the lingering yet popular myth that people use only 10 percent of their brains, perpetuated in the new movie "Lucy."
Thu Jul 24 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Each semester, the Vega String Quartet partners with professors in a variety of disciplines to perform music that enhances lessons learned in the classroom.
Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Novelist Erica Jong, known for her ground-breaking book "Fear of Flying," appears Sept. 4 at Emory's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Free tickets will be available Aug. 11.
Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Poet and scholar Kevin Young read his poem "XX," written for Claire E. Sterk as Emory's 20th president, during Wednesday's inauguration ceremony.
Thu Feb 09 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Playwright and Atlanta native Alfred Uhry, best known for his play "Driving Miss Daisy," will take part in a free public conversation on his life and work Nov. 18 at Emory¿s Robert W. Woodruff Library.
Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Tea and scones accompany a presentation on the maize god in the creation story of the Maya civilization on Thursday, Sept. 18, at 4 p.m. in the reception hall of the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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The new project by Carlton Mackey, director of Emory's Ethics and the Arts Program and creator of "Beautiful in Every Shade," will celebrate diverse family structures.
Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Natasha Trethewey, the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, and Jeffrey Brown recently traveled from Mississippi to Alabama on a pilgrimage to witness the historical struggles and sorrows people faced during the civil rights movement. On their 100-mile journey, they examine the role of poetry in advancing the movement's message for justice and freedom.
Fri Apr 11 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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This spring marks the return of the Visual Arts Department Annual Student Art Exhibition. The exhibition will open on Thursday, April 24 with a reception held from 5-7 p.m. The student projects will continue to be on exhibit through May12.
Thu Apr 17 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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On Dec. 6 the Commission on the Liberal Arts (CoLA) will present a campus dialogue intended to highlight thought-provoking scholarship and teaching around the liberal arts currently being done on campus.
Tue Nov 26 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Professors Natasha Trethewey and Kevin Young are among 10 celebrated poets commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art to write poems about the mass migration of African Americans from the South to the North that started around 1915.
Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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A student-focused version of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, one of the largest Jewish film festivals in the world, comes to Emory this weekend. The event kicks off Thursday evening with the musical comedy "Cupcakes."
Tue Oct 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Inspired by Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and produced through Emory's Screen Stages collaboration, "Fran K." wrestles with ethics in science and what makes a monster. It premieres April 29 on campus.
Mon Apr 23 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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The exhibition at Emory, "Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens," was intended to be a living celebration but ended up as a fitting memorial. Perhaps it is fitting precisely because it was conceived before his death by Geraldine Higgins, director of Emory's Irish-studies programme, as a tribute to a living man.
Sat Mar 08 00:00:00 EST 2014
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For Emory staff member David McClurkin, a visit to MARBL's current LGBT exhibit prompts a donation of materials that help illustrate the evolution of gay history in the Southeast.
Thu Feb 20 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Flannery O'Connor was a native of Georgia, born in Savannah and died in Milledgeville. This year is the 50th anniversary of the acclaimed writer's death, and Emory University recently acquired the Flannery O'Connor archives. It's a large collection that includes unpublished short stories, letters, and drawings. Celeste Headlee speaks with Rosemary Magee, the director of Emory's University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 EST 2014
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A traveling exhibit called "Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection" is now on view at Emory's Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library. The exhibit explores cultural views of nursing in the 20th century.
Mon Feb 29 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Thanks to the digital archives of Pitts Theology Library's Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection, a rare example of Reformation founder Martin Luther's handwriting has been spotted from overseas by a German scholar.
Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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When Meghan Keen had an opportunity to complete a dance-related directed study during the third year of her Doctor of Physical Therapy study, she leapt at it.
Thu Mar 20 01:00:00 EDT 2014
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A director tells film students how to make movies when resources are lacking.
Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Poems by Jericho Brown, associate professor of English and creative writing, won the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Wed Mar 22 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Two exhibits featuring African American women intellectuals are now open on Level 2 of Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library: "Revealing Her Story: Documenting African American Women Intellectuals" and "Pearl Cleage: A Time for Reflection."
Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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As the semester winds down, there are still plenty of engaging, inexpensive events on campus, including two free concerts of Jazz on the Green.
Mon Apr 02 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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On World Cancer Day, entertainment lawyer Joel Katz visited Winship Cancer Institute for the opening of the Joel A. Katz Music is Medicine Collection. A related fund will help support cancer research.
Thu Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Internationally acclaimed Israeli film director Eran Riklis visits campus beginning Aug. 26 for film screenings, lectures, classroom discussions and more.
Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Whether you're in the mood for a gory "rock 'n' roll nightmare" about Dracula or just want to enjoy "spooky doughnuts" and other treats, Emory's Halloween events have you covered.
Tue Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Cross-Reference, an exhibition of faculty and selected alumni art, will have an opening reception on Thursday, Feb. 6 and remain on view through April 5 at Emory's Visual Arts Galley.
Tue Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2014
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"Body of Knowledge" events include a series of free workshops offered by Emory Dance faculty.
Fri Sep 20 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Noted civil rights activist Bernard LaFayette, Jr., recently published the memoir "In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma," recounting his years directing the Alabama Voter Registration Campaign in 1962.
Mon Jan 06 01:00:00 EST 2014
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From the family-friendly Atlanta Science Festival to Tibet Week and the popular Barenaked Voices concert, March brings a variety of fun, inexpensive and enlightening events to campus.
Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Artifacts and archival documents bring an Emory perspective on nursing to life in "To Care for Others: 100 Years of Nursing at Emory," from the original 1907 graduating class of 10 to the worldwide impact of Emory nurses today.
Mon Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Members of the Vega String Quartet, Emory's quartet in residence, will exchange their instruments for cooking utensils to prepare a Chinese hot pot dinner for several lucky couples, just one of the unique prizes available in the upcoming "Spring for Strings" musical auction.
Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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A night of radio and entertainment marks the Sagal Radio Annual Friends Celebration on Oct. 8, co-sponsored by Emory's Center for Community Partnerships.
Fri Oct 04 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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The International Festival and World Cup Tournament features music, dancing, food and plenty of soccer. Events will be held on McDonough Field, weather permitting, or in the Woodruff PE Center in case of rain.
Wed Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Craig R. Prentiss, author of "Staging Faith: Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II," will visit Emory University for a book reading and signing Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m. in the Jones Room at Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library.
Tue Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library will stage its first major exhibition next month of materials drawn from its collections related to legendary golfer Bobby Jones.
Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Renowned portrait artist Ross Rossin unveiled his large-scale portrait of Dr. Frankenstein's creation, described in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, "Frankenstein," during a public discussion Sept. 19. It is now on display in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Wed Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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In the latest episode of Emory Looks at Hollywood, film studies professor Michele Schreiber discusses Lena Dunham's "Girls," the evolution of women-centered entertainment and if romance is required.
Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Consider it a different kind of heavy metal music. More than 200 euphonium and tuba players from around the world gather at Emory this week for instruction and performances.
Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Arts at Emory celebrates warmer spring weather with lively events including performances from world-class visiting artists Trisha Brown Dance Company and electronic music composer Sam Pluta with trumpet virtuoso Peter Evans.
Wed Mar 28 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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The Emory Art Gala, an evening of music, food, drinks, and art from the Emory campus and Atlanta community, is Saturday, April 26 at 7 p.m. in the School of Medicine.
Thu Apr 24 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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English professor Laura Otis works at the intersection of scientific and literary studies. Her new book, "Rethinking Thought," explores how people learn, including interviews with creative thinkers ranging from writers and scientists to a dancer and a cartoonist.
Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Tibetan monks will construct a sand mandala in the Oxford College Library this week, with a lecture on the mandala's symbolism set for Feb. 23. The construction can be viewed in person or online.
Tue Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Carol Ann Duffy will give a free reading Feb. 21. One of Britain's most celebrated poets, she addresses issues such as oppression, gender and violence as well as everyday life experiences and fantasies.
Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Celebrated artist John August Swanson visited Candler School of Theology for a workshop on "Visio Divina," praying in response to art. Candler is home to the largest public display of Swanson's artwork.
Thu Feb 02 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Arts at Emory offers a full slate of events this month, including two concerts by the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta and a special Atlanta Master Chorale performance dedicated to those impacted by Alzheimer's disease.
Thu Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2016
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The Rev. Bernard LaFayette Jr. will share his experiences on the front lines of the modern civil rights movement and discuss his new book at Emory University Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 4 p.m. in the Jones Room at the Robert W. Woodruff Library. The event is open to the public at no charge.
Tue Nov 26 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Jericho Brown interviewed
Sat Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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The academic year is in full swing with a variety of events on and near Emory's campus. As the weather finally cools down, enjoy outdoor events including Jazz on the Green, soccer matches and the Open Streets Emory Village festival.
Wed Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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African cultural astronomy and how it has influenced traditional and contemporary African arts is the star of the Carlos Museum's new exhibit, "African Cosmos: Stellar Arts," opening Jan. 31.
Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2015
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The Michael C. Carlos Museum bookshop is having a pop-up sale Friday, July 8, and Saturday, July 9.
Tue Jul 05 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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As Emory celebrated Tibet Week, Buddhist monks spent hours each day crafting a sand mandala representing Green Tara.
Tue Mar 29 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Looking for things to do this summer? While campus events slow down between the spring and fall semesters, Emory still offers a range of opportunities focused on fun, fitness and expanding your horizons.
Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Real estate businessman and entrepreneur Charles S. Ackerman has fulfilled a pledge to gift $1 million to the Michael C. Carlos Museum to name the museum's reception hall, the Charles S. Ackerman Hall.
Thu Oct 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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More than 100 rare works of North American indigenous art will be on display at the Carlos Museum beginning Oct. 10. Related events include tours, talks and even a cooking class.
Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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"From the Top," the popular NPR showcase for young musicians, comes to Emory's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts on Sept. 19 at 8 p.m.
Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Two longtime friends collaborate on an art exhibit that will be on the Emory campus and at Oxford.
Mon Feb 04 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Ruby Lal¿s book reviewed
Fri Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Faculty and familiar names from metro Atlanta will take turns reading the 24 books of Homer's account of an epic journey home.
Wed Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 2014
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A rare first edition of David Walker's 19th century anti-slavery book, "Walker's Appeal," owned and signed by W.E.B. Du Bois, has been obtained by Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, with a generous grant from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation and additional support from other individuals.
Mon Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Tickets are available for the debut stage adaptation of "Native Guard," the Pulitzer Prize winning poetry collection of Emory Creative Writing Program Director Natasha Trethewey, former U.S. poet laureate.
Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Artwork, particularly from the Emory community, is being sought for the annual Emory School of Medicine Art Gala to be held Saturday, April 30, from 7 to 11 p.m. in the School of Medicine Atrium.
Wed Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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"Ravished," Theater Emory's final production of its 2016-2017 Year of Shakespeare, takes the nasty bits of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and sets them in an urban, industrial forest where characters collide and lose themselves.
Mon Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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The cinephiles in Emory University's Department of Film and Media Studies have singled out what each of them consider the best movies of 2011. Expert movie raters include professors Amy Aidman, Matthew H. Bernstein, William Brown, Kevin Cryderman, Eddy Von Mueller, Karla Oeler and Michele Schreiber.
Mon Dec 26 00:00:00 EST 2011
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Acclaimed Atlanta scholar-artist Fahamu Pecou, who received a PhD from Emory's Laney Graduate School in May, vows that his art "will be reborn from these ashes stronger than ever."
Thu Sep 13 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Two bands made up of Emory alumni kept spirits high during the 2015 Homecoming Concert, as the audience of students, alumni, staff and families cheered and sang along despite persistent rain.
Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Natasha Trethwey, poet laureate of the United States and a professor of creative writing at Emory University, participated in an article in which writers "share the books that taught them about love -- and a few that led them memorably astray."
Thu Feb 06 00:00:00 EST 2014
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From welcoming the First Folio to shopping for Thanksgiving treats at the Emory Farmers Market, the campus calendar remains packed with events as the fall semester races toward the finish line.
Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Richard Prior, senior lecturer in composition and director of Orchestral Studies, will have his Symphony No. 3 played by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the ASO's 2014-15 season.
Thu Apr 17 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Author ZZ Packer will give Emory's annual Phillis Wheatley Reading on Oct. 17, kicking off the Creative Writing Program's series of free readings by leading contemporary writers.
Wed Oct 12 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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As a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, English professor Benjamin Reiss will spend the next academic year working on a cultural and literary study of modern sleep patterns.
Mon Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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The Decatur Book Festival kicks off Friday at Emory with a sold-out tribute to Southern literary icon Pat Conroy. A diverse slate of Emory authors will offer readings and presentations throughout the weekend.
Mon Aug 29 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Along with warmer weather, March brings a multitude of arts events to Emory's campus, including annual favorites Tibet Week at the Michael C. Carlos Museum and the student a cappella celebration, Barenaked Voices.
Mon Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Young poets from around the world congregated for a vibrant celebration of words during opening ceremonies for the 18th annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival.
Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Sarah Freeman explored the new Flannery O'Connor materials in Emory's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library to help create "All Being Displaced," a dance concert based on the iconic writer.
Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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eScienceCommons sits down with Emory ichnologist Anthony Martin to discuss his new book, "Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils," out March 6.
Tue Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2014
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In his acclaimed new book, Emory University Distinguished Professor Kevin Young explores the history of hoaxes and fakers, and how they continue to shape our culture.
Sun Nov 26 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Debuting at this year's Atlanta Science Festival, a student-run program recruited more than 100 artists, most of them untrained college students, who worked with scientists from Emory and Georgia Tech to translate their research into art.
Thu Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie, Indian Ambassador to the United States Nirupama Rao, and tech entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa are among the speakers at the fourth annual India Summit Feb. 21-22 at Emory.
Thu Feb 14 01:00:00 EST 2013
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The Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts presents the sixth annual Creativity & Arts Awards on Thursday, Feb. 25, at 6:30 p.m. in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Thu Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2016
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The new semester brings a full schedule of arts events to campus. September's highlights range from superhero films to a musical reimagining of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors."
Wed Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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After years of building relationships and literary sleuthing, English professor emeritus Ron Schuchard brings acclaimed modernist T.S. Eliot's "fugitive prose" to the world.
Thu Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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"Mama and Papa Lala: 30 Years of Hatch-Billops Films" celebrates the couple who documented African American art and culture for decades.
Mon Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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A new monthly debate series hosted by The Barkley Forum and Eagles Speak helps foster civility and civic dialogue around controversial public issues.
Fri Nov 08 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Emory scholarship is at the forefront of a conservation project with the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Tue Sep 17 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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As Emory celebrated Tibet Week back in March, Buddhist monks spent hours each day crafting a sand mandala representing Green Tara, which remained on display in the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Tue Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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The Emory Thanksgiving Dinner Program pairs international students with faculty, staff and alumni hosts to help students learn more about the holiday and its place in the culture of the United States.
Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 EST 2015
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In classroom conversations across the Emory campus, Salman Rushdie links the power of literature and the liberal arts with the world beyond.
Mon Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2014
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EmoryWire sat down with Susan Rebecca White, author of "A Place at the Table" and lecturer in Emory's Creative Writing Program.
Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 EST 2014
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An exhibition from an English class project on the art and work of Zora Neale Hurston is featured at Emory's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts through Sept. 1.
Mon Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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For 400 years, Greece was a conquered nation ruled by a hostile force. An exhibition at the Carlos Museum shows how intrepid travelers revealed its treasures of art and architecture, which influenced European nations and the United States.
Thu Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2017
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The life and legacy of boxing great Joe Louis will be told through a traveling exhibit based on photographs, periodicals and archival materials from Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, with his son, Joe Louis Barrow Jr., scheduled to speak at an opening event on Nov. 13.
Thu Oct 31 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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The new year brings a new calendar of free or inexpensive campus events, including fitness activities, speakers, sports, music and more.
Mon Jan 08 00:00:00 EST 2018
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In this week of camp, mosaic artist Janice Schmidt will teach children the art of mosaic, using the recently installed twenty-five-foot ancient Roman mural depicting Achilles at the walls of Troy as a source of inspiration.
Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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October arts events at Emory include performances by Jazz musician Branford Marsalis, R.E.M.'s Mike Mills and violinist Robert McDuffie, and "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band.
Wed Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Chamber, orchestral and choral musical performances throughout the month include student ensembles, "From Russia with Love" and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra.
Fri Nov 01 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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An Emory exhibit pays tribute to a beloved friend and master poet with "Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens."
Tue Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library has been named the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, or the Rose Library, in honor of alumnus and literary benefactor Stuart A. Rose of Dayton, Ohio.
Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Theater and dance leap into outer and inner space in a performance that combines movement, text and even science.
Wed Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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What do history and poetry reveal about ourselves and our times? English professor and former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey and history professor Joe Crespino offer captivating insights.
Thu Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Emory Cinematheque, a weekly series of free film screenings, examines the ways fascism has been opposed in the movies since the 1930s with "Resisting Fascism." The series begins Aug. 23 and continues Wednesdays through Nov. 29.
Tue Aug 22 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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On April 5, Emory's six a cappella groups will join the Emory Concert Choir for a night of vocal performance benefitting student counseling programs.
Fri Mar 29 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist and historian Garry Wills joins Emory University¿s Candler School of Theology this semester as a distinguished visiting professor in the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair on the Life and Teachings of Jesus and Their Impact on Culture.
Wed Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Already strong in the study of South Asia, Emory is now home to the first funded professorship for Telugu literature and culture outside of India, thanks to a gift from the Koppaka Family Foundation.
Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Explore Tibetan culture, science, art, philosophy and religion during Emory's annual celebration of Tibet Week. The shrine exhibition, "Doorway to an Enlightened World: The Tibetan Shrine from the Alice S. Kandell Collection," provided the framework for many of this year's programs.
Fri Mar 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Renowned portrait artist and Atlanta resident Ross Rossin will be the 2017-2018 Donna and Marvin Schwartz Artist-in-Residence, as part of Emory's Ethics & the Arts Program and celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of "Frankenstein."
Wed Aug 23 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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A collection of Atlanta-based photographer Billy Howard's work from his "Epitaphs for the Living: Words and Images in the Time of AIDS" project is now open at the Rose Library.
Mon Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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In Kevin Young's new collection, "Book of Hours," poems about the death of his father appear alongside poems about the birth of his son...Young is a professor of creative writing and English at Emory University, where he's also the curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, a collection of rare and first editions of modern and contemporary poetry.
Tue Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Best-selling author and diplomat Vikas Swarup will headline Emory University's annual India Week, March 16-20.
Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2015
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New York City-based photographer Hugo Fernandes will join Randy Gue, curator of modern, political and historical collections at Emory's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, for a conversation about his work.
Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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An NEH institute beginning July 13 at Emory will examine multiple meanings of black art, its production and its use as a medium of liberation.
Mon Jul 07 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Myth and art about the supernatural aspects of the cosmos will be presented in "Heaven's Things in San Art and Folklore," Tuesday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m. in the Reception Hall of the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Students in the Emory School of Medicine and Emory College recently traveled to the Mississippi home of William Faulkner, part of an interdisciplinary course on literature and medicine that helps future physicians better understand the human condition.
Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Basketball season is already underway, and catching a home game is just one of the many fun things to do on this month's calendar, which also includes a variety of exhibits and holiday events.
Mon Nov 30 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Emory's Candler School of Theology welcomes Jesuit priest, professor and author Lloyd Baugh to campus this semester as the 2015 distinguished visiting professor in the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair on the Life and Teachings of Jesus and Their Impact on Culture. He will deliver lectures on Sept. 24 and Oct. 14 exploring the treatment and depictions of God and Jesus in film.
Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Emory's Woodruff and Rose libraries recently honored 15 students with undergraduate research awards for their projects and papers that used primary sources they found in the libraries.
Wed May 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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The movie is based on the Booker prize-winning early novel by Rushdie, a University Distinguished Professor at Emory University. Rushdie wrote the screenplay and it was directed by Deepa Mehta.
Tue May 14 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Sonia Nazario, the veteran journalist whose 2003 Los Angeles Times newspaper series "Enrique's Journey" won Pulitzer Prizes for feature writing and photography, will speak Nov. 7 at Emory University.
Tue Oct 29 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Dedication and perseverance in cultivating its literary strengths has helped Emory emerge as a top destination for writers and literary scholars and students.
Thu Mar 06 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Greg Ellison, assistant professor at Emory's Candler School of Theology, is the subject of this column, along with his new book, "Cut Dead But Still Alive: Caring for African American Young Men."
Mon May 20 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Emory paleontologist Anthony Martin, who studies tracks, burrows and other traces of life, has written an ichnology review of the new movie "Godzilla" for his blog, "Life Traces of the Georgia Coast."
Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Margaret Edson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of "Wit," will present "Word Streams," an evening of narrative, dialogue and scenes from the play at 5:00 p.m. Thursday, March 20, at the Emory Conference Center Hotel, 1615 Clifton Rd., Atlanta. The event is free and open to the public.
Thu Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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The historic Atlanta Music Festival (AMF) has released "Guide My Feet: Songs of Reconciliation, Hope and Progress" on CD. This is the first CD released by the AMF.
Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Controversy, though, is fine, said Leslie Harris, an associate professor of history at Emory University in Atlanta: ¿The role of museums is to challenge us and provoke us a bit.¿
Mon Jul 08 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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The Emory University Symphony Orchestra will combine with the Emory University Chorus to perform "Carmina Burana" on Wednesday, April 16 and Thursday, April 17 at 8 p.m. in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Emory's James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference celebrated its official launch Feb. 9 with a reception at the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Mon Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Purchase local and organic produce at the Summer Farmers Market, just one of the amenities and events you have time to enjoy as Emory's campus slows down for the summer.
Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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The Michael C. Carlos Museum has free and reduced admission offers for the summer and some new works and a big work-in-progress to see.
Tue May 21 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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"Cries for Mercy: Kyries of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven" is the title of this year's Glenn Chancel Choir spring concert to be Sunday, March 30, at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary of Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church.
Mon Mar 10 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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A festival of Iranian films begins Friday, Sept. 6.
Thu Sep 05 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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After almost three decades, Emory's Laney Graduate School and the Letters of Samuel Beckett Project mark the publication of the fourth and final volume in their series bringing the acclaimed writer's correspondence to the world.
Thu Oct 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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When Brendan O'Connell graduated from Emory with a degree in philosophy and Spanish literature, he didn't anticipate becoming a visual artist - certainly not one who would become known for his paintings of Walmart.
Mon Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2013
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Ron Schuchard, Goodrich C. White Professor of English Emeritus at Emory University, will give a lecture titled "Into the Heartland of the Ordinary: Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy, and the Divided Tradition of Modern and Contemporary Poetry" on Tuesday, Oct. 21.
Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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"Building Emory's African American Collections: Highlights from the Curatorial Career of Randall K. Burkett," an exhibition opening Sept. 13 at Emory's Woodruff Library, will feature treasures from collections and Burkett's stories of their discovery and acquisition.
Tue Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Emory's Rose Library will host the first event in its 2017 "Memorial Drive" series with a program about two dynamic women who for decades decided what movies would be shown or banned in Atlanta.
Tue Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2017
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This month, Music at Emory presents a colorful selection of fall performances including soprano Sasha Cooke, Halloween concerts and world music.
Tue Oct 01 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Poets of the past and present connected in Emory's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library as young people on campus for the Brave New Voices festival explored materials ranging from Langston Hughes to Tupac Shakur.
Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Dr. Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the black church in his latest book, "Plantation Church: How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery." Erskine, who lives in Lithonia, is a professor of theology and ethics at the Candler School of Theology and the Laney Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Emory University.
Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Wed Mar 12 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will deliver the keynote address at Emory's 172nd commencement ceremony Monday, May 8. She also will receive an honorary Doctor of Letters degree.
Mon Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Tibet Week, set for March 26-31, features colorful ceremonies, the creation of an intricate sand mandala, daily guided meditations and special discussions focused on this year's theme of "Compassion, Healing and Transformation."
Mon Mar 19 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Emory's Department of Film and Media Studies has made its picks for the Top 10 films of 2014.
Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2014
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MARBL is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Raymond Danowski Poetry Library with a poetry track at the Decatur Book Festival during Labor Day weekend and special events beginning in October.
Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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There's still plenty to do at Emory in the final weeks leading up to the end of the academic year. Check out these 10 options ranging from entertaining to enlightening, all for $10 or less.
Wed Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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The Emory Woman¿s Club will celebrate its 95th anniversary on Saturday, March 8 with a banquet and silent auction to benefit Emory¿s String Quartet in Residence Program.
Tue Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Monica Bill Barnes & Company performs Thursday, Feb. 28-Saturday, March 2 at 8 p.m. in Emory¿s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Fri Feb 22 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Theater Emory's "A Pinter Kaleidoscope" -- an immersive theatrical experience in which audience members, led by actors, stand and walk for 75 minutes over stages, stairs, hallways and outdoors -- runs Oct. 31 through Nov. 9 in the Mary Gray Munroe Theater.
Mon Oct 27 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Catellier Dance Projects! presents a 'pre-look' and a retrospective of the final installation of a multi-year series of dance works in "pre-suf-fixes" Dec. 6-8.
Tue Nov 26 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library has acquired the archive of iconic American writer Flannery O'Connor from the Mary Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust in Milledgeville, Georgia.
Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Amos P. Kennedy Jr. left his corporate job more than two decades ago to pursue his art. Known for chipboard posters created with an old-fashioned letterpress printer, he joins in a Creativity Conversation on March 15.
Wed Mar 09 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Emory University has become a presenting sponsor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival, making it the second largest sponsor of the nation's largest independent book festival.
Thu Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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October brings plenty of fall traditions to campus, from cheering on sports teams to mummies for Halloween. A variety of special events round out this month's calendar.
Wed Oct 05 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Kevin Young, Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English at Emory, was interviewed about his new book and eighth poetry collection, "Book of Hours."
Mon Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Emory's Center for Ethics and Atlanta's Alliance Theatre present an evening exploring the ethical issues of the play "One Flew Over the Cuckoo¿s Nest" on Thursday, Aug. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 102 of the Center for Ethics.
Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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The Southwest Airlines Art and Social Engagement course unites Atlanta artists, Emory students and area nonprofits with projects designed to raise public awareness.
Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Art history professor Bonna Wescoat describes 2015 as a "bumper year" for grants to Emory for projects in archeology and architecture. Three awards will help expand research on the Greek island of Samothrace.
Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Chris Carlos, son of the late Michael C. Carlos, for whom Emory's Carlos Museum is named, has committed $3 million to name the museum's education center in honor of his mother, Thalia N. Carlos.
Wed Nov 02 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Emory University will debut the first major exhibition to celebrate the life and work of late Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney since his death, including rarely seen photographs, personal correspondence with other writers, and the surface of his one-time writing desk.
Sun Jan 12 01:00:00 EST 2014
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Meditation, mandala sand painting, and a variety of forums for exploring the culture of Tibet will highlight Tibet Week March 24-29.
Mon Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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"But I'm Still Fly," a painting by artist-scholar Fahamu Pecou, has been acquired by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Thu May 14 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Marcus Neustetter will be artist-in-residence at Emory this week, engaging the campus community through a variety of events, including a massive public "Light Experiment" on Friday evening.
Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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In the latest episode of Emory Looks at Hollywood, Soviet spy expert Harvey Klehr, an Emory history and political science professor, discusses the realities of Soviet spies in the U.S.
Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Emory's two new Creative Writing Fellows, who will give a joint reading on Nov. 19, give students the benefit of their talent and insight into the career side of publishing.
Thu Nov 14 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Emory Dance hosted the American College Dance Association's Southeast conference March 9-12.
Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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From classical music to modern dance, Emory's arts programs offer a wide range of events this month.
Tue Nov 04 00:00:00 EST 2014
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How does a mural celebrate human resilience? When is a t-shirt a tool for change? Emory students took these questions from the classroom into the community, working with local artists to benefit Atlanta nonprofit groups.
Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 EST 2015
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This month, Arts at Emory features a wide range of events to enjoy, including a diverse slate of musical performances and several ways to get in the mood for Halloween.
Mon Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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The Emory Dance Program presents "wishdust," a world-premiere work from faculty member George Staib and his company Staibdance, Oct. 19-21 at Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Tue Oct 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Best-selling author and Emory faculty member Tayari Jones joins Pearl Cleage, nationally recognized playwright, poet, novelist and social activist, to discuss mentorship and writing at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27 in the Cox Hall Ballroom.
Mon Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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In 2008, Emory sophomores Adam Hoffman, Matt Lipkins and Scott Tyler decided to form a band. Nearly 10 years later, The Shadowboxers are working with Justin Timberlake, on the cusp of releasing what they believe will be career-changing music.
Wed Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Emory has partnered with Georgia State and the Atlanta Film Fest to host a national tour of black independent cinema.
Wed Nov 13 01:00:00 EST 2013
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From slapstick to screwball, this free fall film series will tickle your funny bone.
Tue Aug 27 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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"Shakespeare and the Players," a newly redesigned website by Emory's Center for Digital Scholarship, features English professor Harry Rusche's collection of more than 1,000 theater postcards from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Tue Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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First-year Emory chemistry students demonstrate the wonders of science in University labs on Saturday, March 22, part of the Atlanta Science Festival, which continues through March 29. Emory is a founding partner.
Tue Mar 25 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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The Michael C. Carlos Museum will offer free admission to military service members, including National Guard and Reserve members, and their families from May 24 through Labor Day on Sept. 1.
Fri May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Former NFL player and Emory faculty member Pellom McDaniels III wrote the definitive biography of the first African American jockey to win the Kentucky Derby three times.
Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, visited Emory this week to discuss "The Wonder of Will" and why Shakespeare's work still resonates today. The First Folio exhibit continues on campus through Dec. 11.
Thu Dec 08 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Emory University has acquired the archive of former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Natasha Trethewey, the university announced Tuesday¿."It's hard, in a lot of ways, to watch all of this go out of the door," Trethewey, 48, said in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "But many of (former U.S. Poet Laureate) Rita Dove's papers burned in a fire years ago at her home, so it does seem like a reason for mine to be someplace safer than my home office."
Wed Aug 27 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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"Doorway to an Enlightened World: The Tibetan Shrine from the Alice S. Kandell Collection" opens March 19 at the Carlos Museum, providing a centerpiece for Emory's annual celebration of Tibet Week, set for March 21-26.
Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Salman Rushdie, former University Distinguished Professor at Emory, will be at The Carter Center on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. to read from and discuss his latest work, a novel for adults.
Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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"Emerge," a commissioned painting by acclaimed artist and Emory PhD student Fahamu Pecou, seeks to inspire the Emory community to "leap boldly forward."
Wed Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2017
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U.S. Poet Laureate and Emory University professor Natasha Trethewey "is among the nation's foremost contemporary voices in poetry," Emory Provost Claire Sterk said in a statement. "She also is a deeply dedicated and gifted teacher, helping scores of Emory students understand the creative process and the meaning of poetry and its relation to our lives and history."
Wed Apr 24 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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The Vega String Quartet, Emory's quartet in residence, welcomes new first violinist and rising star Elizabeth Fayette and celebrates a monumental fundraising milestone with a free concert on Sept. 18.
Wed Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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As a staff member, Linda Calloway was inspired to earn an undergraduate degree and found a book club for African American women. Now retired, she continues to learn and lead.
Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 EST 2015
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French films that have historic recognition or global themes will be shown in the free public Emory Cinematheque series throughout spring.
Wed Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Emory will celebrate the contributions of Mari Evans, an influential Black Arts Movement writer and activist, with poetry readings and a panel on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at Woodruff Library.
Tue Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2018
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Sacred Matters, an e-zine at Emory University, is inviting readers to share images that are sacred to them by tagging their photos with #sacredmatters in their social media feeds, or emailing sacredmatters@emory.edu.
Wed Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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"To nurture creativity, we have to resist defining the university narrowly," President James Wagner explained in a wide-ranging Creativity Conversation that included his own passions for photographing space, building clocks and restoring classic cars.
Mon Feb 29 00:00:00 EST 2016
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"It's in the Cards: An Interactive Art Exhibit" features old library catalog cards that have been turned into art and poetry. A free art party to add to the exhibit is set for April 23.
Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Saxophonists Leo Saguiguit and Will Scruggs will join Emory pianists Elena Cholakova and Gary Motley for ¿Jazz Meets Classics: The Joy of Sax¿ on Saturday May 3 at 8 p.m. in Emerson Concert Hall at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Mon Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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The Michael C. Carlos Museum hosts "Family Album," a new exhibit of photographic portraits composed by Tibetan-born artist Gonkar Gyatso. Later this month, Gyatso visits Emory to discuss his work and create a public art display with community input.
Tue Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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A trip to a trailblazing restaurant serves up a lesson in food and culture for international students to write about.
Thu Apr 03 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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"Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch" showcases materials from one of the most important collections related to 20th-century African American artists, theater and art history.
Wed Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Atlanta-based urban photographer Chip Simone is the first guest in the ¿Atlanta Intersections¿ speaker series at Emory University¿s Robert W. Woodruff Library on Tuesday, March 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the Jones Room.
Tue Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Amber Dermont, author of the New York Times best-selling novel "The Starboard Sea," visits Emory on March 24, part of a diverse slate of arts events scheduled for the month.
Wed Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2016
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In the final concert of the season, Emory Dance Program students pay tribute to 10 years of performing excellence with "Tabula Rasa" April 26-28.
Mon Apr 22 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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The latest video of the Emory Looks at Hollywood series offers a psychoanalysis of Superman.
Fri Jun 14 10:00:00 EDT 2013
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Irish poets Rita Ann Higgins and Sinéad Morrissey will read their work in Emory's Rose Library to celebrate Women's History Month in March and National Poetry Month in April.
Mon Mar 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Emory's Rose Library is now home to the papers of poet Richard Blanco, who became widely recognized after reading his poem "One Today" at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Wed Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2018
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Students of the Emory Dance Company perform five compelling new works from Atlanta choreographers in a series of shows slated for Thursday, Nov. 19, through Saturday, Nov. 21, in the Dance Studio of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Arts at Emory welcomes the community back to campus this month with a wide range of events, including two performances by the Vega String Quartet, Emory's acclaimed quartet in residence.
Tue Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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'The Waters and the Wild' Alen MacWeeney Photographs of Ireland" opens Saturday, Aug. 22, at the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Rare book dealer and Emory alum Daniel Wechsler bought a sixteenth-century dictionary on eBay. After years of study, he now believes it belonged to none other than William Shakespeare.
Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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In this latest installment of "Emory Looks at Hollywood", Emory University film studies lecturer Eddy von Mueller discusses what makes genres popular, what genres are fading, and which ones will never die.
Wed Oct 29 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Matthew Bernstein, professor and chair of film and media studies at Emory, will discuss how the premiere's segregated Southern location lead to fretful, fearful and complex negotiations between Hollywood companies and city leaders in his lecture " 'Selznick's March': 'The Gone with the Wind' Premiere in Atlanta" on Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in White Hall 205.
Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 EST 2014
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New York Times bestselling author and critically acclaimed writer Tayari Jones will join Emory University's renowned Creative Writing Program this fall as a member of the English faculty in Emory College of Arts and Sciences.
Mon Apr 16 08:00:00 EDT 2018
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Jireh Breon Holder took classes at Emory while earning his degree in drama from Morehouse College. Known for exploring political themes, he returns to campus as an exciting new voice in American theater.
Wed Mar 16 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Jericho Brown, associate professor of English and Creative Writing, has been awarded a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Wed Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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James W. Curran, David Eltis, Stephen T. Warren and Carol Worthman will be inducted later this year into one of the nation¿s most prestigious honor societies.
Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Three original adaptations of short stories written by master storyteller Anton Chekhov will be performed by Theater Emory starting Feb. 14.
Mon Feb 11 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Celebrating the University's selection as Georgia's host site for the First Folio, one of the world's most treasured books, Shakespeare at Emory kicks off next week with an opening lecture and innovative performances of "As You Like It."
Tue Mar 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Lucy Wainger's poem "Scheherazade" was selected to appear in the 2017 edition of "The Best American Poetry" alongside work from Joyce Carol Oates, Leonard Cohen, Sharon Olds and Robert Pinsky.
Fri Oct 27 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Emory University history professor Joseph Crespino writes about a lawsuit over Broadway's "To Kill a Mockingbird¿.
Thu Mar 22 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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The Oxford College Library will open a condensed version of "Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens," the immensely popular exhibition about the late Irish poet held at Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library in 2014.
Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Ancient Egyptian influences and contemporary art go together like tea and scones on Sept. 14 at the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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"Opera and the French Revolution" is set to debut in Washington and New York with help from Emory historian Judith Miller, who is consulting on a piece that hasn't been performed since 1796.
Mon Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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"Slices of Time: A Dynamic Performance Showcase" on Dec. 7 is based on original ethnographic research by students in an Emory anthropology class.
Thu Dec 05 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Emory's second annual Korea Week 2014 is Monday, March 31 through Saturday, April 5.
Wed Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Is war ever truly inevitable? In the latest installment of Emory Looks at Hollywood, conflict resolution expert and Emory professor Shawn Ramirez gives advice about how the apes and humans in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes could avoid war.
Thu Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Ready to relax with a good book? Whether you're in the mood for thoughtful poems, intriguing novels or compelling nonfiction, Emory faculty authors have you covered.
Thu Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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As curator of modern political and historical collections at Emory's Rose Library, Randy Gue is always on the lookout for material that helps complete the cultural puzzle of the American South. Last year, he realized he held a piece of it himself.
Mon Apr 11 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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The snub of progressive rock pioneers Yes by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame outraged fans. Research by Emory sociologist Timothy J. Dowd examines how critics inside and outside the prog rock scene go about evaluating the music.
Thu Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Curated by film studies professor Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, this semester's Emory Cinematheque series looks at television created for, targeted toward and most often written by African Americans.
Tue Jan 23 00:00:00 EST 2018
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Associate Professor Jacob Wright explores the story of Noah as Russell Crowe depicts the biblical character in a new movie, which opens March 28.
Wed Mar 26 10:00:00 EDT 2014
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Research, rankings, celebrities and students top the list of the biggest stories of 2013 from the Emory News Center.
Sat Dec 28 00:00:00 EST 2013
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A rare collection of materials related to Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac has been acquired by Emory's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library will host "T.S. Eliot Redivivus," a celebration of the writer's birthday and the publication of two volumes of collected Eliot works, edited by Emory English professor emeritus Ron Schuchard, on Friday, Sept. 26, at 4 p.m. in the Jones Room.
Wed Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Joyce Carol Oates discussed her writing, influences and inspiration during an Aug. 29 appearance at Emory's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, part of the Decatur Book Festival.
Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Is war ever truly inevitable? In the latest installment of Emory Looks at Hollywood, conflict resolution expert and Emory professor Shawn Ramirez gives advice about how the apes and humans in "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" could avoid war.
Thu Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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With a little more than a month to go before the First Folio arrives at Emory, the campus-wide celebration of the world's most famous playwright kicks into high gear with exhibits, plays, films and more.
Tue Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Short story writer and novelist Reginald McKnight will give the annual Phillis Wheatley reading on Oct. 19 and hold a colloquium with Emory students on Oct. 20.
Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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The Michael C. Carlos Museum's new African galleries offer insight into African artistic expressions, from personal shrines to secular objects.
Mon Aug 08 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Emory Physical Therapy is now the official provider of physical therapy and sports medicine for Atlanta Ballet. The clinic will provide screenings, physical therapy, massage therapy, injury prevention support and physician coverage for injuries.
Fri Nov 22 01:00:00 EST 2013
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As Georgia rises to the third-busiest production location in the country, Emory alumni and Emory's Department of Film and Media Studies claim a piece of the action.
Fri Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Author Pellom McDaniels III, an Emory University professor of African American Studies and faculty curator of African American Collections at Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, will talk about his new book, ¿The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy,¿ on Thursday, Jan. 30 on the Emory campus.
Wed Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 2014
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In this video, Ono talks about his role as the math consultant for the movie,"The Man Who Knew Infinity," and how his life and work are inspired by Ramanujan.
Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Emory faculty member Natasha Trethewey has placed her archive at the university's Manuscript Archives and Rare Book Library.
Tue Aug 26 01:00:00 EDT 2014
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove visited Emory for two events over the weekend.
Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Two events related to the Bobby Jones exhibition at Emory University are planned in coming weeks: a conversation with Jones biographer Sidney L. Matthew, and a presentation on ¿Diversity in Golf¿ by Joe Louis Barrow Jr., CEO of The First Tee golf program and son of legendary boxer Joe Louis, a golfer himself.
Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 EST 2015
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For the second time in five years, an Emory graduate student has won the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, one of the top honors offered to young poets in the United States.
Wed Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Emory Dance Company's fall concert series showcases faculty and guest artists' viewpoints in contemporary dance.
Tue Nov 19 01:00:00 EST 2013
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The child of a German mother and Nigerian father, author Jennifer Teege visits Emory on Monday to discuss her powerful memoir, "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me," about discovering her link to a brutal Nazi leader.
Thu Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2016
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The heart of Emory is the people who come here to learn, teach, work, help and heal. Meet 10 of the individuals and families who inspired us this year.
Wed Dec 21 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Emory's annual Jazz Fest returns Feb. 10-11 with a weekend of lively performances and educational workshops featuring saxophonist Teodross Avery, the Gary Motley Trio and the Emory Big Band.
Thu Feb 02 00:00:00 EST 2017
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In partnership with StoryCorps, the Carlos Museum offers members of the Atlanta community a chance to record, share and preserve personal or family stories of the Great Migration, or of the migration back to cities in the New South in recent years.
Tue Dec 17 00:00:00 EST 2013
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American Studies students used primary source materials in the Rose Library to create a new exhibit, "Resisting Racism: From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter," on display in the library until August.
Wed Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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First there was Hollywood, then Bollywood, and now "Dooleywood" -- at least for the week of April 4-9. Dooley's Week celebrates the movies with a packed schedule of events starring Emory's skeletal Lord of Misrule.
Wed Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Artist and social activist Theaster Gates will visit Emory in September for a series of talks on art and activism, hosted by the Rose Library.
Wed Aug 24 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Ryan Sutherland graduated last week with a double major in music and biology, but he leaves something important behind at Emory: an archive based on ethnomusicology research he conducted here and in Indonesia.
Tue May 17 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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The first exhibit from Emory University's collections of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender materials at its Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library will debut Aug. 19.
Tue Jul 30 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Music ensembles will wrap up their final performances of the year in April, plus the month will feature student recitals, visiting artists and collaborative performances.
Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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After graduating from Emory College in 2013, artist Heidi Ma investigated the habitat preferences of local fish species and worked towards ecological restoration in rural homesteads, using sketches to communicate her findings.
Fri Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Theater Emory's 12-hour Shakespeare Anniversary Celebration kicked off at noon April 23 with a battle scene reenactment complete with broadsword and staff. Directed by John Ammerman, student actors fought valiantly before an appreciative audience on Patterson Green.
Wed Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Emory's annual Tibet Week kicked off Monday with an opening ceremony in the Michael C. Carlos Museum's Ackerman Hall. Daily events including discussions, meditation and mandala sand painting continue through Friday.
Tue Mar 21 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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The Michael C. Carlos Museum will host three events this week including two lectures and the annual end-of-the-academic year sale at the bookshop.
Thu Apr 17 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey adapts "Native Guard," her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry for the stage Friday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m.
Tue Feb 04 01:00:00 EST 2014
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Tue Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2014
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The grandson of legendary golfer Bobby Jones will speak at Emory University about the psychological skills his grandfather developed that enabled him to excel at the game of golf -- and at life.
Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Emory welcomes the return of several beloved traditions this December, with opportunities to enjoy classic holiday tunes and even see Santa himself.
Mon Nov 21 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Max Richter, hailed as a "modern-day musical genius" by the New York Times, kicks off the 2018-2019 Candler Concert Series on Friday, Sept. 28, performing with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble.
Thu Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Emory's Rose Library hosts a series of public events supporting "Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch." The free events will take place at Emory and in other Atlanta venues.
Fri Jan 13 00:00:00 EST 2017
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The 150th birthday anniversary of Irish poet W.B. Yeats will be celebrated Saturday, June 13, at 7 p.m. in the Michael C. Carlos Museum Reception Hall.
Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Discount tickets are available to Emory Week at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, as the ASO performs Symphony No. 3 by Emory's own Richard Prior.
Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 EST 2014
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From poetry to puppets and singing to sports, February's calendar brings a variety of free entertainment and educational events to campus.
Mon Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2018
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Emory's Atlanta campus welcomed the holiday season with the traditional Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, held Dec. 2-3 in Glenn Memorial Auditorium.
Mon Dec 05 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Emory kicked off Tibet Week with an opening ceremony and shrine dedication on Monday, March 21. Tibet Week continues through March 26 with mandala sand painting, meditation, public discussions and other events.
Tue Mar 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Arts events on campus this month include a live recording of NPR's "From the Top," which features host Christopher O'Riley showcasing talented young classical musicians from the Atlanta area.
Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Pellom McDaniels III, curator of African American collections at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, has won the Center for Research Libraries 2017 Primary Source Award for Research.
Tue May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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March brings several annual traditions to campus. Try the bike-powered blender at the Emory Earth Festival, enjoy hands-on activities at the Atlanta Science Festival and view the creation and destruction of an intricate sand mandala during Tibet Week.
Tue Mar 06 00:00:00 EST 2018
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Poet W.S. Merwin will visit Emory University for a reading and discussion on Monday, May 6.
Wed Apr 17 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Emory anthropologist Jenny Chio explores the changes in rural life in China's cities in her documentary film on the impact of tourism in China.
Thu Feb 06 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Alumni from the Nexus Contemporary Art Center will take part in a panel discussion on Thursday, Jan. 21, at 7 p.m. at the Robert W. Woodruff Library.
Thu Jan 14 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Jericho Brown's poetry collection "The New Testament," a meditation on race, masculinity and gay sexuality, receives the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and examines diversity.
Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Striking photographs by members of the Emory Photography Club are featured in a new display in Woodruff Library's Level 2 Learning Commons. The exhibit will change approximately every three months.
Tue Feb 23 00:00:00 EST 2016
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"Remembering Seamus Heaney," a public event to celebrate the life and work of the Irish poet and Emory University friend who passed away last week, will be held Tuesday, Sept. 10, from 5 to 7 pm in the Jones Room at the Robert W. Woodruff Library on the Emory campus.
Fri Sep 06 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie, Emory's 2015 Commencement speaker, looks back on his years as University Distinguished Professor and Distinguished Writer in Residence.
Thu May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Wed Nov 13 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Emory's Coursera class, "The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Nubia," examines evidence from archaeological findings of Nubia.
Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Theater Emory continues its 2015-2016 season with "The Meantime: A Time-Traveling Radio Spectacle," opening Thursday with shows through Nov. 15.
Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laureate 2012-14 and Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, was featured in PBS NewsHour's final "Where Poetry Lives" segment, talking with graduate students about the link between making poetry broadly available and honing one's individual craft.
Tue May 20 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Emory's quartet in residence, the Vega String Quartet, will make its debut at the famed Musikverein in Vienna on Saturday, Nov. 21. The quartet performs free concerts on campus on Oct. 16 and Nov. 6.
Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Emory Dance is hosting two events for dance enthusiasts this February. Both are free and open to the public and will be held in the Presentation Room of the Oxford Road Building.
Fri Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2014
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A rare collection of materials related to Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac has been acquired by Emory's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Award-winning Irish writer Colm Tóibín will deliver the next series of the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature at Emory University Nov. 12-14, 2017.
Tue Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Film director Penelope Spheeris, director of "Wayne's World," will screen her acclaimed trilogy of documentaries, "The Decline of Western Civilization," on Nov. 13-14 in White Hall 208.
Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Poetry, dance and song from the Telugu culture of India will be performed at "An Evening of Telugu Arts" on Thursday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Emory School of Law will screen "Get in the Way: The Journey of John Lewis," on Saturday, March 26. The event includes a panel discussion with Congressman Lewis and film director Kathleen Dowdey.
Tue Mar 08 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Charles Wright, the 2014-15 U.S. poet laureate, will give a reading of his works on Thursday, Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on the Emory University campus.
Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie returned to Emory University in February as University Distinguished Professor for a public lecture on human rights.
Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Emory law professor Bill Buzbee was interviewed about the Environmental Protection Agency's push to strengthen federal protection for streams and wetlands.
Wed Sep 18 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Two exceptional Emory College creative scholars, music major Michael Crawford and creative writing major Darby Jardeleza, are the 2017 recipients of the Louis B. Sudler Prize in the Arts.
Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Enjoy free performances from a variety of operas and musicals on Saturday, April 25, at 8 p.m. in Emory¿s Performing Arts Studio.
Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Emory has steadily courted the television and film industry, encouraging location scouts to choose the University as a set for their projects. For students, the chance to observe filmmaking firsthand provides a critical form of research.
Tue Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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NPR's Brooke Gladstone and other reporters and editors will discuss "Journalism in Our Current Environment" as Emory hosts the Sept. 1 keynote for the Decatur Book Festival. Tickets will be available starting Aug. 8.
Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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As Shakespeare's First Folio nears the end of its visit to Emory, two events on Dec. 5 will celebrate the Bard's legacy, including an evening with poets Natasha Trethewey, Kevin Young and Jericho Brown.
Wed Nov 30 00:00:00 EST 2016
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The 2014 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival kicks off with a keynote address by American literary icon Joyce Carol Oates at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29, at Emory's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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The latest video of the Emory Looks at Hollywood series examines the use of violence in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire."
Wed Nov 20 10:00:00 EST 2013
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The Chancel Choir and soloists of Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church will present sacred music of Russia in a free concert set for 7 p.m. on Sunday, March 8, in the Glenn Sanctuary.
Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Emory's Film and Media Studies professors share their top 10 movies of 2014 list, in no particular order.
Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 EST 2014
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History professor Joseph Crespino will discuss his new book, "Atticus Finch: The Biography," at a Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation on May 3 at Emory's Woodruff Library.
Thu Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Theater Emory's "4:48" promises to be a frenetic yet focused showcase of new works inspired by the human microbiome, performed July 14 at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Sun Jul 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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The Michael C. Carlos Museum hosted its 25th anniversary Veneralia celebration on Feb. 20.
Thu Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2016
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The first ever June Noontime Concert at the Michael C. Carlos Museum is Thursday, June 5, in the museum's Reception Hall.
Mon Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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The 2014-2015 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers has chosen Oxford College as a host site. Six films will be presented, three during each semester
Wed Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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February music brings a bounty of jazz and student talent plus St. Olaf's Choir and piano great Lang Lang.
Tue Feb 04 00:00:00 EST 2014
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The Emory School of Medicine Class of 2016 is now accepting submissions for a month-long art installation in the School of Medicine lobby.
Mon Mar 11 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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"Journals sometimes save our lives," Alice Walker mused as she paged through volumes of her reflections during a visit to Emory's Rose Library. Walker is working with scholar Valerie Boyd, who is editing her journals for publication.
Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Before he was an executive producer for the hit network television show Sleepy Hollow, Mark Goffman was an Emory student.
Tue May 27 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Novelist and poet Sherman Alexie comes to Emory for two events April 4-5. His National Book Award-winning "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" was named the best Young Adult Book of all time by Time Magazine.
Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Shakespeare¿s influence on artists¿ books ¿ which use books for both reading and artistic expression ¿ will be the focus of a panel discussion on Thursday in the Woodruff Library's Jones Room.
Wed Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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The Center for Creativity and Arts will host its first-ever Wonderful Wednesday this week, highlighting student performers and the vast arts community at Emory.
Tue Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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India Week events include discussions with Ambassador Arun Singh and journalist Bachi Karkaria, as well as an exploration of mind-body science, the Student Indian Arts Mela and India-themed activities for Wonderful Wednesday.
Tue Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2017
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At 2:30 p.m. on Friday, September 26, associate professors of dance Anna Leo and Bridget Roosa of Emory and Agnes Scott College will chat with visiting artist Bebe Miller about her creative process.
Wed Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Kate Moran, who plans a career in international development, will be the first student to graduate with a major in Arabic Studies, a new degree option focused on Arabic language and culture.
Thu May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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July brings food for thought with compelling events, plus food for growing and eating with opportunities to volunteer in Emory's educational gardens and sign-up for informative tours of the Emory Farmers Market.
Tue Jul 03 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Faculty from the Candler School of Theology provide commentary and works by Los Angeles artist John August Swanson.
Thu Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2013
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Susannah Darrow, executive director and co-founder of Atlanta-based arts organization BURNAWAY, is the next guest in the Atlanta Intersections conversation series at Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library on Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 6:30 p.m. in the Jones Room.
Wed Oct 22 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Poet Kevin Young has won the 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for his collection, "Book of Hours." The prize recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year.
Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Dwight Andrews, a music professor at Emory and a former distinguished visiting scholar at Spelman, is quoted.
Tue May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Emory hosted the opening keynote for the Decatur Book Festival and Emory authors were a major part of the festival. Emory's tent in downtown Decatur drew hundreds for book signings, art and the chance to learn about the university's cultural resources.
Wed Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Rare prints of Yoruba culture in Nigeria by Austrian art Suzanne Wenger are now on exhibit at the Carlos Museum, with several events planned for February.
Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 EST 2016
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In 1993, professor Lori Teague cast student Christine Suarez in Teague's first choreographed work at Emory, "Rule of Thumb." The two are reprising the show 25 years later to explore the intersectionality of gender, age and race.
Tue Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2018
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Poet Kevin Young will give a free reading from his new nonfiction book, "Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News." Originally scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 18, this event has been postponed due to severe winter weather.
Mon Jan 08 00:00:00 EST 2018
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The International Euphonium Tuba Festival comes to campus June 21-27, bringing 200 guest artists, high school and college-aged players, and teachers from around the world for a week of instruction, recitals and performances.
Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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A vigil in response to the violence and recent events in Ukraine will be held Thursday, March 6, at 7 p.m. in Brooks Commons in Cannon Chapel.
Tue Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Tracy K. Smith, the current U.S. poet laureate, read her poems at a free public event Saturday, Feb. 17, part of Emory's Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series.
Tue Feb 20 00:00:00 EST 2018
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The bold colors and thought-provoking cultural commentary that infuse the acclaimed artwork of doctoral candidate Fahamu Pecou will soon find a new audience -- thousands of Atlanta commuters.
Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Students in an Emory undergraduate religion class used the archives of the Rose Library to create a pop-up exhibition on how Buddhism influenced the art and lives of members of the Beat literary movement.
Thu May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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The Southwest Airlines Art and Social Engagement course unites Atlanta artists, Emory students and area nonprofits with projects designed to raise public awareness.
Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Compelling images from Emory students' study abroad trips are now on display in the Computing Center at Cox Hall. Entries in the Center for International Programs Abroad photo contest spanned more than 25 countries.
Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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The Carlos Museum exhibit, "Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey," inspires a live reading of all 24 books of Homer's epic poem, plus lectures, a gallery tour, poetry reading and the Carlos book club.
Fri Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2014
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The Emory community gathered Sept. 28 to celebrate the opening of "The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture." The first major consideration of the Beats in the U.S. in nearly a decade, the exhibit continues through May 15.
Wed Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Faculty from Emory University's Candler School of Theology provide commentary and Los Angeles artist John August Swanson provides stunning portrayals of scenes from Holy Week and Easter in "What Wondrous Love: Holy Week in Word and Art," a new DVD and study guide for the Christian Lenten season.
Thu Feb 07 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Emory President James Wagner will discuss the inspiration for his creative endeavors and how creativity informs his leadership in a conversation led by Rosemary Magee, director of the Rose Library.
Thu Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2016
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This fall, Theater Emory welcomes Brent Glenn, who aims to reinvigorate the 30-year-old organization into a more outward-facing institution while building on its strong tradition of innovation and new works.
Thu Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Out of 46 entries from across the region, "She fell, but felt no fear" by Jessica Bertram and "Two in one" by Cherry Fung were among the 12 works selected for the prestigious ACDA South Conference.
Wed Apr 12 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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August is a transition month as Emory moves from summer to the start of the new academic year, but there is plenty to do on campus, from meditating to expanding your mind through exhibits and experts.
Tue Aug 07 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Tickets for songwriter Paul Simon's 2013 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature at Emory University Sept. 22-24 will be available to the general public beginning at 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 9.
Sun Aug 25 07:33:00 EDT 2013
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Summer may be winding down, but there are still plenty of things to do on campus before the bustle of the new academic year begins.
Thu Jul 27 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Emory alumna Amalia Amaki pays tribute to a multi-faceted life in her newest book, Homage, a collection of fifty-six poems and artworks which offers soul-stirring insight into the nuances of culture and community.
Mon Mar 03 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Conceived by Carlton Mackey, director of Emory's Ethics and the Arts Program, a new photographic exhibit that explores a wider view of American families opens May 7 at the Center for Ethics.
Mon May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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As the end of spring semester brings summer's slower pace to campus, make time to view these exhibits at the Robert W. Woodruff Library and the Michael C. Carlos Museum before they wrap up in May and June.
Tue May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Watch five days of work collapsed into a few intriguing minutes, from the first chalk lines laying out the intricate design to the completed mandala's destruction in a swirl of color.
Tue Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2017
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The latest video of the Emory Looks at Hollywood series explores the ethics of space exploration in context of the movie, "Star Trek Into Darkness."
Thu May 16 10:00:00 EDT 2013
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'And She Was,' an exhibit and performance piece by Emory alumna Megan Watters, runs Nov. 19-21 in the Visual Arts Building.
Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laureate 2012-14 and Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, gave an interview reflecting on her work, her unique past and the state of poetry today.
Wed May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Original Romare Bearden works of art, photographs and related printed materials from Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library are highlighted in an exhibition that opens this month at the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Wed Dec 04 01:00:00 EST 2013
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A Creativity Conversation with Dana Haugaard and Linda Armstrong will be held Wednesday, March 25, at 4 p.m. in the Chase Upper Lobby of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Pianist Inon Barnatan and cellist Alisa Weilerstein present an evening of classics at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Friday, March 28 at 8 p.m., closing the 2013-2014 Flora Glenn Candler Concert Series.
Thu Mar 20 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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"Beautiful Minds: Using Animation to Heal" is a film screening and discussion on living with bipolar disorder. The event will be Thursday, May 22, at 7 p.m. in Room 131 of Building 12 at Executive Park at Briarcliff and North Druid Hills roads.
Mon May 19 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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The second volume of "The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition," co-edited by English professor emeritus Ron Schuchard, has won the Modernist Studies Association's inaugural prize for a distinguished edition.
Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Emory hosts a packed calendar of arts events this month, including the 15th-annual Barenaked Voices, a concert featuring the university's student a cappella groups and benefitting mental health services.
Wed Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2018
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As Emory celebrated Tibet Week, Buddhist monks spent hours crafting an intricate sand mandala. On July 24, the Carlos Museum hosts a closing ceremony for the mandala, just one of the interesting things to do this month.
Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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President Jimmy Carter, Emory University Distinguished Professor, offered candid thoughts on media and "loving thy neighbor" for a project created by Emory College students.
Mon Oct 23 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Film and media studies major Leila Yavari and business and music major Eric Newell are the 2018 recipients of the Louis B. Sudler Prize in the Arts, honoring graduating seniors with exceptional promise in the arts.
Tue May 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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The new academic year brings a full slate of events to campus, including a visit from artist and activist Alexia Jones exploring dance and other types of artistic expression as sources of hope and recovery.
Thu Aug 30 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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With plucky, sometimes surprising repertoires, harpists from around the world meet at Emory this week for concerts, workshops and classes, including a diverse slate of public performances.
Mon Jun 27 12:00:00 EDT 2016
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"Bourgeois Radicals: Crushing the 'White Man's Burden,' NAACP Style" is this year's Life of the Mind lecture, presented by Carol Anderson, associate professor of African American Studies and history, on Thursday, Jan. 29, at 4 p.m. in the Jones Room of the Woodruff Library.
Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Anat Cohen performs Feb. 12 for Emory's annual Jazz Fest, one of the many diverse arts events on campus this month.
Thu Feb 04 00:00:00 EST 2016
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[Egyptian blue pigment's] manufacture was shared by the Egyptians with occupying and neighboring groups -- Greeks, then Romans -- spreading the technology throughout the Mediterranean," said art and artifacts conservator Renee Stein at Emory University in Atlanta.
Mon Mar 11 23:00:00 EDT 2013
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Composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain returns to Emory's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts for the world premiere of "Anacaona, The Golden Flower Songs" on Friday, March 20, at 8 p.m.
Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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A workshop at the Michael C. Carlos Museum will let participants create their own works of art in the form of a print from a woodcut.
Mon Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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An opera tells that tells the allegorical story of European Jews during the Holocaust will be presented in a May 23 workshop followed by a panel discussion with the actors and creative team.
Mon May 20 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Dooley, Emory's unofficial skeletal mascot, rose from the dead Monday to walk the campus for Dooley's Week, bringing a full slate of free festivities. "Dooley's Galaxy" events continue through Sunday.
Wed Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Experts from the Emory Autism Center help staff and docents at the Carlos Museum learn strategies to make museum visits more welcoming for people with autism spectrum disorder.
Tue Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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As thousands gather in Washington next week to join Pope Francis at a mass to canonize 18th century missionary Junipero Serra, they will sing liturgical music composed especially for the occasion by PhD student Tony Alonso.
Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet Paul Muldoon will give a free reading at Glenn Auditorium on the Emory University campus Saturday, Feb. 22, at 4 p.m.
Wed Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 2014
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This month's calendar includes spring recitals from several Emory arts groups, including the Emory Dance Company performing "What Once Was," featuring work from seven student choreographers.
Tue Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Take advantage of a wide range of campus activities this month -- from peaceful walks in the woods to pool parties, plays, poetry and more.
Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library has acquired the records and artists' books of Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (The Contemporary) and Nexus Press. A rotating exhibit is planned for August.
Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Poet Laureate and Emory professor Natasha Trethewey continues the series "Where Poetry Lives," which explores where poetry and literature connect to everyday lfe, by visiting doctor and poet Rafael Campo's reading and writing workshop for medical students.
Thu Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Renowned epidemiologist William Foege, celebrated author Salman Rushdie, and newly-appointed ambassador of India to the United States Subrahmanyam Jaishankar are among the speakers at the fifth annual India Summit Feb. 17-18 at Emory University.
Fri Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Legendary opera star Jessye Norman will headline the Atlanta Music Festival's Gala Concert, featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, on Nov. 18 at Glenn Memorial Auditorium.
Mon Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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This was the second appearance Paul Simon was making as part of his participation in Emory University's Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature series. On Monday afternoon at Glenn Auditorium, he was joined by former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins.
Tue Sep 24 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Literary icon Joyce Carol Oates reads Aug. 29 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts as the keynote for the Decatur Book Festival, which features several Emory authors.
Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Chinese student musicians and dancers, the Vega String Quartet and the Emory Chinese Music Ensemble celebrate the Year of the Horse.
Tue Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2014
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David Crowe directs Theater Emory's production of Jose Rivera's comic play "Marisol," opening April 2. The play is just one of the many arts events on tap as the spring semester winds down.
Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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December's music program features performances by Emory student ensembles and holiday classics.
Tue Dec 03 01:00:00 EST 2013
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As the semester ends and you prepare for the holidays, check out these things to do on campus that are inexpensive and perfect for either entertaining the family or some well-deserved "you" time.
Tue Dec 05 00:00:00 EST 2017
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The archive of Neighbors Network, a citizens' watchdog organization that monitored the activity of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi skinheads and other hate groups in metro Atlanta and other nearby areas, is now open to researchers and the public at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Wed Apr 10 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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A new website called Belfast Group Poetry Networks will make it easier to understand the connections between Irish writers, particularly members of the mid-1960s Belfast Group, using open-source software created by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.
Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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"Reflections on Artistry, Spirituality and Community," a talk and reception for a photography exhibit on Tibetan sand mandalas, will be Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 7 p.m. in Brooks Commons of Cannon Chapel, sponsored by the Office of Religious Life.
Tue Sep 24 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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From Erica Jong's keynote at Emory on Friday night to Emory authors reading throughout Labor Day weekend, the university plays a prominent role in the largest independent book festival in the country.
Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Emory Cinematheque presents a series of animation and anime-inspired films from Japan this fall, with free screenings on Wednesdays from Sept. 16 through Dec. 2.
Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Musical America, a publication at the forefront of classical music, has named William Ransom, artistic director of the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta, to its '30 Innovators of the Year' in classical music.
Tue Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Georgia author and human rights activist Lillian E. Smith will be brought to life in a performance by local actress and Emory University theater professor emeritus Brenda Bynum on Monday, March 31 at 7 p.m. in the Schwartz Center Theatre Lab. The performance is free and open to the public.
Tue Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Diwali, one of the most lavish student events at Emory, marked its 25th anniversary this year. See photos from the sold-out Nov. 7 gala, which drew a diverse crowd of about 700 attendees.
Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 EST 2015
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The annual Emory Arts Showcase drew crowds to Cox Hall on March 19 for a free evening of student performances including dancing, singing, visual art and more. Hosted by Emory Arts Underground, a student-run arts group, this year's event featured the theme "In the City of Enlightenment."
Wed Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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On Friday, April 10, the Emory a cappella groups united for "Barenaked Voices: Twelfth Annual Emory Student A Cappella Celebration."
Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Emory University professors C. Jean Campbell and Carol Anderson have been awarded prestigious 2018 Guggenheim Fellowships to support their groundbreaking research.
Thu Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Carol Ann Duffy will give a free reading Feb. 21. One of Britain's most celebrated poets, she addresses issues such as oppression, gender and violence as well as everyday life experiences and fantasies.
Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 EST 2015
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An opening reception for "When the Emory Unit Went to War," an exhibition documenting Emory medical personnel, is Friday, June 13, at 6 p.m. in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library at 1462 Clifton Road.
Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Watch for an astronaut, zombies, a hovercraft and liquid nitrogen ice cream to pop up on the Emory campus during the Atlanta Science Festival, March 14-25.
Wed Mar 08 00:00:00 EST 2017
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The latest video of the Emory Looks at Hollywood series offers a psychoanalysis of the great Jay Gatsby.
Sun May 19 10:00:00 EDT 2013
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A night of jazz with the Frank Barham Brazilian Fusion Band will be Monday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Emory Performing Arts Studio.
Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Indian classical dancer Malavika Sarukkai and film director Sumantra Ghosal will lead a conversation following a free public screening of the documentary, "The Unseen Sequence: Exploring Bharatanatyam through the Art of Malavika Sarukkai," at Emory University on Sunday, Oct. 5.
Fri Sep 19 16:00:00 EDT 2014
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Emory Indian Cultural Exchange hosted its hugely popular Diwali event on Sunday, Nov. 4, with a traditional dinner, performances and dancing to celebrate the Indian "festival of lights."
Wed Nov 08 00:00:00 EST 2017
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In a conversation hosted by the Coalition of the Liberal Arts, author Salman Rushdie joined a diverse group of students, faculty and alumni to share personal stories reflecting the impact of a liberal arts education.
Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Janice Akers, artistic director for Theater Emory, is profiled as actor, director, educator and administrator.
Thu Mar 28 23:00:00 EDT 2013
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Emory's slower summer pace is the perfect time to explore campus exhibits centered on art, theology, medicine and more. Don't miss "Still Raising Hell: Materials from the Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Collection," which closes May 28.
Mon May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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An entire weekend is devoted to American composer Charles Ives, with lectures and concerts celebrating his music and his life.
Wed Feb 20 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Building on the strengths of the Seamus Heaney collection, the Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library has acquired the papers of poet Dennis O'Driscoll and historian Roy Foster, adding to one of the strongest Irish literary collections outside of Ireland.
Wed Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2018
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November brings a diverse slate of arts events to campus. Known for spellbinding harmonies, the Finckel-Han-Setzer trio performs Nov. 7, while the Emory Symphony Orchestra offers a "Star Wars" themed concert Nov. 21.
Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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The Emory Alzheimer's Disease Research Center will host a musical celebration this month to raise awareness of Alzheimer's disease (AD), its impact on families and the importance of ongoing research participation.
Tue Jan 12 01:00:00 EST 2016
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Arts at Emory welcomes spring with a full slate of events, from dance and theater to the return of the popular outdoor concert series, Jazz on the Green.
Wed Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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A three-part lecture series covers the world through pottery traditions and folk cultures.
Mon Sep 30 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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At Emory, learning doesn't stay in the classroom. From volunteering to farming, creating to leading, Emory students are expanding their lessons in unexpected places.
Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Emory students gathered Feb. 24 at the Media, Literature and Arts Outreach theme house for Arts Expression Night, part of Social Justice Week. Students were invited to express what they believe social justice means through performances and visual arts.
Wed Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Geraldine Higgins, director of Emory University's Irish Studies program, will discuss "Seamus Heaney: The Place of Writing" on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the Jones Room at the Robert W. Woodruff Library.
Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Engaging speakers raise the profile of a period of German modernism for scholars and non-specialists at the Lovis Corinth Symposium March 8-9.
Mon Mar 04 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Salman Rushdie's talk at the India Summit was dominated by concern over the attack on a scholarly book about Hinduism.
Wed Feb 19 00:00:00 EST 2014
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As summer nears, groups and organizations flock to campus for a busy schedule of professional and academic conferences, sports camps, music festivals and more.
Tue May 29 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts has appointed Dwight Vaught, an accomplished arts administrator and advocate, as its new executive director. Vaught succeeds founding director Robert McKay, who retires in January.
Tue Dec 20 00:00:00 EST 2016
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University Distinguished Professor Salman Rushdie returns to Emory for a public lecture, India Summit conversation, classroom visits.
Thu Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Hear Beethoven's majestic Fifth Symphony played on two pianos on Friday, March 21, at noon in the Michael C. Carlos Museum Reception Hall.
Thu Mar 20 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Emory MARBL will host "Mama and Papa Lala: 30 Years of Billops-Hatch Films," a free retrospective and symposium, on Thursday, Oct. 2, and Friday, Oct. 3, at Woodruff Library.
Fri Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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"Learning from the Empire: Japan in the Archives of Oxford College and Emory University," a new exhibit at Woodruff Library, showcases research by students in the course "Literary and Visual Culture in Japan."
Wed Mar 09 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Theater Emory's Pinter Fest, a series of events honoring late playwright Harold Pinter, includes a Sept. 22 one-man show by actor Julian Sands, a Schwartz Center Artist-in-Residence.
Thu Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Sports law specialist Kenneth Shropshire will give a lecture on the marketing of the Super Bowl on Friday, Feb. 7, at 6 p.m. in the Robert W. Woodruff Library¿s Jones Room on the Emory University campus.
Fri Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Actor Viola Davis, widely known for her performances in "Doubt" and "The Help," answered questions from students and faculty in a break from filming her latest movie.
Tue Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2014
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The Emory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences held a special screening and post-show discussion of "Touched With Fire", a movie that delves into the lives of two poets with bipolar disorder.
Mon Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Hundreds turned out Friday, April 1, for the International Festival and World Cup Tournament, created to recognize the Emory community¿s diversity through food, music and friendly soccer competition. Wet weather forced the event to move indoors to the Woodruff PE Center, but didn't put a damper on the festivities.
Tue Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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The Creativity & Arts Soiree launches the Arts at Emory season with performances and activities for students and the community.
Thu Aug 29 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Who buys 82 copies of the same book? If the book is Shakespeare's First Folio, the answer is an obsessed person -- Henry Folger, founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Andrea Mays discussed "The Millionaire and the Bard" in a lecture at Emory's Rose Library.
Wed Oct 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Emory College of Arts and Sciences has appointed Harshita Mruthinti Kamath as the next scholar to fill the Visweswara Rao and Sita Koppaka Professorship in Telugu and South Indian Cultures, Literatures and History. She will join Emory in the fall.
Thu Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Emory Cinematheque kicks off its "Home Grown: Made in Georgia" film series on Wednesday, Jan. 14, with "Driving Miss Daisy." The free, weekly series features 14 movies this semester.
Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Staibdance director George Staib talks about the inspiration behind the March 21-23 performance of "Versus."
Mon Mar 18 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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In her new novel, "The Radius of Us," Marie Marquardt, scholar-in-residence at Candler School of Theology, examines the hardships Latin American teens face fleeing gang violence and seeking asylum in the U.S.
Tue Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Custom made 'Dooley cats' by popular street artist Catlanta will be hidden on the Emory and Oxford campuses March 23-28. Find out how to join the hunt.
Thu Mar 19 00:01:00 EDT 2015
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Facing drug addiction, Alexia Jones found healing in dance, a recovery method she now shares with others. She comes to campus Thursday through Saturday for dance performances, a workshop and a Creativity Conversation.
Wed Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Brave New Works, Emory's festival of new plays and playwriting, opens Jan. 30 and runs until Feb. 15.
Fri Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Letters written by former President Barack Obama to his college girlfriend, Alexandra McNear, are now part of the collection of Emory's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, where they are available to scholars.
Thu Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Acclaimed writer Junot Díaz will address a range of topics as this year's Goodrich C. White Lecturer on Wednesday, April 12 in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Thu Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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This month offers fall sports matches, Hitchcock films, music, fitness activities and even a chance to play video games at the Carlos Museum.
Tue Sep 04 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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French professor Dalia Judovitz has spent a lifetime studying the nature of knowledge and how it informs our understanding of ourselves, inspiring students to ask deep questions inside and outside the classroom.
Wed Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Novelist Stacia Pelletier, chief writer for the Office of the President, joins a diverse range of Emory faculty and staff with appearances at the Decatur Book Festival. Learn more about her new novel and see the full schedule of Emory participants.
Mon Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove will give a free reading on campus Feb. 28 for the acclaimed Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series.
Mon Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2016
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A rising star in the art world, Fahamu Pecou has found an intellectual home in Emory's Institute for the Liberal Arts, pursuing studies that amplify and enrich his creative work.
Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Indian classical dancer Malavika Sarukkai and film director Sumantra Ghosal will lead a conversation following a free public screening of the documentary, "The Unseen Sequence: Exploring Bharatanatyam through the Art of Malavika Sarukkai," at Emory University on Sunday, Oct. 5.
Fri Sep 19 16:00:00 EDT 2014
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More than 40 years of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's rich correspondence is now open to the public at Emory's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Mon Feb 29 01:00:00 EST 2016
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The public art project Pianos for Peace came to Emory last week, with a hand-painted piano available on the terrace of the Dobbs University Center for anyone to play and enjoy.
Mon Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Tibet Week 2015 celebrates the theme of "Exploring Compassion" through a series of traditional events and educational opportunities. The annual celebration of the culture, arts and philosophy of Tibet is set for March 23-28.
Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Resistance and Memory, a year-long film series that concludes this month, commemorates 50 years since 1968, a pivotal year in which protests and resistance incited the presiding civil-military dictatorship in Brazil to consolidate its power.
Wed Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2018
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"Poems from Prison," featuring U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey's visit to the King County Juvenile Detention Center near Seattle, will be broadcast Monday, March 17, on the PBS Newshour.
Thu Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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"Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism, and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch," a major exhibition in Emory's Rose Library that explores creativity, social justice and community, opens Sept. 15.
Fri Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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With the academic year ending, May's calendar features choral concerts from youth, faculty and alumni, as well as a special performance by the Atlanta Master Chorale.
Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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January's calendar includes Emory basketball's first "White Out," the return of campus traditions like Wonderful Wednesday and the Emory Farmers Market, plus several ways to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Wed Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Emory's Breaking Ground series is a laboratory for students, alumni, faculty and Atlanta artists to exchange and create new theatrical performances.
Wed Jul 24 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Emory University professors Natasha Trethewey and Kevin Young part of an article about the Dark Room Collective, a group of "young black writers and artists together to read their work aloud, to bond with mentors and to foster the sort of comradeship that had nurtured many a cultural movement.
Tue May 27 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Enjoy holiday musical performances beginning this week on both the Emory and Oxford campuses. Many are free or offer discounts for Emory students, faculty and staff.
Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2014
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A rare assortment of original Hank Aaron materials is now available for research use at Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), some of which will be featured in a small exhibit on the baseball legend that opens at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 24.
Mon Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Atlanta has a long tradition of site-specific dance, a genre drawing inspiration from locale. Featuring a panel of dance experts, "Memorial Drive: Site-Specific Dance in Atlanta" is set for Thursday, April 6.
Mon Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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The Estonian orchestra brings its international profile and award-winning performance to Emory on Nov. 15.
Thu Nov 07 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Moving beyond the traditional classroom, students learn about ancient Mediterranean culture by examining museum artifacts and weighing ethical questions about how they are obtained and displayed.
Mon Oct 30 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds will visit Emory University for a free reading Thursday, March 20 at 6 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on the university campus.
Thu Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Scholars from around the globe who cross traditional boundaries of academic disciplines come to Emory this week for "Critical Juncture 2017: The Work of Art," exploring intersections of race, sexuality, gender and disability.
Tue Mar 14 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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"Too Heavy for Your Pocket," the acclaimed civil rights drama from Emory Playwriting Fellow Jiréh Breon Holder, takes the stage at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre through Feb. 26.
Mon Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Anne Sophie Mutter and Garrick Ohlsson are among the star performers and several musical works are set to premiere at the Schwartz Center next year.
Tue Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Explore the extensive renovations to the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, offering expanded space befitting the university's internationally acclaimed collections.
Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Former Emory Professor Isabel Wilkerson discusses her award-winning book on how the mass exodus African Americans from the South impacted lives, cities and culture.
Thu Feb 06 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Artists and academics from around the nation will gather at Emory Oct. 15-18 for the 2014 Callaloo Conference, which focuses on the theme of "Making Art: Writing, Authorship and Critique."
Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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For the next year, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Emory faculty member Natasha Trethewey will be the author of a weekly poetry column for The New York Times Magazine. Her first column is scheduled to appear Sunday, Feb. 22.
Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Take advantage of June's slower pace to explore a variety of free or inexpensive activities on campus, including the Emory Farmers Market, which features an expanded summer schedule.
Tue Jun 05 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library will host an unusual book art event in early March - the opening of a shrimp can that contains a miniature illustrated excerpt of John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row."
Wed Feb 27 01:00:00 EST 2013
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As author Salman Rushdie concludes his role as University Distinguished Professor, it is his warm, generous classroom presence that many will remember most fondly.
Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2015
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A $246,000 Getty Foundation grant, "Beyond the Northern Aegean," led by Emory, will facilitate scholar-student research travel to study how ancient Greek architectural ideas were adopted and adapted in the wider Mediterranean world.
Mon Jun 25 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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This month, experience a variety of events in the visual and performing arts, including Jazz Fest 2018, the Brave New Works playwriting festival and a reading from U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith.
Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2018
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Art and community will be on exhibit at the annual Art Gala on Saturday, May 2, from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Emory School of Medicine.
Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Cheer on the Emory Eagles as basketball season starts, then fill the rest of your November calendar with free or inexpensive arts and cultural events, learning opportunities and more.
Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Pitts Theology Library launched its spring exhibit on March 7, highlighting the Haggadah, a compilation of biblical passages, prayers, hymns and rabbinic literature that is read each year during the Jewish Passover Seder.
Tue Mar 08 00:00:00 EST 2016
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A Carlos Museum program is teaching students about the materials and techniques of ancient art forms like casting bronze and shaping glass from artists who still use them today.
Fri Apr 12 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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From creating public art proposals for the Atlanta BeltLine to studying the psychology of evil, Emory's Maymester summer session offers unique opportunities.
Tue Jun 04 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Emory has acquired the papers of dancers, activists and artists Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder. The university will award de Lavallade an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree at its 2018 commencement May 14.
Mon May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Tracy K. Smith, the current U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will give a reading of her poems on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 4 p.m. at Emory University's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Mon Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 2018
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Emory University philosophy professor George Yancy interviews Rutgers University's influential feminist philosopher, ethicist and political science professor Drucilla Cornell about the impact of pornography and popular culture on male sexual behavior, the psychology of misogyny, race, and the #MeToo movement.
Wed Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2018
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National Book Award finalist Claudia Rankine reads Thursday, Dec. 4, as the final event in the "What's New in Poetry?" series.
Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 EST 2014
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An exhibition featuring materials from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference archive will open Thursday, Feb. 21 at Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library.
Mon Jan 28 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Ready to relax with a good book? Whether you want to be entertained or enlightened, you'll find plenty of options in these recommendations from Emory faculty and staff.
Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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An enthusiastic crowd filled the Carlos Museum Reception Hall for "Here Still/Still Here," a celebration of the 150th birthday of Irish poet W.B. Yeats featuring readings, music and more.
Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Tickets for award-winning Irish writer Colm Tóibín's 2017 Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature, set for Nov. 12-14, will be available to the public beginning Thursday, Oct. 5.
Tue Oct 03 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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A fall exhibit at Candler's Pitts Theology Library will highlight the library's renowned Kessler Reformation Collection, recognizing the collection's 30th anniversary as well as the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
Mon Aug 07 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Community is at the center of public events planned to celebrate the Feb. 8 inauguration of Emory President Claire E. Sterk as the university's 20th president and first female chief executive.
Tue Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2017
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The Emory Concert Choir will continue an Emory tradition now in its 11th year when it joins forces with Emory's vibrant a cappella community for "Barenaked Voices," a night of vocal performances benefiting Active Minds at Emory and Emory Helpline.
Mon Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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The music and poetry of Georgia native Sidney Lanier will be featured in "The Land, the People and Providence," a concert on Sunday, March 19, in the Glenn Memorial sanctuary.
Tue Mar 14 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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The legacy of Southern literary icon Pat Conroy will take center stage as the annual Decatur Book Festival kicks off Sept. 2 at Emory's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Tickets become available at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 4.
Tue Aug 02 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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The lifelong friendship between library staffer Jamie Weems and Hodari Davis built the bridge that will bring 600 young poets to Emory in July for an international youth poetry slam.
Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Poet Natasha Trethewey's "Native Guard" is at the center of a collaboration between Emory and the Alliance Theatre to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
Wed Apr 10 22:00:00 EDT 2013
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Emory novelist and playwright Jim Grimsley's new book, "How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood," is his story of being a white kid growing up surrounded by racism, and his journey to move beyond it.
Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will give a free reading at Emory's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19. Tickets are not required, but seating will be limited.
Wed Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Two poets with Emory connections will present a free reading and discussion on April 25 in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library.
Mon Apr 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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"X-Men: Days of Future Past" is the latest film to join in Hollywood's recent rediscovery of the 1970s. Film and media studies professor Tanine Allison believes the trend reveals a wave of nostalgia generated by those who were coming of age in that decade.
Fri May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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In this latest installment of Emory Looks at Hollywood, Emory University Old Testament professor Brent Strawn discusses the differences in the Biblical text of Moses and Hollywood's presentation in the movie "Exodus: Gods and Kings."
Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Calling all musicians, jugglers, unicyclists, hula hoopers, fitness instructors, and Emory student or community groups: Open Streets DeKalb is looking for local talent to enhance an upcoming community celebration.
Tue Sep 17 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts has appointed Dwight Vaught, an accomplished arts administrator and advocate, as its new executive director. Vaught succeeds founding director Robert McKay, who retires in January.
Tue Dec 20 00:00:00 EST 2016
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MARBL recently acquired six issues of The T-Jacket Journal, the official newsletter of the Sing with the Sinatras Club of Atlanta.
Mon Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Amalia Amaki¿s artistic vision offers soul-stirring insight into the nuances of culture and community.
Tue Mar 11 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Irish poet, editor and publisher Peter Fallon will give a free public reading at Emory University on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 6:30 p.m. in the Jones Room of the Robert W. Woodruff Library.
Tue Nov 04 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra performs Wednesday, May 6, at 8 p.m. in the Emerson Concert Hall of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Mon May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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The 2013 Atlanta Music Festival: African American Concert Music and American Culture returns to the city Sept. 18-21 with a series of performances, panel discussions and programs designed to explore the dynamic character of American music and arts through the lens of African American concert music.
Tue Sep 03 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Seven poets and authors, including Natasha Trethewey, Kevin Young and Tracy K. Smith, will come together along with the Vega Quartet and two special guests to celebrate the life and work of the late Irish poet Seamus Heaney on Thursday, Oct. 2.
Fri Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Local poets and members of the Emory community will participate in poetry readings and a group recitation of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Emory University's Woodruff Library.
Mon Oct 23 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Emory's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library is now home to the archives of Douglas Turner Ward, co-founder of the groundbreaking Negro Ensemble Company.
Tue Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Composer Richard Prior talks about the Emory University Symphony Orchestra concerts April 19-20 and the liberal arts philosophy that guides his work.
Wed Apr 10 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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"I don't think there's any question that a variety of our mental dispositions are ones that discourage us from taking evolutionary theory as seriously as it should be taken," explains Robert N. McCauley, director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture at Emory University and author of the book "Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not."
Wed Nov 27 01:00:00 EST 2013
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In the latest Emory Profile, the faculty curator of MARBL's African American collections talks about his time as a professional athlete, and his current work with students.
Fri Feb 01 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Don Stein, Asa G. Candler Professor and Distinguished Professor in Emergency Medicine, exhibits his abstract digital photography to help fund international medical aid.
Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2015
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The life and legacy of Pulitzer Prize wining author Alice Walker, who placed her extensive archive at Emory University in late 2007, is the subject of a Nov. 6 BronzeLens Film Festival documentary: "Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth" at the Ferst Center in Atlanta.
Mon Nov 04 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Emory theologian Don Saliers and his daughter, Indigo Girls' Emily Saliers 85C, will perform together at Oxford College on Tuesday. "Sing Justice, Sing Life" will feature a mixture of hymns and songs from her musical career.
Wed Aug 30 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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With public performances slated for June 20-July 11, Breaking Ground brings artists together to exchange ideas with fellow creators and share their processes with the community.
Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Emory's annual Tibet Week began Monday with the traditional opening ceremony and the start of construction of an intricate sand mandala. Events continue through Saturday, including daily meditation, panel discussions, a film screening and more.
Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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The Oscars air Sunday evening, under fire again for the lack of diversity among nominees. Film & Media Studies lecturer Eddy Von Mueller explains why fixing the inequities of the Academy Awards will require addressing problems across the movie industry.
Thu Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Alicia Svigals, the world's leading klezmer fiddler, will perform her original score during a Sept. 7 screening of the 1918 silent film "The Yellow Ticket," which follows a young Jewish woman facing anti-Semitism in Russia.
Mon Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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With a new focus on outreach to the LGBT community, MARBL is expanding its efforts to capture the the history and the humanity of transformative social movements in the South.
Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Oxford College's Library Specialist, Kim David, has recently received a nomination from the Georgia Writers Association for the 50th Georgia Author of the Year award in the children¿s book category for her book, "Stella the Sweet Potato¿s Amazing Journey."
Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Here are the top 10 television shows of 2017, according to scholar/fan members of Emory's Department of Film and Media Studies.
Fri Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2017
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This semester, Spanish students at Oxford College took photos to document immigrant experiences. A mural of their powerful work is now displayed on construction fencing around Oxford's new science building.
Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Emory's Atlanta and Oxford campuses welcome the return of several seasonal traditions, including A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols on Friday, Dec. 1, and Saturday, Dec. 2, in Glenn Memorial Auditorium.
Mon Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2017
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From the computer screen to the concert hall, Emory IT educational analyst and professional musician John Willingham enjoys interacting with his audience.
Mon Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2016
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"Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey," a dazzling exhibition of collages and other works by one of the most powerful and original artists of the 20th century, opens Dec. 14 at the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Thu Dec 12 00:00:00 EST 2013
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Composer and violinist Daniel Roumain comes to Emory Feb. 22 for a concert and classes.
Mon Feb 18 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Along with Shakespeare at Emory's November lineup, Arts at Emory presents a variety of film screenings, dance performances, literary readings and music events to keep your fall schedule packed.
Tue Nov 08 00:00:00 EST 2016
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A walk across Emory's campus reveals a variety of works of art by prominent sculptors, exemplifying beauty and provoking thought.
Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University recently acquired three photograph collections that will enhance its archives of the arts and art history, Atlanta and Southern history, and the LGBT community.
Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Camp Carlos, the summer program at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, still has some openings available in some of the summer camps offered at the museum.
Mon Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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To mark the 75th anniversary of the world premiere of the classic film "Gone with the Wind," Emory's Department of Film and Media Studies presents a talk by faculty member and department chair Matthew Bernstein on Dec. 1 and a screening of the film on Dec. 6.
Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Emory professors and students are at the forefront of an emerging field that examines, through literature, how people relate to the environment and are in turn shaped by it.
Wed Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Emory's James Weldon Johnson Institute presents the Fall 2016 Race and Difference Colloquium Series, hosting award-winning authors discussing recent scholarship on key issues of race and ethnicity.
Thu Sep 08 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Joseph Crespino, Jimmy Carter Professor of American history at Emory, talks about the university's release of a collection of personal correspondence and memorabilia of renowned novelist Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Go Set a Watchman" to the public for the first time.
Mon Apr 02 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Emory's campus calendar offers plenty of ways to cool off as the summer heats up. Head to the SAAC pool for July 4 and the "Dive In Movie," take advantage of free museum days and more.
Mon Jun 26 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Hundreds of young poets arrive at Emory this week for the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival. Public performances on campus include Thursday's Queeriosity.
Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Emory students, faculty, staff and alumni may apply by Nov. 6 to join the 2018 Journeys of Reconciliation trip to South Africa, scheduled for May 16-28.
Wed Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Emory's Film and Media Studies department makes its picks for the best films of 2015.
Fri Dec 18 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Ralph Wood will give the annual Aquinas Center of Theology's annual Flannery O'Connor lecture Monday, Sept. 16 and Tuesday, Sept. 17 at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health auditorium.
Mon Sep 16 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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With the new academic year under way, Emory's calendar is packed with a variety of engaging artistic, athletic and academic events. Check out these 10 activities to add to your agenda.
Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Author and journalist Gary Pomerantz will visit Emory for an author talk about his new book, "Their Life's Work: The Brotherhood of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers, Then and Now" on Thursday, Nov. 7.
Wed Oct 23 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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"Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt," now open at the Carlos Museum, showcases cats and lions, plus dogs and jackals, as domesticated pets, creatures of the wild and mythic symbols of divinity.
Wed Feb 14 00:00:00 EST 2018
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All the photographs in Aubrey Graham's exhibition "Portraits in Disneyland," on display in the Emory Center for Ethics, are active collaborations between herself and the people being portrayed.
Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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The Emory Climate Organization celebrates Climate Week with panel discussions, a film screening and a climate art exhibit. The events, set for March 14-17, explore intersections between climate change and a variety of fields.
Wed Mar 08 00:00:00 EST 2017
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The film experts in Emory's Department of Film and Media Studies have selected their picks for the best films in 2017.
Fri Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2017
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In her role as poet laureate, Emory University professor Natasha Trethewey initiated the practice of "office hours" in the Library of Congress' poetry room in Washington, and being available to the public for conversation. She intends to continue this practice with "Office Hours on the Road."
Mon Jun 10 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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The Principal Cello of the Atlanta Symphony joins Emory's quartet-in-residence on Friday, Sept. 12, for the first concert of the year in the annual Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta (ECMSA) - Emerson Series.
Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Established and emerging scholars from around the globe will converge on Emory this week to discuss the complex social identities surrounding race, gender and disability.
Tue Apr 05 09:00:00 EDT 2016
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Since announcing the acquisition of President Obama's letters, the Rose Library has welcomed a steady stream of students, faculty, staff and alumni to read his thoughts as a college student.
Wed Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Students, faculty, staff and alumni traveled to South Africa for the 2018 Journeys of Reconciliation trip, an immersive experience that examines the root causes of conflict while building bridges around the world.
Fri Jul 06 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Emory College senior Cameron Frostbaum is using his honors thesis research to introduce local audiences to microtheatre, which began in Spain and features short plays performed for small groups in flexible spaces.
Wed Mar 21 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Describing "Frankenstein," Mary Shelley referred to the story as the "spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow." Theater Emory's "Midnight Pillow," opening Sept. 21, brings 13 writers together to explore Shelley's depiction of the artistic method.
Sun Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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In a skillful combination of science and art, 3-D visualizations created by School of Medicine medical illustrator Michael Konomos help illustrate pioneering deep brain stimulation research led by Emory professor and neurologist Helen Mayberg.
Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Emory Dance Company presented "Undertow," a performance of new student choreographic works, April 14-16 in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Tue Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and director of creative writing at Emory University, reflects about visiting the Motor City middle-schoolers and the "sense of power" she witnessed as they found their voices.
Wed Oct 23 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), in collaboration with the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Life at Emory University, is showcasing selections from MARBL's 2013 exhibit, "Building a Movement in the Southeast: LGBT Collections in MARBL" in the Dobbs University Center (DUC) on level one during LGBT History Month in October.
Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Emory's diverse student a cappella groups combined their talents on Thursday, March 31, for the 13th annual Barenaked Voices concert.
Tue Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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"French New Wave: Classics and Rediscoveries" begins Jan. 13 with screenings on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. in White Hall 208 free and open to the public.
Tue Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2016
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"Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles," now on display at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, examines cultures in Central and South America through clothing and fiber objects of many kinds.
Thu Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Emory students and scholars can now access the complete rare folio set by Piranesi (1720-1778), who documented, imagined and recreated ancient Rome — buildings, maps, mausoleums, cemeteries, street scenes and more — through incredibly detailed etchings.
Mon Jun 04 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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An exhibit using materials from Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library grows out of the inspiration of a poem.
Thu Feb 06 00:00:00 EST 2014
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In January, senior Zeena Lattouf visited Zaatari, one of the biggest Syrian refugee camps in Jordan. Her documentary about the lack of education in the camp, produced with fellow student Meredith Stedman, screens Monday on campus.
Wed Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Riveting images of people living with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, taken by Atlanta-area photographer Billy Howard, are the basis of an exhibit opening June 15 at Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library.
Wed May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Real estate businessman and entrepreneur Charles S. Ackerman has fulfilled a pledge to gift $1 million to the Michael C. Carlos Museum to name the museum's reception hall, the Charles S. Ackerman Hall.
Thu Oct 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Alain Mabanckou, a Franco-Congolese writer, will be at Emory on Thursday, March 26, at 5:30 p.m. in 208 White Hall for a discussion entitled "Migrant Selves | A Round Table with Alain Mabanckou."
Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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The St. Olaf Choir concert scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 13, has been canceled due to severe weather conditions.
Wed Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Events for Emory's midwinter academic festival include the 20th annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture, given this year by acclaimed biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal.
Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Volunteers are needed for the Oct. 9-11 conference, which explores the roles institutions of higher education and community partners can play in shaping society through arts, humanities and more.
Mon Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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An enthusiastic crowd turned out Saturday, April 30, for the annual Emory Med Art Gala, held in the School of Medicine Atrium.
Mon May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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"The First Folio: The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare" opens Saturday at the Carlos Museum, the only Georgia site chosen to host the exhibit featuring the first printing of many of the Bard's legendary plays.
Wed Nov 02 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Acclaimed Irish author Colm Tóibín brings his experiences and insights to Emory Nov. 12-14 to deliver the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature, where he'll address the theme of "Writers and Their Fathers: Wilde, Yeats and Joyce."
Tue Nov 07 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Musical performances this month include the Annual Bach Bowl, tributes to Charles Ives and virtuoso touring artists.
Wed Jan 30 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Emory is hosting its first International Education Week (IEW) from Nov. 16-20. IEW is a worldwide initiative created to honor the benefits of international education and exchange around the globe.
Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Through the Journeys of Reconciliation program, Emory students, staff, faculty and alumni explore causes of conflict and efforts to create peace in locations around the globe.
Tue Jun 14 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Emory marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death with 12 hours of events, beginning with a battle scene at noon and ending with a ritual and toast at midnight.
Wed Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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"Tibetan Culture in the 21st Century" is the theme of this year's Tibet Week, set for March 20-25 with daily events including discussions, meditation and the traditional mandala sand painting.
Wed Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Volunteer trips to the organic farm at Emory's Oxford College are among the many entertaining and educational events on February's calendar, which also includes concerts, poetry readings and more.
Tue Feb 02 00:00:00 EST 2016
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A concert dedicated to peace will be presented by the Chancel Choir of Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church on Friday, March 2, at 8 p.m. in the church sanctuary.
Tue Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2018
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The Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University will exhibit rare items, including counterculture materials, from the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library as part of the ¿B-Side Modernism¿ research fellowship and upcoming conference this month.
Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Two Emory alumnae, Michelle Joan Wilkinson and Rhea Combs, are curators at the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
Mon Apr 03 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Emory University math professor Robert Schneider is featured.
Tue May 29 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Emory students welcomed the Lunar New Year with the annual Moonlight Gala, held Saturday, Feb. 6, in Cox Ballroom.
Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 EST 2016
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From "Stranger Things" to "This is Us," professors in Emory's Department of Film and Media Studies outline their choices for 20 of the best television shows of 2016.
Thu Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2016
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As the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta approaches, the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) at Emory University will launch a self-guided mobile tour of battle-related sites throughout the city.
Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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A gifted writer of short stories and essays, Lynna Williams helped shape Emory's Creative Writing Program during its foundational years and leaves a legacy of dedication to students and colleagues.
Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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From an ancient tablet recounting a great flood to works of art exploring how the world began, creation will be the focus of museum exhibits, discussions and more.
Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Comic book fans can enter into the virtual-reality streets of 'Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline,' an African-American superhero comic book, at an AJC Decatur Book Festival session featuring a digital project team from Emory's Center for Digital Scholarship.
Mon Aug 21 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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The conference will gather leading legal scholars, judges, ethicists, neuroscientists and psychologists at Georgia State University September 12-14 to grapple with some of the thorny legal issues being spurred by advances in neuroscience.
Tue Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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As filmmaker-in-residence at Emory, Nitzan Gilady's goal is to help students "turn their eyes into a camera lens." A series of film screenings featuring his work kicks off March 15.
Mon Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Emory University partners with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Georgia Humanities Council to present a year of academic and artistic programming that explores "Creation Stories." This is the first major collaboration among all three organizations.
Tue Oct 15 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Poet Tracy K. Smith, who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize, will give a reading, a colloquium and have a conversation with U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey.
Tue Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2014
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The Emory Dance program and Candler Concert Series welcome a host of Israeli guest artists Oct. 13-29 as a part of "EXPOSED," a six-week contemporary dance and physical theater festival.
Tue Oct 11 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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As Shakespeare's First Folio nears the end of its visit to Emory, the community gathered Dec. 5 for "The Bard and Poetry," an evening of readings from acclaimed poets Natasha Trethewey, Kevin Young and Jericho Brown.
Wed Dec 07 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Award-winning poet Kevin Young says he's never really finished writing a book until he can hold it in his hand and read from it, so in coming weeks, Emory's Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing will be crisscrossing the country, bringing to completion his newly published volume, "Book of Hours."
Fri Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Two artist talks that examine land use and architecture will be held this week on campus. Both are free and open to the public.
Tue May 21 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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'Breaking Ground' features new works including 'The Boy Who Smiled,' a multi-media exploration of autism set for July 6 featuring puppets, live performers and video.
Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Now in its third year, Emory's "Art and Social Engagement" course unites students, Atlanta artists and area nonprofits. As students partner with community-based organizations, they create artwork that can influence pressing social issues.
Fri Apr 21 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Arts at Emory hosts a diverse slate of events for February, featuring a series of Black History Month performances that includes an interactive presentation from Dancing for Justice Philadelphia.
Tue Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2017
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A tour of the new materials recently received from the Mary Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust.
Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra visits campus this month to perform the debut of "a canticle of shadows," an elegy for victims of war from Richard Prior, director of performance studies at Emory.
Thu Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Richard Prior's new work "a canticle of shadows" seeks to counter desensitization to suffering around the world. It premieres Friday evening in a performance by the renowned Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Emerson Concert Hall.
Thu Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2017
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An exhibition that virtually transports visitors to historic Rome opens at the Michael C. Carlos Museum on Aug. 24 and runs through Nov. 17.
Thu Aug 22 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie will participate in an advance screening of "Midnight's Children" on Feb. 27 and other film events at Emory.
Fri Feb 08 01:00:00 EST 2013
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The latest video of the Emory Looks at Hollywood series examines the use of culture as collateral in "The Monuments Men."
Thu Feb 06 10:00:00 EST 2014
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Summer is winding down, but there are still lots of entertaining events and educational opportunities to enjoy -- from creating art "In the Cards" to exhibits, movies and more.
Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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The Emory University Center for Ethics hosted a discussion on the undead called "Zombies and Zombethics."
Fri Nov 01 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Donna and Marvin Schwartz Artist-in-Residence Dana Haugaard premieres "Now, More Than Ever," a sound and sculpture installation, March 5-6 at the Emory University Visual Arts Gallery.
Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 EST 2015
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"I am not that I play (gender and disguise)" is an adaptation of five Shakespearean classics featuring heroines who disguise themselves as men.
Tue Sep 24 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Craig R. Prentiss, author of "Staging Faith: Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II," will visit Emory University for a book reading and signing Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m. in the Jones Room at Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library.
Fri Feb 14 01:00:00 EST 2014
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The papers of acclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey, who won the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in May, have been acquired by Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Natasha Trethewey, Emory professor and former U.S. poet laureate, has been awarded the 2016 Academy of American Poets Fellowship. Past recipients include Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Frost and Ezra Pound.
Fri Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Men's figure skater Johnny Weir-Voronov and husband Victor Weir-Voronov, a 2005 graduate of Emory, will place their papers in the LGBT collection at the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Fri Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2013
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A new exhibit at the Michael C. Carlos Museum unites artwork and classwork in a hands-on way, allowing Emory students to curate a first-of-its-kind show about the Ramayana in Indian painting.
Tue Feb 20 00:00:00 EST 2018
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U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey concluded the 2012-2013 literary season at the Library of Congress with a deeply personal defense of poetry. Trethewey and her husband will leave Washington next month to return to their teaching jobs at Emory University.
Thu May 02 23:00:00 EDT 2013
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SLIDESHOW: Catlanta creates art for Dooley's Week
Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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A medieval masterpiece of mystical birds and magical symbols is the topic of the Persian Art Lecture on Monday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Reception Hall of the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Emory University will debut the first major exhibition to celebrate the life and work of late Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney since his death, including rarely seen photographs, personal correspondence with other writers, and the surface of his one-time writing desk.
Mon Jan 13 00:00:00 EST 2014
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The Center on Ehtics partners with the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Opera and the WonderRoot Community Arts Center to bring performers, producers and playwrights to campus to explore with audience members the ethical and social implications of productions.
Thu Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2013
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Scholar Rand Brandes will discuss the publishing legacy of the late Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who won the Nobel Prize and was also his friend and mentor.
Wed Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2018
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You can't always get what you want -- unless you're the Emory University Concert Choir, which received the invitation of a lifetime to sing backup at the Rolling Stones concert Tuesday night in Atlanta.
Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Miriam Udel, associate professor of Yiddish language, literature and culture, has won the National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience for her work, "Never Better! The Modern Jewish Picaresque."
Thu Jan 26 00:00:00 EST 2017
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Focusing on local writers, the Brave New Works Festival takes place Jan. 25 through Feb. 6 in the Theater Lab of Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Thu Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Lydia Conklin and Phillip B. Williams begin their two-year terms as Creative Writing Fellows in August. Their activities will include teaching three workshops each semester.
Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Music legends Chick Corea and Bela Fleck kick off a busy month of arts events, including concerts, theater, dance and literature.
Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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As his interest later shifted to Pollock and abstraction, he created what Hantai scholar and Emory University assistant professor Molly Warnock calls an "objective automatism," meaning that Hantai's unplanned images were produced by engaging with material rather than by delving into his own unconscious mind.
Wed May 01 23:00:00 EDT 2013
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Emory will play host to a symphony of spookiness Friday night with a special screening of the classic silent film "Nosferatu," accompanied by original music composed by recent graduate Robert Cooper.
Tue Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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"Ransom Notes," featuring brother and sister duo Kate and William Ransom will perform the music of Mozart, Dvorak and Prokofiev on Friday, May 9, at noon in the Reception Hall of the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Tue May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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From a "Day On" to honor Martin Luther King Jr. to "Brave New Works" of theater, this month's calendar is packed with fun and affordable campus events.
Tue Jan 05 00:00:00 EST 2016
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An accomplished jazz bassist majoring in music studies and psychology, Emory College student Chris Batterman has won a prestigious Beinecke Scholarship to help fund his PhD in ethnomusicology.
Thu Apr 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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One of the world's most famous works of art is now restored and back on view, thanks to an international team including Emory's Bonna Wescoat.
Thu Jul 31 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Performance artist, sculptor, professor, urban crusader and arts luminary Theaster Gates concludes his Emory residency with a public performance piece based on his work with students in Emory's integrated visual arts co-major.
Mon Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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"Medical Treasures at Emory," an exhibition of intriguing historical medical books and artifacts, is now open at Emory University's Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library (WHSCL) - a reminder of the days when doctors had a rudimentary understanding of human anatomy, performed surgery without antiseptic, and used primitive forms of anesthesia for operations and dental work.
Wed May 01 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Critically acclaimed American poet, essayist, and undertaker Thomas Lynch joins Emory University's Candler School of Theology this semester as the McDonald Family Chair on the Life and Teachings of Jesus and their Impact on Culture.
Tue Mar 05 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Egyptologist Melinda Hartwig is the Michael C. Carlos Museum's new curator of ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern art.
Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2015
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October brings a variety of fall traditions to the Emory campus, from cool evenings of Jazz on the Green to zombies and mummies for Halloween.
Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Generations of Emory graduate students have helped with research and editing on the Beckett Letters Project, which celebrates its latest volume Nov. 5 with a free reading featuring several actors.
Thu Oct 30 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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T Cooper, author of eight books including "The Beaufort Diaries," "Lipshitz 6 or Two Angry Blondes" and "Real Man Adventures," will join Emory's Creative Writing Program faculty in the fall.
Tue Jun 05 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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For a course on the U.S.-Mexican War, professor Vialla Hartfield- Méndez had students read articles written in English and Spanish, then cut them apart to create a new narrative. Emory faculty and students can learn more about the method at events this week.
Tue Mar 29 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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As Emory University prepares for the November arrival of Shakespeare's First Folio from the Folger Library, the Emory Libraries will exhibit "A Goodly Commodity: Shakespeare in Pop Culture" from June 29 to Feb. 26.
Tue Jun 28 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Summer's slower pace offers the perfect time to relax with a good book, and whether you're in the mood for thoughtful novels or compelling nonfiction, Emory authors have you covered.
Fri Jun 29 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Emory's Creative Writing Program will welcome two new postgraduate fellows to campus this fall. Michael Marberry has been named the new Fellow in Poetry and Cassie Gonzales will serve as the Fellow in Fiction for 2017-2019.
Thu Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Emory is one of three sites nationwide for a touring 50th anniversary celebration of the famed Negro Ensemble Company and its visionary co-founders: playwright Douglas Turner Ward, producer-actor Robert Hooks and theater manager Gerald Krone.
Thu Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Homecoming visitors who stop at the Robert W. Woodruff Library will find a special treat - an exhibit on the digitization of Emory University yearbooks from 1893 to 1999, with more recent years to be added soon to the archive, which is now online.
Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Emory librarian James Steffen will talk about his new book, "The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov," on Monday, Nov. 18 from 6-8 p.m. at the Robert W. Woodruff Library.
Thu Nov 14 01:00:00 EST 2013
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This month's Alumni Ink column from Emory Wire is dedicated to Emory's food writers and food lovers who savor their descriptive phrases as much as their tended gardens and cherished recipes.
Wed Dec 17 00:00:00 EST 2014
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Emory College junior Caroline Schmidt, a creative writing major praised as a "natural storyteller," has been named one of 20 winners of the 2016 Beinecke Scholarship. The national award provides funding for graduate school.
Thu Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Natasha Trethewey, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing and director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University, has been appointed to serve a second term as U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.
Mon Jun 10 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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"Macbeth," which opens Nov. 14, explores the classic Shakespearean drama amid today's expanding digital and virtual frameworks.
Tue Nov 12 01:00:00 EST 2013
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U.S. Poet Laureate and Emory University professor Natasha Trethewey will join PBS NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown for the final installment of their "Where Poetry Lives" series May 20.
Mon May 19 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Each year, an Oxford College sociology class travels to Ecuador to explore the Amazon, witnessing shamanic powers, and studying the flip side of immigration.
Thu Oct 10 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney will visit the Emory University campus for a free public reading on Saturday, March 2.
Tue Feb 05 01:00:00 EST 2013
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Acclaimed artist and Emory PhD student Fahamu Pecou debuts the first of four large-scale public art installations he is creating for Atlanta MARTA stations.
Thu Jun 30 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Enjoy music and laughter at "Musical Jokes" on Friday, May 8, in the Michael C. Carlos Museum Reception Hall.
Tue May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Theater Emory carries the spooky spirit into November with "The Anointing of Dracula" on stage through Nov. 5. The upcoming month also features acclaimed Irish author Colm Tóibín and music under the stars at the Emory Planetarium.
Tue Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2017
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Meditation, mandala sand painting, and a variety of forums for exploring the culture and science of Tibet will highlight Tibet Week March 24-29.
Wed Mar 19 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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Emory University history professor Jonathan Prude is quoted.
Wed Mar 28 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) at Emory University has announced the opening of the Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection to the Emory community online.
Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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From St. Peter's Basilica to the famed Apollo Belvedere in the Vatican Museum, see photographs of great works of art and architecture in historic Rome on exhibit at the Michael C. Carlos Museum beginning Saturday, Oct. 5.
Wed Oct 02 01:00:00 EDT 2013
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A collection of personal correspondence and memorabilia of renowned novelist Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Go Set a Watchman," has been acquired by Emory's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library.
Wed Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2018
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As an Emory Scholar in the early 1990s, Jennifer Barlament spent almost every weekend attending Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performances on student tickets. Two decades after graduating from Emory College, she returns to Georgia to serve as the orchestra's executive director.
Thu Mar 24 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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Emory University has been chosen as the Georgia site to display "First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare," a national traveling exhibition of one of the world's most treasured books.
Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 EST 2015
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Musical America, a publication at the forefront of classical music, has named William Ransom, artistic director of the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta, to its "30 Innovators of the Year" in classical music.
Tue Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2016
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Erica Jong, known for her 1973 novel "Fear of Flying," and Roxane Gay, praised for her 2014 essay collection "Bad Feminist," joined in a wide-ranging conversation at Emory's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2015
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Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie, University Distinguished Professor at Emory, returns to campus this month for several events, including a Feb. 15 public lecture on "The Liberty Instinct."
Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2015
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May at Emory is all about Commencement, with the big event and lots of activities surrounding it. But there is still plenty to do, especially if you enjoy exhibits and concerts, both before and after the May 14 ceremony.
Thu May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2018
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Five of Pat Conroy's friends and family members took the stage as the Decatur Book Festival kicked off at Emory, paying tribute to the late writer with personal stories and poignant readings.
Tue Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2016
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More than 1,800 fans of Latin and Greek are coming to Emory for the National Junior Classical League's national convention, a week of events for students and teachers.
Thu Jul 24 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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An Emory Center for Digital Scholarship event introduces four faculty members' digital humanities projects, including ebooks, a layered map and an interactive magazine.
Thu Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2014
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