"Carson's Columbus" lecture Historian and author Dr. Virginia Causey discusses the childhood world of writer Carson McCullers in a look at Columbus, Georgia, in the 1920s-40s. This lecture is supported […]
"Searching for Beulah Buchanan: The 20-Year Search for What Happened to a Little Girl on Thanksgiving Day, 1917," lunch and learn lecture Dan Roper, the publisher and editor of Georgia […]
"Carson McCullers and the Southern Gothic" lecture Did Carson McCullers "invent" Southern Gothic? Southern literature expert and former McCullers Center director Dr. Courtney George will place McCullers in the context […]
"The Illness Experience in Carson McCullers's Life and Work" lecture Dr. Casey Kayser, president of the Carson McCullers Society, will provide a forward-looking interpretation of the influence of the maladies […]
Historic Jewish Atlanta Civil Rights Tour The history of race relations in Atlanta is often examined only from white and African American perspectives. Jewish testimony provides an important third perspective […]
Historic Jewish Atlanta Civil Rights Tour The history of race relations in Atlanta is often examined only from white and African American perspectives. Jewish testimony provides an important third perspective […]
"Racism in the Era of Jackie Robinson" lecture University of West Georgia history professor Larry Rivers will deliver a lecture in conjunction with the Jackie Robinson: Baseball and Civil Rights […]
Georgia Reads Atlanta Kick-off The Georgia Reads book club will kick-off in Atlanta with a discussion featuring Rodger Lyle Brown, author of Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M., and the […]
"Gangs, Bullies, and Difference: The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton), Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (Sherman Alexie), and Wonder (R.J. Palacio)" lecture Dr. Pearl McHaney presents part three of the "Connecting […]
An Evening With Hilton Als The New Yorker’s Hilton Als, a leading literary and cultural critic, will discuss Carson McCullers’s role in creating the prototypical “outsider” view of American society […]
