Georgia Reads Athens Kick-off The Georgia Reads book club will kick-off in Athens with a discussion featuring Rodger Lyle Brown, author of Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia, and a panel of local musicians (including Vanessa Briscoe Hay of Pylon), who will be interviewed by David Barbe, producer/engineer, […]
Atlanta Studies @ Emory The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, in collaboration with the Emory Center for Faculty Development and Excellence and the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry will host a discussion of the research platforms, projects, and publications about Atlanta that are currently facilitated by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. […]
"Choices and Their Consequences: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) and The Giver (Lois Lowry)" lecture Dr. Pearl McHaney presents part four of the "Connecting Lines: Building Empathy Through Literature" lecture series, sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book. To hear an interview with McHaney by "City Lights" host Lois Reitzes, click here. This is a […]
Resilient Atlanta: New Perspectives on the Civil War and Its Aftermath symposium Atlanta suffered a steep descent during the Civil War, and ended it in a worse state than any other American city. Yet Atlanta emerged like a phoenix from the ashes of war largely due to the people who lived there. Rich and poor, […]
Revival: Lost Southern Voices The South has produced great literature for generations, but times change and works are forgotten. This project celebrates forgotten and underappreciated works and their authors—lost southern voices. Over two days, Georgia State University will host authors such as Natasha Trethewey, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Terry Kay will share their favorite “lost” literature. […]
Revival: Lost Southern Voices The South has produced great literature for generations, but times change and works are forgotten. This project celebrates forgotten and underappreciated works and their authors—lost southern voices. Over two days, Georgia State University will host authors such as Natasha Trethewey, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Terry Kay who will share their favorite “lost” […]
Mill League Memories lecture, April 9, 2017 Dr. Thomas Veve will discuss the role of mill village sports in the development of local sports programs, as well as the importance these leagues played in mill village life. This lecture is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.
Goodrich C. White Lecture 2017: Junot Diaz Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow, and creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver Emory University's Goodrich C. White lecture. This is a community event.
Georgia's Rural Churches: Historic Treasures or Relics of the Past? lecture Sonny Seals and George Hart discuss their book Historic Rural Churches of Georgia, a co-publication of Georgia Humanities and the University of Georgia Press. This is a community event.
“Individuals and Communities: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Beloved” lecture Dr. Pearl McHaney presents part five of the “Connecting Lines: Building Empathy Through Literature” lecture series, sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book. To hear an interview with McHaney by “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes, click here. This is a community event.
