"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 Backroads, discusses the unsolved mystery of Buchanan's death. This lecture is a community event.
"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 of her contemporaries and examine how modern authors continue to draw inspiration from her work. This lecture is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.
"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 that afflicted Carson McCullers from a young age. This lecture is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.
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 on the topic. This tour will visit sites around Atlanta pertinent to Jewish civil rights history, including The Temple, Rich's Department Store building, Peachtree Manor […]
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 on the topic. This tour will visit sites around Atlanta pertinent to Jewish civil rights history, including The Temple, Rich's Department Store building, Peachtree Manor […]
"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 Pioneer exhibition. *Special parking available in the Townsend Center gated lot beginning at 10:00 a.m.
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 Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia, and a panel of special guests, who will be interviewed by Paste editor-in-chief Josh Jackson. Copies of the book will be […]
"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 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 […]
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 at the time of World War II. This lecture is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.
"Jackie Robinson: His Life and Legacy" lecture Jackie Robinson biographer Dr. Arnold Rampersad of Stanford University will deliver a lecture in conjunction with the Jackie Robinson: Baseball and Civil Rights Pioneer exhibition. *Special parking available in the Townsend Center gated lot beginning at 10:00 a.m.
