{"id":2832,"date":"2018-08-31T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2018-08-31T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:33:00","slug":"emory-history-department-well-represented-at-decatur-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2018\/08\/31\/emory-history-department-well-represented-at-decatur-book-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Emory History Department Well Represented at Decatur Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emory History Department faculty, alumni, and current students are among the presenting authors at this year&#8217;s AJC Decatur Book Festival, the largest independent book festival in the country. 2018 marks the first year that Emory University is a presenting sponsor. See the presentations of authors associated with the History Department below, and explore the full schedule\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.decaturbookfestival.com\/sessions\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/crespino-joseph.html\">Joseph Crespino<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Jimmy Carter Professor of History and History Department Chair. &#8220;Atticus Finch: A Biography.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sept. 2, 3:45-4:30 p.m., Decatur Presbyterian Sanctuary.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mesas.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/lal.html\">Ruby Lal<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0Professor of South Asian History, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies and Associated Faculty in History.\u00a0&#8220;Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan.&#8221;\u00a0<i>Sept. 1, 3-3:45 p.m., Marriott Conference Center B.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/creativewriting.emory.edu\/home\/people\/core-faculty\/klibanoff-hank.html\">Hank Klibanoff<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Practice, Creative Writing. &#8220;Understanding our Painful Past: Investigating the Impact of Lynchings Through Voice and Prose.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Sept. 1, 5:30-6:15 p.m., Decatur Presbyterian Sanctuary<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Edward Hatfield<\/strong>, Managing Editor of the \u201cNew Georgia Encyclopedia.\u201d Hatfield will introduce Joseph Crespino.\u00a0<em>Sept. 2, 3:45-4:30 p.m., Decatur Presbyterian Sanctuary.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelle Oppong-Ampofo<\/strong>, Poet, Emory College Junior, and History Department Work-Study Student.\u00a0Oppong-Ampofo will read her poetry on <em>Sunday, Sept. 2,\u00a0<\/em><em>4:40-6 p.m.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emory History Department faculty, alumni, and current students are among the presenting authors at this year&#8217;s AJC Decatur Book Festival, the largest independent book festival in the country. 2018 marks the first year that Emory University is a presenting sponsor. See the presentations of authors associated with the History Department below, and explore the full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}