Month: February 2021

Rose Library awarded Silver Level Green Office Certification!

Posted onAuthorLolita Rowe

The Emory University Office of Sustainability Initiatives awarded the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library their Green Office Certification at the Silver Level for 2020-2021.    Rose Library, as it’s more commonly known, is uniquely positioned to develop environmental literacy among those who use our collections as well as our own staff and has already identified justice-centered professional practice as a priority of our work. In meeting Read More …

Correspondence from the Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade papers is now open for research

Posted onAuthorLolita Rowe

Writers, actors and artists like James Baldwin, Eartha Kitt and Ada “Bricktop” Smith found inspiration, escape and illustrious careers in Paris. It was in a Paris nightclub that composer and piano virtuoso Mary Lou Williams stood up from her piano and retired from music for three years, in search of a more spiritual path (Wilson, Read More …

Disability Justice Past and Present: Theatre, Scholarship, Activism

Posted onAuthorLolita Rowe

Emory University and the Folger Institute, with the support of Georgia Humanities, invite students, members of the Emory community and the general public to New Research and Performance Directions in Premodern Disability Studies, a virtual seminar taking place Thursday afternoon through Saturday, 4 – 6 March 2021. Tickets are free and registration is required by Read More …

Emory’s Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Changes Literary History

Posted onAuthorLolita Rowe

This March, Dr. Nick Sturm, the NEH Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics at The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, will lead a “Great Works” seminar series that explores the history and holdings of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library. Assembled by collector Raymond Danowski over 30 years, the Danowski Poetry Library contains over 75,000 Read More …