Jazz aficionados and educators are invited to a special event on Thursday, March 21, when Emory University professor and jazz pianist Gary Motley will launch his new book with a panel discussion that includes jazz luminaries. The panel discussion, moderated by WABE’s Lois Reitzes, will take place from 5 – 6 p.m. in the Stuart Read More …
Visitors who attend the 2024 Ellmann Lectures March 3-5 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts can also enjoy the traveling version of the National Library of Ireland’s acclaimed exhibition “Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again.” The exhibit, located in the Center’s Chace Gallery, will run March 3–April 14, 2024, and is free and open Read More …
Emory Libraries will mark Women’s History Month with events, exhibitions, and blog posts about our resources that celebrate and illuminate women’s achievements. Exhibitions: At the Crossroads: Benny Andrews, Flannery O’Connor and Alice Walker (major exhibition running through July 12) Visit the exhibit page Events: 9th annual Women of Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Thursday, March 28, Read More …
Emory Libraries will celebrate African American History Month with poetry readings, exhibitions, films, graphic novels, and other resources that you can enjoy. Exhibitions: Emory Libraries exhibition examines intersecting lives and work of Benny Andrews, Flannery O’Connor and Alice Walker (major exhibition running through July 12) Events: 12th Night Revel with poet Major Jackson to Read More …
Major Jackson, an award-winning poet and host of the podcast “The Slowdown,” will give a public reading during a visit to Emory University on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2023, at 3 p.m. in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on the Emory campus. Jackson’s books will be for sale at the reading, with a signing Read More …
Lyndon Batiste, head of user services for the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University, has been named to the 2024 American Library Association Emerging Leaders program. Batiste will join a select cohort of 50 early-career librarians from across the US and Canada participating in project planning groups and networking events, gaining an inside look Read More …
Lisa Fenn joined Emory University on Dec. 1 as the inaugural senior director of belonging, diversity, and equity for Emory Libraries and the Michael C. Carlos Museum. Among other responsibilities, Fenn will guide the work of the current library and museum DEI committees and assist their human resources departments on DEI matters relating to hiring Read More …
As hip hop’s 50th anniversary this year continues to be celebrated across Atlanta and the music world, Emory University is marking the genre’s success and staying power with a special Nov. 10 campus event and an exhibit at Science Gallery Atlanta co-sponsored by the University. Clint Fluker, senior director of culture, community and partner engagement Read More …
Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library will open a major exhibition in October that will bring together, for the first time, the lives and work of three Georgia-born artists – painter/illustrator Benny Andrews and writers Flannery O’Connor and Alice Walker. “At the Crossroads with Benny Andrews, Flannery O’Connor and Alice Read More …
What would it look like for archives, libraries, and museums to value their communities over their collections? How can these institutions more fully embrace practices of listening and relationship building, while interrupting traditional practices rooted in colonialism? The Emory and Atlanta communities are invited to “Centering Community in Museums, Libraries, and Archives” on Wednesday, June Read More …
Rosalyn Metz, associate university librarian, Library Technology and Digital Strategies for Emory Libraries, will assume the inaugural role of chief technology officer, libraries and museum and associate university librarian for digital strategies effective June 1, 2023. In this new role, Metz will lead the creation of a unified vision and implementation for current and future Read More …
Event postponed UPDATE: In response to feedback, the “Documenting Health Crises: Oral Histories of Covid and Ebola” event will not be held on the Emory campus on Tuesday, April 18, at 4 p.m. as scheduled. The program will instead be virtual, so that international audiences may participate. Stay tuned for the new date and time Read More …
