by University Communications Spelman College President Mary Schmidt Campbell will join Emory University’s Kimberly Wallace-Sanders and moderator Rose Scott of WABE Radio for a conversation Wednesday, May 8, titled “Framing Shadows/Framing Lives,” an evening inspired by the new exhibition “Framing Shadows: Portraits of African American Nannies,” now on display at Emory’s Woodruff Library. The exhibit,…
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Register for the Scholarly Impact Challenge
Scholars can promote their research to new audiences by participating in the Scholarly Impact 5-Day Challenge, which will take place April 8-12. There’s no class to attend or webinar to watch. Participants can simply sign up now at http://emorylib.info/impact to receive an email a day for five days with an easy activity to complete that will raise…
“Rolling with the big dogs:” A high school sophomore’s experience interning at Emory
by Ramsey Baden “Everyone’s here to get work done.” That’s the reason Kevin Jennings gives for wanting to apply to Emory when he’s a senior. Jennings, a sophomore at Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School, came to Emory in August 2018 through his school’s work study program to begin an internship with Libraries and Information…
“Framing Shadows” exhibition examines lives of African American nannies
by Maureen McGavin A new exhibition of historical photographs at Emory University encourages visitors to consider the lives of African American women who spent years raising the children of white families. “Framing Shadows: Portraits of Nannies from the Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection” now open on Level 3 in Emory’s Woodruff Library. The exhibition…
Dance class uses Rose Library archives to inspire choreography projects
by Maureen McGavin It may seem like an unlikely pairing: An Emory dance class using the Rose Library archives as a source for choreography? However, it’s turned out to be an ideal match, and a creative way to incorporate primary resources into a liberal arts education. Since 2014, Emory dance professor Anna Leo has made…
One-Button Studio makes DIY video projects a snap
by Emory Libraries The One-Button Studio is now open on Level 1 of the Woodruff Library, courtesy of Emory’s Academic Technology Services. This new space allows Emory students, faculty and staff to record a quality HD video with the touch of a single button, without any prior production experience. To record a video, users insert…
A Lifelong Interest Builds a Lasting Legacy (Randall Burkett)
https://news.emory.edu/features/2019/01/randall-burkett-collection/index.html For media inquiries, contact: Holly Crenshaw Phone: 404-727-0211 Email: holly crenshaw emory edu Elaine Justice Phone: 404-727-0643 Email: elaine justice emory edu
Former inaugural poet Richard Blanco to give free reading at Emory on Feb. 23
by Emory Libraries Richard Blanco, who gained recognition after reading his poem “One Today” at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2013, will present his work on Saturday, Feb. 23, at 4 p.m. at Emory University’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. The event is open to the public at no charge. Tickets…
Finals hounding you? De-stress with therapy dogs
by Ramsey Baden Finals can definitely put a damper on students’ spirits, but Emory Libraries will help counter that with its annual Pet Therapy Study Break, which will take place 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 13 in the Jones Room at the Woodruff Library. Students can escape the stress by spending a…
Bicentennial tribute to Frederick Douglass shows abolitionist’s speeches still resonate
Dramatic readings of lectures originally given by abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass, presented at an event Nov. 27 at Emory’s Cannon Chapel, struck a chord with contemporary listeners just as they did more than 130 years ago. Emory Libraries and the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library partnered with the Consulate General…
Health sciences library opens new “Spirit Lives On” dementia awareness exhibit
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library has opened “The Spirit Lives On: Art and the Mind,” a new dementia awareness permanent exhibit. The exhibit documents some of the photography and artwork aspects of “The Spirit Lives On: Art, Music, and the Mind,” which used the arts to highlight and acknowledge the impact of dementing illness…
Locate Samuel Beckett letters in over 25 American archives with one website Project led by Emory University
Emory University announces the debut of The Location Register of the Letters of Samuel Beckett in American Public Archives (beckett.library.emory.edu), an open-access website listing the archival descriptions and locations of the letters of the Irish Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett. Users can browse the Location Register by recipient, physical description, sender and recipient addresses, language, repository,…
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- Tom Dent and the Literature of Black Suppression September 7, 2021Justin Haynes is an associate professor of English at Randolph-Macon College. He was awarded a Billops-Hatch fellowship in support of his research on carnivals in the Americas. He is the 2021-2023 Nicholas Jenkins Barnett Fellow in fiction at Emory University. Tom Dent’s creative writing and essays focus on centering cultural Blackness in his hometown of...Lolita Rowe
- Uncovering Enslavement on the Main Emory Campus: Two Receipts from the Civil War Era September 2, 2021Mark Auslander is a historical anthropologist and former faculty member at Emory College and Oxford College. Let us consider two receipts issued during the Civil War in the town of Decatur, Georgia. Both cast light on the structures and experiences of enslavement on the lands that would become, many decades later, parts of the main...Lolita Rowe
- The David R. Scott and Anne Lurton Scott Papers Are Now Available for Research July 26, 2021“The Rose Library is thrilled to add the Scott papers to our holdings that document spaceflight and the American experience during the Cold War,” says Jennifer Gunter King, the Director of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. “These unique primary source materials are a perfect companion to the Apollo 15 Learning...Lolita Rowe
- Geoffrey Holder’s Scripts are now available for research July 16, 2021Abbey Hafer is a PhD Candidate in the Art History department at Emory University specializing in early modern Italian art and architecture. She is a Graduate Processing Assistant for the Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade papers at Rose Library. This newly available subseries of the Geoffrey Holder papers consists of hundreds of scripts and...Lolita Rowe
- The Rose Library Acquires the Papers of Atlanta LGBTQ+ Rights Activist Winston Johnson May 6, 2021The Rose Library has a trove of collections that document activism in Atlanta, Georgia, the South, and the nation. Here is some information about a new collection. The Rose Library has acquired the papers of Atlanta LGBTQ+ and human rights activist Winston Johnson. The collection includes correspondence, printed material, and photographs that document Johnson’s work...Lolita Rowe