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Emory's Michael C. Carlos Museum presents "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs," opening Nov. 15, 2008, at the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center. The exhibition spans 2,000 years of history and includes more than 130 artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun and other ancient Egyptian sites. This is the first time these treasures will be seen in the Southeast. April 2, 2008 |
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Natasha Trethewey, Emory University Pulitzer Prize winning poet and professor, has been named 2008 Georgia Woman of the Year by the Georgia Commission on Women. July 29, 2008 |
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Salman Rushdie, Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emory University, has taken the famous Booker Prize to new heights. July 10, 2008 |
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Q&A With Chester Higgins on “Nubian Dreams: Images of the Sudan” Chester Higgins, one of the premiere photographers of his generation, answer questions about the new Schatten Gallery exhibition. July 3, 2008 |
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The majesty and mystery of stone monuments from the ancient African kingdoms of Nubia have come to Emory University in an exhibition of photographs from famed New York Times photographer Chester Higgins. July 1, 2008 |
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Emory University English professor Mark Bauerlein’s newest book on what he terms "the Dumbest Generation" finds significant potholes along the information superhighway. May 19, 2008 |
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Bauerlein Challenges The 'Dumbest Generation' Emory English professor Mark Bauerlein's "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future" has attracted national buzz in advance of its publication May 15. May 13, 2008 |
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IMAGE Honors Emory Film Studies Professor Emory University film studies professor Matthew Bernstein is being honored tonight at the 2008 IMAGE Film Awards Gala, an annual celebration of film culture held at Atlanta's Fox Theater. April 8, 2008 |
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Danowski Poetry Library Exhibit Debuts at Emory The first major exhibition of items from Emory University's Raymond Danowski Poetry Library is now on display in the Schatten Gallery of the university's Woodruff Library. March 27, 2008 |
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Emory Lecture Series to Illuminate Humanities, Arts Some of the world's leading scholars of the arts and humanities, as well as artists, will visit Emory University as part of a new lecture series, "Luminaries in Arts and Humanities," sponsored by Emory's Office of the Provost. March 25, 2008 |
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Alice Walker to Give Reading at Emory Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winner and internationally known Georgia-born novelist and poet, will give a public reading at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 25 at Emory University's Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 1652 N. Decatur Road. March 11, 2008 |
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SCLC Places Archive at Emory Emory University and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced March 6 that the SCLC has placed its archive with Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. March 6, 2008 |
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Finest U.S. Poets to Gather at Emory Some of the country's most celebrated poets, including two former U.S. poet laureates, will gather at Emory University April 2-4 for "A Fine Excess: A Three-Day Celebration of Poetry." Feb. 29, 2008 |
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Editorial Cartoonist From Kenya to Visit Emory University Nairobi-based, award-winning editorial cartoonist Godfrey Mwampembwa "Gado" will deliver a public lecture "Cartooning in Conflict: Can Cartoons Help Bring Peace to the Political Crisis in Kenya?" on Feb. 26. updated Feb. 21, 2008 |
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Emory University welcomes award-winning author Dorothy Allison to Atlanta for a three-month residency as the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Distinguished Visiting Professor for spring 2008. Feb. 20, 2008 |
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Alice Walker Places Her Archive at Emory Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winner and internationally known Georgia-born novelist and poet, has placed her archive at Emory. Dec. 18, 2007 |
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Carlos Museum Exhibits Some of Africa's Greatest Archaeological Treasures Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum is opening a major traveling exhibition featuring some of the most significant archaeological treasures ever found in Africa. Feb. 6, 2008 |
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Beginning Feb. 9, Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum reopened its African Galleries in conjunction with the opening of the major traveling exhibition "Lost Kingdoms of the Nile: Nubian Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." Feb. 6, 2008 |
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Emory's Center for Ethics Appoints Penn's Wolpe as New Director Renowned ethicist and University of Pennsylvania professor Paul Root Wolpe has been appointed director of Emory University's Center for Ethics. Jan. 23, 2008 |
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Salman Rushdie, Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emory University, will deliver a public lecture titled "Autobiography and the Novel" at 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10 in Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 1652 N. Decatur Rd. on Emory's main campus. Jan. 17, 2008 |
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Exhibit Unveils Process of Creating Poetry "Visions and Revisions: An Exhibition of Poems in Process" takes visitors on the journey of composition alongside 10 poets whose manuscripts, revisions and final versions of 16 individual poems are on display. Jan. 16, 2008 |
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Statement by Alice Walker Dec. 18, 2007 |
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Major Literary Works by Alice Walker Dec. 18, 2007 |
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Leading editorial cartoonists from around the world will gather at Emory University Nov. 12-15 for "Cartooning for Peace," a series of public discussions and classroom lectures on the role of their art when it comes to conflict, global health and political leadership. Oct. 30, 2007 |
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Famed author Flannery O'Connor's correspondence with Atlantan Betty Hester is on exhibition for the first time at Emory's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL). updated Sept. 5, 2007 |
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