Events at the Emory University Libraries

A lecture by Dan Mulhall, Irish ambassador to the United States. Mulhall is a keen scholar of Irish history and literature, particularly the work of W.B. Yeats, and has lectured on a wide range of topics at universities all over the world. He is the author of “A New Day Dawning: A Portrait of Ireland in 1900” (Cork, 1999) and co-editor of “The Shaping of Modern Ireland: A Centenary Assessment” (Dublin, 2016). He has made numerous contributions to books, newspapers and journals published in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Britain

Joseph Crespino, author and Jimmy Carter Professor of History at Emory University, discusses his book, “Atticus Finch: The Biography,” at a Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation in Emory’s Woodruff Library. Rosemary Magee, former director of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, joins Crespino for the conversation, which includes a discussion of the Rose Library’s recent acquisition from rare book collector Paul R. Kennerson. It contains personal letters to friends and other materials from Harper Lee, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” and the recently published “Go Set a Watchman.” Finch, a significant character in both books, was based on Lee’s father, an attorney. Crespino’s book draws on exclusive sources to reveal how Harper Lee’s father provided the central inspiration for each of her novels. The Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversations series highlights creativity and imagination as essential to every discipline and enterprise. The event is sponsored by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry; Center for Creativity & Arts; Emory College of Arts & Sciences; Emory Department of History; Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, and the Emory Libraries.

Joseph Crespino, author and Jimmy Carter Professor of History at Emory University, discusses his book, “Atticus Finch: The Biography,” at a Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation in Emory’s Woodruff Library. Rosemary Magee, former director of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, joins Crespino for the conversation, which includes a discussion of the Rose Library’s recent acquisition from rare book collector Paul R. Kennerson. It contains personal letters to friends and other materials from Harper Lee, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” and the recently published “Go Set a Watchman.” Finch, a significant character in both books, was based on Lee’s father, an attorney. Crespino’s book draws on exclusive sources to reveal how Harper Lee’s father provided the central inspiration for each of her novels. The Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversations series highlights creativity and imagination as essential to every discipline and enterprise. The event is sponsored by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry; Center for Creativity & Arts; Emory College of Arts & Sciences; Emory Department of History; Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, and the Emory Libraries.

A lecture by Dan Mulhall, Irish ambassador to the United States. Mulhall is a keen scholar of Irish history and literature, particularly the work of W.B. Yeats, and has lectured on a wide range of topics at universities all over the world. He is the author of “A New Day Dawning: A Portrait of Ireland in 1900” (Cork, 1999) and co-editor of “The Shaping of Modern Ireland: A Centenary Assessment” (Dublin, 2016). He has made numerous contributions to books, newspapers and journals published in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Britain.

Beat poet, editor, performer, activist, artist, and educator Anne Waldman gives a poetry reading which is the first in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series' 2017–2018 season. Waldman's visit is also part of the opening celebrations for the upcoming exhibition at the Woodruff Library's Schatten Gallery, The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940–1975. A Beat writer and the co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Waldman brings the spirit of the post-WWII counterculture to Emory's campus during her electrifying reading as well as other events that week.

Beat poet, editor, performer, activist, artist, and educator Anne Waldman gives a poetry reading which is the first in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series' 2017–2018 season. Waldman's visit is also part of the opening celebrations for the upcoming exhibition at the Woodruff Library's Schatten Gallery, The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940–1975. A Beat writer and the co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Waldman brings the spirit of the post-WWII counterculture to Emory's campus during her electrifying reading as well as other events that week.

New York City-based photographer Hugo Fernandes joins Randy Gue, curator of modern, political and historical collections at Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, for a conversation about his “Intimate Strangers” photography series. For 10 years, Fernandes initiated meetings with men through online and app-based cruising sites to set up photo shoots. The resulting portraits explore anonymity, intimacy, sexuality and digital culture. “One of the striking aspects of the series, specifically addressed in the talk, is how shifts in technology, in photography, and in networking applications affected Hugo’s work,” Gue says. “When he started this project in 2006, he posted ads on Craigslist. Much later in the series, he used apps like Grindr and Scruff.” Fernandes’ work is part of the Rose Library’s growing photography collection that explores issues of gender and sexuality, including the collections of Jon Arge, Dianora Niccolini, Len Prince, Billy Howard, and Catherine Kirkpatrick, as well as the library’s LGBT collections.

New York City-based photographer Hugo Fernandes joins Randy Gue, curator of modern, political and historical collections at Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, for a conversation about his “Intimate Strangers” photography series. For 10 years, Fernandes initiated meetings with men through online and app-based cruising sites to set up photo shoots. The resulting portraits explore anonymity, intimacy, sexuality and digital culture. “One of the striking aspects of the series, specifically addressed in the talk, is how shifts in technology, in photography, and in networking applications affected Hugo’s work,” Gue says. “When he started this project in 2006, he posted ads on Craigslist. Much later in the series, he used apps like Grindr and Scruff.” Fernandes’ work is part of the Rose Library’s growing photography collection that explores issues of gender and sexuality, including the collections of Jon Arge, Dianora Niccolini, Len Prince, Billy Howard, and Catherine Kirkpatrick, as well as the library’s LGBT collections.

Beat poet, editor, performer, activist, artist, and educator Anne Waldman participates in a Creativity Conversation with poet Kevin Young, an Emory Distinguished Professor who is now director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. Sponsored by the Hightower Fund. This event is in conjunction with the exhibition "The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940–1975" at the Woodruff Library’s Schatten Gallery from September 28, 2017 to May 15, 2018.

Beat poet, editor, performer, activist, artist, and educator Anne Waldman participates in a Creativity Conversation with poet Kevin Young, an Emory Distinguished Professor who is now director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. Sponsored by the Hightower Fund. This event is in conjunction with the exhibition "The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940–1975" at the Woodruff Library’s Schatten Gallery from September 28, 2017 to May 15, 2018.

Epitaphs for the Living is a conversation with Billy Howard about his photographs of people living with HIV/Aids in the 1980s and Randy Gue, curator of modern political and historical collections at Rose Library. Riveting images of people living with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, taken by Atlanta-area photographer Billy Howard, are the basis for the exhibit curated by Rose Library curator Randy Gue. “Billy Howard’s ‘Epitaphs for the Living’ ” features 17 photographs, each showing a person with HIV/AIDS—or their loved one—and a handwritten message from that person about living with the disease. The photographs are stark and yet moving, and the messages reveal hope and resilience. The exhibit includes some of the photo subjects’ letters to Howard, as well as audio clips, accessible from the Woodruff Library exhibitions webpage with a mobile phone, which discuss the stories behind some of the photographs. Tentative closing date of the exhibition is August 31, 2017.

Epitaphs for the Living is a conversation with Billy Howard about his photographs of people living with HIV/Aids in the 1980s and Randy Gue, curator of modern political and historical collections at Rose Library. Riveting images of people living with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, taken by Atlanta-area photographer Billy Howard, are the basis for the exhibit curated by Rose Library curator Randy Gue. “Billy Howard’s ‘Epitaphs for the Living’ ” features 17 photographs, each showing a person with HIV/AIDS—or their loved one—and a handwritten message from that person about living with the disease. The photographs are stark and yet moving, and the messages reveal hope and resilience. The exhibit includes some of the photo subjects’ letters to Howard, as well as audio clips, accessible from the Woodruff Library exhibitions webpage with a mobile phone, which discuss the stories behind some of the photographs. Tentative closing date of the exhibition is August 31, 2017.

As the culminating program of the “Still Raising Hell” exhibition, this event explores the means and mediums through which black artists continue to push boundaries. Jeremy Avalon of WERC Crew and graphic artist Keef Cross debut a collaborative piece on the future of black art, followed by a discussion with Avalon, Cross, and Leatrice Ellzy that connects contemporary art movements to the exhibition. Moderated by Gallery 72 owner Kevin Sipp. In conjunction with Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism, and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Exhibition. This program is in the Jones Room at the Emory University Woodruff Library on April 13, 2017.

As the culminating program of the “Still Raising Hell” exhibition, this event explores the means and mediums through which black artists continue to push boundaries. Jeremy Avalon of WERC Crew and graphic artist Keef Cross debut a collaborative piece on the future of black art, followed by a discussion with Avalon, Cross, and Leatrice Ellzy that connects contemporary art movements to the exhibition. Moderated by Gallery 72 owner Kevin Sipp. In conjunction with Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism, and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Exhibition. This program is in the Jones Room at the Emory University Woodruff Library on April 13, 2017.

“Memorial Drive” explores the history of site-specific dance in Atlanta. Over the past decade, these dance events in Atlanta have attracted new audiences and a generation of young dance artists. Many don’t know that Atlanta has a rich history of site-specific dance, springing from the postmodern dance movement of the 1960's, with earlier precedents in the form of local dance projects set in outdoor environments. In this panel, prominent members of the city’s dance community share recollections of these pioneering works and discuss topics ranging from practical challenges to philosophical issues at play when dance crosses the proscenium arch in search of new frontiers. Moderated by Atlanta dance writer Cynthia Perry, the panel includes Lee Harper, founder and director of Lee Harper & Dancers and an early contemporary dance artist; Lauri Stallings, an artist and founder of the nonprofit platform glo; Lori Teague, associate professor in the Emory Dance Program, and Patton White, artistic and administrative director of Beacon Dance and company manager of Core Dance.

“Memorial Drive” explores the history of site-specific dance in Atlanta. Over the past decade, these dance events in Atlanta have attracted new audiences and a generation of young dance artists. Many don’t know that Atlanta has a rich history of site-specific dance, springing from the postmodern dance movement of the 1960's, with earlier precedents in the form of local dance projects set in outdoor environments. In this panel, prominent members of the city’s dance community share recollections of these pioneering works and discuss topics ranging from practical challenges to philosophical issues at play when dance crosses the proscenium arch in search of new frontiers. Moderated by Atlanta dance writer Cynthia Perry, the panel includes Lee Harper, founder and director of Lee Harper & Dancers and an early contemporary dance artist; Lauri Stallings, an artist and founder of the nonprofit platform glo; Lori Teague, associate professor in the Emory Dance Program, and Patton White, artistic and administrative director of Beacon Dance and company manager of Core Dance.

“Educated=Empowered: 100 Years of Emory Women as Change-Makers” features a panel discussion on the ways higher education has empowered women, why women’s history and voices matter, and what the future holds. Emory President Claire Sterk gives opening remarks, and Rosemary M. Magee, director of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library, moderates the program. The panel includes alumna Chandra Stephens-Albright, executive director of C5 Georgia Youth Foundation; Martha Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory, and junior Jalyn Radziminski, an Emory student leader and 1915 Scholar. University archivist John Bence concludes the program with a special invitation to the exhibition in Rose Library related to the 100 Years of Emory Women As Change-Makers. This program is in the Jones Room at the Emory University Woodruff Library on April 5, 2017. The event is part of a University-wide celebration, as Emory marks 100 years of women at the university and the 25th anniversary of its Center for Women.

“Educated=Empowered: 100 Years of Emory Women as Change-Makers” features a panel discussion on the ways higher education has empowered women, why women’s history and voices matter, and what the future holds. Emory President Claire Sterk gives opening remarks, and Rosemary M. Magee, director of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library, moderates the program. The panel includes alumna Chandra Stephens-Albright, executive director of C5 Georgia Youth Foundation; Martha Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory, and junior Jalyn Radziminski, an Emory student leader and 1915 Scholar. University archivist John Bence concludes the program with a special invitation to the exhibition in Rose Library related to the 100 Years of Emory Women As Change-Makers. This program is in the Jones Room at the Emory University Woodruff Library on April 5, 2017. The event is part of a University-wide celebration, as Emory marks 100 years of women at the university and the 25th anniversary of its Center for Women.

Matthew Bernstein, professor and chair of the Emory University Department of Film & Media Studies, discusses the two dynamic women who decided what films would be shown or banned in Atlanta movie theaters for four decades. Bernstein’s talk explores the influence of Mrs. Alonzo Richardson and her successor, Christine Smith Gilliam, who were duty-bound to ban films that depicted unpunished crime or illicit sex as outlined by Hollywood’s Production Code. As movies grew more violent and morally ambiguous, the two women had their hands full, but they were equally focused on barring any depiction of social equality between the races. "Memorial Drive” is a collaboration between ArtsATL.com and Emory University’s Rose Library to explore the cultural history of Atlanta.

Matthew Bernstein, professor and chair of the Emory University Department of Film & Media Studies, discusses the two dynamic women who decided what films would be shown or banned in Atlanta movie theaters for four decades. Bernstein’s talk explores the influence of Mrs. Alonzo Richardson and her successor, Christine Smith Gilliam, who were duty-bound to ban films that depicted unpunished crime or illicit sex as outlined by Hollywood’s Production Code. As movies grew more violent and morally ambiguous, the two women had their hands full, but they were equally focused on barring any depiction of social equality between the races. "Memorial Drive” is a collaboration between ArtsATL.com and Emory University’s Rose Library to explore the cultural history of Atlanta.

Panel experts wade through the spin and get to the truth during political campaigns at an Emory University panel discussion, "Fact-checking the Political Spin: How the Experts Get at the Truth," held October 13 at the university. Moderated by Atlanta Business Chronicle Broadcast editor Crystal Edmonson, the panel featured Andra Gillespie, Emory associate professor of political science; Nancy Leung, senior editor of CNN’s “Reality Check,” and Jim Tharpe, editor of PolitiFact Georgia in partnership with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Panel experts wade through the spin and get to the truth during political campaigns at an Emory University panel discussion, "Fact-checking the Political Spin: How the Experts Get at the Truth," held October 13 at the university. Moderated by Atlanta Business Chronicle Broadcast editor Crystal Edmonson, the panel featured Andra Gillespie, Emory associate professor of political science; Nancy Leung, senior editor of CNN’s “Reality Check,” and Jim Tharpe, editor of PolitiFact Georgia in partnership with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Noted Emory professors Joseph Crespino (History) and Natasha Trethewey (English/Creative Writing) along with moderator Kevin Young (English/Creative Writing) explore how history, poetry, and a "historical imagination" help illuminate our understanding about ourselves and our times. "Neil Asks" is a nonprofit founded to continue the legacy of L. Neil Williams Jr., 1936-2012. Neil worked effectively and enthusiastically to further the continuing importance of the arts, higher education, religion, the law, and business. He was known for his insightful questions, which guided groups toward greater understanding, innovation, service and hope. Emory University - particularly Emory Libraries - benefited greatly from Neil's generosity. A native of Charlotte, Neil joined The Duke Endowment's Board in 1977 and served as chair from 2011 to 2012. In addition, served as Chair of the Vasser Woolley Foundation and Trustee of the Halle Foundation, both based in Atlanta. After earning a law degree at Duke School of Law, he spent (most of) his professional career at Alston & Bird in Atlanta.

Theaster Gates engages in a conversation on social activism and artists at Emory University. Gates, an award-winning Chicago potter and artists who blends art installation with social practice, is best known for turning abandoned buildings in neglected neighborhoods into vibrant cultural hubs that serve the community. “Theaster Gates embodies an engagement with art, activism, and archives that energizes all of us,” says Rosemary M. Magee, director of the Rose Library. Gates is director of arts and public life at the University of Chicago, where he is a professor of visual arts.

Theaster Gates engages in a conversation on social activism and artists at Emory University. Gates, an award-winning Chicago potter and artists who blends art installation with social practice, is best known for turning abandoned buildings in neglected neighborhoods into vibrant cultural hubs that serve the community. “Theaster Gates embodies an engagement with art, activism, and archives that energizes all of us,” says Rosemary M. Magee, director of the Rose Library. Gates is director of arts and public life at the University of Chicago, where he is a professor of visual arts.

Amos P. Kennedy Jr. and Randall K. Burkett sit down for a lively conversation about Kennedy and his work. Kennedy, who left a corporate job more than 20 years ago to pursue his artistic passions full-time, uses an old-fashioned letterpress printer to make colorful chipboard posters with social, political, racial and inspirational messages. Kennedy also makes beautiful hand-made books. The Rose Library holds a collection of his work.

Emory University President James W. Wagner participates in a Creativity Conversation with Rosemary Magee, director of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. They discuss President Wagner's inspiration for his own creativity as well as how he has tapped into those energies for his work in organization leadership. President Wagner has served as president of Emory University since 2003. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, a master’s degree in clinical engineering, and a PhD in materials science and engineering. He is a charter fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The conversation is a partnership with the Rose Library and the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts.

The first event in a new series of programs at Emory University called “Memorial Drive: Nexus Contemporary Art Center,” presented by the Rose Library and ArtsATL, this panel discussion explores the history of the arts in Atlanta. Nexus alumni helped build the institution in its founding years, and their discussion focuses on the history of the Nexus Contemporary Arts Center (now Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center) and its role in broadening the arts scene in Atlanta and the South. The panel is moderated by Randy Gue, curator of modern political and historical collections at the Rose Library, Emory University.

“The presence of Alfred Uhry here and his collections in the Rose Library represent a convergence of our collecting strengths in the areas of modern literature, Southern history, and social justice,” said Rosemary M. Magee, director of the Rose Library. “We are delighted to welcome him back to Emory to explore his creative impulses and the importance of archives in mapping individual and shared stories.” “Atlanta is my home. It’s what I know, and what I feel about it,” he said. “Where you grew up, and what you observed then, is something you carry with you.” “Driving Miss Daisy” premiered onstage in 1987, and Uhry later adapted it into the 1989 film. Uhry has received a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award (both for “Driving Miss Daisy”) and several Tony Awards for his work – the only playwright to win all three awards. Two of his other plays, “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” (1996) and “Parade” (a 1998 musical about Leo Frank), along with “Daisy,” are unofficially referred to as his “Atlanta Trilogy” of plays because all are set in the Atlanta area.

Two Emory Libraries fellows combined history and technology to create a tour of the Emory University campus and Emory Village that is accessible by smartphones and tablets, and the Libraries launched the project with a panel discussion. Panelists include Gary Hauk, Emory University Vice President, Deputy to the President, and Emory historian; Sally Wolff-King, senior editor of health publications at the Emory Clinic and adjunct faculty at Emory University School of Medicine; Leslie Harris, associate professor of history and African American Studies at Emory; and NaVosha Copeland, a senior in Interdisciplinary Studies in History, Society, and Culture at Emory. The Emory Campus History Tour (http://tour.emory.edu) uses historical materials housed in Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library to lead visitors on a directed mobile tour of the historic Druid Hills campus, which was deeded to Emory in 1915. Maps, video clips, and images combine with the narrative to tell a story of the campus and its development throughout the 20th century. Matthew Strandmark, a research library fellow working in MARBL, and Anne Donlon, a postdoctoral fellow with MARBL and the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, co-developed the mobile application.

Sid Matthew, author and historian on legendary golfer Bobby Jones, placed his collection of original and research materials with the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) in 2012. It opened to researchers in 2014. Also at Emory University on Monday, March 16, 2015, Matthew held a conversation with Randy Gue, curator of MARBL’s Modern Political and Historical collections. They discussed the life and legacy of the famed golfer and Emory alum (Jones attended Emory’s law school). Matthew also talked about his research, collecting and writing about Jones.

An assortment of original Hank Aaron materials, open for research use at Emory’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), featured in a small exhibit on the baseball legend. Materials on display, drawn from several collections, include Aaron’s scouting reports, telegrams between the Braves and Aaron’s Negro League team, and a sample of the hate mail Aaron received as he closed in on Babe Ruth’s home run record, which he broke with his 715th home run in 1974. Curated by Emory University juniors Kyle Arbuckle, Warren Kember and Brett Lake, members of Emory’s baseball team. This video features a panel discussion with the curators.

Seamus Heaney had a special connection to Emory University that can be traced back to his first reading in March 1981. He delivered the inaugural Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature in 1988, donated his lecture notes to MARBL and conducted readings and poetry workshops in the 1980s and 1990s. His last visit to Emory was in March 2013, when he read his poems before a capacity crowd at Glenn Auditorium. On February 22, 2014 at Emory University, distinguished guests join in conversation about Seamus Heaney, moderated by Geraldine Higgins, associate professor and director of Irish Studies at Emory.

On December 3, 2013, the Rev. Bernard LaFayette Jr. shared his experiences on the front lines of the modern civil rights movement and discussed his new book at Emory University at the Robert W. Woodruff Library. LaFayette, distinguished senior scholar in residence at Emory University's Candler School of Theology and national board chair for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), talked about his recently published memoir written with Kathryn Lee Johnson, titled "In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma" (The University Press of Kentucky). Carol Anderson, associate professor of African American Studies at Emory and co-curator of "And the Struggle Continues," hosted the conversation with LaFayette.

On Nov. 20, 2013, President Barack Obama awarded the Rev. C.T. Vivian the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. On Nov. 21, 2013, the day after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Vivian visited Emory University to take part in a conversation about his life and his experiences in the civil rights movement and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) at Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library. Vivian is interviewed at the event by Andra Gillespie, associate professor of political science at Emory and author of "The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark and Post-Racial America" (2012).

The archive of Neighbors Network — a citizens' watchdog organization that monitored the activity of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi skinheads and other hate groups in metro Atlanta and other nearby areas — is now open to researchers and the public at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). Walter B. Reeves, a co-founder of the group who served as its co-chair of education and outreach, donated the archive to MARBL. This conversation with Reeves about his experiences and work with Neighbors Network was held April 17, 2013 in the Robert W. Woodruff Library on the Emory campus.

Artist Nene Humphrey, Benny Andrews¹ wife of 20 years, gives a presentation titled "Artist to Artist: Reflections on a Life Together," and exhibition curator Pellom McDaniels III discusses Andrews' art. "Like a Purple Haze Across the Land: The Art of Benny Andrews" is in the Corridor Gallery, Woodruff Library Level 3 until November 2, 2012. This exhibition features 20 original drawings, dating from 1959 to 2005, and is on generous loan from The Andrews Humphrey Family Foundation. Also on view will be some of Andrews' sketchbooks that are part of the Benny Andrews Collection at MARBL. The extensive collection contains more than 50 boxes of correspondence between Andrews and his family, friends, and colleagues, as well as articles by and about Andrews, exhibition catalogs, and a wealth of ephemera. Curated by Pellom McDaniels III.

Digital humanities pioneer and noted historian of the South, Ed Ayers, discusses the value of digital scholarship in his own work and the work of colleagues at the digital scholars lab at University of Richmond. Digital scholarship, Ayers argues, is a transformative pedagogical tool insofar as it gives us a glimpse of time and space in a dynamic, enriching manner. This talk marked the opening of the Emory Libraries research commons in the Robert W. Library.

To kick off Emory's King Week Celebration, poet Eugene Redmond read in honor of the 20th anniversary of his publication Drumvoices Revue and the 25th anniversary of the EBR Writers Club. The reading followed a conversation moderated by Richard A. Long, Emory University professor emeritus of interdisciplinary studies. Attendees learned about Redmond's lifelong dedication to preserving the artistic legacies of performers, poets, and musicians such as Katherine Dunham, Henry Dumas, and Miles Davis. Through his journal, Redmond has helped shape the literary cannon of a generation.

To kick off Emory's King Week Celebration, poet Eugene Redmond read in honor of the 20th anniversary of his publication Drumvoices Revue and the 25th anniversary of the EBR Writers Club. The reading followed a conversation moderated by Richard A. Long, Emory University professor emeritus of interdisciplinary studies. Attendees learned about Redmond's lifelong dedication to preserving the artistic legacies of performers, poets, and musicians such as Katherine Dunham, Henry Dumas, and Miles Davis. Through his journal, Redmond has helped shape the literary cannon of a generation.

Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) of Emory University recently acquired two major collections related to African American art and art history - the papers of artist John Biggers and of collector and arts patron Paul R. Jones. Hazel Biggers and Amalia K. Amaki discuss the importance of preserving papers related to artists and art history.