Podcast appearances and mentions of rose library

Among Beethoven’s concerto compositions, The Triple Concerto is the least often played work. Still, on April 3 and 4, the Atlanta Symphony will feature Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano with Concertmaster David Coucheron, Acting Principal Cellist Daniel Laufer, and pianist Julie Coucheron. The trio of soloists joined Lois to discuss the upcoming concerts. Plus, the annual DIY FEST returns on April 3, spotlighting the Punk Rock Collection at Emory University’s Rose Library, and Kosmo Vinyl stops by to share the story behind Horace Andy’s “Skylarking.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Better to Speak: The Podcast, Kési (host and founder of Better to Speak) interviews Monet Lewis-Timmons, a Ph.D. candidate and African American Public Humanities (AAPHI) Fellow at the University of Delaware. Monet's research focuses on Black women in the archive from the late 19th century to the early 20th century and uncovers the fragments of these archives to reveal the complexities of Black women's lives to make a larger intervention about Black women's lived experiences across space and time. --Find Better to SpeakTwitter | Facebook | Instagramwww.bettertospeak.org Find MonetTwitter--Learn More + Take Action : “I Am An American!' The Authorship and Activism of Alice Dunbar-Nelson,” Digital exhibit co-curated with Jesse Erickson and the Rosenbach MuseumEpisode 3: Alice Dunbar-Nelson as a Queer Icon: A Conversation with 'I Am An American!' Co-curator Monet Timmons"Building Black Women's Archives: Talking with Monet Lewis-Timmons," Podcast with the Rose Library at Emory University“Let's TikTalk About It” featured creator: Rosetta Richardson (TikTok: @mamarichardson74, CashApp: $moneygrandmama) Click to sign up for Better to Speak's email newsletterSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/better-to-speak-the-podcast/donations

Anicka Austin is an Atlanta-based artist and archivist curious about the relationship between ephemerality, documentation and legacy. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Carolina Academic Library Associates fellowship, graduating in May 2020 with a Master of Science in Library Science. She is currently working as visiting archivist for the Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade papers at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library.Leo Holder is a visual artist, who also serves as the family archivist in charge of preserving his parents' legacy as well as reconstructing their works.Geoffrey Holder and Carmen  de Lavallade papers at Rose Library 

Our exploration of the Rose Library's Atlanta punk collection continues with a conversation with William DuVall and Randy DuTeau of Neon Christ. In this episode, we talk about the band's 1984 tour, the song they wanted played on 96 Rock, settling old scores, the 1984 reissue, and last year's Record Store Day show in Atlanta. Neon Christ formed in 1983 and soon began sharing the stage with hardcore luminaries such as the Dead Kennedys, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, and Corrosion of Conformity. Last year Southern Lord Recordings released 1984, a deluxe edition of all the material Neon Christ recorded in that year. More about Neon Christ. Check out the video.Neon Christ official videoWilliam DuVall is the vocalist and guitarist in Alice in Chains. He founded his first band AVOC (Awareness Void of Chaos) in 1983. Hardcore legends Neon Christ followed soon after along with a stint in BL'AST!. He started jazz/punk/world improvisors No Wall before forming Comes With the Fall. DuVall joined Alice in Chains in 2006. Visit DuVall's website.Randy DuTeau is the vocalist for Neon Christ and Gardens Of.... He is now a noted sports marketing executive. Learn about Rose Library's Atlanta punk rock collection here.

Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. She received a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Chinese Literature and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa.  Her books have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. Presently, Chin is Professor Emerita at San Diego State University and serves as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Her most recent book is A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2018). Chin's other books of poems include Hard Love Province, Rhapsody in Plain Yellow, Dwarf Bamboo, and the Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty. Her book of wild girl fiction is called Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen.    She has won numerous awards, including the distinguished Ruth Lilly Prize for Lifetime Achievement in poetry from the Poetry Foundation, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the United States Artist Foundation Award, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, two NEAs, the United Artist Foundation Award, the Stegner Fellowship, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, five Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan, a Lannan Residency and others. In 2017, she was honored by the Asian Pacific Islander Caucus and the California Assembly for her activism and excellence in education. Visit her website.Read poems by Marilyn Chin Poetry FoundationAcademy of American Poets

Our exploration of the Rose Library's Atlanta punk collection continues with a conversation with William DuVall and Randy DuTeau of Neon Christ. In this episode, William and Randy talk about how they discovered punk, their first bands, the formation of Neon Christ, the band's first show, their early sound, and hardcore's DIY ethos in part one of our conversation. Neon Christ formed in 1983 and soon began sharing the stage with hardcore luminaries such as the Dead Kennedys, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, and Corrosion of Conformity. Last year Southern Lord Recordings released 1984, a deluxe edition of all the material Neon Christ recorded in that year. More about Neon Christ. Check out the video.Neon Christ official videoWilliam DuVall is the vocalist and guitarist in Alice in Chains. He founded his first band AVOC (Awareness Void of Chaos) in 1983. Hardcore legends Neon Christ followed soon after along with a stint in BL'AST!. He started jazz/punk/world improvisors No Wall before forming Comes With the Fall. DuVall joined Alice in Chains in 2006. Visit DuVall's website.Randy DuTeau is the vocalist for Neon Christ and Gardens Of.... He is now a noted sports marketing executive. Learn about Rose Library's Atlanta punk rock collection here.

Monet Lewis-Timmons is an English PhD candidate at the University of Delaware and an alumna of Emory University (2018), where she double majored in English and African American Studies. Her dissertation research focuses on the genealogical lifecycle of Black women's archives through Alice Dunbar-Nelson's personal papers. She recently interned at the Rose Library where she received curriculum support on teaching undergraduates on how to use archives for seminar research and processing the collection of Black woman writer and poet J.J. Phillips, author of the 1966 novel Mojo Hand.Learn more"Black Women Building Their Own Archives, A Practice" by Monet Lewis-Timmons Digital Exhibition | “I Am an American!” The Authorship and Activism of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Finding Aid for the J.J. Phillips family papers

Ronald Schuchard, the Goodrich C. White Professor of English and Irish Studies, Emeritus, Emory University, is the author of numerous studies of modern authors, particularly T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats. His Eliot's Dark Angel won the Robert Penn Warren / Cleanth Brooks Prize for outstanding literary criticism, and his The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts won the Robert Rhodes Prize for an outstanding book on Irish literature. He is co-editor with John Kelly of three volumes of The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats and general editor of the eight-volume online and print editions of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is presently a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. To view the finding aid for Ron's papers, click here.Anthony Cuda is a scholar and university professor who teaches classes on twentieth-century poetry, British and American literature of the modernist period (1900-1945), Dante, and American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of The Passions of Modernism: Eliot, Yeats, Woolf and Mann (University of South Carolina Press, 2010). With Ronald Schuchard, he co-edited of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, The Critical Edition. Vol. II: The Perfect Critic: 1919-1926 (London and Baltimore: Faber & Faber and Johns Hopkins UP, 2014), which was awarded the Modernist Studies Association 2015 Book Prize for an edition, anthology, or collection. Cuda's reviews of contemporary poetry have appeared in The Washington Post Book World, The New Criterion, FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, The International Poetry Review, and the American Book Review. Learn more here. Other collections discussed in the episode:Finding aid for Seamus Heaney's papers.Finding aid for the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature.

Join us for episode two of our exploration of the past, present and future of Atlanta punk. In this edition, Randy Gue, Assistant Director of Collection Development at Rose Library, and music writer Chad Radford talk to Hoff, KT, and Mikey of Upchuck, who have been called “one of the most talked about bands” in the local scene. You can hear Upchuck's latest single here. More Upchuck:Instagram BandcampLearn more about the Rose Library's Atlanta punk rock collection (1980-2009) here.

Randy Gue, Rose Library Curator of Modern, Political, and Social Movements and host of “Rose Library Presents: Atlanta Intersections,” joins us for a cross over episode that kicks off three episodes talking with members of the bands that played that show and others who have helped shape Atlanta's punk history. In this edition, Randy and Atlanta music writer Chad Radford talk to Greg King and Jesse Smith of The Carbonas, a legendary Atlanta band that everyone hated, according to Greg and Jesse, in the 2000s. Listen to lots of stuff:CarbonasGentleman JesseGG KingCheck out the Finding Aid for Rose Library's Atlanta Punk Rock Collection (1980-2009).

Diane Gordon Briggs is the youngest child of Barbara Gordon and astronaut Richard F. Gordon of Gemini XI and Apollo 12.  She is a wife, mother of six (like her mom), and a Christian Counselor. Join in with Diane and her closest childhood friend, Tracy L. Scott, as they reminisce over their childhood and their dads' space adventures during the early days of NASA.Tracy L. Scott is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Emory University. She grew up in Nassau Bay, Texas, as part of the early NASA community (her father, David R. Scott, flew on the Apollo 15 lunar mission). She recently donated her parents' papers from the early NASA era to the Stuart A. Rose Library (see the Finding Aid for those papers here). Dr. Scott will be teaching a course in Spring 2022: “Moon Bound: A Sociology of the Apollo Era.”

In this episode, we sit down with author and journalist Gary M. Pomerantz to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publication of his book, Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family, a landmark history of Atlanta. After he finished the book, Pomerantz donated his research files and interviews to the Rose Library. Join us for an inside look at the making of Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn.Gary M. Pomerantz joined The Washington Post as a sports reporter in 1982. He moved to Atlanta and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1988. Pomerantz is the author of nonfiction books on topics ranging from history to sports to civil rights. His most recent book, The Last Pass, a New York Times bestseller, centers on Boston Celtics legends Bob Cousy and Bill Russell. To learn more about Pomerantz and his writing, check out his website here. Discover his papers, which are held at Rose Library.

Head of Collection Processing Sarah Quigley and Rare Book Librarian Beth Shoemaker take us into the Rose Library archives to talk about two curiosities connected to history in unique ways. In this episode, we learn how the purported beard hair of English monarch Edward the IV may one day help solve a mystery that dates back to the War of the Roses. We also learn of the rare book, The Danish Chronicles, that contains stories of Danish Kings, including Amleth, who inspired Shakespeare to write the play Hamlet, based on his life.Learn more about King Edward IV's beard hair and other materials in Rose Library's English collections here, and about The Danish Chronicles here.Sarah Quigley is Head of Collection Processing at Rose Library. Beth Shoemaker is Rose Library's Rare Book Librarian.

Rose Library's Community Outreach Archivist and Community Conversations host, Lolita Rowe sat down with artists Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, and Carlos Museum curator, Megan O'Neil to explore ideas of community, making connections, collaborative art making, identity, and much more.  Explore Marie Watt's art here. And Cannupa Hanska Luger's here. For more information on the exhibition Each/Other, which is open to the public through December 12, 2021, visit the Carlos Museum website.   Emory University's Land Acknowledgement Statement

This fall, a major collection of books and papers related to Bram Stoker's iconic novel Dracula, collected by John Moore, opened to the public. Learn more about this collection here and here. Beth Shoemaker is the Rare Book Librarian at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archive & Rare Book Library in Atlanta. Her work includes cataloging, collection development, teaching and curating exhibits in the Emory Libraries. Follow her Rose Library rare books Instagram here.Eddy Von Mueller is a scholar, filmmaker and educator in Atlanta, Georgia. He co-edited How A Monster Became an Icon: The Science and Enduring Allure of Mary Shelley's Creation, and most recently, he directed, produced, and co-wrote with the late curator of Rose Library's African American collections, Pellom McDaniels, Small Steps, "a documentary film about the shocking experiences of a group of Upward Bound students visiting St. Augustine, Fl....in July, 1969."

The Creativity Conversations podcast is back from its hiatus. The introduction to this episode was recorded in the spring of 2021.Amos P. Kennedy Jr. and Randall K. Burkett sit down in the Rose Library at Emory University 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. The audio for this conversation comes from a video recording of the event in March 2016. Watch the full video. This conversation is introduced by host/Emory Arts employee Maggie Beker and artist, then Emory Student, and Conversations with Eggs: Virtual Arts Zine editor James Reich. Beker and Reich introduce the podcast and discuss how Reich approaches his own creativity. View Reich's own work: https://jameshastur.com/This program is part of the Rosemary M. Magee Creativity Conversation endowed series.

Lolita Rowe is the Community Outreach Archivist at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She works with the Metro Atlanta community to collect, preserve, and provide access to diverse voices in the archive. She has recently joined the Society of American Archivists podcast series, Archives in Context in the new project management role. She is the host, co-producer, and creator of the Rose Library Presents podcast series, Community Conversations and Behind the Archives.Nick Twemlow is Literary and Poetry Collections Visiting Librarian at Rose Library. He is the author of two books of poems and co-edits Canarium Books, a publisher of books of poetry in English and in translation. He co-produces the Rose Library Presents podcast series, Community Conversations, Behind the Archives, and Atlanta Intersections (with the series' host, Randy Gue).

In this final episode of Season One of Community Conversations, Nick Sturm, NEH Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics at Emory's Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, does a deep dive into small press publishing with Maureen Owen, legendary publisher of Telephone Books and Telephone Magazine in New York from 1969-1983, bringing many then-unknown poets' books into the world, including Susan Howe, Patricia Spears Jones, and Yuki Hartman. The Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, a part of the Rose Library's literary and poetry collections, recently acquired several Telephone books and magazine issues, which completes the collection, and is the only educational institution to house the complete run.Maureen Owen, former editor and chief of Telephone Magazine and Telephone Books, is the author of Erosion's Pull from Coffee House Press, a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her title American Rush: Selected Poems was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and her work AE (Amelia Earhart) was a recipient of the prestigious Before Columbus American Book Award. She has taught at Naropa University, both on campus and in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program, in Naropa's Summer Writing Program, and co-edited Naropa's on-line zine not enough night through 19 issues. Her newest title Edges of Water is available from Chax Press. She has most recently had work in Blazing Stadium, Positive Magnets, Posit, and The Denver Quarterly. Click here to learn about her  Poets on the Road Tour with Barbara Henning. She can be found reading her work on the PennSound website. Her manuscript titled Let the Heart hold Down the Brakage  Or The Caregiver's Log is forthcoming from Hanging Loose Press.

Rare Book Librarian Beth Shoemaker talks about books as information rich records that contain a multitude of topics and different voices that invite readers, researchers, and many more to learn about the history of thought.

In this episode, Nick Sturm (check out his Twitter and website) takes a deep dive into the fascinating history of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, which is housed at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. The Danowski is home to over 75,000 poetry books, 50,000 little magazines, and thousand of broadsides, posters, and other ephemera. The collection was donated to the Rose in 2004, and continues to guide the poetry collecting mission. Nick Twemlow is Poetry and Digital Humanities Librarian at Rose Library, where he is also responsible for literary and poetry collection development.Learn more about the Danowski collection here. This is a fantastic feature on Raymond Danwoski and how the collection came to be: "Raymond Danowski Has Your Chapbook."

Atlanta photographers and artists Alli Royce Soble and Jon Arge discuss the library’s online exhibition “Our Archive Could Be Your Life,” which features their work. The exhibit highlights how the unique and joyful photographic record of Queer Atlanta they created in the 1990s.

Head of Digital Archives Katherine Fisher demystifies digital archives and explains why items are not always available online.

Poet David Trinidad and scholar Heather Clark deep dive into the light and dark sequences that compose the life of Sylvia Plath.

A conversation about learning, reading, writing, and creating while incarcerated with artist, author, and designer, Noe Martinez, and Bill Taft, Academic Director of Common Good Atlanta.

Instruction Archivist Gabrielle Dudley talks about her roles as a faculty coach and student advocate and how she and her team design meaningful engagement opportunities with the archives.

A conversation about the life and work of Dr. Pellom McDaniels III, former curator of African American collections at Rose Library, who passed away last year, featuring with his wife, Navvab McDaniels and former mentor Dr. Randall Burkett.

Artist and photographer, Jon Arge talks about his artwork, the 6,000 Polaroids in his collection, the city’s nightlife, and “The American Music Show”. The Rose Library is delighted to be the home of the Jon Arge photographs.

Society of American Archivist Vice President and Head of Research Services at the Rose, Courtney Chartier, talks advocacy of the profession, engagement with the community, and about her experience as one of the processing archivists for the Martin Luther King Jr. papers, the Voter Education Project, and the Tupac Shakur papers during her time the Atlanta University Center.

Visiting Archivists Anicka Austin and Tierra Thomas discuss how identity shapes collections and influences how archivists process collections.

Atlanta martial artist Marianna Kaufman talks about Karate for Women, a local organization she founded in the 1970s to teach women and girls martial arts and self-defense. The Rose Library is proud to be the home of the Karate for Women records.

Rose Library Assistant Director and Curator of Political, Cultural, and Social Movements Collections, Randy Gue talks about how he made his way into curation, shares secrets of the curatorial world, and considers how archives reveal how one person can make a difference.

Atlanta LGBTQ Activist, Dr. Jesse Peel talks with the Rose Library Assistant Director and Curator of Political, Cultural, and Social Movements Collections, Randy Gue, about his experiences during the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s and his thoughts about the Coronavirus pandemic.

Did you know Atlanta was an important crossroads for local, national, and international hate groups in the 1980s and 1990s? Join me for a conversation with Walter Brown Reeves about Neighbor's Network, a local community-based organization dedicated to countering this hate group activity in Atlanta and Georgia. The records of Neighbor's Network are part of the Rose Library's holdings that document the history of the city.

Head of Processing at Rose Library, Sarah Quigley, talks about the influence of mentor and archivist David Gracy II, recently passed, on her decision to become an archivist, the price of archival labor, and her favorite collection, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and its relevance today.

Poet and activist Nikki Giovanni talk concludes her talk with Rose Library Instruction Archivist Gabrielle Dudley, about the current state of America, friendships, her career as a writer, and belief in oneself.

Accessioning Archivists Meaghan O’Riordan (Rose Library) and Rosemary Davis (Beinecke Library) talk about what happens first when a collection arrives at an archive.

Poet and activist Nikki Giovanni talks with Rose Library Instruction Archivist about her collections, writings, and Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh.

Guest: Randy Gue of the Rose Library at Emory Libraries. First broadcast September 20 2019. Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/09/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-september-20th-graffiti-kings-episode-439/ "That's an Atlanta joke that some of you got."

For the past three decades, Rosser Shymanski has played a critical role in almost every program you've watched on Georgia Public Broadcasting. Shymanski, GPB's television production manager, retires Friday after 31 years with the organization. He will say "Aloha" to his colleagues Friday with his final "Hawaiian Shirt Friday," a tradition that has become a mainstay of GPB, just like Shymanski himself. But before Shymanski worked behind the scenes and won the hearts of his colleagues at GPB, viewers around Atlanta knew and loved him as DeAundra Peek – a character he created and portrayed for The American Music Show on People TV, a public access channel, from 1987 to 2004. The full collection is now archived at Emory University's Rose Library.

On the heels of a Blackface resurgence in fashion and revelations in the lives of VA Gov. Ralph Northam, Attorney General Mark Herring and others, Creative Tension Host Rev. Elliott Robinson, JD, MDiv and Pellom McDaniels, PhD (Curator, African American Collections, Stuart A. Rose Library at Emory University) explore the history and legacy of Blackface in America.  For a visual companion to this episode, visit CreativeTension.org. Follow us on Instagram, FB and Pinterest: @creativetensionpodcast and Twitter @createtension. Until next time, #createtension. Creative Tension can be found wherever you find your favorite podcasts: Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/2wBqYHb  Stitcher: http://bit.ly/2gcmfVp   Google Podcast: http://bit.ly/ctgoogpod    IHeart: http://bit.ly/2h7K69f  TuneIn - http://bit.ly/2gp6ZS8   Spotify - http://spoti.fi/2ydhVbK SoundCloud - http://bit.ly/2fGfU0C  Theme Music - Julian Reid & The JuJu Exchange: http://bit.ly/JRJuJuExch  Thanks to the Emory University Center for Digital Scholarship for their cooperation in the recording and production of the Creative Tension podcast. #createtension #inspireshange #racism #endracism #jimcrow #blm #blacklivesmatter #history #behindtheveil #emory #caricatures #mammy #stereotypes #blackface #podcast #podsincolor #podcastsincolor 

Artist, curator and archivist Pellom McDaniels, III joins cultural producer Floyd Hall in this discussion about photography, the archival process, and his areas of interest and research. Recorded live at Gallery 72, McDaniels gives some cultural context to the current exhibition, “Rusty Miller: The Compassionate Eye in Forgotten Atlanta,” and interprets the images on display in context of Black Atlanta at that time. McDaniels also shares some perspective about his his career path as an artist, athlete, scholar and his current role as archivist and curator at Emory University’s Rose Library. This conversation is presented in collaboration with the Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

The first event in its 2017 “Memorial Drive” series with a program about two dynamic women who decided what films would be shown or banned in Atlanta movie theaters for four decades. Matthew H. Bernstein, Goodrich C. White professor and chair of Emory’s Department of Film & Media Studies, discusses “Controlling Atlanta Screens: Movie Censorship from the 1920s to the 1960s.” The event leads off the 2017 “Memorial Drive” series, a collaboration between ArtsATL.com and Emory’s Rose Library that explores the cultural history of Atlanta. “I am excited about the second season of 'Memorial Drive,’ ” said series coordinator Randy Gue, curator of modern political and historical collections at the Rose Library. “The series unites the Rose Library's unique collections about Atlanta and its past with ArtsATL.com's in-depth coverage of the arts and creativity in the metropolitan area." 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.

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.

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.