MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
[author_affiliation] Overview Atlanta Intersections features Atlantans in conversation with Randy Gue, curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). In collaboration with Southern Spaces, MARBL presents clips of the full interviews to spur conversations and encourage research on the featured topics. Chip Simone. Photo courtesy of […]
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Stephanie Dowda on Topophilia
[author_affiliation] Overview Atlanta Intersections features Atlantans in conversation with Randy Gue, curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). In collaboration with Southern Spaces, MARBL presents clips of the full interviews to spur conversations and encourage research on the featured topics. “Sense of Awakening,” Topophilia, 2013. […]
How I Shed My Skin
[author_affiliation] Overview Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we’ve come a long way—thanks to mighty black struggle and interracial coalition—there’s still far to go. Honoring local achievements while warning of persistent injustice, Jim Grimsley’s bold memoir of […]
Collaborative Atlanta Studies Website Gathers Original Scholarship, Research, and Projects on Atlanta
[author_affiliation] Overview Atlanta Studies website, 2015. Screenshot of Boyd Lewis’s photo of Margaret Mitchell’s apartment house. Courtesy of Emory News. The website includes Boyd Lewis’s original article about living in Margaret Mitchell’s apartment and the building’s history, an example of the original scholarship encouraged by the collaborative publication. Emory University’s Center for Digital Scholarship […]
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
[author_affiliation] Overview Howard Dodson, Making Art at the Schomburg: Africana Archives as Sites of Art Making (Part 1 of 3), 2014. Art making has been a critical aspect of the human experience since time immemorial. Among the earliest evidence of human beings as art makers are the rock carvings and engravings found throughout the African […]
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta’s LGBT Community
[author_affiliation] Overview Atlanta Intersections features Atlantans in conversation with Randy Gue, curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). In collaboration with Southern Spaces, MARBL presents clips of the full interviews to spur conversations and encourage research on the featured topics. Jesse Peel, MARBL Woodruff Room, Atlanta, Georgia, […]
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
[author_affiliation] Overview Greetings by Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey introduces the 2014 Callaloo Conference. I am Natasha Trethewey, the Director of the Creative Writing Program and I’m pleased to welcome you to this year’s Phillis Wheatley Reading, an annual event co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Department of African-American Studies at Emory University. We’re […]
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Susannah Darrow on Arts Organizations in Atlanta
[author_affiliation] Overview Atlanta Intersections features Atlantans in conversation with Randy Gue, curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). In collaboration with Southern Spaces, MARBL presents clips of the full interviews to spur conversations and encourage research on the featured topics. In this interview, Susannah Darrow, […]
Bricking the Church
[author_affiliation] Overview Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem “Bricking the Church,” 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hillwhere once the white chapelpointed among junipers and pulleda wash of gravestones west, they’ve buried the wooden snow thatanswered sarvis in bloomand early morning fogs, in brick,a crust the same dull red as clay in […]
Remnants of Flannery
[author_affiliation] Overview Flannery O’Connor’s place in American literature is undisputed. A master of the short story, her The Complete Stories (1971) was voted the “favorite” of the sixty fiction winners of the National Book Award in 2009. August 3, 2014 marked the fiftieth anniversary of O’Connor’s death. Had she not succumbed to complications related to […]