13 October
1999 -- Boyd McCandless Annual Lecture. 1:00
p.m. in 208 White Hall. Department of Psychology presents Annette
Karmiloff-Smith, Neurocognitive Development Unit Institute of
Child Health UCL, London. Contact Phyllis Jackson-Monday at 727-7438
or pjackso@emory.edu.
14 October
1999 -- Halle Institute Speaker Series. 7:00
p.m. in the Winship Ballroom, duc. Stephen P. Cohen, Senior Fellow,
Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and expert
on South Asian security and proliferation, will speak on "The
Emergence of India as a Great Power." Contact Ildiko Flannery
at 727-7504 or oia@emory.edu.
21 October
1999 -- D. Abbott Turner Ethics and Servant Leadership Program.
7:30 p.m. in Room 130, Goizueta
Business School. Ethics Center presents "Tending the Heart
of a Business" with James H. Blanchard, chairman and CEO
of Synovus Financial Corp. Contact Mary Sue Brookshire at 727-3064
or mbroo03@learnlink.emory.edu.
21-23 October
1999 -- Religion in the American South: Towards a Renewed Scholarship.
Emory Conference Center Hotel. Registration
fee. Opening remarks by President Jimmy Carter, "Reflections
of a Southern Christian Layman" are free and open to the
public in Glenn Memorial Auditorium.
Panel topics range from "Beyond the Bible Belt" to
"Religion in the South and Electronic Media." Call
727-4641 or email jbsaund@learnlink.emory.edu.
Web site: jsr.as.wvu.edu/emory.htm.
11-13
November 1999 -- Word and Image: Samuel Beckett and the Visual
Text. Symposium keynote delivered
by Marjorie Perloff, Patek Professor of Humanities, Stanford
University, Nov. 12 at 7:00 p.m. in Woodruff Library Special
Collections. Other speakers include Beckett bibliographer Breon
Mitchell of Indiana University and artists/publishers Manfred
Gartstka, Charles Kalbunde, Dellas Henke, Sorel Etrog, and Hans
Brøndum.
Interdisciplinary teaching workshops will explore the relationships
between word and image. Theater Emory will present several Beckett
works in repertory, including "A Piece of Monologue,"
"Come and Go," and "What Where." The livres
d'artistes exhibition will run in Schatten Gallery through December.
For exhibition, symposium, and workshop information, contact
Lois Overbeck, 727-6840, lmoverb@emory.edu.
For Theater Emory tickets and information, contact the box office
at 727-5050.
18-19 November
1999 -- University Advisory Council on Teaching Visiting Scholar.
Times, locations TBA. R. Eugene
Rice, author of an American Association of Higher Education working
paper on "The New American Scholar" and director of
the Faculty Roles and Rewards Program of the AAHE, will visit
Emory.