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CAMPUS NEWS
Library closing
Special Collections
for two months
Due to the ongoing renovation of Woodruff Library, the public areas of
Special Collections, including the reading room, will be closed from Dec.
4 through Jan. 31, 1998. Limited research access will be provided by appointment.
Special Collections staff will continue to respond to e-mail, mail, phone
and fax requests. Researchers with an urgent need to do onsite research
during this time may schedule an appointment from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday. Appointments must be made ahead of time, and Special Collections
will be closed Saturdays during this period. Some materials may be inaccessible
during the renovation, and space will be limited, but staff will make every
effort to meet research needs.
Conference examines 'Culture of Toys'
Scholars from around the world will attend a conference on "The
Culture of Toys" Jan. 24-25 at Emory. The conference will serve as
a prelude to the Smithsonian Institution's 34th annual Festival of American
Folklife, to be held in Washington in the summer of 2000.
The aim of the Emory conference is to address the many questions that
might be posed about the Smithsonian festival, as well as to take an in-depth,
multidisciplinary look at the current state of toys, play, creativity and
their cultural interdependence and impact. Some of the broad topics to be
discussed include "The Modern Toy Situation," "Ethnographies
of Toy Play and Toy Making" and "Critical Issues in Folk Play
Performances." For more information, contact Lauren Kent-Delaney, University
conferences director, at 727-0427.
Faculty seminar still open for participants
Space still remains for next semester's faculty seminar by James Gustafson,
Woodruff professor of comparative studies and religion. The seminar, "Metaphors
and Models," will be held on Wednesdays from 4 to 6 p.m. Faculty from
any department or school are invited to participate, and discussion will
focus on the function of metaphors and models in a variety of disciplines.
Enrollment will be limited to 13 people selected to maximize diversity
among fields. Participants will receive a stipend of $500 for seminar-related
research expenses.
Those interested may apply in writing to Gustafson in the Department
of Religion, Callaway Center, or by e-mail to Walter Reed in the English
department by Dec. 5. Selections will be announced by Dec. 16. |
PERSPECTIVES
SCHOLARSHIP & RESEARCH
FRCP issues call
for proposals
The Faculty Research Commercialization Program is now accepting proposals
for grants designed to "propel promising technologies from the research
arena to viable commercial products and services."
Run through the Advanced Technology Development Center at Georgia Tech,
the FRCP awards an average of $50,000 per grant, and the program has become
a model for bringing the fruits of academic research to market. Faculty
from the six research institutions in the Georgia Research Alliance-Emory,
Georgia Tech, University of Georgia, Georgia State, Clark Atlanta and the
Medical College of Georgia-are eligible for grants.
A FRCP conference will be held Tuesday, Dec. 4, from 2-4 p.m. in the
Health Science Library's Calhoun Conference Room to inform Emory faculty
of the program, and anyone interested is strongly urged to attend. In FY98,
Emory faculty Jonathan Langberg and Charles Epstein received FRCP grants.
Proposal reviews are due to the ATDC by Jan. 19, 1998, and proposals
are due March 16. Both are mandatory. Outlines for proposal reviews and
the request-for-proposal are available at the ATDC web site www.atdc.gatech.edu.
For more information, call Annette Gaddis at (404) 894-1700.
Small groups are the
focus of Christian
education conference
The Candler School once again will sponsor its annual Christian education
conference in February, and this year participants will be asked to think
small. Small groups, that is.
The 1998 topic, "Life Together: Small Groups as Learning Communities,"
borrows its title from the book Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The
conference will be held Feb. 12-14, 1998, at the Simpsonwood Conference
and Retreat Center in Norcross.
"During the 1950s and '60s, the small group movement was a major
source of transformation and renewal in the church, both within itself and
in social terms," said conference organizer Charles Foster, professor
of religion. "In the '70s and '80s it diminished, but in the '90s it
has reemerged."
The conference also will honor John and Adrienne Carr, two Candler faculty
members who plan to retire next year. Other conference leaders include Dorothy
Bass of Valparaiso University, Sister Donna Ciangio of the National Pastoral
Life Center in New York, Duane Ewers of the United Methodist General Board
of Discipleship and Letty Russel of Yale Divinity School.
The conference fee is $100 and offers one continuing education unit,
and the registration deadline is Dec. 10. For more information, call 727-4160,
write to Kim Buchanan (Attn: CE Conference) at 309 Bishops Hall, send e-mail
to bsteven@ emory.edu or faxes
to 727-2915. |
