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This issue of our newsletter is sent to members and friends of the Emory University Emeritus College (EUEC). I hope the newsletter will help keep you informed about our activities and help you feel connected with our members throughout the U.S. On the left are links to our website and links to contact either me or the EUEC office.
With best wishes,
Gray
Gray F. Crouse Director, EUEC
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 Message from the Director
Wow! We had a great reading of the first act of Hamlet on Monday. You can read about it in the next issue of this newsletter and the recording will be up on our website in the next few weeks. Many thanks to Sarah Higinbotham who organized it all, to those of you who read, and those of you who constituted the appreciative audience. As part of the write up of the reading, it would be interesting to have responses from those who watched, just send me an email if you would like to comment. Don O'Shea is a vital part of the processing of our videos, and he and Helen have recently moved from their house on Lullwater Rd. to a new residence, which is the reason there has been a lag in uploading videos of our past Lunch Colloquiums. Many of you know what it is like to move out of a long-time residence!
We have a great set of programs for the next two weeks: Deric Shannon on "Food Justice" and Elizabeth Pastan on Notre-Dame of Paris a year after the disastrous fire. Thanks to Jan Pratt you can read about Pamela Scully's talk on Settler Societies and thanks to Patti Owen-Smith's you can read about Hal Jacobs and the Lillian Smith documentary for which we had a private screening. The four-week span represented by these programs is amazing in its variety and interest!
We continue to welcome a wonderful group of new and newly-retired members. I hope you will take the chance to read about them below and welcome them.
I am very grateful to Gretchen Schulz, Ann Hartle, and Marge Crouse for help with editing and proofing.
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Lunch Colloquium--Monday, July 20
"Food Justice: A Sociological Perspective" Location: Wherever you are 11:30-1:00
Deric Shannon, Associate Professor of Sociology, Oxford College of Emory University
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Lunch Colloquium--Monday, July 27
"Notre-Dame of Paris: One Year Later" Location: Wherever you are 11:30-1:00
Elizabeth Pastan, Professor of Art History
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Lunch Colloquium Report--Monday, June 29
"Settler Societies after Colonialism: South Africa and the USA"
Pamela Scully, Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and of African Studies, and Vice Provost, Undergraduate Affairs
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Lunch Colloquium Report--Wednesday, July 8
"Screening and Discussion of Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence"
Hal Jacobs, independent documentary filmmaker (with a little help from his friends)
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New Members
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
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Lunch Colloquium - Monday, July 20
"Food Justice: A Sociological Perspective"
Deric Shannon, Associate Professor of Sociology, Oxford College of Emory University The "right to food" is proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and yet more than fifty years after its proclamation by the United Nations General Assembly, the UN estimates "that over 2 billion people do not have regular access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food, including 8 per cent of the population in North America and Europe." These numbers vary considerably in group percentages as they intersect with a range of relations of inequality. The normative issues involved when we invoke justice, particularly social versions of those invocations, are central to questions surrounding food - and not just access to it. This talk will focus on sociologically informed approaches to food justice and how food intersects with larger relations of inequality in myriad ways.
Deric Shannon grew up in Indiana, where he received his BA and MA at Ball State University. He then completed his PhD at the University of Connecticut in Sociology with a graduate certificate in Women's Studies. His current teaching and research center on global political economy, the sociology of food, sustainability, and ecology. His most recent book, co-edited with Jeffery Galle and containing two chapters he authored or co-authored, deals with Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pedagogy and Place-Based Education. Earlier books were The End of the World as We Know It? Crisis, Resistance, and the Age of Austerity (2014) and Political Sociology: Oppression, Resistance, and the State (2011). Most of the chapters he has placed in others' books, and most of his peer-reviewed articles, invited presentations, and conference presentations have focused on the sociology of food, the subject of his Zoom session with the Emeritus College audience.
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Lunch Colloquium - Monday, July 27
"Notre-Dame of Paris: One Year Later"
Elizabeth Pastan, Professor of Art History Elizabeth Pastan, Professor of Art History at Emory, specializes in medieval art and architecture, in which field she has paid particular attention to the stunning stained glass work in the great Gothic cathedrals of the period. In fact, her most recent book, co-edited with Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz, is entitled Investigations in Medieval Stained Glass: Medium, Methods, Expressions. And she is currently the President of the American Corpus Vitrearum, the body of scholars who study medieval stained glass. She was even more horrified than the rest of us by the fire that threatened the utter destruction of Notre-Dame a year ago--and even more relieved that so much of it, including its superb rose windows, somehow survived. Today, she'll share some of her expertise on the history and current state of this storied structure and the plans to restore it to its former glory by 2024 when Paris is scheduled to host the Olympics. She promises intervals for discussion after each section of her presentation. . . and lots of wonderful images to look at.
Elizabeth Pastan earned her BA and MA in English and Art History at Smith College, another MA in Art History at Columbia University, yet another MA, as a Special Student, at Harvard University, and a PhD in Art History at Brown University. For nine years, as she was earning her advanced degrees, she taught at Brown and elsewhere in the New England area, including Boston College and Wellesley College, before accepting a position as Assistant Professor of Art History at Indiana University. She came to Emory as Associate Professor of Art History in 1995 and has been serving as Professor here since 2014.
Elizabeth's area of special expertise is medieval art and architecture, with a particular focus on the stained glass in the great cathedrals (and other sites) of the period. From the three wonderful summers she was able to spend studying "The Early Stained Glass of Troyes Cathedral," the subject of her dissertation, until now, she has pursued this colorful topic, having long since gained recognition as a preeminent scholar in the field. (Since 2012 she has served as President of the American Corpus Vitrearum, the body of scholars who study medieval stained glass.) And even a glance at Elizabeth's c.v. shows how very willing members of her home institutions and of national and international organizations have been to support her in her work--with grants for research time, for travel to study, for travel to present and, often, preside at conference sessions, for publication subsidies (including funding for translation), and so on.
It may be needless to say that the list of the publications Elizabeth's work has yielded is enormously impressive, too. These last two years alone have seen the publication of two major works she co-edited: (1) Investigations in Medieval Stained Glass: Medium, Methods, Expressions, Reading Medieval Sources series, co-editor with Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz and (2) 'Quid est sacramentum?': On the Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400-1700, co-editor with Walter Melion, and Lee Palmer Wandel. And in these same years she has published articles besides those included in these co-edited books and presented (invited) papers often, here in the States and abroad. In fact, she was scheduled to present a paper at the International Corpus Vitrearum conference in Barcelona earlier this very month. Unfortunately, that was a no go. We're grateful that she has agreed to present to the Emory University Emeritus College instead!
We'd be remiss if we didn't wrap up this brief bio by mentioning that Elizabeth is as highly regarded as a teacher as she is as a scholar. She is particularly proud, as well she might be, of winning two major teaching awards (thus far) during her time at Emory, the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities (in 2007) and the Crystal Apple Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (in 2009). The latter award prompted Leslie King to write a wonderful article about Elizabeth (and a very special class she had taught our students at the High Museum, using their exhibition of treasury arts from London's Victoria & Albert Museum) for the Emory Report of April 20, 2009 (Volume 61, Number 28). We think you might enjoy taking a look at that article for yourselves.
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Lunch Colloquium Report - Monday, June 29
"Settler Societies after Colonialism: South Africa and the USA"
Pamela Scully, Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and of African Studies, and Vice Provost, Undergraduate Affairs
On June 29, members of the Emeritus College participated in a Lunch Colloquium led by Pamela Scully, Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African Studies, former director of the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, and current Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs. Professor Scully, a native of South Africa, calls herself a "wanderer who studies people who wandered." Her presentation was on "Settler Societies after Colonialism." A settler society grows up when an immigrant group dominates the indigenous population of a region and subjects that population to its sovereignty. It develops a distinctive identity based upon the supposed supremacy of the settlers, and in most cases that has been supposed white supremacy.
Virtually every country in the world has some sort of colonialism in its background, certainly any country that belongs or once belonged to the British Commonwealth, including, of course, the United States. Professor Scully pointed out that many of these societies were dependent on a form of slavery imposed on native peoples as well as the import of slaves from elsewhere. While the United States, for example, has held such promise as to inspire generations of immigrants, that promise has been delivered at the cost of racist dispossession of our indigenous people and slavery of black Africans. The legacy of that history is very much with us today in 2020.
Professor Scully gave us a brief history of South Africa from 1652 when Dutch sailors established a port at what is now Cape Town. It was a stopping place on the way to Asia, but many found the beauty and pleasant climate of Cape Town to their liking and settled there. They brought workers as slaves from many different parts of Africa and South East Asia, the ancestors of those South Africans considered "colored" under the apartheid regime. South Africa has always been a majority black African country, but the white settlers established black homelands (similar to native American reservations in the US) where the black Africans were forced to live, leaving only with permission to work. The harsh rules of segregation were maintained by force. The African National Congress was founded in 1912 (known then as the South African Native National Congress), and throughout the 20th century, it fought to help black and mixed race Africans overthrow this white regime and, from 1948 onwards, end the system of apartheid that white-only voters made official then.
After the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, when some in the ANC began to meet such violence with violence instead of non-violence, the ANC was driven into exile (with leaders like Mandela jailed). Finally, in 1994, President de Klerk lifted the ban on the ANC and released Mandela from prison. White voters passed a referendum that allowed the ANC to run in (and blacks to vote in) the election that followed, which brought black Africans to political power, where they remain.
Professor Scully noted such a result finally reflects the demographics of the country. Black Africans make up 79% of the population. The demographics in the US are exactly the reverse in that 73% of the population identifies as white. Nevertheless, she wondered whether at this particular moment in the history of race relations in the US, the experience of South Africa, since 1994, might offer us here a way forward.
In 1995, under the leadership of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South Africa established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The Commission held hearings where victims and perpetrators of violence under apartheid were invited to appear. Although those who committed the acts of violence were not forced to apologize, they did tell what had happened to the missing. And amnesty was offered to those who confessed. While the Commission may not have been totally effective in revealing truths and salving wounds, it did underscore the undeniable violence of the apartheid regime that the white South Africans could no longer deny.
In response to questions, Professor Scully pondered what such a truth-seeking commission might look like in the United States. She noted that there have been a few regional efforts to force the facing of terrible truths. She gave the example of the 2005 Greensboro inquiry that confronted the Ku Klux Klan with its killings in 1979 and also the very recent discussion of the Tulsa race riots that destroyed the lives and businesses of prosperous African Americans in 1921. Perhaps a model for reconciliation is offered by the Equal Justice Initiatives' lynching memorial. When a name is added, not only the family members of the victim but also members of law enforcement are invited to attend the ceremony. The latter group usually does not attend, but at least such an occasion is a starting place for acknowledgment and change. In these times, a starting place is something we desperately need.
Professor Scully cited several books and articles relevant to her topic. Nelson Mandela's book Long Walk to Freedom may be familiar to many of us. She also cited a book by George Frederickson, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of America and South Africa. And she and Tiny Westbrook both recommended The Nasty Girl, a German movie about a young woman unearthing ugly truths about what people in her town had done during the Nazi regime.
Thanks to Professor Scully for giving us another framework for discussion of these difficult issues.
-Jan Pratt
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Lunch Colloquium Report - Wednesday, July 8
"Screening and Discussion of Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence"
Hal Jacobs, independent documentary filmmaker (with a little help from his friends) "Why didn't I know about her?" permeated audience responses to Hal and Henry Jacobs' stunning documentary chronicling the work and legacy of southern writer, Lillian Smith (1897-1966). The 50-minute documentary centers on Georgia author and activist Lillian Smith who prior to the Civil Rights movement spoke out publicly against segregation referring to it as a "spiritual lynching." She was described by James Baldwin as a "heroic and very lonely figure," for her fearless challenge of the racist traditions of the South was met with social ostracism, savage literary critique, and threats to her life. As the filmmakers note, Smith was perceived as a traitor to the South for her position on racial and gender equality. As a collaborator to the filmmakers, Brenda Bynum, whose own study of Lillian Smith yielded a splendid performance piece many of us have seen, observed that there was an active campaign to suppress Smith. Two of her most significant works, Strange Fruit (1944) and Killers of the Dream (1949, revised 1961), were banned and frequently denounced as lacking in literary merit (although Alice Walker observed that "the South can hardly be said to recognize itself without Strange Fruit"). Many of us in the audience "didn't know about her" because the fullness of her story had not been resurrected until now. In our Zoom Colloquium on Wednesday, July 8, the Jacobs' father-and-son team led a discussion devoted to Breaking the Silence: Lillian Smith, the first full-length film of their company, HJacobs Creative. A screening of the film was available for preview to all registrants prior to the actual discussion (and for some days after the discussion, as well). Hal Jacobs, who left 12-plus years of work at Emory to found the company in 2014, is well known to the Emory community for developing written/video resources to support a variety of people and projects during his time with us. Henry Jacobs is a photographer, filmmaker, and musician. On Wednesday, Hal provided a brief introduction to Lillian Smith and the film by showing the official trailer, and then welcomed comments and questions about both. Central to the documentary is a web of complexities and paradoxes that define Smith's life and legacy. A white, privileged child of the South who spoke and wrote with grace and eloquence, Smith interrogated systems of oppression with radical clarity. Even as a young woman she was a liberal committed to dismantling Jim Crow laws. She was a conservatory-trained musician who gave up hopes of a concert career to become a teacher, and was much impacted by some years teaching in China where she became a student of Chinese philosophy. For 23 years after family issues required her return from China, from 1925 to 1948, she served as the camp director of Laurel Falls Camp for Girls, an innovative educational institution located on Screamer Mountain in Clayton, Georgia; the camp, known for its instruction in art, music, drama, and psychology, attracted large numbers of privileged white girls who were encouraged to mix there with black girls from the area--and encouraged to think rather differently than they had about race (and everything else) by the time they returned home. A woman closeted in a same-sex, long-term relationship, Smith got wonderful support with the work of the camp and with her intellectual work from her partner, Paula Snelling. And in spite of the hostility she often encountered, she got support from many friends as well. And not just locals who liked and protected her, no matter her views. She was a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, Jr. and many other liberal activists of those troubled times, both black and white, who were also not afraid to "break the silence" about the condition Smith called the "psychosis of white supremacy" and about other bigoted thinking too. A particularly poignant part of the documentary and one that invited much audience discussion is the Epilogue designed by the filmmakers to "bring Lillian Smith's message back into our current moment." In it, Emory Professor of Philosophy George Yancy and Civil Rights leader Lonnie King comment on Smith's words as requisites for confronting the white supremacy, neo-fascism, and white authoritarianism that pervade our own moment in time. For a compendium of the words of one of the South's most important writers, see A Lillian Smith Reader edited by Margaret Rose Gladney and Lisa Hodgens (UGAPress, 2016). You might also want to get ahold of copies of Smith's two major books, the novel Strange Fruit (1944) and the memoir Killers of the Dream (1949, revised 1961). Once we're able to travel freely again, you might want to visit the Lillian E. Smith Center in Clayton, Georgia. Owned and operated by Piedmont College, it's a combination of an educational center and artists' retreat that preserves Smith's home, office, and library on Screamer Mountain. The Director of the Center is Matthew Teutsch, who may be reached at [email protected]. Much information about the place and the possibilities it offers visitors is, of course, available online. -Patti Owen-Smith and Gretchen Schulz
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New Members
New members are the lifeblood of any organization. Please make a special effort to welcome them to EUEC!
Tara Nancy Doyle, PhD, Senior Lecturer Emerita in Religion
Professor Doyle received her PhD in South Asian Religions from Harvard University in 1998. She began her Emory career in 1997 teaching classes in the Asian Studies Program and designing and leading study abroad programs through the Center for International Programs Abroad. Professor Doyle joined the faculty of the Department of Religion as Lecturer in 1998 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2005. In 2001 she co-founded Emory's Tibetan Studies Program in Dharamsala, India, and directed that program until 2016. She has been teaching Buddhism courses at Candler School of Theology since 2013, and will continue to do so after her retirement. Professor Doyle's research focuses on contemporary Buddhist Movements, including Buddhism in America, Socially Engaged Buddhism, Beat Poets and Buddhism, Tibetan Freedom Struggles, Buddhism and Politics in South Asia, and the global reach of the Dalai Lama's work. She has also organized numerous Tibetan performing arts events and film festivals on campus. Professor Doyle has received a Crystal Apple Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Lecture Class Education. From Professor Doyle: In this challenging time, when millions of people across the globe are suffering from COVID-19, I want to send love and encouragement to all our colleagues, students, and staff members. This terrible crisis has surely shown how interdependent we are, and underscores the need for each of us to take responsibility for the well-being of others, wherever we can. My hope is that my time at Emory has, in some small measure, contributed to this understanding and motivation; it certainly has nourished and deepened them in me. You all have truly become my beloved community, and I will always be grateful for the 23 years I spent with you.
Michael Moon, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 
Professor Moon received his PhD from The Johns Hopkins University in 1988. He was appointed to the Emory faculty in 2006 as Professor of American Studies. He served as Professor of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies from 2013 to 2020. Professor Moon's research focuses on integrating scholarship on American literature and culture with the emergent fields of LGBTQ Studies and Queer Theory. He is the author of books on the body in Walt Whitman's poetry, queer culture in the US from Henry James to Andy Warhol, the work of self-taught artist Henry Darger, and a book about Pasolini's film Arabian Nights. Professor Moon is the Co-Founder and former Director of Emory's noted Studies in Sexualities program.
From Professor Moon: As I'm confident many of my younger colleagues are discovering anew during our current crisis, one of the things that doesn't seem to change as the US academy goes on morphing and transforming itself is how much one depends on having stand-up colleagues of the kind I've been fortunate enough to have in abundance, including over these past fourteen years at Emory. There are more that I could mention, but I must at a bare minimum shout out the names, with a fond nod to each, of Elizabeth Wilson, Lynne Huffer, Deboleena Roy, Michael Elliott, Colin Talley, Craig Womack, Elizabeth Goodstein, Allen Tullos, and Carole Hahn. Thanks more than I can say for the fellowship and hospitality that you've extended to Jonathan Goldberg and me.
Darryl Neill, PhD, Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor Neill received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1972. He was appointed to the Emory faculty in 1971 as Instructor in Psychology and rose through the ranks, serving two 3-year terms as Chair of the department. Professor Neill's research focused on the neuroanatomy and neurochemistry of brain mechanisms for mood, motivation, and reward. This work, particularly in collaboration with faculty in Chemistry, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Psychiatry, was supported by external funding from the NSF, the NIH, and the Office of Naval Research. Professor Neill's contributions to the field of psychology were recognized by his being named a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He was on the initial committee which created the Graduate Program in Neuroscience, and was head of the committee which created the extremely successful Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology undergraduate major. He is most proud of his 49 years of teaching undergraduates in large classes, particularly "Drugs and Behavior." Over this time, thousands of undergraduates passed through his classes, and many went on to be prominent physicians, scientists, academicians, and clinical psychologists. Professor Neill considers his teaching of the highly motivated and talented Emory undergraduates to have been an honor: "Who could ask for a better job than to be around wonderful colleagues, to learn scientific knowledge of the biological foundations of behavior, and to be paid to teach eager young people about this knowledge?" He was a volunteer for 15 years in Nicholas House, the first shelter for homeless families in Atlanta, and Chair of the Board of Directors of the organization for 4 years during its early years. Along with Professor Richard Doner of Political Science, Professor Neill was involved in the origins, and subsequently served on the Board, of the Transforming Community Project, which was devoted to interracial communication and reconciliation at Emory. From Professor Neill: Over my years at Emory, I have seen the institution move from being a small Southern school to playing on the national stage, and the faculty, staff, and students weather change after change. I'm convinced that the present challenges, financial as well as psychological, will lead to a stronger and even more humane university.
Bobbi (Barbara A. B.) Patterson, PhD, Professor of Pedagogy Emerita in Religion
Professor Patterson received her PhD from Emory University in 1994. She began her Emory career as Associate University Chaplain in August 1980, and later served as an interim Dean of Campus Life. She created and directed Emory's first comprehensive community-engaged learning initiative, Theory Practice Learning. Professor Patterson's early work as a faculty member in the Department of Religion engaged in feminist theory, women's embodiment and body practices, and Christian spiritual traditions. She became increasingly interested in the environments of human and human-more-than-human interactions and thriving. Professor Patterson has received the Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, The American Academy of Religion's Teacher of the Year Award, and Emory's Thomas Jefferson Award.
From Professor Patterson: When change comes, as it will - and surely has come now, it's useful to pause and ask, 'What's still true'. Using that question as a focus, a kind of telescope, I can gather all the scattered energy I feel and discern my choices. For me - and I experienced much of this at Emory - what's still true is loving kindness, the generous relating of self with others (all beings). What's still true is our interconnections, the work of inclusion, which I commit to offering others. I ask myself to activate these choices in my daily life. Try. Try again.
Leslie Real, PhD, Asa Griggs Candler Professor Emeritus of Biology
Professor Real received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1977. He was appointed to the Emory faculty in 1998 as Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Biology. Professor Real's research focuses on the molecular evolution and ecological dynamics of viral infectious disease emergence and spread with special focus on RNA viral diseases, including Rabies, Ebola, and Influenza. Under Professor Real's leadership the Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution (PBEE) Graduate Program transformed into an internationally recognized graduate program specializing in the ecology of infectious diseases.
Robert N. Vincent, MD, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics
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Faculty Activities
Nagueyalti Warren Professor Emerita of Pedagogy in African American Studies
Nagueyalti Warren has recently published two books: Lodestar and Alice Walker's Metaphysics.
The collection of poems in Lodestar is both historical and contemporary. It is divided into three sections: Past Tense, Present Tense, Future Tense. In the first section, the poet recalls past southern events. This section contains sonnets for historical black figures, and a sestina for a grandmother who confronts bigotry. In the Present section, there are poems about the COVID-19 pandemic, the Las Vegas massacre, the election of Barack Obama, and poems to a beloved artist. Ending this section is a poem in the voice of George Floyd. The final poem, the only one in the Future section, is in the voice of a woman who holds the future in her palm. The poems contained in this collection are lucid as clear water.
In Alice Walker's Metaphysics: Literature of Spirit, Nagueyalti Warren examines the philosophy and worldview present in all of Walker's writing. Warren contends that Walker is a literary theologian, citing the transformative changes that take place in the author's fictional characters. Warren also points to Walker's bravery in approaching taboo subjects, her generosity of spirit, and her love for humanity, which are represented throughout her poems, novels, short stories, children's books, and essays. This analysis is further supplemented by primary sources from Walker's unpublished material, including notes and scrapbooks.
By exploring the spirituality evident throughout the author's work, this volume shows how Walker challenges readers to recognize and understand their responsibility to the earth and to one another. Providing a fresh, accessible look at one of the twentieth century's most prolific women writers, Alice Walker's Metaphysics: Literature of Spirit will appeal to both academics and fans of the author's varied literature.
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
On our last walk we stopped to look at entrance doors to "The Hatchery." This new and currently unused space can be found at Emory Point. It occupies the area once home to Earth Fare supermarket.
The Hatchery is Emory's newest space for student ideation and innovation. It was originally slated to open in January 2020, but its official opening was, of course, put on hold due to Covid-19.
A google search revealed this information:
Emory faculty and staff will be part of the collective energy, working alongside students, alumni and changemakers from Atlanta and elsewhere. The center facilitates experiences for students that complement and amplify existing innovation and entrepreneurship efforts at the university.
Custom-built to inspire creativity, The Hatchery is a highly configurable, 15,000-square-foot facility that includes collaboration areas, a makerspace, a presentation and event space, classrooms, online tools, a breakroom and more.
According to Shannon Clute, who has been named inaugural director of the center, the new innovation space will have a distinct student focus. "The Hatchery is where you can come to test a wild idea, encounter other curious minds, expand your professional network and create solutions to share with the world," says Clute. "It's a place to apply your studies to real-world problems and to succeed beyond Emory."
As I mentioned before, I'm not sure when it will re-open, but I'm looking forward to a better look inside when its doors are unlocked.
Recent days have been hot and humid, and for our next walk, in order to avoid the heat, I've gone off the beaten path. This place is somewhat difficult to get to and a bit hard to find, but was a nice surprise when I stumbled upon it...and it is on the Emory campus!
Where will you find this on the Emory Campus?
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Emory University Emeritus College The Luce Center
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