FOUNDERS WEEK, a midwinter academic festival of the arts and sciences, provides a stepping stone midway between the annual academic celebrations of Opening Convocation and Commencement and celebrates the role of the University in promoting inquiry and intellectual life. The week-long festival of academic, social, and cultural events commemorates the founding of Emory College in 1836. Founders Week events are open to the public, and most events are free.
Please view the full event schedule below, but be sure to check the UPDATES section at the top of the schedule for important changes to earlier advertised versions of the schedule.
Monday, February 6, 2012
4:00 p.m.
17th Annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture: “Me and Joe McCarthy: Studying American Communism”
Winship Ballroom, DUC
Harvey Klehr, Mellon Professor of Politics and History
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
11:30 a.m. — 1:30 p.m.
Wonderful Wednesday Celebration
Asbury Circle between Cox Hall and Dobbs University Center
Music, food, festivity
12:30 p.m.
McDonald Lecture in Christianity and Law: “Jesus and the Law of Marriage and Divorce”
Tull Auditorium, Law School
Luke Timothy Johnson, Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins
Professor Johnson will show how a patient examination of the Gospel of Matthew reveals a rich and complex understanding of the way Torah and the figure of Jesus intersect. This includes discussion of the passages on marriage and divorce.
4:00 p.m.
Preview of documentary film on Emory’s history.
Jones Room, Woodruff Library
(Scheduled for televised airing in late spring)
Thursday, February 9, 2012
7:30 p.m.
“Dirty Nasty Politics in the Early Republic”
White Hall 205
Professor Joanne Freeman of Yale University.
Lecture sponsored by Program on Democracy and Citizenship
Friday, February 10, 2012
4:00 p.m.
Preview of documentary film on Emory’s history.
Jones Room, Woodruff Library
(Scheduled for televised airing in late spring)