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Poet Laureate Billy Collins will give a free reading at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at Glenn Memorial Auditorium. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2012/01/billy-collins-to-give-free-reading-at-emory.html Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:00:00 -0500 http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2012/01/billy-collins-to-give-free-reading-at-emory.html Once again, the cinephiles in Emory University's Department of Film and Media Studies have singled out what each of them consider the best movies of 2011. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/12/2011-top-ten-movies-film-studies-faculty-pick-their-favorites.html Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:00:00 -0500 http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/12/2011-top-ten-movies-film-studies-faculty-pick-their-favorites.html "The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 1: 1929-1940," published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press, will receive the eleventh Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters by the Modern Language Association. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/12/letters-of-samuel-beckett-wins-modern-language-association-award.html Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:00:00 -0500 http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/12/letters-of-samuel-beckett-wins-modern-language-association-award.html Anthropologist Carol Worthman of Emory University has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/12/emory-anthropologist-named-aaas-fellow.html Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:00:00 -0500 http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/12/emory-anthropologist-named-aaas-fellow.html HLN host and veteran television news journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell will moderate a dynamic discussion about the history and impact of increased openness upon LGBT communities, as well as how greater LGBT openness has impacted American society. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/12/cnn-dialogues-to-feature-discussion-on-lgbt-issues.html Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:00:00 -0500 http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/12/cnn-dialogues-to-feature-discussion-on-lgbt-issues.html Take an ambitious young professor who recognizes the importance of food in literature. Mix in two classes of students who appreciate learning and writing about a universal subject. Add a pinch of technology and stir well, and you have the recipe for Emily Kader's English 181 course "Movable Feasts: Food, Literature and Writing." http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/12/moveable-feasts-english-class.html Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:00:00 -0500 http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/12/moveable-feasts-english-class.html This year Emory hired the first full-time permanent faculty member in Korean language. Korean is growing in popularity on campus, with student requests exceeding seats in available classes. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/12/emory-students-get-steeped-in-korean-language.html Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:00:00 -0500 http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/12/emory-students-get-steeped-in-korean-language.html Kevin Brownlow, film historian, filmmaker and Academy Award recipient, presents the lecture ¿My Life with Napoleon (1927)¿ Dec. 1, 8 p.m. in White Hall 207 on the Emory campus. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/11/film-legend-kevin-brownlow-at-emory-dec-1.html Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:00:00 -0500 http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/11/film-legend-kevin-brownlow-at-emory-dec-1.html Garrett Turner, a 2011 Emory University graduate, has been awarded the 2012 Marshall Scholarship for graduate study in England. He is the third consecutive Emory student to receive the scholarship and the 15th overall from the university. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/11/2011-emory-graduate-awarded-prestigious-marshall-scholarship.html Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:00:00 -0500 http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/11/2011-emory-graduate-awarded-prestigious-marshall-scholarship.html A new book edited by Emory University religion professor Timothy P. Jackson argues not only that being loved is the most fundamental right of children, but also that society should make sure children are taught to love. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/11/being-loved-is-the-first-human-right-says-new-book.html Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:00:00 -0500 http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/11/being-loved-is-the-first-human-right-says-new-book.html The community is invited to help visiting artist John Grade construct a monumental public art project on the Emory campus called "Piedmont Divide." http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/11/add-environmental-artist-to-your-resume.html Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:00:00 -0500 http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/11/add-environmental-artist-to-your-resume.html Environmental artist John Grade arrived on campus this week to begin orchestrating ¿Piedmont Divide.¿ He is soliciting volunteers to help with the installation. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/11/science-meets-art-during-john-grades-residency.html Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:00:00 -0500 http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/11/science-meets-art-during-john-grades-residency.html Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey gives the Phillis Wheatley Reading as part of the Creative Writing Program Reading Series at Emory University, Monday Nov. 7 at 6:30 p.m. in the Jones Room, 311 Woodruff Library. The reading will be followed a by reception and book signing. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/10/natasha-trethewey-gives-free-reading-at-emory.html Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:00:00 -0400 http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/10/natasha-trethewey-gives-free-reading-at-emory.html Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library recently acquired two major collections related to African American art and art history: the papers of the late internationally recognized artist John Biggers and the late renowned arts patron Paul R. Jones. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/11/african-american-artists-papers-acquired-by-emory.html Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:00:00 -0400 http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/11/african-american-artists-papers-acquired-by-emory.html Samuel Beckett's more than 15,000 letters reveal a softer side of the self-effacing, reticent writer who refused to attend his own Nobel Prize ceremony and preferred to let the words on the page speak for themselves. http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/10/beckett-letters-illuminate-reclusive-writers-creative-process.html Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:00:00 -0400 http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2011/10/beckett-letters-illuminate-reclusive-writers-creative-process.html