Release date: March 25, 2008
Contact: Beverly Cox Clark at 404-712-8780 or beverly.clark@emory.edu

Emory Lecture Series to Illuminate Humanities, Arts

Some of the world's leading scholars of the arts and humanities, as well as artists, will visit Emory University as part of a new lecture series, "Luminaries in Arts and Humanities," sponsored by Emory's Office of the Provost.

"The series will provide platforms for discussions about transformative areas of inquiry," said Santa Ono, vice provost for academic initiatives and deputy to the provost.

The Luminaries series began last year with a focus on the natural sciences, and brought internationally renowned scientists to speak and engage with the Emory community. This series, along with the "Life of the Mind" lunchtime lectures that spotlight Emory's own outstanding scholars, aims to foster a community of engagement with the most intriguing ideas of our time.

The free lectures are designed to appeal to a broad audience of faculty, staff and students as well as to the wider community, and will be held this spring and into the fall semester. The remaining spring line-up includes author Shashi Tharoor and historian Nell Irvin Painter. Other speakers are being recruited from a range of the arts and humanities for the fall semester. The lectures are free and open to the public. For information, contact the Office of the Provost at 404-727-6055.

"Luminaries in Arts and Humanities" Schedule

Shashi Tharoor
Novelist, commentator and former under-secretary general of the United Nations
5 p.m., March 30, Emory Law School, Tull Auditorium, 1301 Clifton Road

William Dalrymple
Historian and writer, most recently of "The Last Mughal: The Eclipse of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857"
4 p.m., April 6, Woodruff Library, Jones Room, 540 Asbury Circle

Nell Irvin Painter
Edwards Professor of American History, emerita, Princeton University
12:30 p.m., April 10, White Hall 208, 301 Dowman Drive

Pauline Yu
President of American Council of Learned Societies and former professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles
Sept. 30
Location TBA

Semir Zeki
Professor of neurobiology, University College, London
Oct. 20-21
Location TBA

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