Release date: Jan. 20, 2004
Contact: Elaine Justice, Associate Director, University Media Relations,
at 404-727-0643 or ejustic@emory.edu

Fuller's Talk at Emory: "Where Do the Children Live?"

WHAT: Millard Fuller, founder and president of Habitat for Humanity International, and Martin E. Marty, renowned church historian and author, will give a presentation titled, "Where Do The Children Live?" Emory University professor of law Frank Alexander will serve as moderator. This presentation, hosted by Emory's Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion (CISR), also is the Decalogue Lecture for 2004.

WHEN: 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday Feb. 17

WHERE: Tull Auditorium, Emory Law School, 1301 Clifton Road on the Emory campus

PARKING: Available in the law school parking deck.

AUDIO: A mult-box will be provided.

WEBCAST: The event will be broadcast live on the CISR Web site at: www.law.emory.edu/cisr

"A house is to a family what soil is to a plant-- it gives rootedness to a family and is the foundation stone on which human development occurs," says Millard Fuller, co-presenter for "Where Do The Children Live?"

Fuller and Martin Marty's presentation is the fourth and final in a series of public forums hosted by the CISR. The first forum Sept. 22 titled "Who Cares for the Children?" featured family experts Don Browning, Woodruff Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Religious Studies, and Martha Fineman, Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law. The second forum Oct. 14 featured former President Jimmy Carter and Marty discussing "What Happens to Children in Peril?" The third event, titled "Children: Will We Ever Get It Right?" featured William H. Foege on Oct 27. Webcasts of the first three sessions are available at: www.law.emory.edu/cisr.

The Center for the Interdisiciplinary Study of Religion at Emory is engaged in a three-year study on "The Child in Law, Religion and Society," which is bringing together research of two dozen senior faculty from across the Emory campus to focus on children in relation to a host of social issues.

Emory University is known for its demanding academics, outstanding undergraduate college of arts and sciences, highly ranked professional schools and state-of-the-art research facilities. For more than a decade Emory has been named one of the country's top 25 national universities by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to its nine schools, the university encompasses The Carter Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Healthcare, a comprehensive metropolitan health care system.

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