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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
Our art exhibition is still on display in the Chace Lobby of the Schwartz Center until early May; if you haven't yet seen it, try to go by before it is taken down.
As noted below, we are starting to form committees to begin work on the AROHE Conference that we are hosting in the fall of 2018. We are seeking volunteers to help with this process and would greatly appreciate your help in this effort.
I continue to be amazed at the quality of our Lunch Colloquiums. It seems we go from one great program to another. There was another packed house for Laura Otis, and she commented, as do all of our speakers, on how much she enjoyed talking to such an appreciative and engaged audience. One major factor in the success of this program is those of you who are able to attend - we have a true interdisciplinarity in our discussions, with members from so many different backgrounds bringing their own experiences to the table. Next Monday promises to be another highlight, with our own John Bugge talking about Chaucer.
One of our signature programs is coming up on April 17: The Sheth Lecture. There is a brief preview below, with more information to come in the next newsletter. I would recommend registering early for this event. Thanks to the generosity of the Sheths, there is a free lunch and we anticipate a full house for Dennis Lockhart.
I am very grateful to John Bugge, Herb Benario, and Gretchen Schulz for help with proofing and editing.
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Lunch Colloquium March 20
Representing Emotions that Are Hard to Love
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April 17--Sheth Lecture--Save the Date!
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Dennis Lockhart (left), President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, speaks with then-Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (center) at a meeting in 2012. HYOSUB SHIN, AJC.
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We are extremely fortunate to have as our Sheth Distinguished Lecturer this year Dennis Lockhart, the just-retired President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. More information about this lecture will be in the next newsletter, but I wanted to alert everyone to save the date and to register, as I anticipate this will be a packed event. You can register by clicking the appropriate link in the yellow section above.Have no fear that this will be a dry, technical talk aimed at economists! John Bugge and I recently had lunch with Dennis. We had a fascinating conversation and we are both very eager to hear Dennis talk. Dennis was President and CEO of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank for the last 10 years. If you think back on those 10 years, you will realize that that period was one of the most dangerous and challenging for our economy since the Great Depression. Dennis has also been very interested in how demographics will shape our future, particularly if immigration is curtailed. (Will Japan serve as a model for what we should expect?) You can read a recent article about Dennis Lockhart in the AJC by clicking here. The Lecture and Lunch are made possible by a generous donation from Dr. Jagdish and Mrs. Madhu Sheth. The lecture will be in Governors Hall in the Miller-Ward Alumni House on April 17, 11:30-1:00. --Gray Crouse
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AROHE 2018 Conference
The Planning Committee for the 2018 AROHE Conference is starting to have regular meetings. In addition to the main committee, we will need subcommittees to work on specific parts of the conference. These will include the following: - Program - Determine themes of the conference and develop a detailed program
- Publicity & Engagement - Design the printed program, poster, and other materials
- Conference Website - Develop and maintain content for the conference website
- Sunday Evening Reception and Banquet - Help plan and arrange
- Monday Evening - Help plan evening meal arrangements
- Registration - Help plan for registration and volunteer staffing
- Atlanta Arrangements - Provide information on Atlanta for registrants; possible group activities for early arrivals
- Exhibitions - Help plan exhibition space for members and sponsors
- Sponsorships - Work with the AROHE office to seek local/national sponsors for the conference
We can't do this without your help! Please let us know if you are willing to help (or know someone else who would be willing)!
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Faculty Activities
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
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Lunch Colloquium Aprille 3
Re-Inventing The Canterbury Tales: Hypertext and 'The General Prologue'
John Bugge, Professor of English Emeritus Because, among the four Major English Poets from before 1700, only Chaucer wrote an English that is not modern, his work presents challenges that readers of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton do not normally face. And because simple aesthetic justice demands that The Canterbury Tales be read in their original Middle English, one might posit an even stronger need for "reinventing" Chaucer. But the supposed language impediment turns out to be something of a paper tiger, and readers soon discover that Chaucer is a poet of surprisingly contemporary sensibility, particularly in his use of a compositional mode that bears a striking resemblance to hypertext - a term coined fifty years ago to signify a collection of documents containing cross-references or "links" that allow a user to move easily from one document to another. Excerpts from "The General Prologue" provide examples of such Chaucerian hypertext, which invites readers to search a richly complicated and multi-nodal network of meanings lying beyond the immediate textual site. It turns out Chaucer needs no reinvention, but rather only a recognition that how his texts mean is entirely conducive to the way we read in the age of the Internet.
About John BuggeIf there is anyone whom every EUEC member knows, it is John Bugge. John was a co-founder of the Emeritus College and currently serves as Chair of the Executive Committee. He studied architecture for one year at the University of Cincinnati and then transferred to Marquette University where he received a BA in English. He then studied for a year at the Eberhard-Karls Universität inTübingen on a Fulbright Fellowship. He obtained an MA and PhD in English literature at Harvard University. He began his career at Emory University as an Instructor in English in 1968 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1970 when he completed his PhD. He rose through the ranks and retired in 2011 as Professor Emeritus. Among his many honors and awards, h e twice received the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award. Note:
As a special treat, John Bugge's presentation will be preceded by a performance by David Leinweber, Associate Professor of History at Oxford College and accomplished acoustic guitarist, who will play and sing a ballad he has written (and recorded) called "Canterbury Road."
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Lunch Colloquium March 20
Representing Emotions that Are Hard to Love
Laura Otis, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of English
An overflow audience was treated to a stimulating presentation on Monday, March 20, by Laura Otis of Emory's English Department. Very few, if any of us, have thought as well and as extensively as she has on the topic of "Emotions Hard to Love." Bringing together her extensive knowledge of brain science, medicine, language, and literature, Professor Otis focused our attention on metaphors used to describe what we take to be negative or difficult emotions: resentment, spite, self-pity, personal hatred, bitterness, and grudge-bearing. It did not take long for us to sense the depth and significance of her work for our understanding of the cultural and biological features of how we experience our emotional lives. What happens when someone stays angry, nursing a grudge or hurt for fifty years? Why do we choose to repress these deep forces that often govern our individual and social lives?
Drawing on recent theories of metaphor, she explored how our thinking about the ugly and difficult parts of human emotions is deeply rooted in the biological and physical features of life. At the same time, the implications of these metaphorical descriptions and depictions for how we actually live in the world emerged with considerable force. This was in large measure due to the fact that Professor Otis used a wide range of literature to illustrate her major insights. From Virgil to Dante, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress to Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Kafka, she traced the emotional complexity of central characters dealing with emotions we find difficult. She also explored the dynamics of "emotions hard to love" in a number of films.
The discussion revealed how relevant her presentation was to questions of our self-understanding as human beings. Questions about doctor-patient relationships, about how literature and drama are made more vivid, as well as larger issues about moral and religious ways of life were prompted. So much is illuminated by paying attention to the ways in which we conceive and interpret such difficult emotion complexes. Her knowledge and gracious teaching skills made this a memorable seminar.
--D.E. Saliers
You can read an article in Emory News about Laura and her work by clicking here.
You can read about her latest book, Rethinking Thought: Inside the Minds of Creative Scientists and Artists, by clicking here.
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Faculty Activities
Carol Anderson
Charles Howard Candler Professor and chair of African American Studies
Carol Anderson is not (yet) a member of EUEC, but she did give one of our Lunch Colloquiums last fall (see Volume 3, Issue 1). She is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for her book White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide and was honored at a ceremony on March 16. An article on the award may be seen by clicking here. Corinne A. Kratz Emory Director, African Critical Inquiry Program Professor Emerita of Anthropology and African Studies
EUEC Member Cory Kratz is currently in Johannesburg, where the 2017 African Critical Inquiry Programme Workshop is taking place - Secret Affinities, a Workshop in Critical Reading and an Interrogation of the City in Africa via Walter Benjamin's Das Passagen-Werk. She reports that the participants had a fascinating tour of Satyagraha House and other buildings and spaces in Johannesburg designed by architect Hermann Kallenbach and/or associated with Mohandas Gandhi. They gathered at Satyagraha House, which Kallenbach designed and where Gandhi and Kallenbach lived together from 1908 to 1909 - soon to begin a full day of discussion and presentations. At this website link - https://secretaffinitiesblog.wordpress.com/ you can see a list of participants, the program, information about Satyagraha House, and the sites being visited.
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Walking the campus with Dianne
If you didn't already know, our last photo was at the Cherry Logan Emerson Hall which is connected to the older section of the Atwood Chemistry building. The Hall is home to The Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation. (Interesting fact: The Cherry Logan Emerson Concert Hall at the Schwartz Center is also named for benefactor Cherry L. Emerson). Click on the link below for more information on the computation center:
Since the current weather seems to be undecided, let's stay inside for our next walk. This next place on campus is well traveled daily, yet a lot of people do not even know it exists.
Where will you find this on the Emory campus?
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Emory University Emeritus College The Luce Center
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