Newsletter Volume 7 Issue 11 February 3, 2021 |
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We welcome two new members and one of them is an author of one of the 12 titles celebrated in the Feast of Words with EUEC member authors. All of us should be pleased that 13% of the titles listed were by member authors!
I am very grateful to Gretchen Schulz, Ann Hartle, and Marge Crouse for help with editing and proofing.
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Lunch Colloquium - Monday, February 8
Talea Mayo
“Water Water Everywhere: Numerical Modeling to Simulate the Impact of Climate Change on Hurricane Storm Surge”
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Lunch Colloquium - Monday, February 15
Mahlon DeLong
"Brain Circuits and Their Disorders - My Life and Times in Neuroscience"
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Report - Lunch Colloquium - Monday, January 19
Polly Price
“Pandemics and the Law of Social Distancing”
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Report - Lunch Colloquium - Monday, January 25
Angelika Bammer
“German Family Memory and the Nazi Past: A Reckoning across Generations”
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Emory Virtual Travel Guides Seminar
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New Members
Michael Lubin and Robert McCauley
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Faculty Activities
Ron Gould and Feast of Words Authors
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
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Lunch Colloquium - Monday, February 8, 2021 |
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“Water Water Everywhere: Numerical Modeling to Simulate the Impact of Climate Change on Hurricane Storm Surge”
Talea Mayo
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics
Zoom Meeting
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Climate change, which will cause global mean sea level rise and increase coastal flood risk in many places, has significant implications for tropical cyclone climatology. Hurricane intensity, size, and translation speed are all expected to increase in the future, influencing the generation and propagation of storm surge. Dr. Mayo, a computational mathematician with expertise in the development and application of hydrodynamic models for coastal hazards, will discuss two approaches to understanding what climate change means for storm surge risk. One approach uses a numerical model to simulate synthetic storm surges for coastal communities along the U.S. North Atlantic, seeking to understand the present day flood risk and how it will change over the next century. In the second approach, another numerical model is used to simulate historical storm surges that impacted the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Coasts of the continental United States from 2000-2013 and then to simulate the same storm surges under projected end-of-century climate conditions. Both approaches suggest that there will be notable increases in inundation in the areas involved. Perhaps such simulations of a future of flooding can help us prevent that from becoming so much of a reality? We can ask Dr. Mayo that question on Monday, February 8.
About Taleo Mayo:
Mayo, an Assistant Professor of Mathematics here in Emory College,is a computational mathematician with expertise in the development and application of hydrodynamic models for coastal hazards. She specializes in hurricane storm surge model development and applications, including the investigation of climate change impacts on coastal flood risk and data assimilation methods for state and parameter estimation. Dr. Mayo recently expanded her work to include wave energy conversion and its impact on coastal erosion.
Dr. Mayo obtained her BS from Grambling State University in 2008, her MS in Computational and Applied Mathematics from the University of Texas Austin in 2010 and her Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from the University of Texas Austin in 2013.
Before coming to Emory, she did postdoctoral research at Princeton University 2013-2015. While there she also became involved in Princeton's Prison Teaching Initiative. Dr. Mayo was an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering at the University of Central Florida 2015-2020.
Dr. Mayo was awarded the Early Career Research Fellowship by the National Academies of Sciences Gulf Research Program and the Early Career Faculty Innovator Award by the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Dr. Mayo is a fierce advocate of accessible, inclusive science and education of all people.
You can follow Talea Mayo on Twitter (@taleamayo) and listen to her recent podcast "Hurricanes, Coastal Flooding, and Data Assimilation," featured on Climate Scientists with Dan Jones.
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Lunch Colloquium - Monday, February 15, 2021 |
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"Brain Circuits and Their Disorders - My Life and Times in Neuroscience"
Mahlon DeLong
Professor Emeritus, Emory Neurology
Zoom Meeting
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
The fields of neuroscience, neurology and psychiatry have undergone rapid growth over recent decades, fueled by advances in neuroscience. Mahlon DeLong’s initial studies in primates were centered on understanding the role of structures deep in the brain, in the basal ganglia, in the control of movement and their suspected role in Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders. In the course of these studies, he identified separate neural circuits for the control of movement, cognition, and emotion/reinforcement, fundamentally changing the prevailing view that these circuits were funneled together within the basal ganglia. In subsequent studies in animal models he demonstrated that the signs and symptoms of Parkinson’s were correlated with altered neuronal activity in specific nodes of the motor circuit and that they could be reversed by selective interruption of the motor circuit. New treatment approaches to movement disorders especially in Parkinson’s followed, including lesioning and the less invasive and reversible technique of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) of specific areas of the “motor circuit.” In combination with new pharmacologic and other forms of neuromodulation these studies have transformed neurology from a largely diagnostic to an increasingly therapeutic discipline. The older idea of “brain centers” in neurologic and psychiatric disorders has now been largely replaced by the understanding of both as “circuit disorders,” dispelling the notion that psychiatric disorders are fundamentally different from neurologic ones and suggesting that both are potentially treatable by future less invasive approaches of “neuromodulation.”
About Mahlon DeLong:
Mahlon DeLong is Emeritus Professor of Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine. DeLong was recruited to Emory as Chair of Neurology in 1990. He was co-director and co-founder of ENTICe (Emory Neuromodulation and Technology Innovation Center), whose goal is to foster the development of innovative neuromodulation technologies for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders. He served as the Scientific Director of the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation and as Founder and Director of the Emory APDA Advanced Center for Parkinson’s Research.
In a series of pioneering physiologic studies, Dr. DeLong identified segregated brain circuits involving the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, and thalamus, sub-serving movement, executive, and mood/reward functions. These studies led to a major revision of the prevailing network models and helped to characterize the circuit disturbances underlying basal ganglia disorders such as parkinsonism. He and his colleagues demonstrated the abolition of parkinsonism with focal inactivation of a node of the basal ganglia motor circuit, the subthalamic nucleus. These studies, which provided novel targets, physiologic guidance, and a clear rationale for surgical approaches, contributed to the revival and development of neurosurgical treatments for Parkinson’s and other movement disorders.
Dr. Delong has received numerous awards for his contributions to the field including the Breakthrough Prize in Neuroscience (2013), the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Research Award (2015), which he shared with Alim Benabid, and the Taubman Prize for Excellence in Translational Medical Science (2015).
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Lunch Colloquium Report - Tuesday, January 19, 2021 |
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"Pandemics and the Law of Social Distancing"
Polly Price
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law,
Professor of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health
At our Lunch Colloquium on Tuesday, January 19, Polly Price, Candler Professor of Law at the Emory University School of Law, filled us in on the long history of the role of government and the law during times of pandemic diseases and how these precursor experiences inform what is going on today. She told us her main takeaways are that a pandemic response by government is not inherently divisive, but that, nonetheless, such a response can create conflicts and that they have done so in the US in the past as well as now. Indeed, the more than 400 court cases challenging various orders of government officials to the current COVID-19 outbreak illustrate these conflicts.
Historically, the most common public health response to outbreaks of infectious disease was quarantine at home imposed by local town/county officials, a practice that spanned the period from colonial times right up into the twentieth century. A sign placed on the front door warned those on both sides that contact was forbidden. These mandated quarantine responses were primarily to diseases that we use vaccines to control today, such as polio, typhus, or yellow fever. Authority for the quarantine mandates rested with local public health officials and they were usually well accepted as necessary to prevent spread of deadly diseases.
The first widespread epidemics that caused significant conflict in the US were the yellow fever outbreaks in the 19th century after the Civil War when the disease was primarily confined to the southern states. The yearly outbreaks of yellow fever in the southern ports would be followed rapidly by people relocating north to evade the infection. Northern towns began to impose “shotgun quarantines,” refusing to allow people from southern towns to enter. Not knowing what caused the disease at the time, they assumed it passed from person to person. (It does not. It’s spread by infected mosquitoes.), individual states would declare a quarantine against another state. For example, Georgia would establish a quarantine against Louisiana and deny entry to those from that state. This was such a widespread phenomenon that states sometimes issued yellow fever immunity cards to help their residents travel during the summer months when yellow fever was active. In an effort to resolve this messy situation, at the end of the 19th century 14 southern states petitioned the Federal government to deal with the interstate quarantine situation regarding yellow fever. During that time, Congress passed legislation that authorized the Federal government to act in cases where infectious diseases threatened to cross from one state to another. These laws are still in effect today and form the legal basis for any Federal response to pandemics.
Even into the 20th century local responses to pandemics varied markedly. The Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 spread across the US in three waves, eventually reaching every corner of the country. Although the cause of the disease was unknown, its infectious nature was appreciated and face masks were employed to stem the spread. During that time, the Health Board of Fulton County GA instituted a face mask requirement in public spaces along with closing movie theaters, schools, and churches. Shortly thereafter the mayor of Atlanta overrode the face mask requirement. Such conflicting levels of authority over public health measures are still in evidence today as demonstrated by Governor Kemp’s suit against the mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms, to block the city’s mask requirement. This suit had the effect of preventing a mask requirement in Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, and indeed mask requirements at other airports around the country have been similarly subject to the whims of local politicians. Polly correctly predicted that President Biden would swiftly fix this loophole and require masks in all places of interstate transport (airports, bus/train stations, etc.). Such a requirement has been among his first executive actions.
The unique system of federalism in the US means we have one of the most decentralized public health systems in the world. In our system, there are some areas that the Federal government is in charge of and some areas that the state governments are in charge of. In the Venn diagram Dr. Price used to illustrate this point, there is a lot of overlap among entities charged with handling matters of health, and pandemic response falls in that overlap area (and/or outside areas where the Federal government can act at all). Shockingly, the primary responsibility for America’s defense against the spread of contagions is divided among 2,684 state, local, and tribal public health departments. Yes, we have state and local laws on the books designed to combat small outbreaks of disease that can be contained by quarantining infected individuals in their homes. However, huge changes in population mobility in recent years along with a deadly nationwide (and world-wide) pandemic like the one we’re suffering now mean the laws establishing these arrangements are dangerously out of date and are in dire need of being reimagined.
Who then has the authority under current law to order social distancing measures? For mitigation measures such as non-essential business closings and face mask ordinances, state, municipal, and county governments can usually make their own decisions. In most states, unlike in Georgia, the governor tends not to override what the local authorities decide. But, again witness Kemp, some do. At least all 50 state governors declared states of emergency in March 2020, all of which are still in effect. This means that the legal structure that was designed to enable states to deal quickly with acute disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes, giving governors emergency powers to issue executive orders, has now been in effect for nearly a year. Many governors have used this authority to ban group gatherings and mandate masks statewide, for example. However, many have done no such thing. This has led to a broad patchwork of regulations in effect among the states with regard to mask mandates and social gathering size limits that, unlike in the past, tend to reflect the political leanings of a state’s governor.
There have been two Supreme Court actions related to issues around gatherings during this time of pandemic, especially gatherings in churches. The first, in May 2020, sought an injunction to stop the ban on religious services imposed by the governor of California. Those bringing suit argued that, basically, the first amendment, proclaiming Freedom of Religion, should trump everything else, even pandemics. The court refused to issue the injunction in a 5/4 decision, led by Chief Justice Roberts, a decision that gave local health authorities broad power to impose such bans as long as no specific group was being targeted. The second, in November 2020 after Justice Ginsberg had been replaced by Justice Barrett, also led to a 5/4 decision, but this time the decision came out the other way. In the second case, arising in New York, which also sought an injunction to stop a ban on religious services imposed by the governor, those bringing the case were successful. And that decision could reflect alteration in the overall leaning of the courts. In the past, courts tended to lean away from overturning decisions by local public health officials, a precedent that was clearly articulated by Chief Justice Roberts in both cases. But the times, they are a’changin. Or may be.
States are currently trying to upgrade their laws regarding pandemic responses, with literally hundreds of bills under consideration. Polly hopes all parties will take it slow and be careful with what they solidify into law; she hopes they will see that what is needed is not just new laws enacted quickly but rather new laws that will enable competent leaders to wisely defer to the best decisions of their public health departments in whatever decisions they make.
--Linda Gooding
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Lunch Colloquium Report - Monday, January 25, 2021 |
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“German Family Memory and the Nazi Past: A Reckoning
across Generations”
Angelika Bammer
Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities,
Department of Comparative Literature
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The speaker at the Zoom Colloquium the Emeritus College offered on January 25 was Angelika Bammer, whose time in her current position as Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature was preceded by many years on the faculty of Emory’s Institute of Liberal Arts (ILA). Born and raised in Germany, she began her studies of English and French philology at the University of Heidelberg, but then began to focus on modern literature and cultural production, including film, coming to the States and earning a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Within the broad range of critical theories she brings to bear on her work as teacher and scholar, she is particularly grounded in feminist, Marxist, Freudian, and post-structuralist critical thought. Professor Bammer has written and published on twentieth-century literature and culture, film and photography, and utopian thought. In recent years her work has focused on two main areas of inquiry: (1) history, memory, and forms of memorialization; and (2) methods of scholarly inquiry and forms of scholarly production. Her latest book, Born After: Reckoning with the German Past, is a study in the form of a personal narrative of the transmission of history across four generations of a family, her own family, who lived through the very troubled times in Germany before, during, and after World War II.
When Professor Bammer addressed the 80-plus participants who Zoomed into the EUEC session, she not only engaged her audience's intellectual attention but she also evoked strong emotional reactions; some admitted they were moved to tears. To be sure, her topic could not help but be of wide-ranging interest, but it was Angelika's gift for transforming difficult memories into powerful poetic reflections that touched us at a deeper level. Her courage in reading aloud very deeply felt passages from the aforementioned widely praised book served to open hearts as well as minds in a way that rarely happens in academic presentations. Indeed, Angelika admitted her ambivalence about revealing and perhaps triggering emotions in a setting devoted primarily to intellectual pursuits. But the session attendees expressed high praise and sincere appreciation for her enlightening, poignant presentation. (Note: I will continue to refer to her in this report as “Angelika” rather than as “Professor Bammer” because she chose to speak in a personal rather than a professorial voice.)
Angelika was born in Germany in 1946, after the Nazi regime had been defeated. What did this horrible, but bygone, era have to do with her? She found that the mere fact of being German carried with it an implication of guilt. She could not -- and still cannot -- escape the critical reaction that the barely noticeable remnants of her German accent elicit outside of Germany. How she has grappled with this question about her connection with her country’s—and family’s—past is the subject of her book. Through the excerpts from the book she chose to share, she invited us to learn about several important junctures in the long and complicated journey she has taken in processing her difficult heritage.
As a child and as a teenager, Angelika had heard next to nothing about the Holocaust and was only awakened to its horrible facts when she researched the topic as a sixteen-year-old student in a German boarding school for Catholic girls. Few resources were available to her. Given the silence about the Nazi regime that had surrounded her, it had not even occurred to her to ask her history teacher about it. The paper she wrote was a dry compilation of horrendous facts: how many imprisoned, how many murdered at Dachau, at Bergen Belsen, at Auschwitz, etc. In her talk as in the book, Angelika described in moving detail the barely suppressed agony she felt as she read her paper to the class. The teacher responded with only two words, "sehr gut," indicating she had received the highest grade. No comments followed, neither from that teacher nor from her fellow students. Angelika’s reflection on this event? "A lifetime later. . . I am that girl again. . .She feels her body shaking. It is a shaking that, in some ways, never stopped." Angelika's voice was shaking still, as she read that passage from her memoir to us.
The next excerpt from the book that Angelika shared with us described her participation in the German student revolt of 1968, when she discovered important writings by Ulrike Meinhof of the notorious Baader-Meinhof "Gang." From Meinhof she learned about the fundamental right to human dignity and about the ways in which the German government and other states violated that right. Angelika was both drawn to yet uncomfortable with some of the revolutionaries' tactics. Like many, she reasoned that if good, law-abiding, respectful German citizens could allow the Holocaust to happen, then maybe the best new direction was to defy laws, to upset customs, to disrespect authority. Angelika's analysis of this time seems very cogent. Young Germans feared that they might have inherited a "Nazi gene," so "the protesters' sense of rightness kept their doubts at bay . . . they went from loud to shrill . . . to drown out [their] doubts and fears." Angelika gave us a flavor of the tensions surrounding her when she told of her encounter with a Maoist friend who disapproved of her love of Joan Baez's music. The friend asked, "How do the songs of a pacifist change anything?" Angelika had no good answer except to say that this music reminded her "that there is more to life than struggle and violence and suffering. There is also joy and tenderness and grace."
The turning point for her came when she attended a class by a highly regarded older English professor. As he was about to begin his lecture, a group of student activists approached the lectern, scorned him as having nothing relevant to say, and tried to grab his microphone. When he resisted, they attacked and fought with him until he fell. (She describes this terrible scene in vivid detail.) When he picked himself up and stiffly left the room, "several hundred students sat in silence and watched him. I was one of them." She decided then that she needed to leave Germany altogether. Neither the old nor the new "order" was right.
In conclusion, Angelika read from her book's epilogue. Here she told of her unsuccessful attempt to make a visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam into a meaningful, lasting memory for her five-year-old twins. But they were not ready to find meaning in the Anne Frank story—indeed, not ready to take it in at all—until they encountered her story again as middle school students the excerpt from. "Forgetting Anne Frank," the title she gave this chapter, triggered a thoughtful discussion between Angelika and many session participants about forgetting and remembering, about how we don't know the accuracy of our memories, and how it is hard work to uncover the truth of what happened, about the problems of carrying guilt and shame, and the difficult challenge of explaining history, about how making sense of our memories must be a continuing process, and about how we can -- and must -- test the authenticity of our memories by sharing them with others. And we must listen, really listen, to one another as this sharing goes on.
It is extremely important, Angelika said, that the past is brought into the present, because a history that isn't actively remembered is a history lost. She quoted Eichmann, who asked, "Who still talks about the Armenian genocide?" At least Angelika—and others who have addressed the history of the Holocaust—in scholarly studies and in memoirs and in powerful combinations of the two genres like Born After: Reckoning with the German Past—have got us talking about that dreadful time, an experience that may help us as we begin to talk about earlier dreadful times of our own and the reckoning we, too, have got to do before moving on into a better future.
--Angelika Pohl
NOTE: Those who would like to purchase a copy of Angelika’s book may shop online with Amazon and other sites to find it. (Some members have already done so.) Let us share with you what our own Deborah Lipstadt is quoted as saying about this extraordinary book on the Amazon site:
“Born After is a painfully honest and mesmerizing reflection on what it means to have been born a German in the wake of the Holocaust. An elegant writer, Angelika Bammer is unafraid to probe deeply into areas where others--including many Germans--have refused to go. She weaves together history and family, the past and the present, and literature and psychoanalytic analysis in a seamless and eminently readable fashion. I have waited for this book for a long time and when I received it I read it in one sitting because I could not put it down. And I shall return to it often.”
―Deborah E. Lipstadt, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Emory University, USA, and author of Antisemitism: Here and Now (2019)
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Emory Virtual Travel Guides Seminar |
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Seeking more participants -- if you are interested, please contact Ron or Marilynne (see below)
If you Zoomed into the Christmas Colloquium on December 14, you heard George Brown's excellent talk on Armchair Travel, where he proclaimed the joys of taking a closer look at venues we visited before the world shut down. George inspired a lot of discussion and, since then, many EUEC members have expressed interest in trying our own version of Zoom exploration.
We, Ron Gould and Marilynne McKay, have volunteered to initiate an “Emory Virtual Travel Guides” seminar this spring to meet at regular intervals from late February through April. For presenters, or tour guides, if you will, we’re seeking people offering more than "what I did on my vacation." We’re hoping for some in-depth looks at various cities, states, countries, or regions. Topics could be history, geography, literature, art, music, architecture, religion, food, drink, science, education, industry, events, or whatever else the speaker thinks might be interesting. Photos can be shared via PowerPoint, and we can also circulate reading materials via a shared folder or internet link.
This first two-month seminar will meet weekly or alternate weeks, depending on the number of volunteer presenters. We’d like to divide a 90-minute session into segments and allow for plenty of discussion time. Thus, presentations should be 45 minutes or less. Thursday has been a good meeting day for us in the past, since it doesn’t conflict with the Monday-or-Tuesday Colloquiums.
If you’re interested in being a part of this seminar, please contact either Ron Gould (rg@emory.edu) or Marilynne McKay (mmckay@emory.edu) before February 8, 2021.
Please include the following information in your response:
Name
Contact information (phone and/or email)
Possible topic(s) (in very general terms)
Estimated length of presentation (just a guess for scheduling purposes)
Which of the following times would work best for you? (identify more than one if possible)
Thursdays from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:00 pm
Thursdays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm
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New members are the lifeblood of any organization.
Please make a special effort to welcome them to EUEC!
Michael F. Lubin, MD, Professor of Medicine, retired
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I was born and raised in a small farming community in Southern NJ. After graduating from The Johns Hopkins University, I went to the Hopkins medical school and matched at the Emory Affiliated Programs in internal medicine. Under the watchful eyes of J. Willis Hurst as Chairman and H. Kenneth Walker as mentor, I completed my residency and was recruited to join the Emory faculty at Grady as the first general physician to restructure the outpatient clinics. Expecting to leave in two years, I remained on the faculty at Grady for 44 years. In my time at Grady, i worked in many areas supervising patient care with the students and residents. For Emory medical school, I taught students and residents for all those years. I was director of the senior medicine clerkship for students for 35 years.
I also served the University on the Board of Emory Magazine, on the University Senate, and on the University Advisory Council on Teaching.
I have had a very satisfying and rewarding career and am ready for the next phase of life and look forward to all the things that the Emory University Emeritus College has to offer.
Robert N. McCauley, PhD, William Rand Kenan, Jr. University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
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Professor McCauley, BA, Western Michigan University (1974), MA, Divinity School, University of Chicago (1975), PhD, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago (1979) spent a year on an ACLS Fellowship at Purdue University studying experimental psychology before coming to Emory in 1983. He proceeded through the ranks in the Philosophy Department, which he departed in 2008 to become the inaugural Director of Emory’s Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture. His research examines the philosophy of science and the cognitive science of religion, a field he helped to found. Professor McCauley will serve as a Gifford Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in 2021-22 (postponed one year because of the pandemic).
Professor McCauley authored Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not and Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion. His most recent book, with George Graham, is Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind. He also wrote Rethinking Religion and Bringing Ritual to Mind -- both with E. Thomas Lawson. Professor McCauley edited two additional books and has published more than a hundred papers. He was elected president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion. Professor McCauley received the Emory Williams Teaching Award and served as the inaugural Massee-Martin National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor and as the Director of the Emory College Center for Teaching and Curriculum. He writes a blog for Psychology Today.
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Ron Gould
Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
Ron Gould has been busy lately! In addition to a talk at the SECANT III Conference a couple of weeks ago, he recently gave a talk at the Discrete Mathematics Seminar, Georgia State University, on January 29, 2021.
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Speaker
Dr. Ron Gould, Emory University
Title
Chorded Cycles
Abstract
A chord of a cycle is an edge between two vertices of the cycle that is not an edge of the cycle. A cycle in a graph G is said to be chorded if its vertices induce at least one chord, and it is called doubly chorded if its vertices induce two or more chords. The past decade has seen a vast increase in the study of chorded cycles.
In this talk, I will survey a variety of results dealing with chorded cycles. I will consider several types of questions dealing with chorded cycles and survey the major known results in each of these areas. This includes minimum degree and degree sum results, forbidden subgraph results, and edge density results. We will ask questions like: 'When can an edge be a chord of a cycle and when can an edge be a cycle edge of a chorded cycle?' Many times, I will try to place these chorded cycle results in relation to known results on cycles and show that the chorded cycle results are actually natural extensions of known cycle results.
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The Feast of Words, the CFDE's annual celebration in honor of faculty authors and editors of books, is taking place online this year.
In a typical year, the Emory Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, the Emory Libraries, and the Emory Barnes and Noble Bookstore host an annual event to celebrate the Emory faculty who have written or edited books in the prior year. University leaders attend to offer brief remarks and toast the honorees. This year’s gathering would have been the 17th year of the event. We have celebrated more than 1800 titles over that time. In lieu of an in-person gathering this year, a video was made to celebrate the authors and editors of books published in 2020 before August 31 (we are transitioning to a fall celebration to honor books published in the prior academic year in 2021). Of the 89 titles listed in this event, 12 were authored by EUEC Members! (Some of those authors have not yet retired, but we celebrate that they have decided to join EUEC in advance of retirement.) Those members and titles are:
Brigham, Kenneth (Medicine, emeritus) and Michael M. E. Johns (Medicine). The Good Doctor: Why Medical Uncertainty Matters. Seven Stories.
Dillingham, William B. (English, emeritus). Artistic Duplicity: The Fiction and Poetry of Juliana Horatia Ewing. Sacristy.
Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield (Art History, emerita, deceased). Contemporary African Art. 2nd edition. Thames and Hudson.
King, Spencer (Cardiology) and Michael McDaniel (Cardiology). JACC's Imaging Cases in Cardiovascular Intervention. Elsevier.
Kuhar, Michael (Pharmacology). The Art and Ethics of Being a Good Colleague. 2nd edition. Amazon.
Lechner, Frank J. (Sociology) and John Boli (Sociology, emeritus), eds. The Globalization Reader. 6th edition. Wiley.
McCauley, Robert N. (Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture) and George Graham. Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind: What Mental Abnormalities Can Teach Us about Religions. Oxford UP.
Oliker, Vladimir (Mathematics), Roland Winston, and Lun Jiang. Nonimaging Optics: Solar and Illumination System Methods, Design, and Performance. CRC Press.
Saliers, Don (Theology, emeritus). Themes and Variations: Music and Imagination. GIA.
Sheth, Jagdish N. (Business). The Howard-Sheth Theory of Buyer Behavior. Wiley India
Strocchia, Sharon L. (History) and Sara Ritchey, eds. Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550. Amsterdam UP.
Warren, Nagueyalti (African American Studies). Lodestar: New and Selected Poems. Cyberwit.net.
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Walking the Campus with Dianne |
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The artistically tiled floor in question from our last photo can be found in a rather artsy place. . .the Michael C. Carlos museum. As mentioned before, it is the women's restroom, but I'm almost certain the men's room in this building has the same design on the floor. If any of our Emeritus men can confirm, please let me know.
This particular restroom can be found on the third floor near Ackerman Hall, the conference room that hosted many lectures and noontime concerts before the pandemic hit.
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Speaking of the pandemic, it has me missing my walks on campus, especially indoor exploration. For this next walk, I'm raiding my photo stash again.
I have so many "favorite" buildings on campus with beautiful and interesting things to see on the inside and outside... and this next "inside" place is no exception. Hint: It's not the M. C. Carlos museum, but close.
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Where will you find this on the Emory Campus? |
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Emory University Emeritus College
The Luce Center
825 Houston Mill Road NE #206
Atlanta, GA 30329
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