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Lunch Colloquium Jeff Rosensweig
Wednesday
September 30, 2020
Lunch Colloquium
Nancy Collop
October 5, 2020
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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
Although we were not able to meet together in Governor's Hall, we still had a grand Sheth Lecture presented by Rosemary Magee. I don't think we have ever had a better fit for the Sheth Lecture's theme of Creativity in Later Life, and the many attendees certainly agreed on that. Thanks to Anna Leo, you can read about it below, and the video is already on our videos page under the Sheth Lecture Tab.
Last week's talk by Eric Goldstein was another fascinating presentation on a totally different topic and, you can read Brooks Holifield's article below and also see the recording on our videos page. I am so grateful to Don O'Shea for helping to get these videos ready for posting and to our web guru, Stacey Jones, for getting them up.
We continue to have what is almost an embarrassment of riches, with Carol Worthman's talk this past Monday, and Jeff Rosensweig coming up next Wednesday, and Nancy Collop the next week. We are so fortunate to have such an active Mind Matters Committee to develop these programs. In addition, I find the Q&A sessions equally compelling, and the quality of those sessions is due to those of you participating in these Lunch Colloquiums! It is such a treat to hear questions and comments from people representing such a wide variety of disciplines.
One of our programs that has really blossomed this year, thanks to Zoom, is our Mock Interview Program. An interim report is below, and, as you can read, we are having a huge number of students request interviews, and we are able to accommodate them only because of Dianne's tireless work in getting them scheduled and because of our members who are volunteering their time to conduct them. Thanks to you all.
I am very grateful to Gretchen Schulz, Ann Hartle, and Marge Crouse for help with editing and proofing.
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Lunch Colloquium--Wednesday, September 30, 2020
"The Global and US Economic Outlook at a
Time of Massive Uncertainty"
Location: Zoom Meeting 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Jeff Rosensweig
Professor of International Business and Finance, Director, John E. Robson Program for Business, Public Policy, and Government, Goizueta Business School
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Lunch Colloquium--Monday, October 5, 2020
"Getting Our ZZZZZZs: Understanding Sleep and
Common Sleep Disorders"
Location: Zoom Meeting
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Nancy Collop
MD, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Neurology, Director, Emory Sleep Center
Click here to read more below about this Lunch Colloquium
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Lunch Colloquium Report--Monday, September 14, 2020
"Where Do Jews Fit in America's World of Difference?"
Eric Goldstein
Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Judith London Evans Director,
Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
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Sheth Lecture Report - Tuesday, September 8
"Creativity in Later Life: The Music Box"
Senior Faculty Fellow, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Director, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library,
Vice President and Secretary of the University, Emerita
The 2020 version of the Sheth Distinguished Lecture celebrating "Creativity in Later Life" was offered, via Zoom, on Tuesday, September 8, postponed from its original scheduling last April and re-scheduled so as to serve as a splendid kick-off for our EUEC fall programming. Holly York's introduction for Rosemary Magee's lecture included a quote by Dean and University Librarian Yolanda Cooper: "When Rosemary Magee takes the reins, beautiful things happen." And that aptly describes how the occasion unfolded as Rosemary blessed us with insights into the creative spirit and process. Speaking in a conversational, yet intimate tone, Rosemary presented her own rich personal experiences coupled with reflections on artists and thinkers with whom she has intersected on her life's journey. Rosemary chose the metaphor of the music box as the container for her talk. Through this image, she was able to reveal her ideas and feelings about creativity with elegance and emotion. Using five areas that she considers paramount in her creative process--Identity, Influence, Insights, Invention, Imagination--she guided us through episodes of her creative life, including her writing, her current artistic collaborations, the building of the Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for the Arts, the founding of the Creativity Conversations at Emory, and more. She began the Identity section of her talk with a quote from Seamus Heaney whose papers constitute one of the wonders of Emory's Rose Library. "Had I not been awake I would have missed it." She related the story that Heaney had shared with her (while she was at his Dublin home I might add) about the first time he declared himself a poet, and his realization that he now needed to live up to that proclamation. Rosemary reflected on the first time she declared herself a writer while working at the Hambidge Center and how she felt humbled and inspired by her statement, and then, like Heaney, began to shape herself around those words. Heaney describes the artist's life "as a journey where each point of arrival is a stepping-stone rather than a destination." As she moved into discussing Influence, she quoted Natasha Trethewey, whose papers are also in the Rose Library: "My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost." Rosemary commented on the significant ways that history and memory influence her work, and also noted the artists who have affected her creative life. Emphasizing the extreme importance that "place" and family hold in her life, she shared some of the experiences of her great-grandparents and grandparents on the Isle of Hope, Georgia. She described these somewhat eccentric familial characters as entrepreneurs following various pursuits that included ownership of a seafood restaurant, a dance pavilion, a petting zoo, and a terrapin farm. Her great grandfather set up the Music Room--a room dedicated to a collection of extravagant, often handmade, music boxes. Here Rosemary established the symbol of the music box as she explained how these boxes can look one way on the outside and become something completely different when opened--a metaphor for transformation. (Rosemary provided slides of some of these music boxes; I was especially charmed by the piano-shaped box featuring Toby the Terrapin playing it.) The Insights section began with a quote from the Dalai Lama, who Rosemary has had up-close encounters with through her trip to Daramsala, as well as other points of contact at Emory. Expanding on the Dalai Lama's observation that "True change is within," Rosemary spoke about learning to think about change from the inside out. She used several examples of "thinking inside the box," reminding us that creative projects have constraints. This was the case in redesigning the 10th floor of the Woodruff Library. There were questions: How can we stretch and create a space that invites people into the archives? How do we open up this box? And of course, we know the answer to this creative inquiry was the stunning Rose Library. Rosemary brought us back to the image of the music box: It might have been intended to hold cigarettes (as one of these boxes did), but it could be repurposed to hold crayons; it might look beautiful from the outside, but boast a different beauty and surprising function within. And sometimes when we open a box we can see what it offers in a new way. Salman Rushdie and Brenda Bynum quotes introduced the Invention section of the talk: "We are all dreaming creatures. To dream is to create." from Rushdie, and "The abiding principle is forward motion with seamless and uncluttered transitions," from Bynum. Rosemary coupled thoughts about the necessity of dreaming with the need to do something, to act, to move forward. She addressed the idea that the creative journey might not always appear seamless and uncluttered, might instead appear challenging and difficult. But in looking back at a project's end, we can identify a forward motion; the clutter disappears, and transitions seem seamless. In Rosemary's own words, a mix of Drift and Intention "is what the creative process is." Sometimes we allow things to happen as they will, allowing a moment of drift, and then a sense of intention emerges. Rosemary briefly described several projects that have been born of this concept. The short meditative films she is doing in collaboration with Hal Jacobs stem from the practice of walking around a sacred space. There are four in this series, two of which have been completed and two in the works. The first, Moon Peak, tells of her trip to Daramsala. Hellbender Spirit arises from the rare sighting of a hellbender at Hambidge. [A hellbender is an aquatic giant salamander.] The third, at this point affectionately referred to as The Doggie Lama, focuses on her husband, Ron, as a dog whisperer and his extreme care and love of animals. The fourth will focus on the Isle of Hope and the meandering and circular pathways there. These are "driftings, turning into intentionality, the invention." Rosemary introduced the final Imagination portion of her conversation on creativity with a quote from Rita Dove from Dawn Revisited: "Imagine you wake up with a second chance. . ." She finds this quote encouraging. "We have had many opportunities to reimagine ourselves at this point in our lives," Rosemary reflected. "As the doors of the music box open, we seek and find what is on the other side. As they open, we open." Perhaps as a culture and nation we can think of having a second chance. "You are meant to be where you are" was the last quote of the presentation, provided by Randy Fullerton, whom Rosemary referred to as the PowerPoint wizard. "And so, friends, we are here together today and that is where we are meant to be." She concluded by talking about continued transformation on the Emory campus: Theater's Annex B box eventually transformed into another box in the Schwartz Center; the infrastructure of Emerson Hall in its infant stage then transformed into its final form--a majestic and acoustically pristine space. She reminded us that the music box continues to transform as we think and rethink how to be together in this very particular time, finding creative ways to share virtually and otherwise. Rosemary closed by thanking Emory for so many rich experiences, and expressing appreciation for the access that we have to each other and other thinkers. "I have learned from the music box and friends and artists." A Concluding Tribute: Rosemary Magee and I met at a cocktail party/slide presentation during the planning of the Schwartz Center. We were quite rude and sequestered ourselves in a corner of the room where we began talking about art and life, and we haven't stopped yakking since. As a friend and artist, she has inspired me and encouraged me to open music boxes I thought I could never approach. To collaborate with her is a pleasure and a privilege. Rosemary's creative process and the art that process births embody and reflect who she is: someone seeking new boxes to open and ponder; revisiting old boxes to open anew and reimagine. Her sense of humanity and her belief in our ability to learn and transform informs all that she does. She meets each music box in her life with courage and a sense of awe and is always willing to listen to what she might find within. --Anna Leo
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PHA Mock Interview Program
Since 2017, we have been offering mock interviews to undergraduate students as preparation for interviewing at medical and dental schools. These interviews are arranged through the Pre-Health Advising Office (PHA) and are intended to help with general interview skills and not to supply students with "correct" answers. As good as our undergraduates are, many have had little experience in interview situations and those who have participated in these interviews are grateful for the opportunity to meet with our members in an interview situation. The number of students participating in previous years has been limited in part by a fairly rigorous screening process in the PHA. Members conducted 21 interviews in 2017, 12 in 2018, and 13 in 2019.
This year has been a very different situation for interviews. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, medical school interviews are being conducted virtually. This meant that it would be very helpful for our members to offer virtual interviews as well and when I requested volunteers for the program, 17 members responded that they would be interested in helping. That was very encouraging and in conversations with PHA I suggested that it might be useful to make sure more students would have the opportunity to have interviews with our members. When the offer for interviews was first made to students in mid-August, we had no idea how popular the opportunity might be to students. We soon found out! To date there have been 36 requests for interviews, with 33 conducted or scheduled! Many thanks for making this process work are due to Dianne Becht, for each request results in many emails to the member volunteers and the students to find a mutually agreeable time and then to schedule separate Zoom meetings for each interview.
The program is not over for this year, and in fact we have no idea how many more students will request interviews. The following are the members who have so far helped with the interviews:
Not only is this program a great opportunity for our students, but the members conducting the interviews also enjoy the interaction with the students. Although we all wish that we could get back to meeting in person, Zoom does open up new possibilities. As just one example, Judy Raggi Moore is in Florida, Gerald Staton is in North Carolina, and Fereydoon Family is in California!
Thanks to all of the volunteers for participating in this program.
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
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Lunch Colloquium--Wednesday, September 30, 2020
"The Global and US Economic Outlook at a
Time of Massive Uncertainty"
Jeff Rosensweig
Professor of International Business and Finance, Director, John E. Robson Program for Business, Public Policy, and Government, Goizueta Business School
Forecasting the path of the economy and financial markets is always difficult, but the level of uncertainty now may be unprecedented. Along with the usual strictly economic and financial variables that lead to volatility, the future is clouded by a global pandemic and geopolitical factors. Goizueta's Professor Jeff Rosensweig may not be able to predict the clearing of these clouds, but he can and will tell us much more about the most threatening of them, enlightenment of a sort, at least.
The US and global economies, and financial markets worldwide, have been rocked by pandemic-induced volatility. Added to that is the uncertainty stemming from the upcoming US election, one that presents an especially stark contrast. More important for the long run, a surprising and worrisome new feature is the rise of populism and authoritarianism in key economies. The threat to the liberal western democratic order and the Pax Americana that has added stability since WW II is profound. Finally, the clock is ticking and the question remains if the global community will act swiftly and strongly to forestall cataclysmic climate change.
Jeffrey Rosensweig is Professor of International Business and Finance and Director of The John E. Robson Program for Business, Public Policy, and Government at Goizueta Business School of Emory University. Previously, he served for six years as an Associate Dean. An international business and finance professor, he focuses his research, teaching, and consulting on economic development and business in the global economy. He also specializes in financial, macroeconomic, and business forecasting. He is a frequent keynote speaker on topics related to global economic and financial trends and forecasts. In January 2000, Dr. Rosensweig was elected to the Council on Foreign Relations.
Professor Rosensweig is often quoted in the national business press, including Forbes, Fortune, and BusinessWeek. He has appeared nationally on ABC World News Tonight and Good Morning America, the NBC Today Show, NBC National Nightly News, and Nightline, and he is a frequent economic commentator for CNN and CNN Headline News. He has published numerous papers in academic and business journals. His book Winning the Global Game: A Strategy for Linking People and Profits received critical acclaim. Pearson Prentice-Hall published his third book, Age Smart.
Active in executive education, Dr. Rosensweig was recently selected by the Wall Street Journal as one of the 12 favorite professors in all Executive MBA Programs worldwide. He received the "Distinguished Educator" award voted by Emory's Executive MBA students during four consecutive years. BusinessWeek has ranked this program seventh in the world and second for Global Business. Dr. Rosensweig received his MA and BA in economics (summa cum laude) from Yale University and a PhD in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Further, he received a master's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics as a result of two years of study at Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. The British Government has selected him to serve on the Marshall Scholarship Selection Committee for 15 years, and recently appointed him Chairman for the Southeast.
Before coming to Emory, Dr. Rosensweig served as senior global economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Other previous experience includes serving as an economic development consultant to the Government of Jamaica and teaching international finance at Yale's School of Management.
Professor Rosensweig's passion is helping others gain economic and educational empowerment. He donates keynotes speeches to aid this mission, ranging from the Caribbean to Estonia. Charitable organizations that he helps develop, as a keynote speaker and/or board member, include Medical Assistance Program (MAP) International, CARE, Odyssey, and Project Destiny, and economic development groups. He has been the Pack Leader for a multicultural group of 100 Cub Scouts.
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Lunch Colloquium--October 5, 2020
"Getting Our ZZZZZZs: Understanding Sleep and
Common Sleep Disorders"
Nancy Collop
MD, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Neurology, Director, Emory Sleep Center
At Emory, Nancy Collop, past President of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and continuing Editor-in-Chief of the Academy's landmark Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, serves as Director of the Emory Sleep Center. There, she is developing an interdisciplinary program in sleep medicine that involves enhancing not only the clinical care of patients with sleep disorders but research and educational endeavors needed to move the specialty of sleep medicine forward. Few are as well qualified as she to discuss what happens when humans sleep, including the mechanisms that determine how and when we sleep and the different levels of sleep. And Nancy will also address such common complaints as insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and narcolepsy. If any of us are having trouble sleeping in these challenging times and are suffering the consequences, she may be able to help us rediscover how a good night's sleep can clear our minds, raise our spirits, and improve our health. About Nancy Collop:
Nancy A. Collop, MD, is the director of the Emory Sleep Center where she is developing an interdisciplinary program in sleep medicine emphasizing enhancing the clinical care of patients with sleep disorders, and research and educational endeavors needed to develop the specialty of sleep medicine.
Professor Collop graduated from Edinboro University in Edinboro, PA. and earned her MD from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey, PA.
Dr. Collop completed an internal medicine internship and residency at the Medical College of Virginia and a pulmonary/critical care fellowship at the University of Florida. She has held academic positions at the Medical University of South Carolina, the University of Mississippi, and Johns Hopkins University.
Professor Collop has held numerous leadership positions including service on the American Academy of Sleep Medicine board of directors and as Secretary-Treasurer (2008-10), President Elect (2010-11), President (2011-12), and Past President (2012-13). She has served on the board of directors for the American Board of Sleep Medicine (ABSM), the American Sleep Medicine Foundation, the Chest Foundation and on the Board of Regents for the America College of Chest Physicians, the Maryland Sleep Society as their first president, and GASP (Georgia Associated Sleep Professionals). She was also on the founding committee of the American Board of Medical Specialties Sleep Medicine Examination Committee representing the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), and served on the ABIM Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine Self Evaluation Process committees.
Dr. Collop has numerous honors including "Best Doctors in America," Distinguished Alumna for Natural Sciences from Edinboro University, the Al Soffer Award for Editorial Excellence, and College Medalist from the American College of Chest Physicians, the Helmut S. Schmidt Award from the American Board of Sleep Medicine, the "Pulmonary Star" Award from the Emory Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care/Allergy/Sleep, and the Nathanial Kleitman Distinguished Service Award from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, and the Section Editor of Sleep Medicine.
A major question is, with this amazing record, when does she sleep?
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Lunch Colloquium Report--September 14, 2020
Eric Goldstein
Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Judith London Evans Director,
Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
At the Zoom Colloquium on Monday, September 14, Professor Eric L. Goldstein gave a lucid and incisive presentation about Jewish identity in relation to American categories of ethnic and racial difference. Who, he asked, are the Jews? A minority group or members of a privileged white majority? An immigrant group allied with others or secure middle-class Americans? Victims of anti-Semitism from the right and the left, or confident and successful participants in governance, the arts, business, and popular entertainment? Insiders or outsiders?
A consensus is elusive, and prominent Jews are symbols of the ambiguity. The liberal mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, the owner of the Atlanta Falcons, and the Trump administration's chief adviser on immigration are Jews. One encouraged white solidarity with African Americans after the Unite the Right rally in his city, one supported his players who knelt during the national anthem, and one formulated, as a white American who flirted with white supremacy, severe and inhumane immigration restrictions. Are Jews simply Americans, divided in the same ways other Americans are divided?
In antebellum America, Jewish immigrants were sometimes defined by their fellow citizens as members of a distinct racial group, but their skin color made it easier for many to assimilate into white society. By the late 19th century, Jews of German descent rose to positions of prominence: business leaders, cabinet secretaries, and admired philanthropists. Many sought and found a path to assimilation. But when East European Yiddish-speaking Jews arrived also in the late 19th century, they stood apart in some respects from the dominant white culture, and, at least initially, many had mixed feeling about joining it. They scorned assimilated Jews as not quite Jewish, while the assimilated, in turn, found the newcomers more than a little embarrassing. What was the right pathway for Jews? Become part of the whole or stand outside it as preservers of ancient traditions? To quote Professor Goldstein, as we do at intervals below, "While most sought some degree of acceptance by the dominant society," others found that "America's racial culture [was] hard to embrace," given "their self-understanding as a persecuted minority and a group that wished to remain distinctive in key ways."
By the 1920s many of the newcomers were becoming middle-class Americans, eager to blend into white culture. An advertisement in the Jewish Daily Forward suggested one implication: It showed an African American maid caring for a white Jewish child, "providing a model of white middle-class status that immigrants were presumably meant to emulate." Jewish social clubs, drawing on the popular culture around them, sometimes featured blackface minstrel shows. Jews wanted to fit in, even if it meant fitting into a racist society. But that wasn't the only story. Julius Rosenwald, the CEO of Sears, supported African American moves toward liberation and sponsored 5000 Rosenwald Schools for Black children in the South. He didn't need to worry about fitting in. Nor did the Jewish radicals, socialists, and communists who flouted the unjust conventions of white society and raged against lynching, racism, and class oppression. "Clearly some contradictory impulses regarding integration and distinctiveness were at work."
"This tension also informed debates about Jewish self-definition." Who were the Jews? A racial group? Yes, said some, arguing that they had common innate characteristics, just like other races. But other Jews, more eager for assimilation or "simply fearful that a racial self-definition might place them beyond the privileges of whiteness," gave a different answer. They were members of a religious group, "no different from other white Americans than were Methodists, Catholics, or Presbyterians." Yes, as Professor Goldstein said, "Some Jews attempted to integrate new terms, such as 'people' or 'civilization,' which tried to capture a sense of Jewish distinctiveness beyond religion, while avoiding the connotations of 'race.'" However, "because culture was not neatly distinguished from race in the period before World War II, these definitions remained contested and hard to sustain."
Then came the Third Reich and the Second World War. Anti-Jewish discrimination became less acceptable, and the children of European Jewish immigrants entered the universities, the professions, and the expanding suburban neighborhoods. They became more unambiguously "white." They no longer were drawn to the term "race" in describing themselves. (Intellectuals like Frank Boaz were calling the very category into question, at least as it was applied to European groups and Native Americans.). An ethnic group, perhaps? But what was that? And what was one to make of the divisions: religious Jews, cultural but not religious Jews, indifferent Jews, social conservatives, social liberals? "For many, their growing acceptance as white ironically created space for them to safely recall their own history of oppression and therefore to express their support for the struggle of the oppressed." In America, that meant especially work on behalf of African Americans. Engagement in the hard struggle of the Civil Rights Movement became, for some "acculturated Jews," a marker of Jewish identity.
Yet, as Jews became more deeply integrated into white society and as African Americans asserted their own solidarity in ways sometimes suspicious of their Jewish (and their other white) allies, the sense of community between the two groups grew more fragile. Some African Americans saw Jews as part of the white power structure, and "Jewish claims to minority status and 'difference' were rejected" in certain circles of the Black freedom movement. "Meanwhile, anti-Semitic impulses, although they became more muted in the postwar years," never disappeared from certain circles within the larger white society. In our own time, "despite the larger sense of security felt by Jews in American life, antisemitism has reemerged" in deadly forms in recent synagogue shootings and in troubling displays of hate in the white supremacist chants of Charlottesville: "The Jews will not replace us!"
In sum, then, and to conclude by quoting Professor Goldstein at length,
Despite a dramatic shift in their social and economic status over the generations, the descendants of European Jewish immigrants still struggle with where they belong in the American world of "difference." In many respects they are now privileged "insiders" in white America, but in some regards they remain vulnerable to antisemitism and, in many cases, yearn to mark themselves as "different." Even before the antisemitic attacks of recent years and the Black Lives Matter protests of recent months, some Jews have expressed a desire to "disentangle" themselves from "whiteness," and to accentuate Jewishness as a distinct "civilization," as well as to express a sense of solidarity with people of color in dismantling structures of racism and white supremacy. Contributing to this trend is a growing population of Jews of color in the United States, who are pushing Jews of European background to rethink the alignment of Jewishness and whiteness. On the opposite end of the political spectrum, there are some European-descent Jews who, along with other white conservatives, discount the paradigm of "white privilege" and reject the idea that their membership in the dominant racial grouping undermines or even complicates the assertion of Jewish distinctiveness and vulnerability. In the final analysis, whether Jews aim to disassociate themselves from whiteness or dismiss the notion of white privilege altogether, the fact that the majority of American Jews are firmly integrated into the dominant social, political, and economic structures of American life means that Jewish claims to "difference" and minority status, at least as they are commonly understood in contemporary American life, remain sharply contested. As a result, many Jews continue to ask: "Who are we and what is our place in American society?"
The discussion that followed the presentation was especially spirited and instructive.
--Brooks Holifield
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Faculty Activities
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Professor Emerita of English
Above is the announcement of a seminar that Rosemarie gave at Columbia on September 14.
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
The interior lights viewed during our previous walk can be found in the M. C. Carlos Museum, specifically, in Charles S. Ackerman Hall, which is the large meeting room on the top floor of the building.
For a bit of background information, here's an excerpt from a 2016 Emory news article:
Real estate businessman and entrepreneur Charles S. Ackerman has fulfilled a pledge to gift $1 million to the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University to name the museum's reception hall the "Charles S. Ackerman Hall (Ackerman Hall)." This transformative gift to the museum's endowment will ensure that important programs and critical needs will be funded well into the future. The museum held a dedication for Ackerman Hall on Oct. 13, 2016.
Ackerman, a dedicated supporter of the Carlos Museum for over two decades, has served on the Advisory Board and as co-chair of the Board for 10 years. He has been a strong advocate of the museum, offering thoughtful guidance and leading by example. Ackerman began his tenure as Advisory Board chair in 2003, the year the University returned the mummy of Ramesses I to Egypt, and accompanied Carlos staff to Cairo for the press conference and related activities. Over the years his generosity has been vast, ranging from introducing the museum to colleagues and friends, to supporting and attending special events, to funding technology initiatives and important acquisitions.
"It is so wonderful to have the Ackerman name in the building and especially above the entrance to the beautiful reception hall where our community comes together for lectures, concerts, children's activities, poetry readings, exhibition openings and so many special events," says Bonnie Speed, museum director. "The reception hall is a place of learning and celebration; how appropriate that it will now be called Ackerman Hall."
As I mentioned before, those lights have witnessed wonderful music--in the bottom photo is a shot from a Will Ransom/Vega Quartet Lunch Colloquium a few years ago.
Back to my files for the next walk...let's take a look at an interior shot of a carving/statue that you now may not be able to see during the pandemic. Oh, and its expression is no doubt pretty much how we are all feeling right about now.
Where will you find this on the Emory Campus?
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