Newsletter Volume 8 Issue 4 - October 13, 2021 |
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Interested in Video Editing?
Looking for volunteers to assist with Lunch Colloquium video edits
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Lunch Colloquium - Tuesday, October 19
Susan Soper
"The Memoir Kit: Your Good Life"
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Lunch Colloquium - Monday, November 1
Melissa Carter
“Upstream: Legal Advocacy to Promote Family Integrity”
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Faculty Activities
Ron Gould
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In Memoriam
Joseph Justice
RudI Makkreel
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Walking the Campus with Dianne
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Interested in Video Editing? |
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Are you proficient in or would you like to learn to edit videos using iMovie? If so, the Emeritus College could use a volunteer to assist Don O'Shea in preparing our Lunch Colloquium videos for uploading on our website. If you are not familiar with the program, Don can teach you how to create a title frame for each talk, boost quiet passages, and remove distracting or irrelevant sections from the videos, as well as how to do what is necessary to have a video uploaded to the EUEC website.
If interested, please contact Ann (ann.e.rogers@emory.edu) or Dianne (dianne.becht@emory.edu).
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Lunch Colloquium - Tuesday, October 19, 2021 |
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“The Memoir Kit: Your Good Life"
Susan Soper
OLLI@Emory Instructor of an obituary writing class
that segued into a memoir writing class
Zoom Lunch Colloquium
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
The memoir genre in book publishing has certainly exploded in the past several years. As Mary Karr – author of The Art of Memoir – told an interviewer: “It’s trashy ghetto-ass primitive. Anyone who’s lived can write one.” True, but many of us don’t know how or where to start—or how to keep going. The Memoir Kit class Ms. Soper teaches for OLLI is an accessible approach to capture life’s stories: the ups, downs, risks, relationships, losses, hurdles, and heartbreaks we have all survived. Motivated by more than 250 prompts, her students have shared whimsical, funny episodes, and charming tales as well as dark moments about death, addiction, abuse, and abandonment. Twelve chapters of these prompts are being compiled into a book, The Memoir Kit: Your Good Life, One Story at a Time.
About Susan Soper:
Susan Soper began her journalism career in Washington, D.C. at the New York paper Newsday, and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for The Heroin Trail, tracing the drug’s path from Turkey to Long Island. Returning to her hometown of Atlanta, she was a news writer at CNN before returning to print journalism at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution where she spent 20 years, primarily as a senior editor overseeing all the features sections and as a writing coach. After leaving the paper in 2002, motivated by 9/11 and a trip to Cuba, she took on a variety of book editing projects and created the ObitKit: Live. Love. Laugh. Cry. Write it down! (www.obitkit.com), an obituary workbook that has been featured in dozens of newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, the AJC, and The Wall Street Journal, and on NPR. For the past several years, she has been teaching as an Olli@Emory instructor, starting with an obituary writing class that segued into a memoir writing class.
Susan Soper is a graduate of Oglethorpe University—where she was an officer of the Board of Trustees. She also served on the Board of Visitors for Emory University.
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Lunch Colloquium - Monday November 1, 2021 |
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“Upstream: Legal Advocacy to Promote Family Integrity”
Melissa Carter
Clinical Professor of Law,
Executive Director of the Barton Child Law and Policy Center
Zoom Lunch Colloquium
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Two decades of research documenting the effects of adverse childhood experiences and mounting evidence that removal from family and the experience of foster care can cause acute and enduring trauma have helped to broaden thinking about the relationship between the legal duty to protect children and the moral responsibility to promote their well-being. Recently enacted federal policies have imposed mandates and unlocked resources to prevent the unnecessary separation of families, reduce socioeconomic and racial and ethnic disparities in the child welfare system, and afford a greater measure of justice for children and parents. As child welfare system stakeholders coalesce around a prevention agenda, the role and responsibility of the legal and judicial community in achieving the outcomes of safety, permanency, and well-being for children must be redefined. One promising opportunity for system improvement has captured the full attention of judges, lawyers, and agency administrators throughout the country – the use of lawyers as an “upstream” intervention to address the social determinants of health that create vulnerabilities within families.
Melissa Carter will explain this emerging model of preventive legal advocacy and share research, data, and program models demonstrating how lawyers can prevent the need for children to enter foster care by addressing the poverty-related needs of families.
About Melissa Carter:
Melissa Carter is a Clinical Professor of Law at Emory Law School and the Executive Director of the Barton Child Law and Policy Center, a multidisciplinary child law program seeking to promote and protect the legal rights and interests of children involved with the juvenile court, child welfare, and juvenile justice systems. In that role, she is responsible for the administration of the Center, directing the public policy and legislative advocacy clinics, and teaching child welfare and family law courses. Melissa brings 20 years of experience leading system change work through policy development and legislative advocacy, including efforts that resulted in a comprehensive revision of Georgia’s Juvenile Code and dozens of state child welfare laws. She also holds an appointment as a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Morehouse School of Medicine.
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Ron Gould
Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
Ron keeps busy! He recently gave an undergraduate seminar at Illinois State University on September 30, 2021:
Undergraduate Colloquium in Mathematics
Illinois State University
Speaker: Ron Gould, Emory University
Applications of Mathematics to Games and Puzzles
Abstract: We have all seen applications of mathematics. In your studies you see them in
physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science. All these are natural places to find uses for
mathematics. But mathematics lives all around us and if you look, you can find ways to apply
mathematics in different places. These places include games and puzzles. In this talk I will
show you a variety of such applications, using limited discrete mathematics techniques. I hope
these examples will convince you that mathematics is the most useful tool you can have in
your skill set.
Biography: Ron Gould is Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus from Emory
University. He received his PhD in 1979 from Western Michigan University, with a speciality
in Graph Theory and Combinatorial Mathematics. In his career he has written nearly
190 papers and two books, Graph Theory (Dover Pub.), and Mathematics in Games,
Sports, and Gambling: The Games People Play, (Taylor Francis Group) which received
the American Library Association Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Titles in 2010.
He has directed 28 PhD students. He is presently a Heilbrun Distinguished Emeritus
Fellow of Emory's Emeritus College.
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Joseph (Jay) B. Justice, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
Todd Polley from the Department of Chemistry wrote to share that Jay Justice, who passed away on October 4, joined the Department of Chemistry at Emory University in 1975. He was noted for his important scholarly work at the intersection of bioanalytical chemistry and neuroscience. “As such, his collaborations extended well beyond chemistry to psychology (Darryl Neill, Terry Robinson) and neurobiology (Roy Wise) where he skillfully applied his knowledge of analytical chemistry to further our understanding of neuroscience and behavior.” He was also a collaborator with Pat Marsteller (and others) on the NSF-funded PRISM program, which engages K-12 students in inquiry-driven science studies and provides opportunities for graduate students to develop as teachers and communicators. Todd continues, “Above all else, Jay was a humble, kind, patient, and honest person who worked hard at his research, teaching, and administrative duties when asked to serve. He was a quiet person who thought before he spoke and possessed a wry sense of humor. He retired from Emory in 2008 using some of his time to follow a passion for photography (and served as President of the Atlanta Photographic Society). His values will live on through his two accomplished children, Lauren and Nicholas, and the many undergraduate and graduate students who experienced a wonderful professor and person in thought and action.”
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Rudolf (Rudi) A. Makkreel
Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Philosopy
John Lysaker offers the following about Rudi Makkreel, the Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Philosophy who served Emory from 1973 until his retirement in 2011. “One of the leading Kant scholars of his generation, he transformed the field on an international level by directing our attention to Kant's Critique of Judgment, thus providing a broader and more nuanced reading of the whole of Kant's corpus. He also was the foremost Dilthey scholar of his generation, producing a scholarly edition of Dilthey's writings in English and authoring the book in the field, Dilthey: Philosopher of the Human Sciences, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Rudi was also a thinker in his own right who expanded his readings of Kant and Dilthey into an account of critical judgment that combined contextual sensitivity and normative authority. Alongside his productivity as a scholar, which was ongoing, Rudi influenced generations of students, undergraduate and graduate alike, in nearly forty years at Emory. He also impacted his colleagues, who admired his depth of learning, gentle demeanor, and passion for philosophy. The Philosophy Department benefited from his leadership as Chair between 1980 and 1986, as did Emory given his broad service to the institution. Rudi also enriched the profession, particularly through his editorship of The Journal of the History of Philosophy, which he led from 1983 through 1998, and which he helped establish as a leading journal in the field. Rudi Makkreel left an indelible mark on Emory, Kant and Dilthey scholarship, and the broader discipline of Philosophy. While he will be missed, deeply, he left us with a rich legacy that we can continue to engage for years to come.”
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Walking the Campus with Dianne |
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The "Emory" etched in concrete from our last walk can be found in the plaza area of the Student Center located at 605 Asbury Circle on the main campus. As I mentioned, it gets seen and stepped on every single day because it's on a major thorough-fare between the ever-busy Student Center and the much-visited Woodruff Physical Education Center (WoodPec). You'll get the best view if you walk up to the second level of the Student Center and go out to the patio area. I've noticed it's also become a very popular photo spot around graduation time. |
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We've looked at a BIG word on campus....This time let's view a BIG cat on campus. This cat sits prominently at the bottom of a staircase in a building we've visited before. |
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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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