Lunch Colloquium with William Brown

Monday, October 12, 2026

William Brown

Senior Lecturer Emeritus of Film and Media

MONDAY, October 12, 2026

The Luce Center

825 Houston Mill Road -- Room 130

11:30am-1:00pm

"Creating Digital Images that are

Robotically Rendered as Oil Paintings”

Using a robotic painting device developed at M.I.T., my strategy involves testing multiple styles to determine which are best suited to this new technology.  I am able to create limitless numbers of “pre-paintings” which I can compare and critically evaluate before committing any to paint.

About William Brown:

Bill Brown came to Emory in 1974.  He began as an adjunct faculty member in Art History, then as lecturer jointly in Film Studies and Visual Arts.  He is an independent film maker producing both documentaries and short avant garde films. He has an interest in the history of avant garde movements and their influences on technological media, including photography, film, and video.

He owns Atlanta Video, Inc. a production company specializing in documentary and arts programming.



Lunch Colloquium with Dan Reiter

TUESDAY, October 27, 2026

Dan Reiter

Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Political Science

TUESDAY, October 27, 2026

The Luce Center

825 Houston Mill Road -- Room 130

11:30am-1:00pm

“Democracy, Peace, and War in the 21^st Century"

The Cold War ended in 1989 with a great hope that humanity would turn to democracy, and enter a heavenly city of freedom, prosperity, and most importantly peace. There was also hope not only that democracies were more peaceful, but that when they did fight wars, they were more likely to win, as seemingly evidenced by a number of 1990s conflicts. The first quarter of the new century provides an opportunity to evaluate these claims. Is democracy still a reliable recipe for peace? Are democracies still more likely to win the wars they wage? Has the institution of democracy or the practice of war evolved in the past 25 years such that we should reconsider these hopes? The Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran Wars in particular shed new light on these questions.



About Dan Reiter:

Dr. Dan Reiter is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Political Science at Emory, where he has taught for more than thirty years. He is the award-winning author or coauthor of several books, including Crucible of Beliefs: Learning, Alliances, and World Wars (Cornell, 1996); Democracies at War (with Allan C. Stam, Princeton, 2002); How Wars End (Princeton, 2009); and Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars (Cambridge, 2025). In 2002, he received the Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association given to the field’s leading scholar of peace and international relations under age 40 or within ten years of receiving the Ph.D. His research interests include war, international politics, US foreign policy, and other topics.





Athens Pizza Meet / Greet / Eat!

Athens Pizza Meet / Greet / Eat!

Saturday, October 17, 2026 -- Noon

1341 Clairmont Road

Decatur, GA 30033

Join us to relax and enjoy talking and eating with old and new friends.  This is an opportunity to get out of the house, buy yourself a nice lunch, meet other Emeritus members, and have a little fun.  Significant others are always welcome!

Program of Interest

The World According to Sound

An Immersive Audio Experience

October 8th, 4pm & 7pm EST

Emory Student Center, Multi-Purpose Room (MPR) 4

Please join the Fox Center for our first habitat event of the year! 

Featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Hyperallergic, The World According to Sound is a live audio show that takes audiences on a journey that traverses time and space— from a salt lick popular with elephants in the Central African Republic to 1950s-era New York City. In an age of increased distraction, veteran public radio producers Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett's The World According to Sound invites us to reclaim our attention with an escape into soundwaves and an unadulterated focus on listening. 

Read more about The World According to Sound's listening series as featured in Hyperallergic. 

Show Information: On October 8th, there will be two showtimes at 4pm and 7pm EST in the Emory Student Center, Multi-Purpose Room (MPR) 4.

** Please note: For attendees with noise sensitivity, please be advised that the performance features moments of intense sound.

This event is part of the Asking the Big Questions program, housed in the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry and supported by the Teagle Foundation.

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Emeritus College Walking Group

If you’d like to get in the habit of walking on a regular basis, please join us at 9:30am on Wednesday, October 7 at Mason Mill Park, 1406 McConnell Drive, Decatur, GA 30033 and Wednesday, October 21 at Frazier-Rowe Park, 2886 Lavista Road, Decatur, GA.

If interested in joining us, please contact Ann E. Rogers (ann.e.rogers@emory.edu).

MedShare Volunteer Opportunity

If you’d like to join this group, we are volunteering the second Thursday afternoon of each month. Upcoming sessions: October 8, and November 12, 2026 . Registration on the MedShare web site is required.

To register:

Visit the MedShare event registration page at: https://www.cervistech.com/acts/console.php?console_id=0319&console_type=event&ht=1&res_code=EmoryEmeritus 

Click the "Sign Up" button for your event and enter your email and first name. If you don't have a MedShare volunteer account, you'll be prompted to create one.

Select the listed event and click “Register."

For registration issues, questions or information about carpooling, please contact Marianne Skeen, marskeen@comcast.net.

Emeritus members and friends, volunteering by packing boxes at MedShare

Member Activities

Ron Gould

Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Ron recently published two new papers:

A Fan-type degree condition for the existence of disjoint cycles in a graph, with K. Hirohata. Australasian J. Combinatorics. 95(2026), pp 317--334.

Chorded Cycles in Chvatal-Erdos Graphs, with A. Bickle and M. Cream.  Discrete Math. 350(2027), no. 1, paper 115336.

Patrick Noonan

Professor (Emeritus) in the Practice, Goizueta Business School

I have some recent activity that I'm proud of: a new book!

On August 18, Ideapress released my work with Lynne G. Segall (who is currently Associate Professor in the Practice of Organization & Management at Goizueta Business School, and was my successor as Associate Dean there). We call "Don't Smash the Watermelon!" a guide to problem-solving with impact: success without the mess! 

Our material has been applied and refined for many years in workshops with executive audiences. It also forms the basis of Goizueta's IMPACT program (which Lynne runs), in which student teams tackle real problems brought to them by Atlanta companies and organizations.

The book is available from all major online and retail booksellers.

--Patrick S. Noonan

New Members

New members are the lifeblood of any organization.

Please make a special effort to welcome them to the EUEC!

Joanne Brzinski

Senior Associate Dean, Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Rene Romero

Professor of Pediatrics

System Medical Director, Solid Organ Transplants, CHOA

In Memoriam

Eugene Emory

Professor Emeritus of Psychology

Dear Emory College Community,

We are saddened to share that Eugene "Gene" Emory, professor emeritus of psychology, recently passed away after a brief illness.

Gene came to Emory in 1986 and spent nearly four decades here before retiring in 2024. He was a clinical psychologist whose research looked at how the brain and behavior develop early in life, including the ways prenatal experience shapes infant neurobehavioral outcomes.

His work earned wide recognition. He was elected a Charter Fellow of the American Psychological Society and received Emory's Delores P. Aldridge Faculty Excellence Award. He also served on the Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences Board of the National Academy of Sciences.

Gene gave the college more than his scholarship. He mentored students, led clinical training in the Department of Psychology, and stayed active in community work well beyond campus. He founded the Franklin Town Historical Society to preserve the history of the formerly enslaved community on Amelia Island.

Those who worked with him remember his energy and his humor. He showed up for his colleagues and his students, and we will miss him.

We will share memorial arrangements once we have them.

Our deepest condolences go to Gene's family, friends, colleagues, and students.

Sincerely,

Lynne C. Nygaard, Ph.D.

Chair and Professor

Department of Psychology



Some Upcoming Events at Emory in October 2026

Emory Cinematheque Free Movies in October - part of "40 Years of Spike Lee"

October 7 at 7:30 p.m. in White Hall 208

Crooklyn -- 1994 / 115 min.

Introduced by Dr. Nsenga Burton (Virginia State University) and Professor Dehanza Rogers (Emory University)

“Imagine sitting on the stoop of your Brooklyn brownstone, gossiping with the neighbors while kids play hop-scotch in the street and jump rope on the sidewalk. That's the urban community Spike Lee recreates in Crooklyn, a funny, high-energy movie about Carolyn and Woody Carmichael, and their five kids.” (Network Journal)

Crooklyn is a presumed semi-autobiographical tale of Shelton ‘Spike’ Lee’s family as told through a young girl, presumably his sister, Joie Lee, who co-wrote it with him along with their brother, Cinque Lee. This is the second film in which Lee centers a female protagonist, the first being She’s Gotta Have It. Cinematographer Arthur Jaffa lenses this beautiful film that moves from the idyllic summer days of 1970s Brooklyn to the heat of the Black Virginia south.

October 14 at 7:30 p.m. in white Hall 208

Clockers -- 1995 / 128 min.

Directed by Spike Lee

Introduced by Dr. Paula Massood (Brooklyn College CUNY)

Clockers opens as the first film Spike Lee directed that he did not actually write. Adapted from Richard Price’s book Clockers, Lee taps cinematographer Malik Hassan Sayeed to re-imagine Black urban life set in the cross hairs of nonsensical violence. Using grainy film stock and differentiating dolly shots, Lee focuses on a group beyond the Black middle class. The film feels reminiscent of his 1983 thesis film, Joe’s Bedstuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads but with a 1990s sensibility and ownership.

October 21 at 7:30 p.m. in White Hall 208

Girl 6-- 1996 / 108 min.

Directed by Spike Lee

Introduced by Dr. Stephane Dunn (Morehouse College)

Print provided by Yale Film Archive.

Girl 6 is Spike Lee’s eighth commercial film and the third where he centers a woman as the main protagonist. Made in 1996, it is based on a play by African-American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. It examines the phone sex business (as a parody of Hollywood) and one Black woman’s dreams against her negotiation of that industry. Essence gushes about Theresa Randle who stars as girl 6 saying, “Randle possesses the chameleonlike ability to be every woman you've ever known and one you've never met before.” Even cultural critic, bell hooks, known for getting in Lee’s a** about his work, says: “I find Girl 6 to be a movie that not only challenges Hollywood but is a critical read on Hollywood.”

ECMSA: Emerson Series - Waits Chamber Music Concert

"The Old and the New"

October 3, 2026

8:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Cannon Chapel

Experience the birth of a new work as the Vega Quartet performs the World Premiere of Tristan Schulze’s new Quartet written for them, along with the great Piano Quartet in C Minor of Brahms, with guest pianist Rachelle McCabe.

Parking Directions: religiouslife.emory.edu…

Sunday FUNday: Build Your Own Universe

October 4, 2026

12:00pm - 4:00 PM

Artist Sergio Suárez creates layered worlds inspired by memory, history, stars, landscapes, and ancient objects. His artworks blend printmaking, sculpture, texture, and symbolism to create spaces that feel both ancient and futuristic—like maps of imagined worlds or stories carried across time. What memories, objects, or ideas are in your universe? 

Inspired by Suárez’s exhibition, Anamnesis, visitors are invited to create their own miniature relief universe, using cardboard, found objects, stamps, art reproductions, and textured surfaces. 

Sunday FUNday is a free drop-in program for all families and includes admission to galleries. First come, first served, while supplies last.  

ECMSA: Cooke Noontime Series -- Concert on the Quad

October 7, 2026

12:00 PM - 1:00PM

Emory Quadrangle

If you like, bring a blanket and a picnic and dine alfresco while you enjoy beautiful brass music performed by Atlanta Brassworks on the Quadrangle in front of the Carlos Museum.

For Weekday Events, Paid Parking is available in Emory Visitor Parking Decks.

The closest visitor parking is in the Fishburne Parking Deck or the Oxford Parking Deck

Fees apply Monday–Friday 7 a.m.–5 p.m.

Miscellaneous Monthly: Rose Library's Open House Series - Banned Books

October 20, 2026

1:00 PM - 3:00PM

Rose Library, 10th floor of Woodruff Library building

Have you ever wanted to see items from Rose Library's collections but not known how? Or maybe you don't even know what you'd like to see, just that you would like to see something cool and old!

If this describes you, you're in luck! This Fall, Rose Library is continuing "Miscellaneous Monthly", our monthly open house series. Every third Tuesday of the month, you can stop by the 10th floor of Woodruff Library between 1pm and 3pm to view a selection of archival items. No appointment needed! Each month will have a different theme, so be sure to come by every month to see it all! Join us on October 20th to view archival materials related to banned and challenged books.

This open house is free and open to the public. For our non-Emory visitors, the closest paid parking is in the Fishburne Parking Deck with access from Fishburne Drive (not North Decatur Rd). For more information about parking, please visit the Emory Transportation website: transportation.emory.edu…

One Broken Cup and Three Fanta Cans

October 21, 2026

6:30 PM to 7:45 PM

Ackerman Hall

Join Ruth Allen, curator of Greek and Roman art, and Annie Shanley, associate registrar and provenance researcher, for a discussion about the journey of six fragments of a Laconian black-figure drinking cup, dated 560 BCE and three Fanta cans. Allen and Shanley will share a story of research and the international collaborative efforts that identified illegal excavation and antiquities trafficking and the eventual reunification and return of the fragments to Italy.

This program is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Details and other information, as well as additional campus events, can be found on the Emory Events Calendar.

If you'd like to share an event/program of interest before the next newsletter

please contact Dianne Becht Dianne.becht@emory.edu

The unofficial mascot of Emory University is Dooley, also known as the Lord of Misrule.

The Dooley statue can be found on the main campus just off Asbury Circle between Cox Hall and The Student Center. 

You can't really miss him....and depending on the event or holiday, he may be dressed and/or decorated for the occasion.

“Dooley Goes on Forever” is a stainless steel and fabricated bronze sculpture installed during Homecoming in 2008. A committee of students selected sculptor Matthew Palmer to create the piece. 

The piece shows a life-size Dooley emerging from a bladed vortex of energy while shedding his skeleton costume to reveal his true form — a skeleton — and tipping his top hat.

History and Origins of Dooley

• First Appearance: Originated in 1899 when a biology lab skeleton wrote letters to the student newspaper, The Phoenix.
• Physical Manifestation: First appeared in person during the 1941 "Dooley's Frolics," which later evolved into Dooley's Week.

Traditions

• Dooley's Week: Celebrated every spring with campus festivities, food, and a culminating concert.
• Class Dismissal: During his spring visits, Dooley can enter classes and ask trivia about Emory history; if the teacher fails to answer, the class is dismissed.
• Bodyguards: Accompanied by 4-6 masked senior bodyguards in black who protect him and speak on his behalf, a tradition stemming from an old prank and kidnapping attempt by Georgia Tech students.

Please click here to read an Emory Magazine article written in 2000 by University Historian (and Emeritus member) Gary Hauk.

For our next exploration, let's look at an interesting exterior architectural detail. This is definitely not one of the original buildings on campus but it's not one of the recent buildings either. It was actually built nearly 30 years ago.

Where will you find this on the Emory campus?

Emory University Emeritus College

The Luce Center

825 Houston Mill Road NE Room 206

Atlanta, GA 30329

http://www.emory.edu/emeritus

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