Newsletter Volume 8 Issue 12 - March 16, 2022 |
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Zoom Update
REMINDER: The most recent, as of this writing, is 5.9.7
If you have any problems in getting the update, please contact Dianne at dianne.becht@emory.edu for more information.
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Lunch Colloquium - Monday, March 21, 2022 |
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“BookFest 2022 - Recommendations for Reading”
Voracious Readers Not-So-Anonymous: Emeritus College Volunteers
Zoom Lunch Colloquium
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Read any good books lately? We're sure you have. And might you be willing to recommend one (or more) of those good books to those of us wondering what to read next? We are looking for volunteers to describe books they have enjoyed that they think others might enjoy, as well. If you’ve got one to discuss, we’ll be happy to allot you five minutes of our BookFest time. If you’ve got two or three, we can schedule you for ten minutes. And of course you can choose a book or books of any kind at all. If you would like to volunteer, please do so in an email to Gretchen Schulz (at gschulz@emory.edu). If you can name the book or books you’ll be recommending, please do so. But if you’d like to volunteer without specifying titles, that’ll be fine. All we really need to know is if you’re requesting five or ten minutes of time. And we’ll schedule accordingly. First come, first scheduled, until we run out of time.
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Lunch Colloquium - Monday, April 4, 2022 |
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“Innovative Treatments for PTSD: From Assessment to Virtual Reality
to the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program”
Barbara Rothbaum
Professor and Associate Vice Chair of Clinical Research in
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory School of Medicine,
Director of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program,
and Director of the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program
Zoom Lunch Colloquium
11:30 - 1:00 pm
Since we live in a dangerous world, it’s no wonder we hear so much about people affected by trauma (and no wonder we may be among such people ourselves). It’s not only soldiers returning from distant wars that have horror stories to tell. So do survivors of attacks here at home or accidents like car crashes or natural disasters that raze our communities to the ground. The strength and resilience of the human spirit are awe-inspiring, enabling most to come through such experiences well enough. But others suffer the severe, disabling, and often chronic condition called “posttraumatic stress disorder” or PTSD. Few know more about PTSD than Emory’s own Barbara Rothbaum, whose many achievements in the field have just been acknowledged (again) with the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies. She will discuss the signs and symptoms of PTSD and review current treatments for the problem, focusing on cognitive behavioral treatments (CBTs), including the virtual reality exposure therapy she invented and has applied so successfully among the combat veterans she works with in the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program.
About Barbara Rothbaum:
Director of the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program, Barbara Rothbaum is Professor and Associate Vice Chair of Clinical Research in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory School of Medicine and Director of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program. A specialist in the treatment of anxiety disorders who has studied PTSD since 1986, she has briefed the Department of Defense and committees of both houses of Congress on an Institute of Medicine study assessing the treatment of PTSD. Among her many awards is the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, of which she is a past president. Her publications include over 400 scientific papers and chapters, eleven books, and four edited volumes. Her most recent book, written for a general audience in collaboration with Sheila Rauch, also a professor in the School of Medicine, is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2020).
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Please join us for our
2022 Sheth Lecture
with Jamil Zainaldin
Monday, April 22, 2022
Zoom Meeting
11:30-1:00 pm
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Jamil Zainaldin
President Emeritus, Georgia Humanities Council
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Intended to celebrate “Creativity in Later Life,” the Sheth Distinguished Lecture is named in honor of Dr. Jagdish Sheth, the Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing at Goizueta Business School, and Mrs. Madhuri Sheth, whose generous donation created the endowment that has made this very special annual event possible.
Each year since 2004, when James T. Laney offered the first of these lectures, we have invited a speaker of outstanding quality to present a talk that will somehow honor the topic during a lunch attended by emeriti, active faculty and staff, and any others interested from the university itself and the surrounding community. Since we are scheduling this year’s Sheth as a Zoom occasion, we will have to forgo the shared lunch, but we will not have to forgo “the speaker of outstanding quality.” This year’s invitee, Dr. Jamil Zainaldin, recently retired as long-time president of the Georgia Humanities Council, the organization that has worked so successfully—and in productive partnerships with so many—to ensure humanities and culture remain an integral part of the lives of Georgians.
From his days in graduate school, Jamil Zainaldin had a strong attraction to both history and law. He decided on history because of the appeal of the broad historical questions and the framework that they provide for exploring all aspects of human experience. After completing a PhD in history at the University of Chicago, Dr. Zainaldin taught for four years, first at Northwestern University and then Case Western Reserve University. He attributes a National Endowment for the Humanities faculty seminar on aging as the catalyst for pointing his career in a new direction. History and the law could be combined, he realized, by pursuing a position in public policy.
He headed for Washington and landed a position on a legislative task force on social security, women, and aging. A historical framework centered his thinking about how policy evolves. Being an idealist, Dr. Zainaldin also found satisfaction in using his historical perspective and writing skills to assist in preparing studies that would shape legislation.
Following a year with a policy think tank, Dr. Zainaldin accepted the position of deputy director of the American Historical Association. He understood his work at the AHA as an extension of his interest in public policy, for he was working to increase the profession’s involvement with secondary schools and with federal policy that affects historical research. After four years at the AHA, it seemed a natural progression for him to move to the Federation of State Humanities Councils, where he stimulated the state councils to think about who they were and what they could contribute to the public. Additionally, he worked to build a greater appreciation in higher education for the role of scholars in public humanities programs.
After eleven years in Washington dealing with advocacy and administrative issues, Dr. Zainaldin came south in 1997, beginning his tenure as president of the Georgia Humanities Council, where he took wonderful advantage of the opportunity to work directly on projects that bring humanities, and especially history, to the people of Georgia. Among the most lauded of those projects is the New Georgia Encyclopedia, a digital compendium of 2000-plus articles on Georgia’s history and culture, first “published” in 2004 and updated regularly, produced in partnership with the University of Georgia Press, the University System of Georgia/Georgia Library Learning Online, and the Office of the Governor.
Though Dr. Zainaldin retired from his position with the Georgia Humanities Council in 2018 he has certainly not retired from pursuit of his lifelong mission to bring the great gifts of the humanities to the public in every way he can—and to assist others in doing the same. He has, among other post-“retirement” endeavors, co-authored a book on The Liberating Promise of Philanthropy: Stories of Grant-Makers in the South and allied with Dr. Sarah Higinbotham, Assistant Professor of English on Emory’s Oxford College campus, co-founder of Common Good Atlanta, the organization that offers accredited college courses to inmates in Georgia prisons. (We hope to have a program on the work of Common Good this coming summer, featuring both Sarah Higinbotham and Hal Jacobs, the documentarian who has just released a film on the program.)
Please join us on Monday, April 11, to hear what Jamil Zainaldin might share on the subject of “Creativity in Later Life.” We can’t imagine many are better qualified to address the subject than
he . . .
Note that anyone on the permanent registration list we use for our Lunch Colloquiums will receive the Zoom information necessary for attendance automatically. Others will need to register for the Sheth in particular—and may do so via the link in the left margin of this newsletter (above) or online via the listing on our website. All comers are welcome. We hope to see you there. A
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2036 Campaign Information |
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On February 21 our Lunch Colloquium featured Jagdish Sheth and Marla Vickers presenting a talk entitled "2036: The Future Starts with You,"
Marla Vickers has kindly shared the PowerPoint Presentation displayed during the talk. You can access that by clicking here.
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Ann Hartle
Professor Emerita of Philosophy
Emeritus member Ann Hartle has published a new book titled What Happened to Civility: The Promise and Failure of Montaigne's Modern Project.
Ann delighted us in 2018 with a talk about writing the book and would like to note that completion and publication of the book were made possible with the help of a Heilburn Fellowship she received that same year.
More information on the book:
What is civility, and why has it disappeared? Ann Hartle analyzes the origins of the modern project and the Essays of Michel de Montaigne to discuss why civility is failing in our own time.
In this bold book, Ann Hartle, one of the most important interpreters of sixteenth-century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, explores the modern notion of civility—the social bond that makes it possible for individuals to live in peace in the political and social structures of the Western world—and asks, why has it disappeared? Concerned with the deepening cultural divisions in our postmodern, post-Christian world, she traces their roots back to the Reformation and Montaigne’s Essays. Montaigne’s philosophical project of drawing on ancient philosophy and Christianity to create a new social bond to reform the mores of his culture is perhaps the first act of self-conscious civility. After tracing Montaigne’s thought, Hartle returns to our modern society and argues that this framing of civility is a human, philosophical invention and that civility fails precisely because it is a human, philosophical invention. She concludes with a defense of the central importance of sacred tradition for civility and the need to protect and maintain that social bond by supporting nonpoliticized, nonideological, free institutions, including and especially universities and churches. What Happened to Civility is written for readers concerned about the deterioration of civility in our public life and the defense of freedom of religion. The book will also interest philosophers who seek a deeper understanding of modernity and its meaning, political scientists interested in the meaning of liberalism and the causes of its failure, and scholars working on Montaigne’s Essays.
The book will be available April 15 and can be purchased on Amazon.
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New members are the lifeblood of any organization.
Please make a special effort to welcome them to the EUEC!
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Glenn Kellum, Associate Vice President, Foundations and Corporate Relations
Ursula Goldenbaum, Professor Emerita of Philosophy
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Walking the Campus with Dianne |
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Those baby hippos are quite popular! A few of our emeritus members knew exactly where these little cuties were located.
The trio of hippopotamus amphibius calves can be found along a sidewalk off Haygood Road that leads to a rear entrance of the Emory Children's Center building. The Children's Center main entrance is on Uppergate Drive near the parking deck for CHOA (bottom right photo below). The building also connects to the Health Sciences Research Building via Brumley Bridge (bottom left photo below).
Here's more information on the Children's Center:
Emory Children’s Center
2015 Uppergate Drive
Atlanta, GA 30322
Emory-Children’s Center is one of the largest pediatric multispecialty group practices in Georgia and includes more than 200 Emory University School of Medicine faculty working in more than 20 specialties and subspecialties. Emory-Children’s Center is jointly owned by Emory Healthcare and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
The Emory Children's Center Building is part of the Children's Egleston Hospital campus. It can be reached from the Egleston Hospital parking deck by taking the elevators to the lobby level of Egleston Hospital and turning left off of the elevator to exit the building. From there, follow the crosswalk to the Emory Children's Center Building.
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Since the weather can't seem to make up it's mind to be warm, cool, dry or rainy, let's next visit a place that can only be viewed in our memories. This place was an interesting study in architecture and was a popular, well-visited building in its time. "Walk" through memory lane, or perhaps "jog" your memory a bit and see if you can recognize this place.
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Can you remember where this was 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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