Newsletter Volume 8 Issue 14 - April 13, 2022 |
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Another Zoom update!
The most recent, as of this writing, is 5.10.1
If you have any problems getting the update, please contact Dianne at dianne.becht@emory.edu for more information.
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Call for Emeritus College Distinguished Awards Nominations
Each year, the Emory University Emeritus College (EUEC) offers two categories of awards – EUEC Faculty Awards of Distinction and the Distinguished Service Award. It is now time for nominations for this year’s awards. I would like to emphasize that self-nominations are not only permitted, they are encouraged. Too often, retired faculty are not fully aware of the achievements of their colleagues, and we must rely on self-disclosure. Please submit your nominations no later than April 29, 2022. The selection committee, composed of a chair and several former recipients of the awards, cannot accept late nominations.
The eligibility requirements are as follows:
EUEC Faculty Award of Distinction (formerly Distinguished Emeritus/Emerita Award):
- All retired Emory faculty who have been members of EUEC for at least two years.
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Significant professional contributions since retirement to Emory University or its affiliated institutions as well as contributions to local, state, regional, national, or international communities or professional organizations that reflect the “spirit of Emory.”
- A maximum of four awards given annually.
- This award may be conferred only once.
Distinguished Service Award:
- All members of the EUEC, including those who have received the Distinguished Faculty Award of Distinction.
- Membership in the EUEC for at least two years.
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Significant service to Emory University or its affiliated institutions as well as to local, state, regional, national or international communities or other organizations that reflect the “spirit of Emory.” These contributions must have been made since retirement and are beyond those used to support a previous Distinguished Faculty Award.
- Limited to one award annually. No requirement that an award be given.
When you make your nomination, please include the following:
- Name of nominee
- Department or unit with which the nominee is associated
- Contact information (email, phone number, and mailing address)
- Name of nominator
- Department or unit with which the nominator is associated
- Contact information (email, phone number and mailing address)
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Description of why the nominee should receive this honor, in no more than two pages. Please do not exceed this limit but be certain to include enough information for the selection committee to make an informed decision. Please include a curriculum vitae if possible.
If recent recipients are not listed on our website, please inquire of Dianne Becht (dianne.becht@emory.edu) whether they include the person you plan to nominate.
--Ron Gould
Goodrich C. White Professor of Mathematics Emeritus
Chair, EUEC Honors and Awards Committee
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Lunch Colloquium - Tuesday, April 19, 2022 |
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“The Monster in the Library: Unearthing a Course from
the Decidedly Undead Bram Stoker Archives”
Sheila Cavanagh
Professor of English and Director of the World Shakespeare Project
and The Emory Women Writers Resource Project
Joonna Trapp
Director of the Emory Writing Program and Writing Across Emory
PLEASE NOTE - THIS MEETING IS ON TUESDAY, APRIL 19, NOT MONDAY AS PREVIOUSLY LISTED
Zoom Lunch Colloquium
11:30 - 1:00 pm
Emory has recently acquired the Bram Stoker archives, long in private hands. These materials reflect the preoccupations of the Irish-born Stoker as he researched and penned Dracula (1897) during his lengthy employment at London's famous Lyceum Theatre. And they also reveal the wide influence the novel has had on literary, filmic, and popular culture since his day. Professors Cavanagh and Trapp describe how they have united their scholarly interests in the world of the theater and the vampiric to teach a course utilizing these exciting materials. They will share how the collection has helped them and their students journey through the theater environment where Stoker worked closely with famous Shakespearean actors Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, through the wider literary world of London, and beyond, way beyond, both to the past, to Transylvania to meet Vlad the Impaler, and to the present, to examine the many permutations of Dracula still with us today.
About Sheila Cavanagh:
Sheila Cavanagh is Professor of English and Director of the World Shakespeare Project and The Emory Women Writers Resource Project. Author of Wanton Eyes and Chaste Desires: Female Sexuality in The Faerie Queene and Cherished Torment: The Emotional Geography of Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania, she has written many articles on early modern literature and pedagogy, among other topics. She served as the Global Shakespeare Centre/Fulbright Distinguished Chair and as Director of Emory’s Year of Shakespeare, and is currently on the Board of the Society of Woman Geographers. She received her PhD at Brown University and did graduate work at Trinity College, Dublin, and Georgetown University. She recently completed an MA in Public History at Georgia State University, which was preceded by an MST in College Teaching at the University of New Hampshire.
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SHAKESPEARE AT THE LYCEUM: A TALK FROM PROFESSOR SHEILA CAVANAGH
Join Shoe Lane Library in London and Professor Sheila T. Cavanagh, director of the World Shakespeare Project, for this look at the history of theatrical Victorian London to celebrate the birthday of William Shakespeare.
19th Century London was a centre for Shakespearean performance and criticism. The renowned Shakespearean actor Henry Irving served as Theatre Manager of the Lyceum Theatre, where he performed many of Shakespeare’s plays with his illustrious co-star Ellen Terry. The Lyceum’s Business Manager was Bram Stoker, now most famous as author of Dracula.
This trio presented Shakespeare in London and on tour, but they also engaged-contentiously- with one of this playwright’s most prominent critics during this time, namely George Bernard Shaw. Shakespeare remained popular during this era, but the artistic arguments surrounding his work mark this period as a time of competing theatrical preferences and values.
This event will be held on Zoom.
Friday, 22 April 2022 from 13:00 to 14:00 (BST)
(and for us in Atlanta, that would be 8:00 to 9:00 a.m.)
Should you wish to register (for a free ticket) please click here.
About Joonna Trapp:
Joonna Trapp is a Senior Lecturer in Emory’s Department of English, Director of the Emory Writing Program, and Director of Writing Across Emory. Before joining the Emory faculty in 2015 (first serving two years in the Emory College Writing Program), she held appointments as a tenured Associate Professor of English at Northwestern College, Associate Professor and Chair of English and Foreign Language at Waynesburg University, and Associate Professor and Chair of Communication Studies at King University. Her primary research lies in the intersections between literature and rhetoric in American studies as well as in teaching and learning. Her book on the Lyceum Movement in the Old South is under contract with Parlor Press, and she is also currently researching Flannery O’Connor’s oratory and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s religious rhetoric. She received her PhD from Texas Christian University and her MA in Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Lunch Colloquium - Tuesday, May 3, 2022 |
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“Maria, 1681: Historical Legacies of Race, Gender, and Disposability”
Kali Gross
National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of African American Studies
Zoom Lunch Colloquium
11:30 - 1:00 pm
PLEASE NOTE THIS MEETING IS ON A TUESDAY
Dr. Kali Gross, recently named a Carnegie Fellow for 2021-2022, will discuss her historical research and current book project on Black women and capital punishment. She will map historical disparities, touch upon research challenges, and explore the need for histories on difficult subjects through the case of Maria, an enslaved woman burned at the stake in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1681. Convicted of arson for burning down her owner’s home and that of a local doctor, Maria exists in history as both an ominous omen of the nexus of race, gender, and justice, and an enigma that highlights the gaps in historical archives.
About Kali Gross:
Kali Nicole Gross earned her BA from Cornell University in Africana Studies and her PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania. She is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of African American Studies here at Emory and also a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.
Her primary research explores Black women’s experiences in the U.S. criminal justice system and her expertise and opinion pieces have been featured in press outlets such as Vanity Fair, TIME, The Root, BBC News, Ebony, HuffPo, Warscapes, The Washington Post, and Jet. She has appeared on venues such as ABC, C-Span, NBC, and NPR.
Her award-winning books include Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910, winner of the 2006 Leticia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize, and Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America, winner of the 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction. Her latest book, co-authored with Daina Ramey Berry, is A Black Women’s History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2020).
Her numerous grants and fellowships include the prestigious Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture appointment as Scholar-in-Residence, in both 2000 and 2007, a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, hosted at Princeton University, in 2001-2002, and selection as a Public Voices Fellow for The Op-Ed Project, 2014-2015. In 2019-2021 she served as the National Publications Director of the Association of Black Women Historians.
In 2021, Dr. Gross was named one of 26 recipients of the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. Each fellow receives $200,000 to fund significant research in the social sciences and the humanities that addresses important and enduring issues confronting society.
Dr. Gross’s Carnegie project will shed new light on capital punishment in the United States through the histories of Black women disproportionately condemned. She aims “to better understand how it is that Black women became so grossly overrepresented among those put to death in the United States, especially by means of the electric chair.”
The fellowship is supporting Gross’s work at archives across the country to examine capital cases involving Black women. “This history is essential for ongoing efforts to eradicate structural racism in our nation’s criminal justice system,” says Dr. Gross, “and it will fill a crucial gap in historical studies of lethal punishment in America.”
We are most appreciative of Dr. Gross’s willingness to take time from the Carnegie-funded work that is keeping her so busy this year to speak to us on the subject of that work, work that Emory President Greg Fenves has described as “telling vital stories and deepening our understanding of our nation’s past and present.”
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Serving on one of the Faculty Council and University Senate committees is a great way to keep up with what’s going on at Emory, to give valuable input from our perspective, and to increase our visibility as a “council of elders” as John Bugge would say. Does one of the committees interest you? The Faculty Life Course Committee is an especially relevant one.
The following is a message sent by Tavi Iochimescu, Chair of the University Faculty Council. Application deadline for all is May 31.
--Holly York, EUEC Representative to the Faculty Council and University Senate (2021-2024)
Dear members of Emory faculty community,
This note goes out to you soliciting applications for various standing committees of the University Faculty Council during the next term, starting in September 2022.
The University Faculty Council, comprised of Emory faculty from all its academic units, is an essential component of shared governance. Faculty Council members are called on to consider and make recommendations regarding all matters of general interest, to review all new policies and changes to existing policies, and to submit recommendations to the University President, Provost, or Board of Trustees on any matter affecting the interests of the organization.
During the academic year, the University Faculty Council holds monthly meetings and shares minutes online, while committees address issues related to various, more specific topics and report back to the full Faculty Council. Membership on these committees is not limited to elected or appointed members of the Faculty Council.
The committees of the University Faculty Council have several current and upcoming vacancies, and we solicit applications to serve on a 1-year (renewable) term as members of the following standing committees:
- Faculty Life Course Committee
- Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee
- University Research Committee
- Policy Review Committee
Those interested to serve on one of these committees should send by May 31, 2022 a short statement of interest and a CV to our Administrative Assistant Grace Goh at shuang.goh@emory.edu.
Thanks for your willingness to serve and to participate in the processes of shared governance in our university!
Yours sincerely,
Octavian (‘Tavi’) Ioachimescu, MD, PhD, MBA
2021-2022 University Faculty Council Chair
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GA-HERO Spring Meeting - April 22, 2022 |
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The Spring Meeting of GA-HERO (Georgia Association of Higher Education Retiree Organizations) will be held virtually on Friday, April 22, starting at 10 am. Many of you are familiar with GA-HERO, an association of 11 university retiree organizations spanning the state. It was founded in 2012 by Dave Ewert of Georgia State University and our own John Bugge, so we have had major involvement with GA-HERO since its inception. In 2018, GA-HERO joined us at Emory in hosting the national conference of the Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education (AROHE). A special reason for us to attend this meeting is that Marilynne McKay has been nominated to become President of GA-HERO beginning in July of this year. EUEC is one of the member organizations of GA-HERO so any of us are welcome to attend the Spring Meeting. You can read more about GA-HERO by visiting its website.
The featured speaker at the meeting will be Antonius D. Skipper, PhD, an assistant professor in the Gerontology Institute at Georgia State University. His talk on “Families and Aging” will touch on several relevant aspects of aging in families, including caregiving, dyadic relationships, social determinants of health, and stress and coping. More information about Dr. Skipper, his talk, and the meeting can be found here.
The meeting is via Zoom. If you would like to attend, you will need to register in advance by clicking here.
--Gray Crouse
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JOIN EMERITI FOR A NEW PRODUCTION AT THE SHAKESPEARE TAVERN: THE COUNTRY WIFE
Beginning with preview performances this Thursday and Friday, April 14 and 15, with Opening Night on Saturday, April 16, the Atlanta Shakespeare Company will be presenting a production of the Restoration Comedy by William Wycherley, with a top-notch cast, directed by Jon Ammerman, whom Atlantans (and Emory folk) know well as actor, director, and playwright.
The Country Wife is a satirical and bawdy comedy focused on the vices and hypocrisies of Restoration London, It has been admired as a farce, condemned as immoral or frivolous, and praised as a sharp and sophisticated drama. Wycherley satirizes female hypocrisy, true and false masculinity and human folly through three neatly linked plots. His racy prose dialogue creates an energetic and complex comedy of sex that combines cynicism, satire and farce.
The play is running through Sunday, May 1, on Thursday through Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons (except for Easter Sunday, April 17).
Shows begin at 7:30 pm Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. (Lobby opens at 5:45 pm. Seating begins at 6:15 pm.)
Shows begin at 2:30 pm Sundays. (Lobby opens at 12:45 pm. Seating begins at 1:15 pm.)
Food and drink are available as always—including some tasty new additions to the menu.
Gretchen Schulz is not reserving a set of tickets for Emeritus College members (and their families and friends) for this production as she has done in the past. But she recommends attendance highly, and would love to have emeriti (and their families and friends) join her at the final performance on Sunday afternoon, May 1.
Or you may just go to the website of the Atlanta Shakespeare Company or call the Box Office at 404-874-5299.
Directions to the Shakespeare Tavern and information on parking (in the parking deck of Midtown Hospital across the street from the Tavern) are available on the website. So is the most up-to-date information on COVID-related policies. The statement online at the moment is this:
Mask wearing is now optional for vaccinated patrons, staff and volunteers. Mask wearing is strongly encouraged and we request masks be worn at all times for those who are unvaccinated.
Of course, the site also says that things can change. We will continue to adapt and update our protocols and procedures in response to the coronavirus pandemic to keep everyone safe.
It would be lovely to have multiple members of our congenial group attending on Sunday, May 1. Do make arrangements to come if you can. Gretchen promises a good time will be had by all . . .
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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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Sidney Stein, MD
Professor, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Stein graduated from Cornell University Medical University College, and completed his postdoctoral training at Duke University Medical Center. He also obtained his JD degree from Georgia State University.
Dr. Stein has research interests in hemophilia and related bleeding disorders, including menorrhagia in women with bleeding disorders and disorders of platelet function. He has been actively involved in hematology translational and clinical research in the area of hemostasis/thrombosis and clinical grants since 1977.
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Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
April 26, 1924 - March 7, 2022
We are saddened to hear about the loss of well-known Professor Emeritus, Alfred Heilbrun. Many of our members are beneficiaries of the Heilbrun Distinguished Emeritus Fellowships. These fellowships for emeriti faculty in the Arts and Sciences are funded by a generous contribution from the Heilbrun family. Awarded and administered by Emory College, each fellowship carries a stipend of $10,000 and provides recipients support for continuing research and scholarship beyond retirement.
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Walking the Campus with Dianne |
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The building from our last walk that is currently working its way into existence, will eventually become the R. Randall Rollins Building. As I mentioned, the building is being constructed in a space that doesn't seem large enough for a structure of this size. It's located between the Grace Crum Rollins and 1462 Clifton Road buildings and directly in front of the O. Wayne Rollins building...and apparently there's enough room for it!
According to an Emory Report article from March 4, 2020:
Construction began March 2020 and when completed it will be a 10-story facility that will significantly expand Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health complex, providing new space for state-of-the-art learning, training and conference opportunities for faculty, researchers and students.
Plans for the new building were revealed in early 2020, with the announcement of a $65 million pledge from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation to help construct a third Rollins public health building on the Emory campus.
The new facility will serve Emory’s robust public health program with flexible spaces for distance learning, training, study, and offices, as well as larger rooms for conferences and community events.
A continuous bridge on the first floor will connect to the Grace Crum Rollins and Claudia Nance Rollins buildings, which house six academic departments, more than 20 centers, and 200 faculty members.
Construction of the 185,000-square-foot R. Randall Rollins Building should take about two years to complete.
The design, which provides nine stories above grade and one below, includes a number of features intended to promote wellness and sustainability, including a landscaped green-roof terrace, energy-efficient elements, and the generous use of natural light.
The facility is currently on target to earn both LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification and WELL certification, which measures features that impact human health and wellbeing, according to project coordinators.
The two concept pictures, bottom right and left, give you a good idea of what the finished product will look like.
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Let's go inside for our next walk to find something you would normally see outside -- swings! Yes, the kind of swings hanging from a big tree in the yard that you may have enjoyed during childhood.....swings...on campus!!
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Where will you find these 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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