Save the Date: The EUEC Awards and Honors Reception

Monday, June 13, 2022, 2:30 to 4:30 pm

We hope you will join us (via Zoom) on the afternoon of Monday, June 13, 2:30 to 4:30 pm, for our annual celebration of EUEC members who will be honored with Distinguished Faculty Awards and Distinguished Service Awards for contributions they have made through scholarly work and service in the years since their retirement. 

Registration for this event will be available soon.

This year’s recipients of the Bianchi-Bugge Fellowships that are offered by the EUEC to support ongoing professional activities of emeriti will be announced. And so will this year’s recipients of the Heilbrun Fellowships and their attendant grants, offered to support emeriti who are continuing research and scholarship in retirement; the grants, administered by the Emory College of Arts and Sciences, are funded by a generous contribution from the family of Professor of Psychology Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr.

We will also recognize members who have joined the EUEC this year and members whose donations have helped make it possible for our retirement organization to thrive--as it so wonderfully continues to do.

We hope to see you there.



Invitation: Public Screening of the New Hal Jacobs Documentary on Common Good Atlanta

Wednesday, May 18, Plaza Theatre, 1049 Ponce De Leon Avenue, Atlanta

Later in our program of summer Colloquiums, on Monday, August 1, at our usual time, 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, Hal Jacobs, the documentary film-maker who shared his earlier documentary on Lillian Smith with us in the summer of 2020, will return to share his new documentary on Common Good Atlanta. This hugely successful program enabling professors to teach in Georgia prisons was launched by Oxford College assistant professor Sarah Higinbotham in 2008; and that has reached over 700 incarcerated students since then. Hal has arranged a week-long virtual screening of the film that Emeritus College members may access in the days before and after the Colloquium session in which he and Sarah and others involved in the CGA programming (including alums!) will discuss the programming and the film. But now in-person screening is possible. Hal wanted us to know that we might enjoy taking advantage of that opportunity—next up on Wednesday, May 18, at the Plaza Theater.

For a movie trailer and ticket information, see https://www.commongoodatldoc.com/ 

Lunch Colloquium - Monday, May 23, 2022

"BingeFest 2022: Seen Any Good Shows Lately?"

Voracious Viewers Anonymous, Assorted Members of the Emeritus College

Zoom Lunch Colloquium

11:30 - 1:00 pm

For this participatory Colloquium, we’ve decided to schedule a “BingeFest” instead of a “BookFest”—and ask for volunteers to recommend the shows through which they have sought to escape the realities of these trying times. If YOU have found some movies marvelous, some series irresistible, please let Gretchen know if you’d like to describe them to others who might enjoy them, too. Write her at gschulz@emory.edu, identifying the material you’d present, requesting five or (at most) ten minutes of time to do so. First come, first scheduled, until there’s no time left. And fair warning. If volunteers are lacking, Gretchen may claim leftover time to rave about the six seasons of Vikings she recently binged-watched herself: 100-plus episodes. Just sayin’.  



Lunch Colloquium - THURSDAY, June 9, 2022

"Just Nothing: How King Lear Means

Bradd Shore

Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology Emeritus

Zoom Lunch Colloquium

11:30 - 1:00 pm

PLEASE NOTE: This Meeting is on THURSDAY, June 9, 2022

Last year saw the publication of Bradd Shore’s latest book, Shakespeare and Social Theory: The Play of Great Ideas. Today, he’ll be sharing its insights about King Lear, focusing on Shakespeare’s craftsmanship, examining the relationship between the play’s language and its harrowing effect on its audience (and even its readers). Of course, King Lear brings together themes that are themselves harrowing: the tragedy of growing old, an aged father’s vanity and folly, a king’s confounding of affairs of state and those of the heart, filial ingratitude and greed, and more. These themes suggest what King Lear means. But how King Lear means is something different. Using insights from contemporary metaphor theory, Dr. Shore will discuss Shakespeare’s use of buried and intersecting metaphors that rhetorically perform Lear’s “undoing” on its characters as well as its audience, as King Lear enacts for us and within us the unraveling of the world.

About Bradd Shore:

Bradd Shore, who retired in 2018 as the Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department, has been at Emory since 1982. He did his undergraduate work in English literature at the University of California, Berkeley and his graduate work in anthropology at the University of Chicago. His graduate research was done in Western Samoa and was focused on the local modeling of personhood and selfhood – with an emphasis on ethics, conflict, and social control. It resulted in his first book, Sala’ilua: A Samoan Mystery (1982), considered one of the earliest studies of ethnopsychology. He has long been known as as a leading authority on Samoan Culture and also as a foundational theorist of the cultural models school of cognitive and psychological anthropology. His 1996 monograph, Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture and the Problem of Meaning, was among the first studies to link multiculturalism to cognitive psychology, and was an effort to reformulate a conception of culture that could bridge the fields of anthropology and the cognitive sciences. It has become a keystone text in the field of cognitive anthropology.

The Heinz Werner Lectures he was invited to offer in 1997-98 yielded his third big book, What Culture Means, How Culture Means (1998). And in 2021, he published another big book, with Routledge, in which he returns to the subject he’s loved since his undergrad days at Berkeley--Shakespeare and Social Theory: The Play of Great Ideas. (He has shared insights from chapters in that book with us before—in talks on Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar—and of course it’s the source of the talk on King Lear he’ll give us at our Zoom Colloquium on Thursday, June 9.)

At Emory, Bradd has been the recipient of the Emory Williams Teaching Award and served as Emory’s first Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Sciences and Social Sciences. For 10 years he served as director of Emory’s Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (the MARIAL Center), securing three major grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for the establishment and continuation and renewal of the Center.

Beyond Emory, Bradd has served as president of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, and in 2019, he received the SPA Lifetime Achievement Award that honors career-long contributions to psychological anthropology that have substantially influenced the field and its development.

Faculty Governance News

The final 2021-2022 meetings of both the University Faculty Council and University Senate were held in person for the first time in many months. Following the welcome by outgoing Chair of the Faculty Council and President of University Senate Octavian “Tavi” Ioachimescu, both meetings began with an update on Master Planning by David Payne, Associate Vice President for Planning and Engagement, and Robin Morey, Vice President and Chief Planning Officer of Campus Services.

The Land Use Plan has as its mission the preservation of the environment while maximizing the use of the space to advance Emory’s vision; thus planning is done in close consultation with the Committee on the Environment. Among the projects discussed were the new graduate student housing complex, which is expected to have Leed Gold certification, development in Executive Park, the Briarcliff campus, which will include a new senior living community commercially developed by Corso, the modernization of the Conference Center Hotel, and improvements to Haygood Drive. In addition, MARTA is in the planning phase to improve Clifton Corridor. Two possibilities under consideration are rapid transit buses with a dedicated lane and light rail, which is contingent on agreement with CSX Railroad.

The Faculty Council meeting continued with updates on the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey, provided by Deputy Provost for Academic Affairs, Christa Acampora, and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, Tim Holbrook.

Finally, Faculty Council Chair Ioachimescu reflected on Council accomplishments of the past year and the transition to new leadership.

At the University Senate meeting, Kenya Falkner was introduced as the new Emory University Chief Compliance Officer, whose functions are largely in the area of research. Committee Chair Bridget Guernsey Riordan reported on the activities of the Campus Life Committee and Walter Kolis on those of the Campus Development Committee.

Sid Stein, retiring Chair of the Fringe Benefits Committee, was honored for his 40 years of service to that committee. To close the meeting, Senate President Ioachimescu reflected on Senate accomplishments of the past year and the transition to new leadership.

For those wishing more detailed information on either meeting, minutes will be posted and can be accessed with Emory login credentials at:

 https://facultycouncil.emory.edu/meetings/2021-2022/index.html

https://www.senate.emory.edu/meetings/2021-2022/index.html

-- Holly York, EUEC Representative to the Faculty Council and University Senate (2021-2024)

Member Activities

William Foege, MD

Emeritus Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health,

Rollins School of Public Health

Emeritus College member Bill Foege was one of four Emory faculty members recently named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research.

For more information:

https://news.emory.edu/stories/2022/04/upress_aaas_elects_new_members_29-04-2022/story.html

James Larry Taulbee

Professor Emeritus of Law

Long-time member Larry Taulbee recently published the 12th Edition of his textbook, Law Among Nations: An Introduction to Public International Law.

Theatre Outing

Several EUEC members attended a production of The Country Wife on Sunday, May 1. The typical Elizabethan Shakespeare Tavern stage was transformed into a backdrop suitable for a ribald Restoration comedy. Attendees included top, left to right: Liza Davis with Pat Miller and Sean Kilpatrick; bottom, left to right: Affiliate members Linda Hubert from Agnes Scott and Lynn Ganim from Kennesaw; Ann Rogers, Director of the EUEC; and member Gretchen Schulz. Photos by Marilynne McKay.

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company Production of The Merry Wives of Windsor is running now—and will do so through Sunday, May 29. For further information on performances and tickets, go to the ASC website at shakespearetavern.com or call the theater at 404-874-5299. We’re hoping to turn that final Sunday afternoon performance into another occasion for an “emeriti takeover of the Tavern.” Do consider coming (then or on a different date) if you possibly can.



New Members

New members are the lifeblood of any organization.

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



Anthony Cooley, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Katharine Kennedy, PhD, Charles A. Dana Professor Emerita of History, Agnes Scott College



The somewhat intimidating looking staircase from our last walk can be found in the very heart of main campus at the Emory Student Center. The stairs are located between the North and South Pavilions of the building.  

The climb up (or down) those stairs can be rather challenging but a source of good exercise, and as mentioned before, the stairs are nicely shaded.  

For more information on the Student Center please click here.

Let's stay outside and take a look at an amazing wall.  This vertical greenery was created only a few years ago and most likely looks a bit different from season to season.

Where will you find this on the Emory campus?