Registration is open for The EUEC Awards and Honors Reception

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

Please 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. 

Also presented at this event will be this year’s recipients of the Heilbrun Fellowships, 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!



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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 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.

Lunch Colloquium - Monday, June 20, 2022

“Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights

in the American South”

Kylie Smith

Associate Professor, Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow for Nursing

and the Humanities, School of Nursing

Zoom Lunch Colloquium

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Psychiatric hospitals in the United States have always functioned as spaces of both custody and care. In the mid 20^th century legislation was passed in an attempt to improve conditions and treatment practices for patients, but these developments were delayed in the South due to an insistence on racial segregation. In this talk, Dr. Smith will draw on extensive archival sources from her book in progress to show the ways that Southern psychiatric hospitals in the mid twentieth century had become home to many thousands of Black patients with mental and physical disability where treatment and care was custodial at best, violent and abusive at worst. Yet these hospitals were also the scene of important Civil Rights activism in the 1960s that revealed the ways that psychiatry functioned as a tool of white supremacy. This activism led to the end of segregation, but could not fix the racism that underpins the provision of mental health and disability care today.

This project is funded by the G13 Grant from the National Library of Medicine and will be published by UNC Press in 2023.

About Kylie Smith:

Dr. Smith is a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and the Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow for Nursing and the Humanities and Associate Faculty in the Department of History at Emory. She teaches courses on the history of race in health care, critical theory, and nursing theory and philosophy in the School of Nursing and the Emory College of Arts and Sciences. Her research area is the history of psychiatry, and she is the author of the multiple-award-winning book Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing. Her new book, entitled Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South, will be published by UNC Press in 2023 and is supported by a grant from the National Library of Medicine (NIH).

Dr. Smith was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in English and History and a PhD in History from the University of Wollongong in Australia. Before coming to Emory, she worked in the School of Nursing at the University of Wollongong where she researched mental health nursing history and taught ethics and reflective practice. She has also worked in multicultural HIV/AIDS health promotion in Sydney, Australia, and studied scriptwriting at the Australian Film Television and Radio School.

Member Activities

Ron Gould, PhD

Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Ron has been busy! He's had two papers recently published:

"Luck, Logic, and White Lies."

The Mathematics of Games, Second Edition by Jorg, Bewersdorff, CRC Press(2021). 

For The Mathematical Intellingencer. Online now at https://rdcu.be/cNm4V

"Structure of Sparse k-critical Graphs,"

Ronald J. Gould, V. Larsen and L. Postle.

Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B. Vol. 156, (2022) pp194---222.

https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1f4quLpTmV1yL

New Members

New members are the lifeblood of any organization.

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

Corrine Abraham, DNP, RN, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing

Linda Grabbe, PhD, APRN-BC, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Nursing

Phyllis Wright, DNP, AGPC-NP, MPH, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing



We recently received a short bio from new member Peter Brown:

Peter J. Brown, PhD

Professor of Anthropology and Global Health

Peter Brown has been at Emory for 44 years (counting sabbaticals at Berkeley, Harvard, Santa Fe, Sassari). He was one of the founding members of the Anthropology Department and was instrumental in the institutionalization of Global Health as a signature theme at the university. He holds a joint appointment in Rollins School of Public Health. His research has been in Medical Anthropology related to different diseases. His abiding interest has been in teaching; he has received five teaching/mentoring awards on the university and national level. He is most proud of producing 50 PhDs (20 with joint training in health sciences) who are now leaders in the field. Thirty of these alumni returned to Emory for a mini conference this Spring. He is an Italophile and avid cyclist. His three sons went to Emory College and his grandsons live in Colorado. He and his life-long spouse, Betsy, look forward to years of traveling ahead. 

That green wall from our last walk can be found growing between the Emory Student Center and the Woodruff Physical Education Building (WoodPEC). There are actually two sections of the green wall and they were created after completion of the new Student Center in the area where the temporary student cafeteria was placed after destruction of the DUC (the old Dobbs University Center). The wall(s) face WoodPEC so in order to see the beautiful vertical greenness you will have to move down the walkway towards that building. It will be interesting to see the seasonal changes in the wall.

Summer seems to have arrived a bit early this year with the extra-hot temperatures lately, so for our next walk, let's revisit a spot on campus where we can take a rest and hopefully cool down.

Where will you find this on the Emory campus?