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Lunch Colloquium -- Monday, November 14, 2022

“The Transpacific Turn in American Religions: Religious ‘Nones,’ Evangelicalism, and the ‘Prosperity Gospel’”

Helen Jin Kim

Assistant Professor of American Religious History, Candler School of Theology, Affiliate Faculty, Graduate Division of Religion

and East Asian Studies Program

The field of American religious history has sought to narrate the past in global context. Yet scholars in the field have tended to underutilize a Pacific lens, casting the history of religion in America primarily through an Atlantic lens. Thus, we have often missed the opportunity to highlight a key region in our global story, and by extension, a key group of people in our racial narratives, those of Asian descent. By the same token, transpacific and Asian American historians have tended to underutilize religion as a central category of analysis in their narratives. How does employing a transpacific and Asian American lens change the understanding of American religions? In addressing this question, Helen Jin Kim, already much acknowledged for expertise in this area, will examine such phenomena as the rise of the religious “nones,” the history of evangelicalism, and the development of the so-called “prosperity gospel.”

About Helen Jin Kim:

Dr. Helen Jin Kim is a historian who studies American history and religion in global context. She is the author of Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire (Oxford University Press, 2022). She uses English and Korean language sources from U.S. and South Korean archives, tracing linkages between the rise of world Christianity, race and the global Cold War, and modern American evangelicalism. She is also co-author of Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans (Oxford University Press, 2019), a study on contemporary American religious “nones." Kim is a member of the American Academy of Religion, American Society of Church History, and the Association for Asian American Studies. She is the first Asian American woman and faculty of Korean descent at Candler.



Kim completed her MDiv and PhD at Harvard as a William R. Hutchison Presidential Fellow. Her research began at Stanford in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and with the Asian Pacific American Religion and Research Initiative (APARRI). Prior to graduate studies, Kim worked at Google, Inc.



Lunch Colloquium -- Monday, November 28, 2022

“Innovation AGEnts at Emory: Uncovering the

Secrets to Health in Aging”

Camille Vaughan

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics &

Gerontology, Department of Medicine

and Director, Emory Woodruff Health Sciences Center for Health in Aging

By 2050, Atlanta will boast more than a million citizens over the age of 75, citizens for whom Emory will continue to lead the way in research and healthcare innovation. As a geriatrician leader at Emory, Camille Vaughan was selected to lead the Emory Woodruff Health Sciences Center for Health in Aging in 2021. The Center is a hub for collaborative work to discover, design, and test programs that promote the health and well being of older adults. Dr. Vaughan will discuss the first cohort of pilot projects funded through the Center, projects that span disciplines from anthropology to ophthalmology, as well as describe opportunities for Colloquium attendees to engage in the Center’s future efforts.

About Camille Vaughan:

E. Camille Vaughan is Director of Emory’s Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology as well as the newly relaunched Emory Center for Health in Aging. She currently serves as Atlanta Site Director of the Birmingham/Atlanta VA Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center. Her research centers on optimizing care for older adults with multiple chronic conditions with a focus on urinary symptom management in persons with Parkinson disease and interventions to promote safe prescribing for older adults seen in the Emergency Department. She currently receives funding from the VA, NIH, and AHRQ.

In announcing four new pilot projects which have been funded at the Emory Center for Health in Aging, Dr. Vaughan noted: “In the coming decades, the city of Atlanta will boast more than one million citizens over the age of 75. Emory is leading the way in research and health care innovations aimed at optimizing the well-being of older adults, understanding the interactions between multiple chronic conditions, and promoting caregiving mastery in a variety of settings.”

A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Dr. Vaughan received her MD and MS degrees from Emory, where she also completed her residency in internal medicine and her fellowship in geriatrics.



Faculty Governance News

The October meeting of the University Faculty Council was called to order by President Alicia DeNicola, who introduced the day’s speaker, Francesca Gaiba of Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research. Professor Gaiba, a certified Pre-Award Research Administrator, described Northwestern’s program of faculty support in obtaining and administering research grants. The approach is an integrated one, from pre-application mentoring through administration of funds. She described a number of models for guidance as Emory, under the leadership of Senior Vice-President for Research Deborah Bruner, works to create a “grant culture” across the departments and units, including special attention to disciplines like Humanities and Social Sciences, where grants have traditionally been less widespread.

At the October University Senate meeting, Provost Ravi Bellamkonda gave an update on the work his office is undertaking. The current areas of focus are strong schools and units, quality scholars, signature programs such as AI Humanity, and student flourishing. In the area of faculty hiring, searches have resulted in thirty-one offers: so far sixteen have been accepted, an impressive yield given that Emory competes for talent not only with top-tier academic institutions but also with Silicon Valley. The areas of focus supporting student flourishing are the academic experience, professional pathways, purpose and meaning, sense of community, and well-being.

David Payne and Robert Morey from the Office of Planning and Engagement reported on developments in the Master Plan. Executive Park will become a triple-use property, with Emory facilities alongside residential units and a hotel. The Briarcliff campus will be developed by Corso as a retirement community with independent living plus stepped-up levels of care. The Candler mansion will be restored as an elegant event space for Corso residents and the community at large. The retirement facility could offer possibilities for integration with Emory programs such as brain health, public health, nursing, and physical therapy.

Finally, the latest MARTA plan for serving Emory is the use of the CSX corridor with bus rapid transit.

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/2022-2023/index.html

https://www.senate.emory.edu/meetings/2022-2023/index.html

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

Member Activities

Rosemary Magee

Director Emerita, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archive and

Rare Book Library

Rosemary has recently published a collection of short stories titled, Family Impromptu.

In these captivating stories, we encounter the tangle of emotions that accompany close relationships. Marriages expand and contract, love seeks fulfillment in a library, children dream of stalkers and kidnappings, dead dogs reconnect partners, and a cousin gets executed in Texas. Poignant, humorous, and even unsettling at times, this collection takes a frank look at the complicated yet endearing jumble of family ties as characters pursue both intimacy and independence.

You can purchase this book through Amazon by clicking here.

Sidney Perkowowitz

Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Physics

Sidney, who now lives in Seattle WA, recently sent his good wishes for the Emeritus College 20th Anniversary --I'm sorry I won't be able to make the EUEC 20th anniversary party to help celebrate an organization that I value and enjoy. I'm glad to see that EUEC is thriving and continues to offer vibrant programming.

He's also a very busy man! Sidney shared links to some of his very recent articles. And if the articles aren't enough, he recently published a book, Science Sketches: The Universe from Different Angles (March 2022)! Click on each title below for more information.

How Two Outsider Scientists Saw Inside Climate Change

Eight Woman Astronomers You Should Know

Sci Fi About Rocks from Space, and Beyond

Planting Clouds

Rainer Weiss: Fifty years of LIGO and Gravitational Waves

Werner Herzog Scans the Brain

We’ve Got News for You About Supercharging Your Brain

Science Sketches: The Universe from Different Angles

Holly York

Senior Lecturer Emerita of French

Holly York’s series of poems titled "Still, When I Reach for the Leash” is featured in the Summer 2022 issue of Sixfold Poetry. Some of her other poems appear in the current issues of Crosswinds Poetry Journal and Oberon Poetry Magazine.



 

The beautiful lamp post from our last walk has a twin and can be seen day or night at the entrance of the Asa Griggs Candler Library entrance across from the Emory Hospital. The quad side entrance of the library has an entirely different set of lamp posts (features of a future walk?!).

The Asa Griggs Candler Library building was originally constructed in 1926. After a renovation and expansion in the early 2000s, the main stair, lobby, and reading room were all restored to historic condition and appearance. The remainder of the building houses classrooms, office spaces, and a third level lobby. Key exterior elements include marble exterior cladding, marble stairs, dashed stucco base, original doors and entranceways, and a Spanish tile roof.

I've included a photo below of the lamp posts and your view as you exit the building, as well as the entrance itself.

Let's next explore something brand spanking new! This place is so new, it's not quite ready to provide our students with learning opportunities. Finishing touches are still being made -- I just happened to get lucky and was allowed a brief journey inside.

Where will you find this on the Emory campus?