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JWJI Colloquium featuring Leslie Alexander
Monday September 23, 2024 12:00 PM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory
Cost: Free
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“The Cradle of Hope: How Haitian Independence Inspired the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States”
Haiti’s emergence as a free, sovereign nation lit a beacon of hope for Black people across the African diaspora during the nineteenth century. This talk chronicles how Haitian sovereign...
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City of Kings: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Wednesday September 25, 2024 05:00 PM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory
Cost: Free
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While Atlanta has in recent years been recognized as a hub for public art, the rich history of the city’s graffiti culture has remained largely unknown to the broader public. The new short documentary “City Of Kings Atlanta: A Public Art Origin Story” by filmmaker William Feagins, Jr. and graffiti h...
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ECAS First Fridays with Emil’ Keme
Friday October 4, 2024 12:00 PM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory
Cost: Free
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Talk Title: We Are Also Here. Maya Migrant Stories from Turtle Island
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JWJI Colloquium featuring Shanna Greene Benjamin
Monday October 7, 2024 12:00 PM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory
Cost: Free
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Absent Presence: Nellie Y. McKay, the WNBA, and Foundational Sacrifice
This talk details the broad strokes of McKay’s life to reveal its resonance and relevance in our current moment, specifically how understanding Black women’s private lives helps us to be more astute readers of Black women’s pub...
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JWJI Colloquium featuring AnneMarie Mingo
Monday October 21, 2024 12:00 PM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory
Cost: Free
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Talk Title: Have You Got Good Religion? Black Women’s Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement
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Atlanta Studies Symposium
Friday April 12, 2024 08:15 AM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory
Cost: Free
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Our city emerges at the confluence of lived experience, policy experiments, the built environment, history, the environment, and a myriad of other factors and influences. In keeping with this year’s theme “Visions of Atlanta,” the Atlanta Studies Symposium will bring together scholars from across th...
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JWJI Colloquium: Emily Zobel Marshall
Monday November 27, 2023 12:00 PM EST
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory
Cost: Free
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Talk Title:
A tricksters tale: The Politics of Race and Storytelling
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Monday November 20, 2023 12:00 PM EST
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory
Cost: Free
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Talk Title:
Congressman Charles C. Diggs, Jr.: The Politics of Moderation and Black Political Incorporation in the Era of Black Power
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Monday November 13, 2023 12:00 PM EST
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory
Cost: Free
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Talk Title: How School Closures Undermine the Citizenship of Black Americans
This work investigates the declining presence of public schools in large cities and their impacts on the Americans most directly affected – poor Black citizens. It documents how these mass school closure policies target m...
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(Postponed) Documenting Health Crises: Oral Histories of Covid and Ebola
Tuesday April 18, 2023 04:00 PM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory
Cost: Free
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Categories: Panel discussion
(This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date) Join us for a panel talk on how narrative resources amplify individual stories and shared experiences in the context of acute public health events. The event will introduce two new Rose Library colle...
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Rose Library second annual Drag Show
Thursday October 6, 2022 07:00 PM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory
Cost: Free
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Join the Rose Library at Emory University to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month and our LGBTQ+ collections! Hosted by Lorelei, guests will include Reba Douglas from New Orleans, Lori Divine, Kellie Divine, Tatianna DeJour, Eileen Slightly, and Diego Wolf. Come at 5:30 pm to the Rose Library on the 10th ...
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Graffiti: An Inside View
Tuesday September 27, 2022 07:00 PM EDT
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory
Cost: Free
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Want to know the real story behind graffiti writers and their artistic messages? Join Rose Library curator Randy Gue, graffiti writing historian Antar Fierce, b-boy and writer MadClout, photographer H.J. Parsons, and writer Web One for a conversation about graffiti, hip hop, and the world of aerosol...
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Reading: Katie Condon & Josh Wilder
Tuesday February 18, 2020 06:30 PM EST
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory
Cost: Free
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Katie Condon is the author of Praying Naked, winner of the 2018 THE JOURNAL Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize and forthcoming from Mad Creek Books. Her recent poetry appears in or is forthcoming from The New Yorker, Tin House, and Prairie Schooner.
Josh Wilder’s work has been developed, commissioned...
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MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Art History Now: Map and Territory, Image and Object
Thursday January 30, 2020 05:30 PM EST
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory
Cost: Free
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A lecture by Emily Pugh of the Getty Research Institute.
Recommended parking: Fishburne Parking Deck, Oxford Road Parking Deck
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Reading: Heather Christle, poet
Tuesday January 28, 2020 06:30 PM EST
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory
Cost: Free
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Heather Christle is the author of four poetry collections: The Difficult Farm, The Trees The Trees What Is Amazing, and Heliopause. Her first work of nonfiction, The Crying Book, will be published in 2019/20 by Catapult in the US, Corsair in the UK, and Hanser in Germany. Book signing and reception ...
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Hours
Monday: 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Tuesday: 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Wednesday: 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Thursday: 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Friday: 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Saturday: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Sunday: Closed