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Join Global Atlanta on Thursday, February 5th for another interview in the Consular Conversations series presented by Miller & Martin PLLC, featuring, Konstantinos Adamopoulos, Consul General of Greece in Atlanta. The discussion will include a one-on-one interview with the Global Atlanta Managing Editor, Trevor Williams, followed by a moderated audience Q&A. Sponsored by: Featured Speaker
The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University and Associate Vice-Provost and Director Henry Kim cordially invite you to a special exhibition experience for the opening of: You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography Enjoy Latin street food prepared by Calle Latina. Reception and remarks in Ackerman Hall, Level Three. RSVP by August […]
In an immense photograph by Manjari Sharma in the special exhibition Transcendent Deities of India, the goddess Durga rests on her tiger. Children will hear about Durga’s origin and her many feats from Amma, Tell Me About…Durga Puja, written by Bhakti Mathur and illustrated by Maulshree Somani, and then match Durga’s multiple arms with the […]
In Palace of Illusions, award-winning author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni recasts the Mahabharata through the eyes of Panchaali (Draupadi), the fire-born heroine of the great epic. Married to five royal husbands, brothers who have been cheated out of their father's kingdom, Panchaali aids their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of […]
In 1967, Anant Pai started a comic book company called Amar Chitra Katha (“immortal picture stories” in Hindi), to retell classical works of Indian literature such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata in a contemporary, child-friendly format. Whether you’ve grown up with ACK or are experiencing them for the first time, come pick up a […]
Anthony Grafton considers the meaning and relevance of margin notes found in Renaissance texts. In this period, educated readers went through their texts pen in hand. They underlining passages, adding references to names and short summaries in the margins, and interpreting or responding to the text. Most marginalia were verbal. But scholars from Petrarch in […]
Heather Hyde Minor, Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame will present a lecture on Giovanni Battista Piranesi's "Lost Book." Piranesi was an 18th century artist famous for his architectural etchings of Rome. Recommended Parking: Oxford Road Parking Deck Fishburne Parking Deck
Join Curator of Greek and Roman Art Ruth Allen for a gallery talk titled ‘“Not the Classical Ideal‘: Unconventional Bodies and Bad Behaviors in Greek and Roman Art.” This event is free and open to the Emory community and the public, but space is limited and online registration is required.
The next installment of ECMSA Beethoven 2020 features Sissi Zhang on violin, Roy Harran on cello and William Ransom on piano. Beethoven works to be performed are the Variations for Cello, Violin Sonata No.3 and the Romance in G. ECMSA “Beethoven 2020” is a major year-long celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Master’s birth featuring […]
In a conversation titled “Guising as God,” Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger of Emory’s Department of Religion and Harshita Mruthinti Kamath of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies discuss the practice of vesham, using clothing and ornamentation to guise and disguise, across a range of Indian contexts. Drawing on their individual fieldwork, Drs. Flueckiger […]
US Poet Laureate Billy Collins describes Amit Majmudar’s work as “nothing less than a torrent of poetic inventiveness driven by the inexhaustible poetic energy.” In Dothead, nuclear radiologist, novelist, and former poet laureate of Ohio, Amit Majmudar asserts claims of both the self and the other. The title poem shows us the place of an […]
Emory students in the fall semester class "The Art of the Hindu Epic" curated the exhibition "Tell the Whole Storying from Beginning to End:" The Ramayana in Indian Painting. Join them in the gallery for a look at these intricately painted scenes from the great Sanskrit epic — from the banishment of Prince Rama from […]
In the 17th and 18th centuries, artists produced gloriously illustrated Ramayanas for both Hindu and Muslim rulers. In a lecture titled Beyond Hindu and Muslim: The Courtly Ramayanas of North India, Debra Diamond, curator of South and Southeast Asian art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, compares four illustrated Ramayanas […]
Families can tour the special exhibition Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles, pet and interact with animals from the Andes, taste Peruvian favorites like Lomo Saltado and chicha morada from The Freakin’ Incan food truck, decorate paper llamas and make feather fans inspired by the beautiful feather work from the exhibition. Children will also have a chance to […]
Christa Clarke, curator of the arts of global Africa at the Newark Museum, considers the complex issues surrounding the representation of contemporary African art in museums. Since the start of the 21st century, Newark, like many museums, has placed increasing emphasis on the modern and contemporary arts of Africa, expanding on an historic collection begun […]
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