Creativity Conversations feature Emory scholars and distinguished guests sharing ideas that contribute to a broader understanding of the arts and sciences in the world today. Check out featured video, audio and transcripts below.
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Jimmy Carter and Rosemary Magee
Pres. Carter shares stories from a lifetime of creativity
President Jimmy Carter and Rosemary Magee (Vice President and Secretary) engage in a Creativity Conversation that touches on many of the former president's artistic interests, including writing, painting, and woodworking. President Carter also reads several of his poems. [November 10, 2009]
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Christopher O'Riley and Rosemary Magee
O'Riley takes it from the top on creativity
Christopher O'Riley, acclaimed concert pianist and host of "From the Top", the hit NPR show, discusses the creative process--as well as his formative years and his experiences of working with young performers--with Rosemary Magee. [Nov. 3, 2009]
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David Neumann, David Lynn and Rosemary Magee
Neumann and Lynn shares ideas on dance and evolution
In this Emory Creativity Conversation, dance choreographer David Neumann visits Emory to talk with David Lynn, professor of biomolecular chemistry, and Rosemary Magee about the intersection of dance, biology and theories of evolution. [Oct. 15, 2009]
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Ray Troll, Anthony Martin, Pat Marsteller and Linda Williams
Artist Troll talks about his passion for art and natural history
Ray Troll and Emory faculty in the arts and sciences talk about their interests in biology, drawing, fish, environmental studies, paleontology, science education and Dooley. [April 15, 2009]
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Salman Rushdie and Matthew Bernstein
Rushdie and Bernstein on film and literature
Salman Rushdie, Distinguished Writer in Residence, and film studies professor Matthew Bernstein engage in a lively conversation about film and literature in front of an audience of students. [March 19, 2009]
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Edward Albee and Rosemary Magee
Playwright Albee talks about the writing life and Beckett's influence
Playwright Edward Albee ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "The Zoo Story", "The American Dream") talks about his writing careeer and influences with Emory Vice President Rosemary Magee. [March 18, 2009]
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Matthew Maguire and Leslie Real
Playright Maguire and Biologist Real talk about art and science
Taking a break during Emory's New Works Festival, Playright Matthew Maguire and Leslie Real, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Biology, share a conversation about how art and science intersect. [February 19, 2009]
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Philip Glass and Rosemary Magee
Composer Glass visits Emory during the Atlanta premiere of his opera "Akhnaten"
Over a career spanning four decades, Glass has composed symphonies, operas, orchestral works and film scores. In his wide-ranging conversation with Rosemary Magee, he talks about music and collaborations. [January 26, 2009]
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Steve Everett, Natasha Trethewey and Rosemary Magee
Emory professors Everett and Trethewey talk about artistic collaboration
Rosemary Magee moderates a conversation between Steven Everett, associate professor of music, and Pulitzer-winning poet and Emory Creative Writing Program faculty member Natasha Trethewey, in anticipation of the world premiere of Everett's chamber opera "Ophelia's Gaze," based on Trethewey's poems. [November 5, 2008]
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E. O. Wilson and Rosemary Magee
Biologist E. O. Wilson talks about ants and creativity
Known as "the father of biodiversity," E.O. Wilson has earned international distinction for his research, ranging from ant ecology to gene-culture evolution and theories about chemical communication. While visiting as a featured guest of Emory's public symposium "Evolution Revolution: Science Changing Life," Rosemary Magee talks to him about his brilliant career. [October 23, 2008]
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Dorothy Allison, Natasha Trethewey and Michael Elliott
Visiting professor Dorothy Allison talks about writing with faculty Trethewey and Elliott
Serving as the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Distinguished Visiting Professor, Allison was a 1992 National Book Award finalist for her novel "Bastard out of Carolina." Natasha Trethewey, Creative Writing Program faculty member, received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2007 for her collection, Native Guard. Michael Elliott, an associate professor of English, specializes in the literature and culture of the U.S. from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century; his most recent book is Custerology (University of Chicago Press, 2007). Together, they share thoughts on the writing life. [April 15, 2008]
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Steven Tepper and Rosemary Magee
Sociologist Tepper leads the "creative campus movement"
Tepper, associate director of Vanderbilt's Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, talks with Rosemary Magee about deepening creative engagement in the community. [February 4, 2008]
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Salman Rushdie and Rosemary Magee
Novelist Rushdie is Distinguished Writer in Residence, Emory University
Salman Rushdie, one of the world's most celebrated contemporary authors, talks with Rosemary Magee about writing and creativity. [February 1, 2008]
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Seamus Heaney and Rosemary Magee
Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Heaney invites Magee to his home for conversation on creativity
In 2003, Heaney donated a major portion of his archives to Emory's Woodruff Library. Five years later, Magee visited Heaney at his home in Northern Ireland, where he shared his insights on creativity, writing and teaching. [August 2, 2008]
Joshua Bell and Rosemary Magee
Grammy-award winning virtuoso Joshua Bell performs at Emory
Since making his first recording at the age of 18, violinist Bell has received international acclaim for his distinctive and wide-ranging body of work. During his Emory visit, he spoke with students and Magee about his career and artistry. [February 10, 2007]
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Katherine Mitchell and Rosemary Magee
Mitchell is an artist on the faculty of the Emory Visual Arts Program
Mitchell and Magee talk about art and life as Mitchell was preparing for her retrospective at City Gallery East in Atlanta. [October 2006]
