A selection of past events supported by the CCA and the CAI.
Click here for information on upcoming events.
April 2009
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Discussion: Whale Sharks and Female Shamans
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Jonathan Hoffmann and William Pitts, composition
Undergraduate Honors Recital
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Premiere Reading and Discussion: Doho–Wanjiku's Nightmare
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Lecture: Fish Worship is Not Wrong, or How I Became a Scientific Surrealist
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Collaborative and Community Art Projects with Ray Troll
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Discussion: Spotted and Sacred: Jaguars in Nature and Art
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Emory Arts Networking Night
March 2009
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Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, film directed by John Huston
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Staged Reading: The Sacrificing Actor
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A Presentaion by Valère Novarina
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Round Table with Valère Novarina
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A Celebration of Motherhood: The Arts as Activism
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickins, film directed by David Lean
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Fundamental Sounds: The Early Letters from Samuel Beckett
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Emory Tibetan Arts and Culture Program: Thangka Painting Demonstrations
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Creativity Conversation: Edward Albee
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A Forum on Film and Literature
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Submission Deadline: Center for Ethics Free Speech Arts Competition
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Emory Tibetan Arts and Culture Program: Painting the Sacred: Reflections on Tibetan Thangkas
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Submission Deadline: Student T-Shirt Design Competition
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Candler School of Theology Swanson Exhibit Art Gala
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Emory Tibetan Arts and Culture Program: AntiquiTEA
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David Heath Lecture in Modern and Contemporary Art: Alexander Alberro
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"Hostile Harbors," Senior Dance Thesis Concert
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Emory Tibetan Arts and Culture Program: Kids @ the Carlos
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CCA Project Grant Application Deadline for Summer 2009
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Giving Voice, featuring Kirk Whalum
February 2009
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Evolving Arts: New Works Festival
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Steve Sanderson Lecture: Climate Change and the Creative Human Prospect
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Halfway to Invisible: An Exhibition by Eve Andrée Laramée
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Gallery Show: Stephen Weiss and Philip Brachman
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Contemporary Dance-Vintage Music: George Staib and the Vega Quartet in Concert
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, film directed by Martin Scorsese
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Global Health Student Photography Exhibit
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Theater Studies Colloquia with playwrights Kenneth Weitzman, John Walch, and Matthew Maguire
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David Heath Lecture in Modern and Contemporary Art: Briony Fer
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The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation from Emory Scholar Dr. Laurie Patton
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The Fifth Great Ape by Kenneth Weitzman and Out of Hand Theater
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Evolution Plays: Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, based on the book by Olivia Judson, adapted by John Walch, and Wax Wings by Matthew Maguire
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Emory University Art Gala 2009
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Adaptation, A public lecture from Salman Rushdie
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The Leopard by Giovanni Di Lampedusa, film directed by Luchino Visconti
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Faculty and Guest Artist Dance Concert featuring How the Human Got Its Big Head by Faculty member Lori Teague and Big Eater (heart of glass) by New York choreographer David Neumann
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Film Screening: Ce dont on ne peut parler,
c'est cela qu'il faut dire (What Cannot be Spoken is What Must be Said)
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Closing — Art by the Emory Visual Arts Faculty
January 2009
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The Historical and the Imagined Akhnaten: Panel Discussion
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Akhnaten Uber Colloquium with Richard Kagey
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Pre-Opera Conversation with Carter Joseph
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Atlanta Opera performs Philip Glass's Akhnaten
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Pre-Opera Conversation with Composer Philip Glass and Shalom Goldman
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Creativity Conversation: Philip Glass
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Screening of Kundun with Philip Glass
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Artists & Critics Panel: Music
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Closing — Gallery Show: Leslie Real, Time and Silence
December 2008
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Art by the Emory Visual Arts Faculty
November 2008
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Creativity Conversation: Steven Everett & Natasha Trethewey
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Fall Artists Visit: Renata Stih and
Frieder Schnock
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World Premiere: Ophelia's Gaze
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Lecture: Photography & the Transformation of Culture in India
October 2008
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Red Heroine with Live Accompaniment
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Confessions of a Young Novelist: Umberto Eco
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Artist Survival Skills Series: Adam Natale from Fractured Atlas
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Gallery Show and Artist Talk: Leslie Real, Time and Silence
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Artist Talk: Martha Rosler Bringing the War Home
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Creativity Conversation: E. O. Wilson
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Evolution Revolution Symposium
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Deadly Sins and Other Matters: Exhibition by Roger Dorset
September 2008
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Creativity & Arts Soiree
A Celebration of Emory's Creative Campus
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Artists & Critics Lecture Series: Film
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Artist Survival Skills Series: Resumes and Cover Letters
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CCA Project Grant Deadline for Spring 2009
April 15, 2008
Dialog between Dorothy Allison and Natasha Threthewey; Reading by Michael Elliot
"Understand me. What I am here for is to tell you stories you may not want to hear. What I am here for is to rescue my dead. And to scare the hell out of you now and then. I was raised Baptist, I know how to do that."
-Dorothy Allison Spring 2008 Bill and Carol Fox Cener for Humanistic Inquiry Distinguised Visiting Professor, Emory University
Exposed to poetry as the young daughter of a poet, Trethewey says that on long trips when she was bored her father would say, "write a poem about it." Poetry was "a way for a way for me ... as it is for a lot of people, to articulate those things that seemed hardest to say", Trethewey explained.
-Natasha Trethewey Philis Wheatley Distinguished Chair and Professor of Poetry, Emory; 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry for "Native Gaurd"
Michael Elliot, Director of Graduate Studies & Professor of Engligh at Emory reads from Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer (2007)
Click here to hear audio from this event.
April 2-4, 2008
"A Fine Excess," an NEA-sponsored Poetry Conference
In celebration of National Poetry Month, the conference was held on April 2-4, 2008, and featured several distinguished poets, including Richard
Wilbur, Mark Strand, and W.D. Snodgrass. Click for details.
February 11, 2008
Student Forum with Salman Rushdie, "What is Real?: Truth and Art"
Click here to watch QuickTime video
February 10, 2008
Salman Rushdie, Distinguished Writer in Residence, Emory University
Click here to read the news release about Salman Rushdie's Public Lecture "Autobiography and the Novel"
February 4-5, 2008
Steven Tepper Visit
Steven Tepper, a leader in the "creative campus movement," came to Emory to engage in a dialogue about creativity and the state of creativity at Emory. Co-editor and contributing author of "Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life," Tepper is associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy and assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Tepper recorded an installment in the Creativity & Arts Initiatives "Creativity Conversations" series with Vice President and Secretary Rosemary Magee. Click here to view that conversation. Tepper also presented a College faculty workshop with the Center for Teaching and Curriculum and met with the Student Arts Council, President Jim Wagner, the CCA Executive Committee, and others. Cosponsors of the public talk included Emory's Arts Council, Office of Community and Diversity, and Center for the Study of Public Scholarship. Click here to read an article from the Emory Report summarizing Tepper's public talk.
October 2007
Selections from "The Missing Piece: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama" Exhibition
Curated by Randy Jayne Rosenberg, this exhibition featured a variety of media by nationally and internationally-renowned contemporary artists who were inspired by the messages, vision, and values of the Dalai Lama. The exhibition was held in the Emory Visual Arts Gallery in celebration of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama's installation as Emory University Presidential Distinguished Professor.
September 2007
Flannery O'Connor Conference
This two-day celebration included a dramatic reading by Brenda Bynum; a day of panel discussions of O'Connor's life and work; an exhibition of photographs of
Andalusia, the farm where O'Connor lived with her mother; and a film screening of "Wise Blood," based on the O'Connor novel of the same name.
