Latino Youth Leadership Conference

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2 years 11 months
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The Latino Youth Leadership Conference brings together Latinx high school students in Nevada for six days of leadership training and development.

Students are housed in the dorms of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. During their stay, participants interact with a variety of topics and explore cultural identity.

High School students between the ages of 16 and 18 are encouraged to apply. Participants are selected from all socio-economic backgrounds, academic standings, and from all over the state of Nevada.

Participants attend the LYLC at NO cost to the student or their families. All accommodations and materials are provided.

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The Latino Youth Leadership Conference brings together Latinx high school students in Nevada for six days of leadership training and development.

Students are housed in the dorms of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. During their stay, participants interact with a variety of topics and explore cultural identity.

High School students between the ages of 16 and 18 are encouraged to apply. Participants are selected from all socio-economic backgrounds, academic standings, and from all over the state of Nevada.

Participants attend the LYLC at NO cost to the student or their families. All accommodations and materials are provided.

Robert W. Woodruff Library
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Virtual Event
No
January 01, 2020 - December 31, 2021
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Fishburne parking deck
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kvdixson@emory.edu
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It's in the Cards

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2 years 11 months
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It's in the Cards: An Interactive Art Exhibit' features old library catalog cards that have been turned into art and poetry. The exhibit is curated by artist and Emory Libraries conservator Julie Newton, who was approached by the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library staff about making use of old catalog cards. Newton wants the exhibit to be composed of catalog cards that have been 'transformed' by students, staff and faculty at Emory, as well as members of the Atlanta community. The exhibit will display the decorated cards in the original card catalog so visitors can open the drawers and look through other people's transformed cards. Selected creations will also be scanned and enlarged for an online exhibition and reproduced with other submissions to create a quilt of catalog cards.

Exhibition Type
On-site
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An Interactive Art Exhibit
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An Interactive Art Exhibit
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"This could be an art project that would be a symbolic celebration of Rose's transformation." - Julie Newton

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“It’s in the Cards: An Interactive Art Exhibit” features old library catalog cards that have been turned into art and poetry. The exhibit is curated by artist and Emory Libraries conservator Julie Newton, who was approached by the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library staff about making use of old catalog cards. Newton wants the exhibit to be composed of catalog cards that have been “transformed” by students, staff and faculty at Emory, as well as members of the Atlanta community. The exhibit will display the decorated cards in the original card catalog so visitors can open the drawers and look through other people’s transformed cards. Selected creations will also be scanned and enlarged for an online exhibition and reproduced with other submissions to create a quilt of catalog cards.

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its in the cards
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Level 2
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Virtual Event
No
March 24, 2015 - December 15, 2015
Parking Information - Location
Fishburne parking deck
Link to Parking Information
Link Description for Parking Information

Parking is available in the Fishburne parking deck.

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kathryn.v.dixson@emory.edu
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In Focus

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2 years 11 months
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An exhibit highlighting historical photographs analyzed by students in the Introduction to African American Studies class. The fall 2014 course was taught by Pellom McDaniels III, MARBL faculty curator of the African American collections and assistant professor of African American Studies at Emory, who co-curated the exhibit with his students.

McDaniels said that through the exhibit, he hopes to showcase the variety of research students can pursue in African American Studies as well as the usefulness of MARBL materials as primary evidence.

Exhibition Type
On-site
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Evidence of a World Unseen
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Evidence of a World Unseen
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"Students used the Robert Langmuir African American Photograph collection--a collection of more than 12,000 photographs depicting African American life from the 1840s to the 1990s."

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An exhibit highlighting historical photographs analyzed by students in the Introduction to African American Studies class. The fall 2014 course was taught by Pellom McDaniels III, MARBL faculty curator of the African American collections and assistant professor of African American Studies at Emory, who co-curated the exhibit with his students.

McDaniels said that through the exhibit, he hopes to showcase the variety of research students can pursue in African American Studies as well as the usefulness of MARBL materials as primary evidence.

Featured Photo
Major Taylor (1878-1932), African American world champion cyclist, circa 1910
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Level 2
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Virtual Event
No
April 04, 2015 - October 04, 2015
Parking Information - Location
Fishburne parking deck
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Link Description for Parking Information

Weekdays: Free after 5pm | Weekends: Free

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Contact Information - Email address
kathryn.v.dixson@emory.edu
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How Might We?

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2 years 11 months
Submitted by Kathryn Dixson on

For nearly 200 years the Emory Libraries have evolved, expanded, and explored how we might better serve our patrons.

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On-site
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Innovation in the Libraries
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Innovation in the Libraries
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For nearly 200 years the Emory Libraries have evolved, expanded, and explored how we might better serve our patrons.

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Change isn't new, nor is striving to keep pace with it. What is new is how the Libraries today are focused on supporting an environment where creativity and innovation not only thrive, but are essential to our daily lives. Through a variety of initiatives, we're developing new and improved programs, tools, and spaces for students, staff, faculty, and the larger community. Please join us in our culture of innovation.

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Robert W. Woodruff Library
Schatten Gallery
Level 3
Location - Map URL
Virtual Event
No
August 28, 2019 - December 31, 2020
Parking Information - Location
Fishburne parking deck
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kathryn.v.dixson@emory.edu
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He Had a Hammer

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2 years 11 months
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"He Had a Hammer: The Legacy of Hank Aaron in Baseball and American Culture," is co-curated by Emory University students Kyle Arbuckle, Warren Kember and Brett Lake, who are juniors and members of Emory's baseball team.

Faculty advisors are Pellom McDaniels III, MARBL faculty curator of African American Collections and assistant professor of African American Studies, and Dana White, Emory professor emeritus of American Studies and MARBL senior faculty curator.

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On-site
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The Legacy of Hank Aaron in Baseball and American Culture
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The Legacy of Hank Aaron in Baseball and American Culture
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"He Had a Hammer: The Legacy of Hank Aaron in Baseball and American Culture," is co-curated by Emory University students Kyle Arbuckle, Warren Kember and Brett Lake, who are juniors and members of Emory's baseball team.

Faculty advisors are Pellom McDaniels III, MARBL faculty curator of African American Collections and assistant professor of African American Studies, and Dana White, Emory professor emeritus of American Studies and MARBL senior faculty curator.

Watch the Panel Discussion.

Featured Photo
Hank Aaron
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Level 2
Location - Map URL
Virtual Event
No
April 24, 2014 - November 30, 2014
Parking Information - Location
Fishburne parking deck
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Link Description for Parking Information

Weekdays: Free after 5pm | Weekends: Free

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kathryn.v.dixson@emory.edu
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Gone Digital

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2 years 11 months
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The exhibit features a kiosk from which visitors can access the Emory University yearbooks, a narrative on how the yearbooks have highlighted various campus and societal changes over time, and oversized images from two different eras with face cutouts so visitors can pose in the fashions of yesteryear and take pictures if they wish.

Exhibition Type
On-site
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100+ Years of Emory Yearbooks
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100+ Years of Emory Yearbooks
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The 100+ years of digitized yearbooks provide an easily accessible trip down memory lane, but also a valuable untapped trove for research ideas.

Description - Details

The exhibit features a kiosk from which visitors can access the Emory University yearbooks, a narrative on how the yearbooks have highlighted various campus and societal changes over time, and oversized images from two different eras with face cutouts so visitors can pose in the fashions of yesteryear and take pictures if they wish.

Featured Photo
Emory University yearbook
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Level 2
Location - Map URL
Virtual Event
No
October 18, 2014 - March 08, 2015
Parking Information - Location
Fishburne parking deck
Link to Parking Information
Link Description for Parking Information

Weekdays: Free after 5pm | Weekends: Free

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Contact Information - Email address
kathryn.v.dixson@emory.edu
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Billy Howard's Epitaphs for the Living

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2 years 11 months
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At the time, there was no effective treatment for the disease people diagnosed with it faced the potential of an agonizing death, as well as stigmatization, discrimination, and isolation because of fears and misunderstandings of the disease.

Once Howard printed the portraits, he asked the individuals to write on them a message about living and dying from HIV/AIDS. Together, Howard's portraits and the subjects' honest words gave distinct faces and voices to the harrowing statistics of the pandemic.

Exhibition Type
On-site
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Billy Howard's Epitaphs for the Living
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"Atlanta photographer Billy Howard began photographing people with HIV/AIDS in 1987."

Description - Details

At the time, there was no effective treatment for the disease—people diagnosed with it faced the potential of an agonizing death, as well as stigmatization, discrimination, and isolation because of fears and misunderstandings of the disease.

Once Howard printed the portraits, he asked the individuals to write on them a message about living—and dying—from HIV/AIDS. Together, Howard's portraits and the subjects' honest words gave distinct faces and voices to the harrowing statistics of the pandemic.

Featured Photo
Credit by Billy Howard
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Schatten Gallery
Level 3
Location - Map URL
Virtual Event
No
June 15, 2017 - September 10, 2017
Parking Information - Location
Fishburne parking deck
Link to Parking Information
Link Description for Parking Information

Weekdays: Free after 5pm | Weekends: Free

Link to visitor hours
Contact Information - Email address
kathryn.v.dixson@emory.edu
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Environmental Humanities

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2 years 11 months
Submitted by Kathryn Dixson on

The environmental humanities break down conceptual barriers between academic disciplines to study the interplay between humankind and the natural world. Blending scientific knowledge with humanistic inquiry, we come to comprehend the millennia of human impact on the Earth and its attendant effects on humanity. This interdisciplinary understanding can empower us to create sustainable, empathetic, and equitable responses to present-day environmental challenges.

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On-site
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Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
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Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
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"Do I dare -
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time -
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse." — J. Alfred Prufrock

Description - Details

The environmental humanities break down conceptual barriers between academic disciplines to study the interplay between humankind and the natural world. Blending scientific knowledge with humanistic inquiry, we come to comprehend the millennia of human impact on the Earth and its attendant effects on humanity. This interdisciplinary understanding can empower us to create sustainable, empathetic, and equitable responses to present-day environmental challenges.

View the Online Resource.

Exhibit title from T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915)
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Atlanta heavy metal band Mastodon developed a 2004 concept album entitled Leviathan inspired by Herman Melville’s 1851 tome on humanity and nature, Moby Dick.
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Level 2
Location - Map URL
Virtual Event
No
January 01, 2019 - June 13, 2019
Parking Information - Location
Fishburne parking deck
Link to Parking Information
Link Description for Parking Information

Weekdays: Free after 5pm | Weekends: Free

Link to visitor hours
Contact Information - Email address
kathryn.v.dixson@emory.edu
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Education at Emory in a Changing World

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2 years 11 months
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This exhibition was created by students in Dr. Sheila Cavanagh's fall 2017 class, English 489 and English 780: Creating an Exhibit: Theories and Practices. "Education at Emory in a Changing World" presents student research addressing how Emory has both responded to and influenced the way Emory graduates learn in a changing world.

The exhibition is drawn from a number of collections in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library. 

Exhibits on View
Instruction and Inclusion: Emorys Journey to Integrating Education, curated by Anwesha Guha [level 2]

Matters of the Heart: The Teaching Philosophy of Emorys Poet-Physician, Dr. John Stone,  curated by Mary Taylor Mann [level 2]

The Slavery Question, curated by Amy Bower [level 2]

Unsung Players: Augusta Skeen Cooper and Brenda Bynum, curated by Kate Battaglia and John Gulledge [level 2] 

Sex, Drugs, and Lecture Halls: A History of Health Education at Emory, Curated by Hannah Griggs and Kelly Duquette [level 1]

Queering Emory: A Retrospective on Heterosexism and Activism, curated by Jacqueline Veliz [Incorporated into Stepping Out of Line exhibition in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Book Library, level 10]

Exhibition Type
On-site
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Education at Emory in a Changing World
Description - Details

This exhibition was created by students in Dr. Sheila Cavanagh’s fall 2017 class, English 489 and English 780: Creating an Exhibit: Theories and Practices. “Education at Emory in a Changing World” presents student research addressing how Emory has both responded to and influenced the way Emory graduates learn in a changing world.

The exhibition is drawn from a number of collections in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library. 

Exhibits on View

  • "Instruction and Inclusion: Emory’s Journey to Integrating Education,” curated by Anwesha Guha [level 2]
  • "Matters of the Heart: The Teaching Philosophy of Emory’s Poet-Physician, Dr. John Stone, “ curated by Mary Taylor Mann [level 2]
  • "The Slavery Question,” curated by Amy Bower [level 2]
  • “Unsung Players: Augusta Skeen Cooper and Brenda Bynum,” curated by Kate Battaglia and John Gulledge [level 2] 
  • “Sex, Drugs, and Lecture Halls: A History of Health Education at Emory,” Curated by Hannah Griggs and Kelly Duquette [level 1]
  • “Queering Emory: A Retrospective on Heterosexism and Activism,” curated by Jacqueline Veliz [Incorporated into “Stepping Out of Line” exhibition in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Book Library, level 10]
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Robert W. Woodruff Library
Levels 1&2
Location - Map URL
Virtual Event
No
March 16, 2018 - July 31, 2018
Parking Information - Location
Fishburne parking deck
Link to Parking Information
Link Description for Parking Information

Weekdays: Free after 5pm | Weekends: Free

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Dispatched in Post

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2 years 11 months
Submitted by Kathryn Dixson on

Most of us don't realize the historical importance of postcards, but Emory English Professor Harry Rusche, does. As a deltiologist (that's a collector of postcards), he has gathered thousands of these humble 5 by 3 inch works of art related to Shakespeare. 

This exhibit showcases some of Professor Rusche's extensive collection of postcards depicting iconic Shakespearean characters and scenes. Late 19th to early 20th century postcards related to Hamlet and other more popular plays are the focus. 

Exhibition Type
On-site
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The Bard on Cards
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The Bard on Cards
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"...postcards depicting iconic Shakespearean characters and scenes."

Description - Details

Most of us don’t realize the historical importance of postcards, but Emory English Professor Harry Rusche, does. As a deltiologist (that’s a collector of postcards), he has gathered thousands of these humble 5 ½ by 3 ½ inch works of art related to Shakespeare. 

This exhibit showcases some of Professor Rusche’s extensive collection of postcards depicting iconic Shakespearean characters and scenes. Late 19th to early 20th century postcards related to Hamlet and other more popular plays are the focus. 

Featured Photo
Professor Rusche’s extensive collection of postcards
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Level 2
Location - Map URL
Virtual Event
No
March 16, 2016 - June 26, 2016
Parking Information - Location
Fishburne parking deck
Link to visitor hours
Contact Information - Email address
kathryn.v.dixson@emory.edu
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