The Community Conversations series invites conversation about an historical person, event, or place. Rose Library staff interview guests connected to the archive to engage in conversation that connects the session with our collections. Audiences will learn from the insights of our guests and more about what we do and who we are as an organization and as a profession.
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Atlanta Intersections explores how lives and place are bound together. The series brings activists, artists, authors, journalists, musicians, photographers, scholars, and urbanists together to discuss their lives, their work and their experiences of the city and how it all converges.
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The Behind the Archives series features conversations centered on the topic of archives: What are archives and who are the people that make archives work? Audiences will learn from the insights of our guests and learn more about what we do and who we are as an organization and as a profession.
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Anicka Austin is an Atlanta-based artist and archivist curious about the relationship between ephemerality, documentation and legacy. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Carolina Academic Library Associates fellowship, graduating in May 2020 with a Master of Science in Library Science. She is currently working as vis…
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Our exploration of the Rose Library’s Atlanta punk collection continues with a conversation with William DuVall and Randy DuTeau of Neon Christ. In this episode, we talk about the band’s 1984 tour, the song they wanted played on 96 Rock, settling old scores, the 1984 reissue, and last year’s Record Store Day show in Atlanta. Neon Christ formed in 1…
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Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. She received a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Chinese Literature and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Her books have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. Presently, Chin is Professor Emerita at San Diego State Univ…
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Our exploration of the Rose Library’s Atlanta punk collection continues with a conversation with William DuVall and Randy DuTeau of Neon Christ. In this episode, William and Randy talk about how they discovered punk, their first bands, the formation of Neon Christ, the band’s first show, their early sound, and hardcore’s DIY ethos in part one of ou…
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Monet Lewis-Timmons is an English PhD candidate at the University of Delaware and an alumna of Emory University (2018), where she double majored in English and African American Studies. Her dissertation research focuses on the genealogical lifecycle of Black women’s archives through Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s personal papers. She recently interned at th…
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Ronald Schuchard, the Goodrich C. White Professor of English and Irish Studies, Emeritus, Emory University, is the author of numerous studies of modern authors, particularly T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats. His Eliot’s Dark Angel won the Robert Penn Warren / Cleanth Brooks Prize for outstanding literary criticism, and his The Last Minstrels: Yeats and …
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Join us for episode two of our exploration of the past, present and future of Atlanta punk. In this edition, Randy Gue, Assistant Director of Collection Development at Rose Library, and music writer Chad Radford talk to Hoff, KT, and Mikey of Upchuck, who have been called “one of the most talked about bands” in the local scene. You can hear Upchuck…
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Randy Gue, Rose Library Curator of Modern, Political, and Social Movements and host of “Rose Library Presents: Atlanta Intersections,” joins us for a cross over episode that kicks off three episodes talking with members of the bands that played that show and others who have helped shape Atlanta’s punk history. In this edition, Randy and Atlanta mus…
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Diane Gordon Briggs is the youngest child of Barbara Gordon and astronaut Richard F. Gordon of Gemini XI and Apollo 12. She is a wife, mother of six (like her mom), and a Christian Counselor. Join in with Diane and her closest childhood friend, Tracy L. Scott, as they reminisce over their childhood and their dads’ space adventures during the early …
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In this episode, we sit down with author and journalist Gary M. Pomerantz to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publication of his book, Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family, a landmark history of Atlanta. After he finished the book, Pomerantz donated his research files and interviews to the Rose Library. Join us for an …
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Head of Collection Processing Sarah Quigley and Rare Book Librarian Beth Shoemaker take us into the Rose Library archives to talk about two curiosities connected to history in unique ways. In this episode, we learn how the purported beard hair of English monarch Edward the IV may one day help solve a mystery that dates back to the War of the Roses.…
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Rose Library's Community Outreach Archivist and Community Conversations host, Lolita Rowe sat down with artists Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, and Carlos Museum curator, Megan O’Neil to explore ideas of community, making connections, collaborative art making, identity, and much more. Explore Marie Watt’s art here. And Cannupa Hanska Luger’s h…
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This fall, a major collection of books and papers related to Bram Stoker's iconic novel Dracula, collected by John Moore, opened to the public. Learn more about this collection here and here. Beth Shoemaker is the Rare Book Librarian at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archive & Rare Book Library in Atlanta. Her work includes catalogin…
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Lolita Rowe is the Community Outreach Archivist at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She works with the Metro Atlanta community to collect, preserve, and provide access to diverse voices in the archive. She has recently joined the Society of American Archivists podcast series, Ar…
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In this final episode of Season One of Community Conversations, Nick Sturm, NEH Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics at Emory's Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, does a deep dive into small press publishing with Maureen Owen, legendary publisher of Telephone Books and Telephone Magazine in New York from 1969-1983, bringing many then-unknown poets' books…
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Rare Book Librarian Beth Shoemaker talks about books as information rich records that contain a multitude of topics and different voices that invite readers, researchers, and many more to learn about the history of thought.由Rose Library
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In this episode, Nick Sturm (check out his Twitter and website) takes a deep dive into the fascinating history of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, which is housed at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. The Danowski is home to over 75,000 poetry books, 50,000 little magazines, and thousand of broadsides, posters, and …
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To view the "Our Archive Could Be Your Life" exhibition, please click here Jon Arge Born a Taurus during the Age of Aquarius in Venice, Florida, Jon Arge showed promise in nothing other than reckless self-expression from the start. He moved on at an early age from wall based, large-scale abstract murals in lipstick to smaller, more concise renderin…
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Head of Digital Archives Katherine Fisher demystifies digital archives and explains why items are not always available online.由Rose Library
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Heather Clark is the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, which has been shortlisted for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the Slightly Foxed Prize for Best First Biography; The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, which was a Choice/American Library Association Outstanding Acad…
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For more information on Rose Library's holdings of Common Good Atlanta's Phillips State Prison Book Projects records, check out the finding aid.由Rose Library
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Instruction Archivist Gabrielle Dudley talks about her roles as a faculty coach and student advocate and how she and her team design meaningful engagement opportunities with the archives.由Rose Library
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Here are links to more information about Pellom McDaniels and collections discussed during this episode: Lifting Every Voice The Inspiration and Impact of Pellom McDaniels III Frederick Douglass: A Bicentennial Tribute Camille Billops and James V. Hatch archives Richard A. Cecil collection由Rose Library
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You can learn more about the Jon Arge collection at Rose Library here: https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/arge1404/. Check out the online exhibition “Our Archives Could Be Your Life”, which features a selection of Arge’s Polaroids.由Rose Library
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Society of American Archivist Vice President and Head of Research Services at the Rose, Courtney Chartier, talks advocacy of the profession, engagement with the community, and about her experience as one of the processing archivists for the Martin Luther King Jr. papers, the Voter Education Project, and the Tupac Shakur papers during her time the A…
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Learn more the Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade archive here.由Rose Library
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Learn more about Karate for Women Atlanta's archive, housed at Rose Library, here.由Rose Library
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Follow Randy's podcast, Rose Library Presents: Atlanta Intersections, which explores how lives and place are bound together. The series brings activists, artists, authors, journalists, musicians, photographers, scholars, and urbanists together to discuss their lives, their work and their experiences of the city and how it all converges.…
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Jesse R. Peel (1940-) is an HIV positive Atlanta, Georgia, psychiatrist and activist in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community. He was born in Everetts, North Carolina, to J. Woolard (1914-1984) and Helen Peel (1916-2005). He completed his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of North Carolina in Chapel H…
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Did you know Atlanta was an important crossroads for local, national, and international hate groups in the 1980s and 1990s? Join me for a conversation with Walter Brown Reeves about Neighbor's Network, a local community-based organization dedicated to countering this hate group activity in Atlanta and Georgia. The records of Neighbor's Network are …
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You can read Rose Library’s statement on Harmful Language in Finding Aids here and follow along here as we detail our work with Anti-Oppressive Archival Description in our latest blog series. The first post in the series appears on November 18, 2020. Click here to learn more about the SCLC collections.…
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Community Conversations is produced by Lolita Rowe & Nick Twemlow. Jacob Chisenhall is our editor. Music created by Sister Sai. Thank you to Caroline Corbitt for logo designs. We are grateful for the support provided by our colleagues at the Rose Library, Jennifer King, director of the Rose Library and Yolanda Cooper, Dean of Emory Libraries. Speci…
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Join us as we discuss Chad Radford's escape from the Midwest, Atlanta's underground music scene, "Southern" hardcore, and two contenders for Atlanta's album of the year.由Rose Library
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Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, Meaghan and Rosemary had to cancel their site visits in the Chicago area and the Northeast region of the United States. Both trips were scheduled in March and were supposed to be the last ones for the first round of trips. Although they were scheduled to present on their research for the first and second times a…
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Community Conversations is produced by Lolita Rowe & Nick Twemlow. Jacob Chisenhall is our editor. Music created by Sister Sai. Thank you to Caroline Corbitt for logo designs. We are grateful for the support provided by our colleagues at the Rose Library, Jennifer King, director of the Rose Library and Yolanda Cooper, Dean of Emory Libraries. Speci…
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