Center for the Study of Public Scholarship
Programs
and Events

Spring 2007

For more information about any of these programs, please contact the CSPS Program Coordinator.



Light on a Hill
Building the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg

Lecture by Albie Sachs, Justice on South Africa's Constitutional Court.

To print the entire series (PDF), click here.
For additional information on this event, please contact Aline Rafi in the CSPS at 404-727-7602.


February 5
12:00 p.m.
Room 258, Architecture West 247 4th Street
Georgia Tech

 

A Man Called Henry
Lecture by Albie Sachs, Justice on South Africa's Constitutional Court.
This event is presented as part of the Envisioning and Creating Just Societies: Perspectives from the Public Humanities Distinguished Speaker Series organized by the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship (CSPS) and the Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI).
Cosponsors include the Office of International Affairs, Hightower Fund, The Playwriting Center of Theater Emory, Feminism and Legal Theory Project, Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Institute of African Studies, Emory Law School, American Studies, and the Departments of Art History, Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, English, Philosophy, Religion, Sociology, Political Science and Women’s Studies.

To print the entire series (PDF), click here.
For additional information on this event, please contact Aline Rafi in the CSPS at 404-727-7602.

February 5
4:00 p.m.
Reception Hall, Michael C. Carlos Museum

The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs
Albie Sachs, lawyer, writer and veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle will be present for a staged reading of the adaptation of his book, The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs. A discussion with Justice Sachs will follow the reading.

For additional information on this event, please contact Aline Rafi in the CSPS at 404-727-7602.


February 6
5:30 p.m.
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
Schwartz Theater Lab, Room 203

In the Event of History: On the Postcolonial Critique of Apartheid
Premesh Lalu, Department of History, University of the Western Cape and Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Public Scholarship

Co-Sponsors: Institute of African Studies


February 15
4:00 p.m.
200 White Hall

Intensive Grant Writing Workshop for Emory Graduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences
This workshop for humanities and social science graduate students will present practical information about applying for research grants. Application required; e-mail your application materials to Aline Rafi .
Co-Sponsors: Graduate School, Center for Humanistic Inquiry
For a printable flyer (PDF format), please click here.

For additional information on Grant Writing Workshops at Emory, please click here.


February 22-25
Amicalola Falls
North Georgia

Can the Subaltern say 'No'? Agency, Citizenship and Sexual Violence in Post-apartheid South Africa
Helen Moffett, African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town and
Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Public Scholarship

Co-Sponsors: Institute of African Studies


March 29, 2007
4:00 p.m.
200 White Hall
Intensive Grant Writing Workshop for Emory Faculty in the Humanities and Social Sciences
This workshop for humanities and social science faculty will present practical information about applying for research grants. Application required; e-mail your application materials to Aline Rafi .
Co-Sponsors: Emory College, Center for Humanistic Inquiry
For a printable flyer (PDF format), please click here.

For additional information on Grant Writing Workshops at Emory, please click here.


March 31
9:00am-Noon
Center for the Study of Public Scholarship (Briarcliff Campus)

Archival Productions and the Politics of Knowledge

The Center for the Study of Public Scholarship cordially invites you to attend a workshop on Archival Productions and the Politics of Knowledge on Monday, April 9, from 11.45 am to 3:15 pm at 1256 Briarcliff Road, Building A, Suite 278W.

Join us for a discussion about how power is archived, how the archive shapes power and the politics of knowledge production. How does the archive relate to museum collections, libraries, other institutions of public culture and dispersed popular knowledge?

For a printable flyer (PDF format), please click here.


April 9
11:45 a.m.
Center for the Study of Public Scholarship

Understanding Moral Disagreement
Lecture by K. Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller Univeristy Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.
This event is presented as part of the Envisioning and Creating Just Societies: Perspectives from the Public Humanities Distinguished Speaker Series organized by the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship (CSPS) and the Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI).
Cosponsors include the Office of International Affairs, Hightower Fund, The Playwriting Center of Theater Emory, Feminism and Legal Theory Project, Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Institute of African Studies, Emory Law School, American Studies, and the Departments of Art History, Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, English, Philosophy, Religion, Sociology, Political Science and Women’s Studies.

To print the entire series (PDF), click here.
For additional information on this event, please contact Aline Rafi in the CSPS at 404-727-7602.
April 12
4:00 p.m.
Reception Hall, Michael C. Carlos Museum

For more information or directions, please contact the CSPS Program Coordinator.


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