Rosanne Money will seem at Concepts Competition Emory in October. (Photograph by Pamela Springsteen)
The Competition, which takes place on Emory’s Oxford Campus on October 18, will highlight conversations, performances and tales on well timed subjects.
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Concepts Competition Emory, the flagship occasion of Emory College’s Heart for Public Scholarship and Engagement (CPSE), returns for a second yr on October 18 with a keynote dialog with Rosanne Money.
The inaugural Concepts Competition Emory befell in September 2024. This yr’s version will share the knowledge of greater than 30 scientists, students, musicians, filmmakers and different inventive minds.
Set on the Oxford Faculty campus, the Competition will once more characteristic conversations, performances and tales coping with necessary subjects of our time.
“Concepts Competition Emory relies on a easy concept: Data belongs to all of us,” says Kenneth Carter, founding director of the CPSE and the Charles Howard Candler professor of psychology at Emory College. “When folks come collectively to speak in regards to the challenges all of us face, the nearer we are able to get to options.”
Money boasts a recording profession that spans greater than 45 years and consists of 10 No. 1 nation singles and 4 Grammy Awards. Three of these Grammys got here in 2015, when she gained for her critically acclaimed masterpiece The River & the Thread.
She’s additionally an achieved author, publishing her first guide of quick tales, Our bodies of Water, in 1996. Her kids’s guide, Penelope Jane: A Fairy’s Story, was revealed in 2000, and her 2010 memoir, Composed, was a New York Instances finest vendor, which the Chicago Tribune referred to as “top-of-the-line accounts of an American life you’ll possible ever learn.” Her essays have appeared in retailers together with The New York Instances, Rolling Stone, Oxford American and The Nation.
Money, the eldest daughter of nation legend Johnny Money, will take the stage for a dialog and reside taping of the Sing for Science Podcast with Dr. Robyn Fivush at 5 p.m. October 18.
With arts funding dwindling, the significance of libraries and museums is essential. At Concepts Competition, The New Yorker’s poetry editor, Kevin Younger, former director of the Schomburg Heart for Analysis in Black Tradition, shall be readily available to debate the significance of those establishments as they, too, face funding cuts. He beforehand served because the Andrew W. Mellon director of the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Museum of African American Historical past and Tradition. Younger shall be in dialog with Atlanta writer Jessica Handler.
Movie will get a highlight with a dialogue with producer-director Brad Lichtenstein. Two-time Emmy nominee Lichtenstein will speak about his newest movie, American Reckoning: Wilmington 1998 (with producer-director Yoruba Richen), which recounts the story of a little-known coup that befell in North Carolina. Fearing self-rule by town’s democratically elected Black residents, a gaggle of self-described white supremacists used intimidation and violence to destroy Black political and financial energy and overthrow Wilmington’s multiracial authorities.
Native issues get the highlight as nicely. Rose Scott will host a reside taping of her WABE present, A Nearer Look, that includes an examination of the promise and prices of the World Cup as Atlanta prepares to be a bunch metropolis in 2026. The pageant may even mark a homecoming for former Atlanta Journal-Structure meals and eating critic John Kessler, who’s now a Chicago resident and chronicler of the Windy Metropolis’s eating scene. He additionally continues to contribute to nationwide retailers resembling The Washington Put up and The Bitter Southerner.
“I couldn’t be happier about this yr’s featured audio system,” Carter mentioned within the press launch. “They remind us that nice concepts come from labs, libraries and from songs, poems, neighborhoods and lived expertise. At Emory, we’re creating an area the place these voices can come collectively the place concepts aren’t simply studied, they’re shared.”
Concepts Competition Emory will happen from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m. October 18 on the Oxford Campus of Emory College. Registration for the Competition will open in early August. Go to the CPSE web site for extra data.
