The festival, which takes place on the campus of Emory’s Oxford College, will once more include talks, performances, and tales that address significant contemporary issues.
Kenneth Carter, the founding director of the Center for Public Scholarship and Engagement and the Charles Howard Candler professor of psychology at Emory University, believes that the foundation of the Ideas Festival Emory is the straightforward notion that knowledge belongs to everyone. We can get closer to finding answers when people join together to discuss the problems that we all face.
Over the course of his more than 45-year recording career, Cash has won four Grammy Awards and ten No. 1 country hits. Her critically praised masterpiece, The River & the Thread, earned her three Grammys in 2015.
She is also a skilled writer; in 1996, she released Bodies of Water, her debut collection of short stories. Her memoir, Composed (2010), was a New York Times bestseller and hailed by the Chicago Tribune as one of the best descriptions of an American life you’ll probably ever read. Her children’s book, Penelope Jane: A Fairy’s Tale, was published in 2000. The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Oxford American, and the Nation are just a few of the publications that have published her writings.
At 5 p.m. on October 18, Cash, the eldest daughter of country music icon Johnny Cash, will speak and record a live episode of the Sing for Science Podcast with Robyn Fivush.
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Libraries and museums are vital, especially when funding for the arts declines. Kevin Young, the former director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the poetry editor for the New Yorker, will be present at Ideas Festival to talk about the significance of these organizations in light of their own budget losses. When President Donald Trump started criticizing the Smithsonian and the African American museum, he resigned in April from his position as Andrew W. Mellon director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Young will speak with novelist Jessica Handler of Atlanta.
A conversation with producer-director Brad Lichtenstein highlights the film. Two-time Emmy nominee Lichtenstein will discuss his most recent film, American Coup: Wilmington 1898, which traces the events of a little-known coup in North Carolina and was co-directed by producer-director Yoruba Richen. A gang of self-described white supremacists used violence and intimidation to destabilize Wilmington’s multiracial government and destroy Black political and economic power because they were afraid that the city’s democratically elected Black inhabitants would take over.
Atlanta issues are also highlighted. As the city gets ready to host the World Cup in 2026, Rose Scott will conduct a live taping of her WABE-FM show, A Closer Look, which will examine the benefits and drawbacks of the event. John Kessler, a former food and dining critic for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who now lives in Chicago and documents the Windy City’s eating scene, will also be making a homecoming at the event. Additionally, he still writes for national publications including The Bitter Southerner and The Washington Post.
Carter stated in the press release, “I am extremely pleased with this year’s featured speakers.” They serve as a reminder that brilliant ideas originate in labs, libraries, communities, lived experience, songs, and poetry. At Emory, we’re establishing a forum where those voices may converge and ideas are not only examined but also exchanged.
The Ideas Festival Emory will be held on the Oxford Campus of Emory University on October 18 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Early August is when festival registration will open. For additional information, go to the website of the Center for Public Scholarship and Engagement.
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