Category: Georgia DH News

Source: Atlanta Studies News
URL: Learn about Atlanta’s Great Speckled Bird Newspaper at “Hidden Midtown: Radical Roots”
Learn about Atlanta’s Great Speckled Bird Newspaper at “Hidden Midtown: Radical Roots” Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+’://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js’;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, ‘script’, ‘twitter-wjs’); Date: Thursday, April 19, 2018 Time: 6:30pm  Location: Margaret Mitchell House, 979 Crescent Avenue NE Atlanta, GA 30309 Tickets: Available here for $15 ($10 for Midtown Alliance members) In 1968, politically minded Atlantans launched an underground newspaper, the Great Speckled Bird. Taking on political issues such as antiwar protests, the women’s movement, civil rights struggles, and gay liberation, the paper grew quickly from a biweekly paper to the largest paid weekly newspaper in Georgia. During the paper’s eight-year run, its stellar young journalists also reviewed cutting-edge cultural arts and created some…
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URL: The Program for the 2018 Atlanta Studies Symposium
Unpacking Atlanta’s Prospective Growth: The Program for the 2018 Atlanta Studies Symposium Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+’://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js’;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, ‘script’, ‘twitter-wjs’); We are pleased to announce the program for the 2018 Atlanta Studies Symposium, which will take place at Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library on April 20, 2018. This year’s symposium received an unprecedented number of proposals and features the broadest range of presenters yet. The symposium committee constructed the program drawing on nearly fifty proposals for individual papers or posters and twenty-four full session proposals, representing a record-breaking level of interest. In keeping with the 2018 symposium’s theme of “Atlanta: City + Region,”…
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URL: Spring 2018 Atlanta Studies Meetup
Spring 2018 Atlanta Studies Meetup: College in Prison and Atlanta’s Public Access American Music Show Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+’://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js’;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, ‘script’, ‘twitter-wjs’); Date: March 26, 2018 Time: 7:00–9:00 p.m. Location: Manuel’s Tavern Join us on Monday, March 26, at Manuel’s Tavern from 7–9 for the spring 2018 Atlanta Studies Meetup. These quarterly meetings showcase Atlanta-focused projects and bring together a group of folks interested in our city. We will provide a few snacks. Buy your own drinks. For this event, we welcome the director and two alumni of Common Good Atlanta, a college-in-prison program, as well as Andy Ditzler, a curator and film scholar…
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URL: Announcing our 2018 Symposium Keynote Speaker
Announcing our 2018 Symposium Keynote Speaker: Ellen Dunham-Jones Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+’://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js’;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, ‘script’, ‘twitter-wjs’); We are excited to announce that the Ellen Dunham-Jones will deliver the Cliff Kuhn Memorial Keynote Lecture at our 2018 Atlanta Studies Symposium on April 20, 2018. Her lecture will be entitled “Retrofitting Suburban Atlanta in Response to Changing Demographics and Desires.” Ellen Dunham-Jones is a professor of architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she directs the MSUD degree. An authority on sustainable suburban redevelopment, she is co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley, 2009, 2011, 2013). The award-winning book’s documentation of successful retrofits of aging suburban property…
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URL: CFP for Atlanta Studies Symposium 2018
Call for Proposals Sixth Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium: Atlanta: City + Region  April 20, 2018 Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia

The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) projects that the 20-county Atlanta region will grow by 2.5 million to more than 8 million people by 2040. Around 8% of ARC-forecasted growth will occur within the current City of Atlanta boundaries. We cannot plan for this growth without considering the historical context of the city and region, including policies determining—and sometimes limiting—the flow and connectivity among people, jobs, cars, and other transit options through the region.…
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URL: Upcoming Event – Booking Signing and Lecture with Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Upcoming Event – Booking Signing and Lecture with Tomiko Brown-Nagin  Date: Thursday, November 9, 2017
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm (Book Signing: 5:00-5:30 pm)
Location: Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library, 111 James P. Brawley Drive SW, Atlanta, GA 30314 (Click here for directions and parking info) RSVP: 404-978-2003 or rsvp@auctr.edu
Legal Historian and Award Winning Author, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, to speak on Atlanta’s Protracted Struggle for Equal Rights and her award winning book, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement.  Brown-Nagin traces Atlanta’s civil rights struggle from World War II to 1980, exploring the divergent…
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URL: Reading about Atlanta at the Decatur Book Festival
Reading about Atlanta at the Decatur Book Festival

Tomorrow marks the beginning of the eleventh annual Decatur Book Festival, the largest independent book festival in the county. Festival sponsors include many Atlanta Studies Network partner institutions, including Emory University and Emory Libraries, Georgia Tech, the Atlanta History Center, and more. Though there are far too many amazing sessions to choose from, we here at Atlanta Studies thought we might recommend a few events featuring authors talking specifically about Atlanta, including many we have interviewed or whose books we have reviewed. Saturday, September 2, 10:00–10:45 am Atlanta and the Civil…
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