GWS
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The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Great Works Seminar
PROPOSAL FOR A NEW GREAT WORKS SEMINAR
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Please attach a 2-3 paragraph description of the scope and aims of the seminar. In addition,
indicate how members of the public will be included.
Applications are due to Keith Anthony, Associate Director, The Fox Center for Humanistic
Inquiry, 1635 North Decatur Road. If you have any questions, please contact the FCHI at
404.727.6424 or email us at foxcenter@emory.edu .
We are grateful to the National Endowment for the Humanities for its support of this program. Any views, findings, conclusions or
recommendations expressed in these seminars do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Bill and Carol Fox Center
for Humanistic Inquiry
Emory University
Great Works Seminars
Along with its roles as a residential research center for interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities,
the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry develops and coordinates humanities programming across the
Emory campus. A major component of this effort is the Great Works Seminars, an initiative funded by a
Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In these seminars, reading groups
study the classic works of philosophy, literature, history, music, and the visual and dramatic arts.
Designed for members of the public, these groups, generally meet once a month during the academic
semester in the Seminar Room of the Fox Center. Programs for these groups are a combination of
individual presentations, group discussions, occasional outside speakers, and other academic formats
the moderator and participants may find useful in furthering their intellectual mission.
If you would like to participate in one of the Seminars, or would like to propose a Seminar for academic
year 2014-2015, please contact the Fox Center at 404.727.6424 or email: foxcenter@emory.edu.
2014-2015 Great Works Seminars:
Agatha Christie
Moderated by Michael Moon, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University
Creation of Modernism
Moderated by Amanda Golden, Brittain Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology and Post-Doctoral
Fellow in Poetics Alumna of the Fox Center
In an Antique Land: Creating Meaning from the Distant Past
Moderated by Craig Perry, Fox Center Alumnus, Visiting Scholar in the History Department at Emory
University, and a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Dante’s Inferno
Moderated by Sharon Strocchia, Professor of History at Emory University
Getting to Know The Cloud of Unknowing
Moderated by Philip L. Reynolds, Aquinas Professor of Historical Theology,
Candler School of Theology at Emory University
Memoirs of the Holocaust
Moderated by Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies,
Tam Institute for Jewish Studies and the Department of Religion at Emory University
The Arabian Nights
Moderated by Devin Stewart, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Emory University
For more information on GWS, please see http://fchi.emory.edu/home/programs/index.html
We are grateful to the National Endowment for the Humanities for its support of this program. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these seminars do
not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.