Clint Fluker appointed to new position focused on partnerships for Libraries and Carlos Museum
Please join us in congratulating Rose Library curator of African American collections Clint Fluker, who has been appointed to a new position as senior director of culture, community, and partner engagement for the Emory Libraries and Carlos Museum.
In this new job, he will enhance community-facing collaborations and elevate the work of building and maintaining key partnerships, programs, and initiatives with community members and stakeholders. The work will be inclusive and interactive, with a focus on connecting the Libraries and the Museum to Atlanta’s current and historical arts and activist community and enhancing opportunities for related cultural and scholarly activities.
He will also focus on partnerships within a variety of offices, schools, and units across the campus and Atlanta.
April 18 panel on oral history collections will examine survivor experiences during health crises
Those interested in using oral history interviews to document survivors’ experiences of living through public health crises are invited to attend “Documenting Health Crises: Oral Histories of Covid and Ebola” on Tuesday, April 18, from 4-5:15 p.m. with discussion continuing until 6 p.m. in the Jones Room on Level 3 of Emory’s Woodruff Library. The event is open to the public at no charge.
The event will include a panel discussion and interview clips from two collections recently added to the Rose Library archives: Interviews with survivors of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, from the Mirabel Pictures WeSurvive Oral History Collection, and stories of loss and resilience from Emory community members as they navigated a changed world during the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
Emory’s Arts and Social Justice Fellows Program, which pairs talented Atlanta artists with Emory professors, has yielded vivid and creative pieces that are on exhibit through May 13 in the Schatten Gallery at Emory’s Woodruff Library. Make plans to visit “Creative Justice: A Celebration of Emory’s Arts and Social Justice Fellows Program” (details and hours can be found here). This exhibit provides a survey of the work the ASJ fellows and faculty did to help students translate their learning into creative activism in the name of racial justice.
Final season 2 episode of Calliope’s Cabinet is out now
Ever wondered how the stethoscope was invented? Find out in the last episode of Calliope’s Cabinet for season 2, out now on the Emory Libraries YouTube playlist. It features Dr. Robert Gaynes, a professor at Emory’s School of Medicine and the Rollins School of Public Health, discussing Laennec’s stethoscope (1816), a replica of which is held in the historical collections at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library. It enabled physicians to move away from placing an ear against a patient’s chest to listen to a heartbeat.
Calliope’s Cabinet—an exploration of curious innovations through the ages – is a collaboration between The Hatchery, Emory Center for Innovation and Emory Libraries.
