Previous Symposia

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Previous Atlanta Studies Symposia

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Since 2013, the Atlanta Studies Network has organized an annual symposium each spring tackling the social, cultural, environmental, and economic issues facing Atlanta. In keeping with our belief that scholarship about the city should also be for the city, the symposium is always free to attend and open to the public. Symposia have been hosted by Emory University, Georgia State University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center.  

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2019 Symposium

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The Seventh Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium was held on April 9, 2019 at The Historic Academy of Medicine and was hosted by the Georgia Tech School of City and Regional Planning. 
 
Dr. J Marshall Shepherd delivered an opening keynote “Can Cities Like Atlanta Really Make It Rain?” and Dr. Bartow Elmore delivered the Cliff Kuhn Memorial Lecture “The Real Ingredients in the Real Thing: An Environmental History of Atlanta’s Coca-Cola.” A full recap of the symposium is available here.
 
The program for the 2019 Atlanta Studies Symposium can be viewed here.
 
The Call For Proposals for the Symposium can be viewed here.

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2018 Symposium

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”25321″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=””][vc_column_text]The Sixth Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium was held on April 20, 2018 at Emory University’s Woodruff Library.

Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones delivered the Cliff Kuhn Memorial Keynote Lecture, titled “Retrofitting Suburban Atlanta in Response to Changing Demographics and Desires,” which you can view here. A full recap of the symposium is available here.

The program for the 2018 Atlanta Studies Symposium can be viewed here.

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2017 Symposium

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”23643″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=””][vc_column_text]The Fifth Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium was held on April 26, 2017 at Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center. 

Dr. Zandria Robinson, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rhodes College, delivered the keynote, entitled “Atlanta, The Black Map, and Chocolate City Sociology.”

The program for the 2017 Atlanta Studies Symposium can be viewed here.

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2016 Symposium

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”18749″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=””][vc_column_text]The Fourth Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium was held on May 11, 2016 at Georgia State University’s Centennial Hall at 100 Auburn Avenue.

Dr. Joe Crespino delivered the first Cliff Kuhn Memorial Keynote, titled “Black Jesus in Atlanta: Searching for the Beloved Community After Martin Luther King’s Assassination.”

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2015 Symposium

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”19120″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=””][vc_column_text]The Third Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium was held on May 6, 2015 at The Historic Academy of Medicine and was hosted by the Georgia Tech School of City and Regional Planning. 

Dr. Robert Bullard delivered the opening keynote “The Myth of Black Mecca: Race, Planning and the Politics of Place in Atlanta” and Dr. Carlton Basmajian delivered the closing keynote “Leaving Atlanta: Infrastructure as Aspiration.” 

The program for the 2015 Atlanta Studies Symposium can be viewed here.

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2014 Symposium

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”16677″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=””][vc_column_text]The Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium was held on April 4, 2014 at 100 Auburn Avenue, a newly renovated facility on the campus of Georgia State University in the heart of downtown Atlanta.

Dr. LeeAnn Lands delivered the opening keynote Poverty, Power, and Place in Metropolitan Atlanta” and Dr. Clarence Stone delivered the closing keynote Now and Then: The Periodization Lens.”

The program for the 2014 Atlanta Studies Symposium can be viewed here.

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2013 Symposium

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”16916″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=””][vc_column_text]The First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium was held April 26, 2013 at Emory University’s Digital Scholarship Commons.

Dr. Katherine Hankins delivered the opening keynote “Mobilities and Mobilizations in the City That’s Too Busy” and Dr. Zephyr Frank delivered the closing keynote “A Spatial History of Rio de Janeiro: Bridging the Micro-Macro Divide with Historical GIS,” which you can view here.

The program for the 2013 Atlanta Studies Symposium can be viewed here.

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