For these great reads below and many more, visit our Bookshop online or at the Carlos Museum.
CARLOS BOOK CLUB
Mondays, September 24 and October 1
7:30 pm, Board Room
Ricardo Gutierrez-Mouat, Professor in Emory’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, leads readers through Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller. Over two Monday evenings, readers will explore themes in the novel related to shamanism, the relationship between the shaman and the storyteller, the relationship between literature and anthropology, and the encounter between the “modern” and the “primitive.” Fee: $20 for Carlos Museum members; $30 for non-members, and includes the cost of the book. Registration is required by calling 404.727.6118.
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CARLOS BOOK CLUB
Mondays, September 24 and October 17:30 pm, Board Room
Ricardo Gutierrez-Mouat, Professor in Emory’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, leads readers through Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller. Over two Monday evenings, readers will explore themes in the novel related to shamanism, the relationship between the shaman and the storyteller, the relationship between literature and anthropology, and the encounter between the “modern” and the “primitive.” Fee: $20 for Carlos Museum members; $30 for non-members, and includes the cost of the book. Registration is required by calling 404.727.6118.
Mondays, October 22, 29 and November 12, 19
7:30 pm, Board Room
Carlos Reads Book Club
Over four Monday evenings, Emory Classics professor Peter Bing explores themes of madness and delusion in four works by Euripides — Herakles, Helen, The Bacchae and, the satyr-play Cyclops. Fee: $45 for Carlos Museum members; $65 for non-members, and includes the cost of the books. Registration is required by calling 404.727.6118.
Monday, December 3
7:30 pm, Board Room
Carlos Reads Book Club
Power and Force, a man-friendly Titan, and a girl with cow's horns on her hear provide the cast of Prometheus Bound, possibly the oldest surviving Greek tragedy. Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies Sandra Blakely, explores Aeschylus' use of the tortured Titan and the frenetic girl to ask perennial questions: is technology a gift? can man evolve? are absolute rulers absolutely awful or is there hope for a more just political system? Fee: $20 for Carlos Museum members; $30 for non-members, and includes the cost of the book. Registration required by calling 404-727-6118.
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Tuesday, September 11
7:30 pm, Reception Hall
Sara McPhee Lecture & Book Signing
Emory University Professor of Art History Sarah McPhee discusses and signs her new book Bernini's Beloved: A Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini, which will be available for sale at the event.
Thursday, October 4
7:30 pm, Reception Hall
Maya Lecture
Seeking evidence of Maya attitudes about calendric cycles and creation mythology, Mark van Stone undertook an examination of the corpus of Maya literature, from Classic Period inscriptions and Postclassic codices to colonial-era works such as the Popol Vuh and the Books of Chilam Balam. In a lecture titled It’s Not the End of the World: What the Ancient Maya Tell Us About 2012, Dr. Van Stone examines popular ideas of prophecy through the lens of Maya art and literature.
Tuesday, November 6
7:30 pm, Reception Hall
Tutankhamun Lecture
The Carlos Museum celebrates the 90th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun with a lecture and book signing by Nicholas Reeves, Lila Acheson Wallace Associate Curator of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A leading authority on the tomb and its treasures, Dr. Reeves offers some revolutionary thoughts on the boy king and the riches buried with him in a lecture titled Behind the Gold Mask: Tutankhamun's Final Secret.