Programs and Events

What would it look like for archives, libraries, and museums to value their communities over their collections? How can these institutions more fully embrace practices of listening and relationship building, while interrupting traditional practices rooted in colonialism?

Provenance research seeks to trace the ownership history of an object from the time of creation until today.

The modern understanding of the ancient Egyptians as bent on a quest for eternal life is the result of a long history of Western engagements with ancient Egypt.

Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library and the Michael C.

In a lecture titled The Ancient Maya: (Not a) Lost Civilization, Megan O'Neil, assistant professor of art history at Emory, discusses her new book in the Reaktion Books Lost Civilization series, The Maya, in which she demonstrates that this remarkable culture

In celebration of the installation of the painting, Grandmother Gestating Father and the Washita River Runs Ribbon-Like, Karen Kramer, Stuart W. and Elizabeth F.

Novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni gives the 2023 Sheth Lecture in Indian Studies, discussing and reading from her new book, Independence.

The Buddha’s life story is generally said to begin at a moment other than his birth as Prince Gautama. Instead, it began many eons ago, during a previous lifetime, when as a learned Brahman, he vowed before the Buddha Dipankara that he, too, would one day become a buddha.