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Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library will host an unusual book art event in early March – the opening of a shrimp can that contains a miniature illustrated excerpt of John Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row.”

With so much attention focused on Steven Spielberg’s film “Lincoln” and its 12 Academy Award nominations, the Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC) and the Beck Center at Emory University’s Robert W.

Joseph Crespino, the author of the new biography “Strom Thurmond’s America,” will host an author talk on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 6 p.m. at Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library.

Crespino, associate professor of history at Emory, says he wrote the book on the late South Carolina senator to provide a portrait of Thurmond’s effect on modern conservative politics nationally.

An exhibition featuring materials from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) archive will open Thursday, Feb. 21 at Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library.

The opening celebration on Friday, Feb. 22 from 6-8 p.m. will feature remarks by SCLC leaders Charles Steele Jr., national CEO; Bernard LaFayette, national board president; and Dorothy Cotton, SCLC education director 1960-1968.

***UPDATE: Tickets are no longer available through the Schwartz Center box office or website***

Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney will visit the Emory University campus for a free public reading on Saturday, March 2.

Panel discussion will include Jimmy Carter and Andrew Young