O'Connor Institute

Join us on Zoom to with guest speakers Irwin Streight and Monica Miller to discuss O'Connor and music. Streight examines O'Connor's influence on the art and vision of multiple Grammy Award winners Bruce Springsteen, Lucinda Williams, R.E.M. and U2, along with celebrated songwriters Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Sufjan Stevens, Mary Gauthier, Tom Waits and others. Miller presents about O'Connor's punk sensibility. Register at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/6c77d07456884fa1b190dbce55a75d19.

We will meet to discuss Jessica Hooten Wilson’s new book, Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage? A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress. This is a recent publication of an unpublished manuscript that O’Connor left behind, along with notes and ideas she had documented. It takes her thinking about race far beyond what she had done in her short life, and presents the opportunity for tantalizing speculation. (2 p.m. in person in Eatonton, Georgia, at the Writer’s Museum;...

The Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities will host a second symposium in support of its oral history project. Undergraduate students interviewed community members who lived in Milledgeville during the heart of Flannery O’Connor’s writing career (1951-1964) to provide important insights on life in rural Georgia, and they will share these highlights. The project has gathered information regarding experiences with class, gender, race, disability, the Cold War, religious beliefs,...

Guest Lecture on Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress. Guest speakers Colleen Warren and Thomas Haddox will discuss Jessica Hooten Wilson’s book, which creatively reconstructs the manuscript that scholars consider Flannery O’Connor’s third novel in progress. Register online at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/2cfcb3d405654dd290945079a13c92e6.  

Mark Jarman, Vanderbilt University, is the author, most recently, of Zeno’s Eternity, from Paul Dry Books. He has also published three books of essays about poetry, The Secret of Poetry (Story Line), Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry and also from Paul Dry Books, Dailiness:  Essays on Poetry. His honors include the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poets’ Prize, the Balcones Poetry Prize, three grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship in poetry. He...

Karen M. Gravel, Lord Aeck Sargent Planning and Design, Inc. is a historic preservation architect practicing in Atlanta. She serves as a principal, the director of Historic Preservation and chair of the governing board for the company. She is a Kentucky native, having graduated with a degree in history from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1993, before earning a Master of Architecture from Georgia Tech in 1999. She has been working on old buildings for the past 25 years, including...