O'Connor Institute

Dr. Mab Segrest, Connecticut College, is the former Fuller Matthai professor of Gender and Women's Studies, She is the author of Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South, an outstanding book on human rights in North America and Editor's Choice for the Lambda Literary Awards and Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (both published by The New Press), as well as of Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit...

Dr. Lisa Hinrichsen, associate professor of English at the University of Arkansas, teaches modern and contemporary southern literature, transatlantic modernism, contemporary multicultural writing and ecocriticism. She's the author of Possessing the Past: Trauma, Imagination and Memory in Post-Plantation Southern Literature (LSU) and co-editor, along with Gina Caison and Stephanie Rountree, of Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity and the Cultural Politics of Television (LSU), Remediating...

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, KY, 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...

September 12-15, 2024Free and open to the public! Register: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/681f51986368476793e40c1b64914e95Schedule: https://www.gcsu.edu/oconnorinstitute 

Aug. 15, 2024 to discuss O'Connor's The Prayer Journal.2:00 p.m. at the Georgia Writers Museum, Eatonton, GA7:00-8:00 p,m, on Zoom.  https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/7628c17be30a4e7dbc6fe3695a1532c1 

Alex Taylor, "There is no [other] City: Flannery O'Connor and Evelyn Waugh on the Unreality and Necessity of Modern Political Life."Register: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/83ca101ff6bd42f5ad1f6a7d2cf8ccb8