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Our Upcoming Events

Please join us on Zoom starting in August for new discussions on Flannery O'Connor.

See the following to register:

FALL 2024 ZOOM SESSIONS:

All events open to the public. Virtual events are co-sponsored by The Georgia Writers Museum and Allied Arts of Milledgeville. 

Thursday, October 3 Guest Lecture at 7pm – Zoom Talk on Why Do the Heathen Rage? Guest speakers: Colleen Warren and Thomas Haddox (Register via Smartsheet)

Thursday, October 17 Book Club: 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 This is a recent publication of an unpublished manuscript that O’Connor left behind, along with notes and ideas she had documented.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 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM)

Tuesday November 5 Guest Lecture at 7pm: Join us for Guest speakers Irwin H. Streight and Monica Miller. Streight’s recent book Flannery O’Connor Goes to the Grammys 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. Monica Miller, from Middle Georgia State University, presents her talk entitled “’It was Punk’: Reconsidering Rock and Roll Flannery O’Connor” (Register via Smartsheet)

Thursday, November 21 Book Club: This month we celebrate National Picture Book Month! Read and discuss two picture books based on O’Connor’s life: Acree Graham Macam and Natalie Nelson’s The King of the Birds and Amy Alznauer’s The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor. (2 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM) 

Tuesday, December 3 Guest Lecture at 7pm: “Driving While Black?: Mobility, Race, and Travel in ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find,’” Katie Simon, Interim Director, the Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities (Register via Smartsheet)

Thursday, December 12 Book Club: Join us to discuss Dear Regina by Monica Miller. Miller has collected O’Connor’s letters home during her years in the MFA Program in Writing at the University of Iowa. (2 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM)

PAST EVENTS

Thursday, May 9, 2024 -7:00-8:00pm (Eastern): Ashley Massey & Timothy R. Vande Brake lead a discussion on Flannery O'Connor and Andalusia
On Thursday, April 25, 2024 Dr. Bruce Gentry leads a discussion on Flannery O'Connor's Letters written in 1963 and 1964
Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 7:00-8:00pm (Eastern): The Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities host a Zoom presenting three veterans of the 2023 HEH Summer Institute at Georgia College, "Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor". Bill Gonch, Matt Bryant Cheney, and Will Murray lead a discussion on "Flannery O'Connor and Race", with Dr. Bruce Gentry as emcee.
Tuesday, April 2 - 7:00-8:00pm (Eastern) Rosemary Magee and Amy Alznauer - the two O'Connor curators of the Emory exhibit "At the Crossroads with Benny Andrews, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice Walker" - shared the passions and curiosities that drew them to this archival work and shaped their curation.
Thursday, March 21 at 7:00 PM (Eastern) - Dr. Bruce Gentry leads discussion on O’Connor Letters written in 1961 & 1962 (in The Habit of Being, this involves pp. 425-503)
Thursday, March 14 - 7:00-8:00pm (Eastern): Carmine Palumbo and Jack Love lead a discussion on O'Connor and Other Authors
Feb. 15: Dr. Bruce Gentry leads a discussion on Flannery O'Connor Letters written in 1960, pp. 368-425 in The Habit of Being
February 1, 2024 - Andalusia Institute hosts NEH Summer Institutes results on Flannery O'Connor: Featuring Carole K. Harris, Jesse Swan, and Jennifer Renee Blevins
Thursday, January 25 - Dr. Bruce Gentry leads discussion on O’Connor Letters written in 1958 & 1959 (in The Habit of Being, this involves pp. 261-368)

2023 Book Discussions

2022 Book Discussions

2021 Book Discussions

2020 Book Discussions

Andalusia Institute & the National Endowment for the Humanities presents "Flannery O'Connor, Poetry & Us" - Hosted by Craig Martell, featuring poetry from Doni Wilson, Ann Ritter, Angela O'Donnell, Ashley Massey, and John Davis
Dr. Bruce Gentry leads discussion on Flannery O’Connor letters from the years 1956-57 (in The Habit of Being, pp. 126-261).
The Andalusia Institute hosts the digital release of Colin Cutler’s much-anticipated new album, Tarwater
Dr. Bruce Gentry leads discussion on O’Connor Letters 1953-55 (in The Habit of Being, this involves pp. 53-126).
On Thursday, September 21, 2023 Dr. Bruce Gentry leads discussion on O’Connor Letters 1948-52.
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 NEH Summer Institute on Flannery O'Connor - John Wharton Lowe Public Lecture: "Flannery O'Connor's Use of Humor"
On Tuesday, June 20, The NEH Summer Institute on Flannery O'Connor - Thadious M. Davis Public Lecture: "Framing Visual Spatiality, Scripting Spatial Geographies"
June14, 2023 NEH Summer Institute on Flannery O'Connor - Christina Bieber Lake Public Lecture: "Reading and Teaching Flannery O'Connor for Spiritual Transformation"
On Monday, June 12, 2023 The NEH Summer Institute on Flannery O'Connor - Thomas Haddox Public Lecture: "Flannery O'Connor Against 'Bare Life': The Violent Bear It Away and Biopolitics"
June 8, 2023 NEH Summer Institute on Flannery O'Connor - Sarah Gordon Public Lecture: "In Retrospect: Memorable One-Liners and the One Hard Line"
The NEH Summer Institute on Flannery O'Connor hosted a public lecture on Wednesday, June 7, 2023 by Farrell O'Gorman "'God and the Poor Await Us': O'Connor, Rose Hawthorne, and Dorothy Day"
on Monday, June 5, 2023 the NEH Summer Institute on Flannery O'Connor - Carol Loeb Shloss Public Lecture: "Regina and Flannery: The Andalusia Chronicles"

Monday, June 5 at 7:00pm @ Max Noah Recital Hall

Dr. Carol Shloss:  “Regina and Flannery: The Andalusia Chronicles”