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Fee: $7 non-members, $5 members. To register email jgree09@emory.edu
Consulting curator of Near Eastern Art Dr. Monique Seefried discusses the olive in antiquity, followed by a tasting of some of the world’s finest olive oils conducted by Tim Gaddis of Atlanta’s Star Provisions. Space is limited and reservations required by calling 404 727-6118. This event is now full. Thank you for your interest. Please look for other Talk & Taste programs in the future.
Aida is an opera that tells the story of an Ethiopian princess who is captured and becomes a slave in Egypt. As a slave, she falls in love with an Egyptian military officer who struggles between his love for her and his loyalty to Pharaoh. Leontyne Price, American operatic soprano, has written this story in language and tone appropriate for young children. After reading the story in the Egyptian galleries, we’ll be treated to Atlanta opera singers performing selections from Aida.
For children 3-5 years accompanied by an adult. Free to the public. RSVP required by calling 404.727.0519.
Professor Randy Younker of Andrews University discusses Biblical Archaeology in Jordan: The search for Sihon’s Heshbon, the Tribe of Manasseh, and Other Hints of Ancient Israel
This lecture is co-sponosred by the Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies, the Program in Mediterranean Archaeology, the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies at Emory
and the American Schools of Oriental Research.
In 2006, theCarlos acquired a masterwork of ancient art, a Roman copy of a Greek statue of Aphrodite by Praxitiles. Renee Stein, Conservator at the Carlos and Dr. Jasper Gaunt, Curator of Greek and Roman Art, share the story of the Carlos Aphrodite, who came to the Museum without her head, and the fascinating story of how the head and body of the goddess of love were reunited.
Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Shalom Goldman will lead two evenings of discussion of the Gilgamesh, our first (and greatest) epic.
In two sessions devoted to ‘the world’s oldest story’ we will examine and enjoy this tale of friendship, struggle and the search for immortality. In our first session we will use the Carlos Museum’s Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern galleries to provide a context for the tale of Gilgamesh, his friend Enkidu , and their fascinating female companions. The second session will be devoted to the text of the Epic of Gilgamesh in Stephen Mitchell’s acclaimed 2004 translation. The New York Times described Mitchell’s translation as “a flowing, unbroken version that reads as effortlessly as a novel…with startlingly familiar hopes, fears, and lusts.”
“Mitchell, the noted translator of many of the world’s seminal spiritual texts, has reach back to Mesopotamia to bring out a version of . . . literature’s first hero story that speaks to modern times.” San Francisco Chronicle
Fee: $25 for members, $35 for non-members, and includes the cost of the book. Space is limited and registration is required.
This program is full. Please check back for upcoming Carlos Reads programs.
In a program titled In the Holy Land with Johnny Cash: Christian
Zionism and American Popular Culture, Emory Professor of Middle Eastern
Studies Shalom Goldman discusses his new book Zeal for Zion: Christians, Jews, and the Idea of the Promised Land. Talented local musicians The Blind
Dates will perform Johnny
Cash’s songs about the Promised Land, and Professor Goldman will speak about
John and June Carter Cash’s five pilgrimages to Israel.
This program is co-sponsored by the
Religion, Society and the Arts Initiative.
For children 8 -12 years. $12 for Carlos Museum members; $15 for non-members. Registration is required by calling 404.727.0519.
Fee: $7 non-members, $5 members. To register email jgree09@emory.edu
Master thangka painter Tenzin Norbu, in residence at Emory this semester from the Norbulingka Institute in Dharamsala, India, will teach a five-week course in the principles of the Tibetan art of thangka painting. Participants will learn about the underlying structure of the thangka design, the pigments and tools used, and the choices the choice the individual artist makes within the traditional artform.
This course meets on Saturdays, February 27 - March 27, from 1-4 pm in the Tate Room of the Carlos Museum. Fee for the 5-week course: $125 for Museum Members: $140 for non-members, free to Emory students. Pre-registration is required by calling 404 727-6118.







