Events

Our Upcoming Events

Please join us on Zoom starting in August for new discussions on Flannery O'Connor. Recorded sessions from 2024 are available on our YouTube channel

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. 

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)

Thursday, January 23 Book Club: Join us to discuss Brad Gooch’s widely acclaimed biography of O’Connor, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (2009). Read the Prologue, and Chapters 1-3. (2 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM

Thursday, February 20 Book Club: Join us to continue discussing Brad Gooch’s widely acclaimed biography of O’Connor, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (2009). Read chapters 4-7. (2 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM

Thursday ,March 20 Book Club: Join us to continue discussing Brad Gooch’s widely acclaimed biography of O’Connor, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (2009). Read chapters 8-10.  (2 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM

Thursday, April 17 Book Club: Join us to discuss O’Connor’s famous essay “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction.” (2 PM in person in Eatonton, GA at the Writer’s Museum; on Zoom at 7PM

Thursday, May 15 Book Club: Join us to discuss Flannery O’Connor’s Introduction to the Memoir of Mary Ann, about which O’Connor said “nobody will ever understand me unless they read this essay.”  (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)

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