Center for Public Scholarship and Engagement
The Center for Public Scholarship and Engagement, based at Emory’s Oxford College campus and serving the entire university, creates opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to share ideas, insights and inspiration with local and global audiences.
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The Center for Public Scholarship and Engagement creates opportunities for Emory's faculty, students, and staff to engage with the community at large.
About usAcademy
The Academy is designed to help scholars understand the challenges presented by the evolving public conversation while also giving them the tools to help effect change and thrive in a larger forum.
The AcademyFestival
This annual event is intended to foster conversations beyond the campus and to engage the public in ideas that are central to our world today.
Ideas Festival EmoryInaugural Public Scholarship Academy
Emory’s inaugural Public Scholarship Academy was a groundbreaking, four-day program designed to equip faculty with the tools and expertise needed to communicate their academic work to diverse audiences. This initiative bridges the gap between scholarly research and public discourse, ensuring that research has a meaningful, far-reaching impact.
Join us for Ideas Festival Emory!
October 18, 2025
As part of the center's emphasis on breaking down barriers between the campus and the community, festival programming and format will emphasize fun and engagement. Food and beverage vendors, along with select exhibitors, will ensure that the event is fun and engaging for the public.
Emory Ideas Festival Feature
Rosanne Cash shares family stories, songs at Ideas Festival Emory
The voice of legendary singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash has been to known stir an audience.
And that’s just what happened at the second annual Ideas Festival Emory, held recently at the university’s Oxford College campus. To conclude her keynote address, Cash, a four-time Grammy Award-winner, surprised the crowd with a performance of the old Appalachian hymn “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” — a Cash family favorite.
Emory Magazine Feature
SHARING THE PATH TO KNOWLEDGE
From embracing the art of storytelling to practicing acts of “radical hospitality,” Emory’s Center for Public Scholarship and Engagement seeks to make research and academic ideas accessible to everyone.
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