John Burrison on Folklore, Folklife and the Humanities

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John Burrison, Regent's Professor of English at Georgia State University, and Jamil Zainaldin, president of the Georgia Humanities Council, talk about folklore, folklife and the humanities in this engaging conversation held at Emory's Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry on June 25, 2013.

This conversation was sparked by Prof. Burrison's presentation "Around the World in Eighty Clays: A Folk-Pottery Travelogue," a series of lectures that look at world-wide ceramic traditions as seen across a range of cultures.

Prof. John Burrison is Regents Professor of English and director of the Folklore Curriculum at Georgia State University, and is the author of "Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery" (1983) and "From Mud to Jug: the Folk Potters and Pottery of Northeast Georgia" (2010). He is curator of the Atlanta History Museum's Folklife Gallery and of the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia at Sautee Nacoochee. Visits to the British Isles, Germany, and China have opened him to a global perspective on ceramic traditions, leading to his latest lecture series, drawn from his study collection of 18,000 digital images.

The series co-sponsors include the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University; the Atlanta History Center; the Georgia Center for the Book; the Department of English, Georgia State University; and the Center for Creativity & Arts at Emory University.