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Georgia Perimeter College

Georgia Perimeter College, the third largest institution of the University System of Georgia, serves more than 20,000 students through six locations in metro Atlanta, Alpharetta, Clarkston, Dunwoody, Decatur, Lawrenceville and Newton County. GPC boasts one of the most diverse populations in the USG system, with students representing more than 140 countries. GPC offers degrees in 39 liberal arts programs; degrees and certificates in career programs; Continuing Education and Corporate Training Certificate Programs. We are one of the top 100 associate degree-granting institutions in the nation and the 20th fastest-growing two-year college in the United States. GPC offers the most online courses of any educational institution in Georgia, and has the most Joint Enrollment students. The Chattahoochee Review literary magazine is a nationally recognized literary journal sponsored by Georgia Perimeter College. Our purpose, a twenty-five year literary tradition, is to publish original writing of literary merit. Each quarter, we publish the best in creative writing, essays, fiction, literary criticisms; everything you've come to expect from a celebrated literary magazine. The Writers Institute brings together the College's writers and literary publications to create a new center for the literary arts at GPC.

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  • Jill McCorkle shares what she thinks is distinctive about the South, including humor, nostalgia, iced tea, and the fine art of storytelling. This is the keynote address of Georgia's 2006 Townsend Prize for Fiction. The Townsend Prize for Fiction is awarded biennially to the Georgia writer judged to have published the best work of fiction in the previous two years. The prize was founded in 1980 in honor of founding editor of Atlanta Magazine, Jim Townsend. Past recipients include respected Georgia authors Celestine Sibley, Alice Walker, Terry Kay, Ha Jin, and others. Books are brought to the attention of the judges through communication from publishers, agents, and in some cases authors themselves. The final nominees are then selected by The Chattahoochee Review.
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  • Terry Kay and Judson Mitcham, both winners of the Townsend Prize, are celebrated for combining powerful language and a keen insight into humanity in their work.
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  • Morris Dees Jr. discusses the founding of the Southern Poverty Law Center and talks about his experience with this group. **Morris Dees Jr.** is famous for his crusade against white supremacist hate groups, and known for his landmark cases, which forced groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Neo-Nazis to disband. Dees' work has been fictionalized in a 1991 movie called *Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story*, as well as in numerous books.
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  • Leonard Pitts Jr. discusses the current state of the American news media and rise of punditry that passes as journalism.
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  • Canadian author Nino Ricci re-tells the New Testament story from a modern perspective, emphasizing the interplay of history and modernity in how we think. This event is cosponsored by the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum.
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  • Lynn Gregory, a researcher on intercultural communication and education at the University of Vermont, discusses how perceptions affect the media and how the media affect perceptions.
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  • Georgia Perimeter College presents Vincent Cornell, an ASA Griggs Candler professor of Middle East and Islamic studies at Emory University, shares his knowledge of Islam. **Vincent Cornell** was professor of history and director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Arkansas from 2000 to 2006. He is a research specialist in Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
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  • Dr. Alawode Oladele discusses his work on fighting AIDS. Georgia Perimeter College presents Dr. Alawode Oladele, CEO of Premiere International Health Care.
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  • Daniel Levitas discusses his new book *The Terrorist Next Door*. Georgia Perimeter College presents Levitas, writer of the *The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right*, which was nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. An expert in anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi, and white supremacist studies, Levitas is an instructor and contributor to such publications as *The New York Times*, *The Nation*, and *The Los Angeles Times Book Review*.
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  • Georgia Perimeter College Professor Shawn L. Williams leads a slavery symposium discussion on The Willie Lynch Syndrome: Consequences of Mythologizing History. The Willie Lynch Syndrome has been devised to explain the psychological problems and disunity among black people. Williams debunks the myth of Lynch's existence and urges careful analysis of history for understanding the impact of slavery and white supremacy on African Americans.
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