Ideas Festival Emory, the flagship event of Emory University’s Center for Public Scholarship and Engagement (CPSE), returns for a second year on Saturday, Oct. 18, with a keynote conversation with Rosanne Cash.

Building on the success of the inaugural Ideas Festival Emory in September 2024, this year’s edition will share the wisdom of more than 30 scientists, scholars, musicians, filmmakers and other creative minds.

Set on the Oxford College campus, the festival will again feature conversations, performances and stories dealing with important topics of our time.

“Ideas Festival Emory is based on a simple idea: knowledge belongs to all of us,” says Kenneth Carter, founding director of the CPSE and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology at Emory University. “When people come t

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