Emory Conversation News Today

Dooley’s Players and the Emory Conversation Project partnered on an immersive theater experience that incorporated audience discussion around difficult topics. After several years of production at Oxford College, “Hearing Voices” debuted at Emory’s Atlanta campus this spring.

Lots of people argue online. This fall, Emory Woodruff Debate Scholars Eu Giampetruzzi and Grace Kessler were winning trophies for it. When intercollegiate policy debate shifted online, the pair logged into tournaments from Giampetruzzi’s apartment on Emory’s Clairmont Campus. At their first tournament, they were the top seed after preliminary rounds, losing in the octofinals. They went on to win 88% of their debates (with only seven losses) and accumulated enough points with each win to ea...