Monday, April 11, 2022, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT

Each year since 2004, when James T. Laney offered the first of the Sheth lectures so generously endowed by Dr. Jagdish and Mrs. Madhuri Sheth, we have invited a speaker of outstanding quality to present a talk that will somehow honor the topic of “Creativity in Later Life.”  This year’s speaker, Jamil Zainaldin, recently retired as long-time president of the Georgia Humanities Council. His PhD in history from the University of Chicago, his experience teaching at Northwestern University and Case Western Reserve University, and his work in Washington, where he promoted productive public policy in the humanities, first with the American Historical Association and then with the Federation of State Humanities Councils, prepared him well for his move to Georgia and our Council here in 1997. He will share lessons he learned heading up this organization that has worked so successfully to make the great gifts of the humanities an integral part of the lives of all. And he’ll share what he’s been doing since his “retirement” in further pursuit of this mission, as well.