Join us for lightning talks – quick introductions to an idea or object – by six of Beinecke Library’s current Research Fellows. Learn about what they’ve been looking at from the library’s collections and how these materials are supporting their research projects. Chat with the fellows over coffee and a sweet treat at a post-talk reception.
This presentation will explore the Beinecke Library’s rich holdings in lyric poetry from literary traditions across the world in conjunction with the Model Research Collection on “Lyric Thinking,” currently on view in Bass Library.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3mrr7YD
Mondays at Beinecke online talks focus on materials from the collections and include an opening presentation at 4pm followed by conversation and question and answer beginning about 4:30pm until 5pm.
A talk in conjunction with the Beinecke Library building-wide exhibition, “Revisiting the Past—Imagining the Future,” on view through July 9.
Haruko Nakamura, Librarian for Japanese Studies, will discuss some of the items he selected for the exhibition.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3kQr8ow
A talk in conjunction with the Beinecke Library building-wide exhibition, “Revisiting the Past—Imagining the Future,” on view through July 9.
Kevin Repp, Curator of Modern European Books and Manuscripts, will discuss items he selected for the exhibition.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3kA0uA7
A talk in conjunction with the Beinecke Library building-wide exhibition, “Revisiting the Past—Imagining the Future,” on view through July 9.
Jude Yang, Librarian for Korean Studies, will discuss sitems she selected for the exhibition.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3KAoMop
The Restaurators with Glitter collective was born in Mexico City in response to the numerous disqualifications issued by the media and by certain actors of the country’s political life towards some vestiges of the feminist protest of August 16, 2019 and in particular about the expressions embodied on the surface of the base of the Column of Independence.
“Revisiting the Past—Imagining the Future,” on view through July 9.
Michael Meng, Librarian for Chinese Studies, will discuss some of the items he selected for the exhibition.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/40YMf8q
This exhibition features books, manuscripts, and visual materials from many different time periods and locations. Some of the materials have been at Yale for decades, others have only recently been added to the collections. More information: https://bit.ly/3J2EY12
Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005) was a key civil rights strategist and the first Black woman appointed to the U.S. federal judiciary (Info: https://www.fjc.gov/node/1385436). Born in New Haven, she studied at Hillhouse High School, was president of the New Haven Negro Youth Council, and active with the Dixwell Community House (Q House).
Please join us for an opening reception and curator’s talk of Empire and Resistance: Transisthmian Views of Central America.
Empire and Resistance demonstrates the long, contentious history that links the United States and the seven countries of Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panamá. The exhibition focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but the objects on display date from the sixteenth to twenty-first centuries, reflecting the shifting contours over time of empire and resistance to empire.
This lecture is adapted from Professor Holsinger’s new book, On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age, just published by Yale University Press. The lecture will explore the biomolecular study of parchment objects, theological understandings of the medium in several faith traditions, and the role of parchment in modern and contemporary art.
