A discussion related to the late Willie Ruff and in conjunction with the current exhibition at the Gilmore Music Library at Sterling Memorial Library. The exhibit features oral histories recorded by Ruff speaking with other legendary Black musicians and composers.
Zoom webinar registration link: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0cBm-gHrTXWbeOlvtzzpvQ
Windham-Campbell Prize Director Michael Kelleher will offer a discussion of the 2025 Windham Campbell Prize winners and a preview of the festival upcoming from September 16 through 19.
Zoom webinar registration link: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GA-TblzjTNK8ohq6rW-tdQ
The Windham-Campbell Prizes are one of the world’s most significant international literary awards. The recipients, honored for their literary achievement or promise, each receive $175,000 to support their work.
Margo Natalie Crawford is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of English at
University of Pennsylvania. Crossing boundaries between literature, visual art, and cultural
movements, her scholarship opens up new ways of understanding black radical imaginations and
the black experimental impulse. Committed to institution building, she was the Chair of the
Department of English at University of Pennsylvania, the director of Penn’s Center for Africana
The holidays take flight with the sounds of Brass! Enjoy a lively concert of festive favorites showcasing the superior acoustics of the Beinecke in a casual, family-friendly atmosphere. A Marble and Brass series concert.
The Beinecke Library and the New Haven Museum join forces again to celebrate Dictionary Day, with displays at the museum (114 Whitney Avenue) on Saturday, October 18, 12-4pm, and Beinecke Library (121 Wall Street) on Sunday, October 19, 1pm-4pm. This year, we are also joined by colleagues from the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society, who will be at the Beinecke Library to share items and insights from their Webster collections.
All are invited to a special display in the Beinecke Library reading room (121 Wall Street, New Haven) to mark Constitution Day, September 21, 2025, from 1pm to 4pm. This event commemorates the 238th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution by the members of the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A reading by poet Natasha Trethewey. Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014).
The Yale Collegium Musicum presents
Music, Morals and Philosophy:
Modes, Planet/gods, and the Power of Music in the Renaissance
Wednesday, November 19
4:30 Lecture 5:15 Concert
The Yale Collegium Musicum presents
The Renaissance Musical Instrumentarium
Renaissance music for winds, strings, pipes, brass, and percussion
With special guest ensemble Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
Wednesday, September 24
Lecture 4:30 pm, concert 5:15 pm
Chirimen-bon, or crêpe-paper books, were a type of Japanese illustrated book produced between the 1880s and the 1950s and made with textured, fabric-like paper. They came into existence alongside textbooks for Japanese learners of Western languages, and often served as souvenirs for Western visitors to Japan. They covered a wide range of Japan-related topics—fairy tales, folklore, cultural traditions, holidays, festivals, performing arts, and scenes from everyday life—in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Russian, and other languages.
