Join South African literary historian, author, and playwright Siphiwo Mahala for an up close look at the relationship between American writer Langston Hughes (1901-1967) and South African writer Bloke Modisane (1923-1986) through their correspondence collected in the Langston Hughes Papers at the Beinecke Library.

Mahala did research in the archives as part of his process for his play, “Bloke and His American Bantu,” which reimagines the friendship between Modisane and Hughes.

Claudia Rankine is the author of five books of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric; three plays including HELP, which premiered in March 2020 (The Shed, NYC), and The White Card, which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson/ American Repertory Theater) and was published by Graywolf Press in 2019; as well as numerous video collaborations. Her recent collection of essays, Just Us: An American Conversation, was published by Graywolf Press in 2020.

Please join us for a panel of distinguished private collectors and print curators for lively conversation with about their interests, expertise, and adventures in building their collections of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British caricature and satiric prints.

Want to own your research? What did you give up when you signed that publishing agreement? Is there any way around it? What happens with an open access journal? Copyright can be complicated: the Whitney Publishing Project is here to help.

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