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Tanner Lectures on Human Values

IMPORTANT UPDATE: CHANGE OF VENUE TO ACCOMMODATE LARGER AUDIENCE

Due to great enthusiasm at Yale and beyond, Angela Davis’s lectures on Tuesday, April 15 and Wednesday, April 16 will now be held at Battell Chapel (400 College St.). We hope this new, larger venue—which seats 840 people—will allow more of you to experience these important lectures.

New Venue:
Battell Chapel (400 College St.)
Doors open at 3:30 pm. All bags are subject to inspection, which may delay entry into Battell Chapel. Please leave bags at home.

Tanner Lectures on Human Values

IMPORTANT UPDATE: CHANGE OF VENUE TO ACCOMMODATE LARGER AUDIENCE

Due to great enthusiasm at Yale and beyond, Angela Davis’s lectures on Tuesday, April 15 and Wednesday, April 16 will now be held at Battell Chapel (400 College St.). We hope this new, larger venue—which seats 840 people—will allow more of you to experience these important lectures.

New Venue:
Battell Chapel (400 College St.)
Doors open at 3:30 pm. All bags are subject to inspection, which may delay entry into Battell Chapel. Please leave bags at home.

Mondays at Beinecke: Shining Light on Truth: Black Lives at Yale & in New Haven with David Jon Walker, Michael Morand, and Carlynne Robinson CANCELLED to be rescheduled

Zoom webinar registration link: https://bit.ly/4ifQIMd

A new exhibition on view from March 24 at the Yale Schwarzman Center, “Shining Light on Truth: Black Lives at Yale & in New Haven,” illuminates ongoing research that recovers the essential role of Black people throughout Yale and New Haven history. It celebrates Black community building, resistance, and resilience on campus and in New Haven.

Lewis Walpole Library Lecture: Professor of Insects and Worms: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his Life-Made World

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) was the Professor of Insects and Worms at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Living through the storms of the French Revolution and Napoleonic period, he founded biology, coining the term to name a new science devoted to all and only living things, and authored the first theory of evolution. Lamarck’s science was foundational to modern biology, yet its radicalism – he usurped God’s monopoly on Creation and re-assigned it to mortal, living beings – brought him and his ideas plenty of trouble.

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