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Mary A. Goodman possessed a vision that transcended her time. In her last years, Goodman craved progress for African Americans in post-Civil War society. It was too late for her own education, so she focused on the generations that would follow her, especially those pursuing church leadership and theological education.
A presentation about “Crafting Worldviews: Art and Science in Europe, 1500–1800,” an exhibition on view now at the Yale University Art Gallery, organized by Jessie Park, the Nina and Lee Griggs Assistant Curator of European Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and Paola Bertucci, Associate Professor, History of Science and Medicine Program, Yale University, and Curator of the History of Science and Technology Division, Yale Peabody Museum.
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The Beinecke Library is committed to encouraging both scholarly and public engagement with Yale Library’s special collections, especially as sources of historical reckoning and restorative justice for our region. This work happens through public programs and events (online and onsite), tours, and other visitor experiences, and in in strategic partnerships with neighborhood groups, public library branches; K-12 schools; and civic & cultural organizations.
A discussion with artist Titus Kaphar, poet Dwayne Betts, and art historian Bridget R. Cooks, in celebration of Kaphar and Betts’s new book, “Redaction,” and in light of artist Roy DeCarava and poet Langston Hughes’s “The Sweet Flypaper of Life” (1955).
For more on Kaphar and to learn more about “Redaction,” visit https://www.kapharstudio.com
For more on Betts, visit: https://www.dwaynebetts.com
This year marks the centennial of Inge Morath (1923-2002), a legendary and groundbreaking photographer whose photographs and papers are archived at Beinecke Library. Rebecca Miller (Yale College ’85), will discuss her mother’s life and legacy in this special Mondays at Beinecke.
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 begininng about 4:30pm until 5pm.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3Hca3h2
The 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize recipients will be in residence on Yale’s campus from September 19-22 for a multi-day international literary festival during which they will share their work, engage in conversation on a range of subjects, and celebrate reading and the written word with the New Haven community.
The festival will feature a keynote address by American cultural critic and music journalist Greil Marcus.
The full schedule of talks, discussions, and readings is available at windhamcampbell.org.
“I Give These Books: The History of Yale University Library, 1656-2022”, presents a comprehensive history of one of America’s oldest university libraries from its founding through the present day. The library began with books brought over from Europe and England by Puritans seeking to found their own colony, and grew through donations from overseas donors, personal libraries of faculty members, and alumni endowments.
An entirely new version of the comedy directed and abridged by Laura Engel.
The Play:
In 1801 Anne Damer, Mary Berry, and Agnes Berry embarked on a remarkable collaboration staging a performance of Berry’s comedy Fashionable Friends as an amateur theatrical production at Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill. Damer and Berry starred in the play as the titular fashionable friends; Damer played the seductive and sly Lady Selina and Berry the sentimental and clever Mrs. Lovell.
An entirely new version of the comedy directed and abridged by Laura Engel.
The Play:
In 1801 Anne Damer, Mary Berry, and Agnes Berry embarked on a remarkable collaboration staging a performance of Berry’s comedy Fashionable Friends as an amateur theatrical production at Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill. Damer and Berry starred in the play as the titular fashionable friends; Damer played the seductive and sly Lady Selina and Berry the sentimental and clever Mrs. Lovell.
An entirely new version of the comedy directed and abridged by Laura Engel.
The Play:
In 1801 Anne Damer, Mary Berry, and Agnes Berry embarked on a remarkable collaboration staging a performance of Berry’s comedy Fashionable Friends as an amateur theatrical production at Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill. Damer and Berry starred in the play as the titular fashionable friends; Damer played the seductive and sly Lady Selina and Berry the sentimental and clever Mrs. Lovell.
