General Public

Curator's Talk and Exhibit Opening of Empire and Resistance: Transisthmian Views of Central America

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.

Bruce Holsinger: Cow, Codex, Collagen: The Many Lives of Parchment

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.

Yale Collegium Musicum Concert Series

Music of Renaissance Italy
Works by Giaches de Wert, Claudio Monteverdi, Fabritio Caroso, Girolamo Kapsberger,
Phillippe Verdelot, and others, sung and played on violas da gamba, violins, flutes, recorders, theorbo, harpsichord, organ, and percussion.Lecture at 4:30 pm and performance at 5:15 pm
The Yale Collegium Musicum
Grant Herreid, Director

Mondays at Beinecke: Empire and Resistance - Transisthmian Views of Central America with Nancy Escalante

A talk in conjunction with the new exhibition in the Hanke Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library, Empire and Resistance: Transisthmian Views of Central America, curated by by Nancy Escalante, PhD student, Department of American Studies, Yale University.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3R92Ule

What Could Have Been: How New Haven Lost the U.S.’s First Black College Screening at New Haven Museum

What Could Have Been:
How New Haven Lost the U.S.’s First Black College
Screening at New Haven Museum
New Haven, Conn. (January 13, 2023) –The New Haven Museum will host a screening of “What Could Have Been,” a documentary created by Community Engagement Program Manager Tubyez Cropper and Director of Community Engagement Michael Morand at Beinecke Library at Yale, on Wednesday, February 22, 2023, at 6 p.m. (Snow date: February 28, 2023). Masks are required in the museum, and space is limited.

Mondays at Beinecke: W. E. B. Du Bois in New Haven and in the Archives at Yale

Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, one of America’s greatest intellectuals and activists and a pre-eminent figure for civil rights in America and the global Pan-African movement, was born 155 years ago on February 23, 1868, and died 60 years ago, on August 27, 1963. Du Bois had many New Haven connections: his grandparents lived and were buried here, his wife Shirley Graham is a Yale Drama graduate, his close confidants included New Haven’s George Crawford, he published a book with the Knights of Columbus, and in the 1940s he donated a significant set of papers to Yale. .

Mondays at Beinecke: Revisiting the Past – Imagining the Future with Roberta L. Dougherty, Librarian for Middle East Studies

A talk in conjunction with the Beinecke Library building-wide exhibition, “Revisiting the Past—Imagining the Future,” on view through July 9.
Roberta L. Dougherty, Librarian for Middle East Studies, will discuss some of the items she selected for the exhibition.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3ZLmRlX

The Yale Review Spring Festival: Writing Desire with Garth Greenwell and Maggie Millner

Author and critic Garth Greenwell and TYR senior editor Maggie Millner will read from their work and discuss writing as desire. Moderated by TYR’s Editor-in-Chief, Meghan O’Rourke.
Presented as part of The Yale Review’s Spring Festival.
Co-sponsored by the Yale English Department, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism.

The Yale Review Spring Festival: Reading in an Age of Crisis with Garth Greenwell, Kathryn Lofton, and Emily Bernard

Garth Greenwell, Kathryn Lofton, and Emily Bernard will discuss art, morality, and the ethics of readership. Moderated by TYR’s Editor-in-Chief Meghan O’Rourke.
Presented as part of The Yale Review’s Spring Festival.
Co-sponsored by the Yale English Department, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism.

James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture: “What Could a Vessel Be?” by Christina Sharpe

Christina Sharpe is the author of “In the Wake: On Blackness and Being” named by the Guardian as one of the best books of 2016—and “Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects”. She is currently Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Department of Humanities, at York University, in Toronto. Her next book, “Ordinary Notes”, is forthcoming from FSG in April 2023. The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture is organized by Beinecke Library in conjunction with the Department of African American Studies at Yale.