The lecture, previously scheduled for Tuesday, November 29, has to be postponed. Information on a rescheduled date will be posted on the Yale calendar and shared through the library e-newsletter when available in the future.
A celebration and exploration of archival materials related to New Haven’s historic Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ.
Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ, founded in 1820, is the oldest African American Congregational UCC church in the world. The church is located in the historic Dixwell neighborhood. The church is celebrating its bicentennial plus 2 in 2022, as COVID interrupted plans for celebrations in 2020!
Travis Zadeh, a scholar of Islamic intellectual and cultural history, is associate professor of Religious Studies at Yale and Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies. His talk is in conjunction with the current exhibition, The World in Maps, 1400-1600, which includes a map from the compendium of natural wonders by the Persian judge and scholar al-Qazwini (d. 1283). Zadeh’s most recent book, Wonders and Rarities, is a history of wonder and nature in Islamic thought through a study of Qazwini’s compendium and its lasting reception.
James Baldwin’s “children’s book for adults,” Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood went quickly and quietly out of print when it was originally published by Dial Press back in 1976. In this talk, Nicholas Boggs discusses his rediscovery of the book over two decades ago at the Beinecke and its path to an acclaimed new edition published by Duke University Press in 2018. In the process, he provides an overview of the growth of the Baldwin archives in the Walter O.
Richard Hack, Marie-France Lemay, and Paula Zyats will discuss the Vinland Map in conjunction with the current building-wide exhibition, The World in Maps, 1400-1600. (Exhibition information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/worldinmaps). Their talk is titled, “Results of Recent Scientific Analysis of the Vinland Map: Can You Judge a Manuscript by its Ink?”
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3DqJRwn
Curators Anna Arays and Liliya Dashevski will talk in conjunction with their exhibition Subjects and Objects, Slavic Collections at Yale, 1896–2022, at the Hanke Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library.
Zoom webinar registration link: https://bit.ly/3Utn8qT
(Exhibition information: https://library.yale.edu/event/subjects-and-objects-slavic-collections-y…)
Suzanne Boorsch, an art historian who specializes in Renaissance old master prints and the former curator of prints and drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery, will give a talk in conjunction with the current building-wide exhibition, The World in Maps, 1400-1600. (Exhibition information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/worldinmaps)
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3M6IiYb
Kristen Herdman, a PhD Candidate in the Medieval Studies program, will discuss the current building-wide exhibition, The World in Maps, 1400-1600. (Exhibition information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/worldinmaps; more on Herdman: https://medieval.yale.edu/people/kristen-herdman)
Her talk will touch on some of the more unusual map items in the collections – embroidered maps, map playing cards, maps of imaginary places, etc.
Richard Pflederer will speak on “Using Portolan Charts in Beinecke to Understand Portugal’s Territorial and Economic Expansion” in this talk in conjunction with the current building-wide exhibition, The World in Maps, 1400-1600. (Exhibition information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/worldinmaps)
Part of Mondays at Beinecke online, a virtual series of gallery talks every Monday at 4pm.
Kathryn James is the Rare Book Librarian at the Lillian Goldman Law Library. Fred Shapiro is Associate (Library) Director for Collections and Special Projects and Lecturer in Legal Research at Yale Law School.
Talks begin at 4pm followed by conversation and question and answer beginning about 4:30pm until 5pm.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3RfqjQn
