Chet Van Duzer, historian of cartography, will discuss the Martellus Map in conjunction with the current building-wide exhibition, The World in Maps, 1400-1600 (https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/worldinmaps). Part of Mondays at Beinecke online, a virtual series of gallery talks every Monday at 4pm. Talks focus on materials from the collections and include an opening presentation at 4pm followed by conversation and question and answer beginning about 4:30pm until 5pm.

David Jon Walker is an MFA candidate in graphic design in the Yale School of Art.
Part of Mondays at Beinecke online, a virtual series of gallery talks every Monday at 4pm. Talks focus on materials from the collections and include an opening presentation at 4pm followed by conversation and question and answer beginning about 4:30pm until 5pm.
Zoom webinar registration link: https://bit.ly/3LiVmcz

Music of Colonial Mexico
Featuring works in Spanish and Nahuatl of Fernando Franco, Don Hernando Franco,
Santiago de Murcia, Joan Cererols, and others,
and reconstructed music for the poetry of Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz
with lecture at 4:30 pm and performance at 5:15 pm
The Yale Collegium Musicum
Grant Herreid, Director

Jim Akerman is Director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography and Curator of Maps at the Newberry Library, Chicago, where he has worked for 37 years. He received his Ph.D. (Geography) from the Pennsylvania State University in 1991. His early research and publications concerned the history of the atlas. More recently his work has focused on forms of popular and commercial cartography, travel and transportation mapping in the United States, and more broadly the place of mapping in civic and political culture.

An introductory tour of the Beinecke Library, its mission, history, architecture, collections, and services, led by a library staff or student guide. Tours last approximately 45 minutes. Reservations are not required. Note: see the library’s website (beinecke.library.yale.edu) for current public health protocols and other important visitor information.