The third of this fall’s series on book history and the environmental humanities.
November 13’s event features Sarah Kay, Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture, New York University, on “Medieval Books from the Spheres to the Critical Zone: Lion and Panther Singers and their Manuscripts.”
Adams, professor emeritus of architectural history at Vassar College, is author of “Gordon Bunshaft and SOM: Building Corporate Modernism,” new from Yale University Press.
He will discuss the life, career, and works of Bunshaft, including the iconic Beinecke Library itself.
From the Yale University Press:
“A nuanced portrait of the 20th-century architect whose work defined the built aesthetic of corporate America
Robert Reid-Pharr will deliver the 2019 James Weldon Johnson Memorial Lecture, on the topic, “Archives and Icons: James Baldwin and the Practice of Celebrity,” cosponsored by the Department of African American Studies.
A talk by Eric Slauter, Associate Professor of English, The University of Chicago
To learn more about the Yale Program in the History of the Book, please visit https://bookhistory.yale.edu
A special reading in conjunction with the fall exhibition, Beyond Words: Experimental Poetry & the Avant-Garde. David (Jhave) Johnston is a renowned digital net-artist-poet concentrating on integrating advanced computational techniques (neural nets, VR, and fluid dynamics) into the creation of art installations and spoken word performances that expose and question human-machine symbiosis.
Read more about Jhave here: http://glia.ca
Join us for the opening reception of the fall exhibition, Beyond Words; read more about the exhibition online at https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/beyondwords. Exhibition on view through December 15 along with Drafting Monique Wittig; more information online at https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/draftingmoniquewittig
A panel discussion featuring Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University \nTo read more about Mukhopadhyay, please visit: https://english.yale.edu/people/tenured-and-tenure-track-faculty-assista… \nTo learn more about the Yale Program in the History of the Book, please visit https://bookhistory.yale.edu
A panel discussion with Alexandra Franklin, Coordinator, Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, and Richard Lawrence, Printer, Oxford
To learn more about the Yale Program in the History of the Book, please visit https://bookhistory.yale.edu
Clarke, a Successor Manager on the Board of Managers of the Lewis Walpole Library, will speak on “Lefty’ Lewis and the Waldegraves: Collecting, Obsession, and Friendship” in the 2019 Adrian Van Sinderen Lecture
From the Poetry Foundation: “Marilyn Nelson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, into a military family: she is the daughter of one of the last of the Tuskegee Airmen. Her mother was a teacher. Nelson spent much of her youth living on different military bases and began writing poetry in elementary school. She earned her BA from the University of California at Davis, her MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and her PhD from the University of Minnesota. An accomplished poet and translator, Nelson has also written numerous books for children and young adults.
