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Women, Theater, Archives: Collecting and Stewarding

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Archivists and curators discuss the complexity of uncovering and preserving records of theater and performance, and the important and often-overlooked work of women
Melissa Barton, Curator of American Drama and Prose, Beinecke Library, Yale University
Ken Cerniglia, American Theater Archives Project and independent archivist
Eric Colleary, Curator of Performing Arts, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
Tiffany Nixon, Archivist, Roundabout Theatre Company

Women, Theater, Archives: Research and Teaching

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Scholar-practitioners discuss recovering forgotten performers, understanding the historical record, and helping students develop a dynamic understanding of American theater, past and present. Featuring:
Danielle Bainbridge, Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, Northwestern University
Kate Bredeson, Associate Professor of Theater, Reed College

Art, Education, and Protest in Hungary: The Radical Vision of FreeSZFE

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Mondays at Beinecke: Edmund White in Conversation with Bill Goldstein

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A special Mondays at Beinecke featuring Edmund White, American novelist, memoirist, and essayist. White was affiliated with a literary group known as the Violet Quill, whose seven members are regarded as one of the strongest collective voices of the gay male experience in the post-Stonewall era.

Mondays at Beinecke: We are Everywhere - Lesbians in the Archive with Gabrielle Colangelo

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A gallery talk Gabrielle Colangelo ‘22, curator of the Yale University Library Senior Exhibit Project, “We are Everywhere: Lesbians in the Archive,” on view in the Sterling Library Exhibition Corridor May 2 – September 30, 2022.
Colangelo will present the exhibition following introductions by Barbara Rockenbach and Nancy Kuhl at 4pm. Their presentation will be followed by time for q&a from about 4:30pm.

Mondays at Beinecke: Revisiting Jethro Luke and Race and Slavery in 18th Century New Haven and Yale with Michael Morand

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Mondays at Beinecke: New Haven 1831 & What Could Have Been with Tubyez Cropper, Charles Warner, Jr., and Alvin Ashiatey

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A Mondays at Beinecke online gallery talk considering the story of the 1831 proposal for a college in New Haven that would have been America’s first HBCU. The talk is in conjunction with the release of a new documentary short film directed by Tubyez Cropper and narrated by Charles Warner, Jr., with design assistance from Alvin Ashiatey. Watch & share the short documentary on the Beinecke Library YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/gmXF3N62Olo

Mondays at Beinecke: Celebrating Cave Canem in the Archives – A Conversation with Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady

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Mondays at Beinecke: The Literary Voice of Langston Hughes in American Music with Albert R. Lee

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Albert R. Lee is Associate Professor and Director of Equity, Belonging, and Student Life at the Yale School of Music, where he teaches a course on The Literary Voice of Langston Hughes in American Music. His Mondays at Beinecke presentation at 4pm on May 9 will be followed by half an hour of q&a and conversation from 4:30pm.

Mondays at Beinecke: New Faculty, New Research in African American Literary Studies (Part 1)

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Two new faculty members on campus, Shane Vogel and Ernest Mitchell, will each share about their archivally-informed work in African American literary studies.