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
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.
A talk in conjunction with the quasquibicentennial of the Grove Street Cemetery. A neighbor to the library in New Haven, it is the nation’s oldest cemetery organized as a city of the dead. The first burial was on November 7, 1797.
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
Ray Clemens, curator of Early Books and Manuscripts, will discuss 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. 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.
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
Music of Colonial Mexico and Peru, with lecture at 4:30pm and performance at 5:15pm
Featuring guest ensemble Piffaro, The Renaissance Band (Philadelphia)
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.
Vijay Seshadri will deliver the 2022 Mark Strand Memorial Reading. Vijay Seshadri is the author of the poetry books “Wild Kingdom,” “The Long Meadow,” “The Disappearances,” (Harper-Collins India), “3 Sections,” and, in 2020, “That Was Now, This Is Then,” as well as dozens of essays, reviews, and memoir fragments. His work has been widely published and anthologized and recognized with a number of honors, among them the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
