A conversation with a co-curator of Beinecke’s current exhibition: Agnieszka Rec, curator at the Beinecke Library.
Zoom webinar registration link: https://bit.ly/4iwq4yo
A conversation with a co-curator of Beinecke’s current exhibition Özgen Felek, a lector of Ottoman in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Zoom webinar registration link: https://bit.ly/4ivtMs2
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) was the Professor of Insects and Worms at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Living through the storms of the French Revolution and Napoleonic period, he founded biology, coining the term to name a new science devoted to all and only living things, and authored the first theory of evolution. Lamarck’s science was foundational to modern biology, yet its radicalism – he usurped God’s monopoly on Creation and re-assigned it to mortal, living beings – brought him and his ideas plenty of trouble.
Moi-même (Mojo Lorwin & Lee Breuer, 1968/2024, DCP, 65 mins)
Archives Out Loud
2:00–3:00 P.M., HQ 134
God and William F. Buckley at Yale
Journalist and former New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus, author of the biography Buckley, talks with Pulitzer-prize winning Yale historian Beverly Gage about how Buckley remade American conservatism.
Archives Out Loud
12:00–1:00 P.M., HQ 134
Revisiting Robert Frost in The Yale Review
Enjoy lunch with Jackie Goldsby and Maureen N. McLane as they discuss the legacy of Robert Frost and his poems in The Yale Review.
Generative Workshop: Prose
10:00-11:00 AM, HQ 134
Writing and rewriting characters
Come prepared to write with novelist Raven Leilani, author of Luster.
Open to members of the Yale community, with preference given to Yale students.
RSVP required.
Keynote Reading and Reception
5:00-6:30 P.M., HQ L02/L90
Poet as novelist, novelist as poet
Writers Raven Leilani and Ocean Vuong read from their work and discuss writing across genre, with Meghan O’Rourke, editor of The Yale Review. Introduced by Maggie Millner, TYR senior editor.
Reception to Follow
Artists at Work
12:00–1:00 P.M., HQ 134
How do artists collaborate?
Husband-and-wife duo Matt Berninger, lead singer of The National, and poet and editor Carin Besser, formerly of The New Yorker, discuss their long-standing musical collaboration, and the challenges and delights of co-creation. Introduced by Meghan O’Rourke and moderated by award-winning playwright and Yale professor Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
Keynote Panel
5:00-6:30 P.M., HQ L02
What is a magazine editor for?
A roundtable discussion on the art of editing with Emily Greenhouse (The New York Review of Books), Radhika Jones (Vanity Fair), Deborah Treisman (The New Yorker), and Meghan O’Rourke (The Yale Review, formerly The New Yorker, Slate, and The Paris Review). Introduced by TYR senior editor Sam Huber. Conversation moderated by TYR senior editor James Surowiecki.
Co-sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center.
