Stephen Duncombe is an author, professor and co-founder of the Center for Artistic Activism, where he has trained activists and artists around the world to be both more effective and affective in their protests. Even when protesting issues that are deadly serious, activists have long used humor to break down barriers and build affective solidarities with audiences, deploying critical satire to highlight the absurdity or brutality of the status quo. But humor can also have a prophetic function: demonstrating, through laughter and jubilation, what a better world might look like.

The Yale Program in the History of the Book invites you to attend a public panel discussion with participants in the 2020-2021 series.
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Michael Kelleher, Director of the the Windham Campbell Prizes, will discuss the papers of Donald Windham and Sandy Campbell, great creatives and life partners, and their legacy in the Windham Campbell Prizes.
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Finding aid for the Windham Campbell Papers at the Beinecke Library: https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/1579

Melanie Chambliss will discuss some of the early donations to the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection and the motivations behind these gifts.
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Chambliss is an assistant professor of history at Columbia College Chicago. She is currently working on her manuscript “Saving the Race: Black Archives, Black Liberation, and the Remaking of Modernity.” She earned her PhD in African American Studies at Yale and was a Graduate Student Fellow at the Beinecke Library.

Anthony Obayomi is a storyteller from Lagos, Nigeria who uses photography, filmmaking, and other storytelling techniques that combine art and technology in both traditional and experimental media. Obayomi’s documentary work is aimed at offering alternative perspectives to diverse audiences. He portrays people, society, and culture with the aim of fostering tolerance, mitigating stereotypes, questioning traditional opinions, and addressing issues of social justice. Obayomi earned a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from the University of Lagos.