Readings Online: Declaration of Independence & Frederick Douglass’s 1852 Oration
Beinecke Library YouTube channel playlist: https://bit.ly/3dX7lu0
More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/declarationDouglass2020
General Public
The Year of Return & Beyond: Reclaiming African History and Ancestry through the Nkyinkyim Installation
A presentation of survivor’s semiotics with acclaimed artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, a Ghanaian sculptor whose Nkyinkyim Installation stands at the entrance of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (https://nyti.ms/2xHxn51) in Montgomery, Alabama.
Mondays at Beinecke Gallery Talk & Tea
A weekly series of insightful, engaging, informal talks on materials from the Beinecke Library’s collections and exhibitions, followed by tea on the mezzanine. NOTE: no talks during Yale spring recess on March 9 or March 16.
Spring semester 2020 talks in conjunction with exhibition “Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800” (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)
The schedule of talks for this semester includes:
Mondays at Beinecke Gallery Talk & Tea
A weekly series of insightful, engaging, informal talks on materials from the Beinecke Library’s collections and exhibitions, followed by tea on the mezzanine. NOTE: no talks during Yale spring recess on March 9 or March 16.
Spring semester 2020 talks in conjunction with exhibition “Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800” (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)
The schedule of talks for this semester includes:
Mondays at Beinecke Gallery Talk & Tea
A weekly series of insightful, engaging, informal talks on materials from the Beinecke Library’s collections and exhibitions, followed by tea on the mezzanine. NOTE: no talks during Yale spring recess on March 9 or March 16. Spring semester 2020 talks in conjunction with exhibition “Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800” (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)
The schedule of talks for this semester includes:
Mondays at Beinecke Gallery Talk & Tea
A weekly series of insightful, engaging, informal talks on materials from the Beinecke Library’s collections and exhibitions, followed by tea on the mezzanine. NOTE: no talks during Yale spring recess on March 9 or March 16. Spring semester 2020 talks in conjunction with exhibition “Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800” (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)
The schedule of talks for this semester includes:
Mondays at Beinecke Gallery Talk & Tea
A weekly series of insightful, engaging, informal talks on materials from the Beinecke Library’s collections and exhibitions, followed by tea on the mezzanine. NOTE: no talks during Yale spring recess on March 9 or March 16.
Spring semester 2020 talks in conjunction with exhibition “Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800” (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)
January 27: “What is our Life?: The Music of Melancholy in Early Modern England”
Public reading of the Declaration of Independence and the 1852 Fourth of July oration by Frederick Douglass
Stay tuned for details for a virtual program and online reading.
To read the full text of the Declaration of Independence, please see the website of the National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
To read the full text of Douglass’ 1852 oration, please see the website of the University of Rochester Frederick Douglass Project: https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2945
Architecture, Montage, Modernity: A Conversation between Craig Buckley and Martino Stierli
A conversation between the authors of two recent books exploring the interplay between techniques of assemblage in media and in architecture: Craig Buckley, Assistant Professor of Art History at Yale, author of Graphic Assembly: Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s, and Martino Stierli, Philip Johnson Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, author of Montage and the Metropolis: Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space.
Yale Program in the History of the Book: The Manuscript: Form & Meaning
Kathryn James, Curator of Early Modern Books & the Osborn Collection; Lucy Mulroney, Associate Director for Collections, Research, and Education, Beinecke Library; and Michael Warner, Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and Professor of American Studies, Yale University
Part of a series of panel discussions with Yale faculty and visiting speakers related to the exhibition Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500–1800 (More information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/subscribed)
